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Ahead of the International Day of Zero Tolerance of female genital mutilation, Amnesty International and the European Women’s Lobby challenged the EU to lay out its vision for ending female genital mutilation and other forms of violence against women. A video has been launched on this occasion.

The European Parliament has selected a new Chair, Mikael Gustafsson who pledged his support for our campaign.

In November, the END FGM European Campaign met Robert Visser, Director of the European Asylum Support Office in Malta and organised two events on gender-sensitive asylum procedures.

On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Amnesty International calls for Europe to become a zero tolerance zone by signing the Council of Europe treaty to prevent violence against women.

Following a meeting with the newly established European Asylum Support Office (EASO) Amnesty International and a coalition of NGOs will host a seminar on the challenges and opportunities of integrating gender into the Common European Asylum system.

The END FGM Campaign is searching for high profile designers to create something special out of the rose petals that were signed by people across Europe last year.

Thanks to the high votes from our supporters, EU Commission President Barroso responds to issue of violence against women. Watch the video response!

END FGM has recorded a YouTube video question on violence against women. If you vote for our question, we will get an answer from President Barroso to the question of European action to tackle violence against women!

A team of 21 young girls and women jogged to raise awareness of female genital mutilation in Brussels on 25 September 2011.

NGOs and professional organisations working or interested to work against FGM are invited to join the END FGM European Campaign as associate partners. Find out more!