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27/07/2021 Two years of "Men Standing Up for Gender Equality": Together against FGM/C and CEFM!

Since September 2019, the project partners Lessan e.V., Femmes Entraide et Autonomie and TERRE DES FEMMES have been working within the framework of the EU co-funded project "Men Standing Up for Gender Equality" for the long-term overcoming of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and child, early and forced marriage (CEFM). A total of 30 men from affected communities in Hamburg, Paris and Berlin were trained as multipliers against gender-based violence.

22/07/2021 Our recommendations to the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union

Every new presidency of the Council of the European Union, End FGM European Network sends our recommendations on different issues that are linked to FGM and Gender Equality.

08/07/2021 Submission of GREVIO Joint Shadow Reports: Cyprus and Switzerland

Together with our Cypriot member, the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies (MIGS), and our Swiss member, the Network against FGC Switzerland, we have submitted two shadow reports to GREVIO, in order to highlight the current situation and propose concrete recommendations on the issue of prevention, protection, prosecution and integrated policies on female genital mutilation in Cyprus. While this report focuses only on the harmful practice of FGM, its aim is not to single it out in isolation, but to put emphasis on it while placing it within the continuum of gender-based violence against women and girls.

06/07/2021 TuWezeshe Akina Dada  Leadership & Fellowship Programme 2021

TuWezeshe Akina Dada  - Leadership & Fellowship Programme 2021 Apply now!

15/06/2021 Job Opportunity: POLICY & ADVOCACY OFFICER (Full time position)

The End FGM European Network is looking for a Policy and Advocacy Officer. DEADLINE EXTENDED: to 6th of July

19/04/2021 Network General Assembly 2021 - 20 May

The End FGM European Network General Assembly will be held online on 20 May 2021!

19/04/2021 End FGM EU joins forces with other civil society organisations in defence of the Istanbul Convention

The End FGM European Network, together with a number of other European and national organisations, expresses its deepest concern for worrying trends in Turkey and Poland concerning potential withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention.

01/04/2021 Ambassadors Update: 1st quarter of 2021!

Our Ambassadors have been busy these past months, taking part in international events and in End FGM EU's activities.

01/04/2021 End FGM EU participation to CSW65

End FGM EU was part of the EU Delegation to the Commission on the Status of Women which took place in March. Also, along with partners of the Global Platform for Action to end FGM/C, we hosted a CSW65 side event on partnerships to end FGM.

01/04/2021 End FGM EU participation to FGM international congress of Medicos del Mundo

End FGM EU was invited on 13 February, around the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, to deliver the closing remarks at the International Congress on Female Genital Mutilation organized by our member Médicos del Mundo.