This section offers a collection of key resource material related to the practice of FGM and the existing frameworks developed to end the practice and protect affected women and girls. It is aimed for activists, lawyers, policy makers, government officials, civil society actors, researchers and anyone else who wants to investigate the issue of FGM in detail.
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This position statement outlines the importance of reflecting on medicalised female genital mutilation (FGM) and other related medical practices carried out within Europe.
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This position paper reflects on the issue of racial discrimination with a focus on how it impacts the work of the anti-FGM sector. It aims at providing recommendations to different stakeholders within the sector to tackle racism and discrimination within the movement and beyond.
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The brochures contain a local intervention model with guidelines for action for key professionals in Berlin, Madrid, Milan, and Paris who may come into contact with those at risk and affected in their everyday work.
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In this position paper and infographic, we focus on the provision of support services aiming to provide health care, including counselling or access to health care, for Survivors of FGM.
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In this position paper and infographic, we focus on the provision of support services aiming to provide health care, including counselling or access to health care, for Survivors of FGM.
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Between October and November 2021, more than 50 experts from more than 40 organisations and 25 countries from different world regions gathered online to participate in the International Stakeholder Dialogue sessions.
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A policy roadmap for stakeholders who want to contribute to end FGM in Europe.
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Together with our partners of the Global Platform for Action to end FGM/C, we published a policy briefing on the occasion of the Paris Generation Equality Forum.
More Together with our Greek member, we have submitted a shadow report 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 Greece. It does not only analyse the application of the specific FGM Article 38 of the Istanbul Convention but addresses the full range of articles in the Convention and how they are applied to tackle FGM.
More Together with our Swiss member, the Network against FGC Switzerland, we have submitted a shadow report 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 Switzerland. 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.
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