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, July 2016 Do you work with culturally and linguistically diverse / multicultural communities? Do you want to be confident speaking about sexual health with your clients? Do you want to understand how sexual health affects the overall health of your clients? If so, then the Relationships & Sexual Health Program is for you. This course provides you with opportunities to explore your...
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...
The Guardian, 5 February 2015
The huge global scale of female genital mutilation has been revealed in disturbing new statistics, which show at least 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone ritual cutting, half of them living in just three countries.
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Sarian Karim Kamara at Fuuse Forum, Published on 24 Jan 2016 For many years, the problem of FGM has been treated as almost too delicate to address: while laws may be changed, prosecutions rarely follow. More importantly, the necessary safeguarding and prevention measures in schools and in systems of healthcare are underdeveloped. This complacency has been partly justified by a wish to avoid...