SHine SA, January 2017 Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons (WHO). It is also sometimes referred to as female genital cutting or female circumcision. There are 83,000 women and girls who have been affected by FGM in Australia. FGM has no...
SHine SA, 14/12/2016 SHine SA services will be operating as follows over the Christmas/New Year period: For our Davoren Park, Noarlunga, and Hyde Street sites, plus Woodville site upstairs only (program staff and Office of the CEO), the last day of operation is Friday 23rdDecember 2016. These sites will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2017. Our Woodville clinic is closed on weekends and...
The Liberian Australian Service Foundation (in collaboration with the African Communities Council of SA, the Middle Eastern Communities Council of SA and the Australian Migrant Resource Centre), November 2016 “WALK AGAINST DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE” This Saturday, 5 November 2016 at 10:30 am From Light Square to Parliament House on North Tce, Adelaide LAS Foundation and the...
Clinical Advisor, July 03, 2016 It is no longer recommended that patients with low health literacy be identified. Instead, Universal Health Literacy Precautions are recommended. While some providers are concerned that using plain language with health-literate patients will offend, studies show that patients with adequate health literacy prefer to receive health information in an easier to...
FGM, like veiling is not a practice confined to far off lands. FGM continues to be practiced illegally on British born girls, with a case reported in the UK approximately every 2 hours. If FGM is carried out on a white child in Britain, it will be regarded as criminal – so why does this position shift when a Somali child is violated?
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Equality Now, 2016 The 2016 FGM Stories series will feature first hand narratives on the impact of FGM on women and girls from various backgrounds, and provides readers with related actions they can take to support the global movement to end this human rights abuse. The personal testimonies will illustrate the severe physical and psychological consequences of FGM, and challenge the misconception...