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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...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...

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]
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...

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

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.
http://www.oneworld.net/external/?url=http%3A%2...

Excision Practiced Where Pre-Islamic Traditions Strongest
Integrated Regional Information Networks article about the persistence of the practice of female circumcision in Mali.
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=41684

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

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

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

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

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

First lady celebrates African village that ended female circumcision
News Star Online - Apr 2, 1998 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, meeting with villagers who have ended the practice of female circumcision in their community, praised the village for having started "a great movement."
http://www.news-star.com/stories/040298/lfe_hil...

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

Female Genital Mutilation - A Human Rights Information Pack (1998)
from Amnesty International
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/femgen/fgm1...

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 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

Female Circumcision Issues Page
The World Health Organization has condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens 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

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

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

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/

Project IDIL - Instruments to Develop the Integrity of Lasses
IDIL is a Daphne Programme project 2001/2003. The project is aimed at defining and experimenting strategies to prevent FGM among immigrant communities/families in Europe.
http://www.eu-idil.org

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