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Female genital mutilation. Information for Australian health professionals

This booklet highlights the important role of health professionals in Australia in preventing FGM. It also shows Australia’s strategy to prevent the practice of FGM in two parts: through a national education program on FGM, which focuses on health promotion within a community development context...

Female Genital Mutilation. Integrating the Prevention and the Management of the Health Complications into the curricula of nursing and midwifery

This report deals with the management of pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period with regards to female genital mutilation. 

Female genital mutilation: a clinician’s experience

This book is relevant for those who care for women and girls who have had, or are at risk of having, female genital mutilation. It focuses on caring for both the physical and psychological needs of the vulnerable or suffering and maintains an understanding, holistic and objective approach to the...

Female Genital Mutilation: A Guide to Laws and Policies Worldwide

This book is a report on the prevalence of female circumcision and female genital mutilation (FC/FGM) and on the use of law and policy to address these practices. This work places FC/FGM firmly within a human rights and legal framework, although it does recognise and address the challenges...

Female Genital Mutilation: A Practical Guide to Worldwide Laws & Policies

This book opens with a description of female circumcision/female genital mutilation, its history and its health consequences. The authors look at the reasons used to justify controlling women's sexuality, tradition, interpretation of religious dictates and present a history of the movement...

Female Genital Mutilation: Legal, Cultural and Medical Issues

This book discusses the definition and types of FGM and explores the common justifications for the practice, along with rates of incidence in Africa and other continents, global laws, legal issues, rights and religion. Ethical considerations are examined, as are progress and the role of culture...

Female Genital Mutilation: Proposal for Change. Minority Rights Group International Report

This is a resource for those concerned with health, development, social change and women’s human rights. It gives health professionals, teachers and social workers positive and practical ways to abolish FGM. 

Feminist Engagements with Violence: Contingent Moments from Sri Lanka

The four chapters in this book attempt to document and analyse contingent moments in the feminist movement in Sri Lanka as feminists have attempted to address issues of gendered violence. The introduction maps and brings together a framework through which issues of violence against women in Sri...

Feminist School

This is the website for the 2nd branch of the One Million Signatures Campaign to change gender discriminatory laws in Iran (this site hosted by Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani). There is a good selection of articles on violence against women here, which is regularly updated. The articles...

Femmes en communication

A l’heure des autoroutes de l’information, chez nous la communication cherche encore ses voies et moyens. Les milieux féminins ressentent fortement cette carence qui disperse les efforts et les actions dans une conjoncture tragique où le rassemblement des énergies féminines est vital. Les médias...