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17 Jan 2012 - NPWJ News Digest on FGM & women's rights
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Kenyans circumcise girls in Tanzania to evade law – report
AlartNet, by Katy Migiro, 17 Jan 2012
Kenyan parents determined to circumcise their daughters, despite the outlawing of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), are taking them across the border to Tanzania, the African Woman and Child Feature Service reported.
Traditional circumcisers from Kenya’s Kuria community crossed into Tanzania to cut a number of girls aged between seven and 15 during last month’s circumcision season, the report said.
Migrant girls 'at risk' of mutilation
Stuff.co.nz, by Neil Reid, 15 Jan 2012
An international study says "a growing number" of girls and young women living in immigrant communities in New Zealand are at risk of genital mutilation. The practice - which involves the partial or complete removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons - is banned in New Zealand.
[...] There was no evidence that the controversial female circumcision operations occurred in New Zealand. But a newly released United Nations report on a hoped-for global end to female genital mutilation states: "The practice is prevalent in 28 countries in Africa and in some countries in Asia and the Middle East. "In addition, a growing number of women and girls among immigrant communities have been subjected to or are at risk of female genital mutilation in Australia and New Zealand."
IRAQ: New research highlights link between FGM/C and mental disorders
IRIN-Humanitarian news and analysis, 13 Jan 2012
New data out of Iraq shows what many psychologists suspected though little research has confirmed: Girls who have undergone female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) are more prone to mental disorders, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
[...] The research found “alarmingly high rates” of PTSD (44 percent), depression (34 percent), anxiety (46 percent) and somatic disturbances (mental disorders whose symptoms are unexplainable physical illnesses - 37 percent) among a group of 79 circumcised girls in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, aged 8-14, who did not otherwise suffer any traumatic events.
Woman's mission is to end mutilation
Dandenong leader, by Nicole Precel, 13 Jan 2012
Changing entrenched cultural values is never easy, whether it’s in your home country, or another. Faduma Salah Musse has been working tirelessly to prevent female genital mutilation, in both her home country of Somaliland and Greater Dandenong.
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Chief sought for aiding FGM
The Standard, by Ngumbao Kithi, 11 Jan 2012
Police have launched a manhunt for a chief and an elderly woman in Tana River County who subjected 10 underage girls to Female Genital Mutilation late last year.
The Kalakacha location chief is said to have allowed the girls, who included his seven-year-old daughter, to be subjected to the outlawed rite.
The Gambia / The Unfair Prosecution of two Women Human Rights Defenders Must Stop
StarAfrica.com, 09 Jan 2012
Geneva, Switzerland. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), denounces the interminable judicial harassment faced by two women human rights defenders in The Gambia.
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