Girl stops Maasai FMG!

 I share this with a tear of joy and awe; for personal reasons. Whoever wants to know why, let them search my archive.

http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/must_see/43349594/the-girl-who-convinced-the-maasai-to-stop-fgm

Few prosecutions for female circumcision

Change does not come like a breeze. Watch this:

Female Genital Mutilation

For all interested, but especially for the three young ladies preparing a TOK presentation, some Britannica articles (otherwise only available to paying subscribers):















on female genital cutting
















on Social Protection





















and on Waris Dirie, an international fashion model, respected activist, and UNICEF Special Ambassador against fgm. (Click this, too: <http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9343592>).

The Wikipedia article is good and long. At any rate, there's plenty of stuff (e.g. World Health Organisation, Religious Tolerance and more) for you to browse by clicking fgm in Google.

An End to Female Genital Cutting?

A Kurdish nomad woman rocks her baby's cradle in their tent, near the Turkish-Iraq border

MUSTAFA OZER / AFP / Getty

These are busy times for Pakhshan Zangana. Head of the women's caucus in the Iraqi Kurdish parliament in Arbil, she is on the verge of pushing through a piece of legislation that is the first of its kind in the Middle East — a law criminalizing female genital mutilation (FGM). "Sixty-eight out of 120 deputies signed our bill, so we could have got it passed by ministerial decree," Zangana says. "But law-making is the job of parliament, and we want everybody to debate this issue openly." The bill received its first reading on Dec. 3 and is likely to be passed by February.
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