News

Genital Mutilation & The United Nations: Male And Female Circumcision, Human Rights, & The Restoration Of Spiritual Integrity & Freedom - Presentation given by Anastasios Zavales about educating the world community about the practice of genital mutilation.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/fourth/zavales4.html

afrol News - FGM - Analyses, facts and regularly updated news on female genital mutilation in Africa.
http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Women/FGM/

The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project - Attempts to present the practice from a variety of perspectives and serve as a networking resource for organizations doing work related to FGC.
http://www.fgmnetwork.org/

Female Genital Mutilation - An introduction including what it is, countries that practise it, and a discussion on the religious influence, plus links.
http://www.members.tripod.com/~Wolvesdreams/FGM.html

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] <small>(March 11, 2005)</small>
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4531744

Female Circumcision Issues Page - The World Health Organization has condemned the mutilations as disastrous to women's 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.
http://www.eskimo.com/~gburlin/female.html

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.
http://montagunocircpetition.org/

Epidemiology Of Female Sexual Castration In Cairo, Egypt - In 1985, a group of 350 urban Egyptian women were selected to self-report on their recall of their female sexual castration (FSC) which they experienced as children.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/badawi.html

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.
http://www.vachss.com/help_text/female_g_m.html

Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying Female Genital Mutilation in Sub-Saharan Africa - Speech presented by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein at The Third International Symposium on Circumcision, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland May 22-25, 1994.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/third/hanny3.html

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. <small>(March 12, 2004)</small>
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1763682

Islam and Female Circumcision - By Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. - Minaret of Freedom Institute. Brief article discussing religion and female genital mutilation.
http://www.minaret.org/fgm.htm

Knuckleheaded Islamic Thought: Female Circumcision - An angry commentary.
http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/circumcision/circum.html

Senegal bans female circumcision - BBC News Online - Dec 23, 1998 - Senegal has banned female circumcision on cultural or religious grounds. Anybody found practising circumcision on girls now faces up to five years in prison.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/241230.stm

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.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/hosken.html

Irin News: Boost for Anti-FGM Effort - United Nations humanitarian report from Kenya explains how a series of seminars resulted in the resignation two hundred practitioners of female genital mutilation. Includes outline of the cultural aspects. <small>(May 10, 2004)</small>
http://www.oneworld.net/external/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irinnews.org%2Freport.asp%3FReportID%3D39965%26SelectRegion%3DEast_Africa%26SelectCountry%3DKENYA

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.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/montagu.html

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.
http://www.rainbo.org/

Excision Practiced Where Pre-Islamic Traditions Strongest - Integrated Regional Information Networks article about the persistence of the practice of female circumcision in Mali. <small>(June 15, 2004)</small>
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=41684

Female Genital Mutilation - Articles at ReligiousTolerance.org, about the practice in some African and Muslim communities, and in North America and Europe.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_circ.htm

Female Genital Mutilation and Human Rights - An essay, by Lisa Donaldson, discussing this practice in the 21st century.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Easel/9509/genital.html

Tostan - An international non-governmental organization based in Senegal Africa geared toward educating the people and ending female genital cutting.
http://www.tostan.org

Global Women Intact - Specializing in female circumcision, genital mutilation, and alternative ritual of passage information.
http://www.celebrateclitoris.com/

Female Genital Cutting - Information and resources about the cultural practice of partly or totally removing portions of the external female genitalia.
http://womenshealth.gov/faq/easyread/fgc-etr.htm