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- Female Genital Mutilation: Strategies For Eradication - by Fran P. Hosken. Article discusses how female genital mutilation continues to be practiced in Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia among Moslem populations.
- Ashley Montagu Resolution to End Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide: Petition to World Court - Solicits signatures for online petition against genital mutilation. Includes endorsements by prominent people and information on genital integrity, mutilation and human rights.
- Female Circumcision Issues Page - The World Health Organization has condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens health and as indefensible on humane grounds. In the United States, Rep. Pat Schroeder has written a bill to prohibit female genital mutilation. H.R. 3247.
- The Zero - Listings of national and international agencies, articles, organizations and web sites to find help for and information about female genital mutilation and female circumcision practices worldwide.
- NPR : Genital Mutilation Can Be Grounds for Asylum Status, Court Rules - A US appeals court ruling in favor of a young Somali woman says that a history of genital mutilation makes a woman automatically eligible for asylum in the U.S. [2:48 streaming audio broadcast]
- Islam and Female Circumcision - By Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. - Minaret of Freedom Institute. Brief article discussing religion and female genital mutilation.
- NPR : Atlanta Female Circumcision Case Stirs Concern - The arrest of an Ethiopian citizen in Atlanta, Ga., raises concerns that female circumcision, a form of genital mutilation common in some African nations, is being performed on young women in the United States. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports. 5.5 minutes radio segment via Realplayer.
- Female Genital Mutilation and Human Rights - An essay, by Lisa Donaldson, discussing this practice in the 21st century.
- Mutilated Humanity - by Ashley Montagu - The story of bodily mutilations would occupy a large volume in the story of humankind, and few would be more strange and interesting than those relating to male and female circumcision.
- Rainbo - African-led international non-governmental organisation working on issues of women's empowerment, sexual autonomy, reproductive health, and freedom from violence, with a focus on female genital mutilation and women's rights to their bodily integrity.
Wikipedia Articles
- Female genital cutting - Female genital cutting (FGC), female genital mutilation (FGM), or female circumcision (FC), is the excision or tissue removal of any part of the female genitalia for cultural, religious or other non-medical reasons. It is not the same as the procedures used in gender reassignment surgery or the genital ...
- Genital integrity - Genital integrity is a name for the principle that all human beings have the right to informed consent before any alteration is done to their genitals, regardless of their age. Proponents oppose involuntary and medically unnecessary genital modification and mutilation, including routine infant circumcision, female genital cutting, and sexual-reassignment surgery of infants with ambiguous genitalia.
- Desert Flower - Desert Flower is a book published in 1998, about the life of Waris Dirie, a crusader for social reform in Somalia, particularly as it applies to ritual female genital mutilation. This is one of the biggest problems for the female population in Somalia today.
- Waris Dirie - Waris Dirie (born 1965 in Somalia) is a Somali supermodel and a UN advocate for the abolition of female genital mutilation.