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Publications
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From Promises to Delivery: Putting human rights at the heart of the Millennium Development Goals
June 2010
Amnesty International has released a report that shows the failures in addressing women’s human rights across all eight targets of the Millennium Development Goals, despite human rights being a crucial element in tackling poverty. Read From Promises to Delivery here
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Ending FGM to promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals
May 2010
This campaign digest, released on the occasion of Mother's Day, addresses the need to address FGM as an underlying cause of the lack of progress on the Millennium Development Goals. In particular, FGM and its ill-effects prevent achievement of MDG 3, 4, 5 and 6.
Read the document here
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ENDING FGM: A Strategy for the European Union Institutions
February 2010
END FGM European Campaign has developed a strategy that identifies how the European Union can end female genital mutilation and protect the rights of women and girls subjected to, or under threat of, FGM. The strategy looks at five key dimensions in which the EU can make real progress in the fight against this practice. The recommendations made to the European Institutions and Member States are practical, based on human rights principles and informed by real women's and girls' experiences.
Main strategy is available in ENGLISH and FRENCH
Executive Summary is available in ENGLISH, FRENCH, PORTUGUESE, GERMAN and GREEK
22 October 2009
Amnesty International has compiled declarations made by various organisations of health professionals. In particular, this document contains resolutions and guidelines for health professionals on dealing with female genital mutilation.
22 September 2009
Approximately 94 per cent of Sierra Leone’s female population have been subjected to female genital mutilation, which according to the World Health Organization greatly increases the risks for women during childbirth. Although there have been some efforts among civil society to campaign for its abolition, the government has done little to prevent FGM.
This Amnesty International report addresses the various factors including harmful traditional practices like FGM and their impact on the health of pregnant women and mothers in Sierra Leone.
July 2009
Amnesty International’s response to the communication of the European Commission on the future Stockholm Programme describes how the EU could effectively deal with female genital mutilation in the EU through this 5 year programme.
April 2009
Among the range of human rights concerns addressed in this Amnesty International (AI) document, female genital mutilation is raised as a human rights violation. AI calls upon the EU to protect the rights of young girls and women by adopting a framework to deal with FGM in the EU and in third countries.
