Preview

Summary: Female Genital Mutilation

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
349 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Summary: Female Genital Mutilation
Motivation: What about this opportunity interests you?
Being a humanitarian worker at heart, I uphold the values of the UN Charter, and my motivation is to create an environment for individuals where international human rights are applied across the board. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is done for solely non-medical purposes and is in clear violation of human rights. I see this an opportunity to work with grass root communities to bring practical and achieve tangible results to save girls from this practice.
OR
Being a humanitarian worker at heart, I uphold the values of the UN Charter, and my objective is to create an environment for individuals where international human rights are applied across the board in order to protect individuals from human rights violations worldwide. This opportunity interests to work with grass root communities to bring practical and more tangible results to save girls from the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
…show more content…

In addition, I am also looking forward to learn something new, while working as an online

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Imagine seven women surrounding you to hold down your limbs as another looms over you with a crude medical instrument and, if you’re one of the “lucky” ones, a syringe filled with local anesthetic used for the many girls that have undergone the same unnecessary procedure before you. The elder preforming the cutting is no medical professional. The only training she has is from the procedures she has performed on the other girls in your village. Your bloodcurdling screams rip through the town as they beam with pride that you’re following the cultural tradition that has been waging war on the given right of sexual pleasure and choice for women for 5,000 years. As you sob, the woman sews your labia closed and tie your legs to promote quicker healing. Your mother is no doubt cradling your head, smiling and whispering, “now, you are pure. Now, you are a woman.” Every detail will remain etched into your memory as you’re between two and fifteen-years-old.…

    • 691 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Female genital mutilation is the term used for operations or removal of all or just part of the external parts of female genitilia.This practice has for a long time come under increasingly intense international scrutiny from the news media, feminist and human rights organizations. The main reasons for continuation of FGM are firstly, as a rite of passage from girlhood to womanhood; a circumcised woman is considered mature, obedient and aware of her role in the family and society.Secondly, FGM is perpetuated as a means of reducing sexual desire of girls and women, thereby curbing sexual activity before and ensuring fidelity within marriage.…

    • 1934 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Summary Of Half The Sky

    • 685 Words
    • 3 Pages

    A girl in Somaliand at risk of FGM has an added dimension of discrimination against her gender. Thanks to the tireless dedication of Ms. Adan for advocating against its eradication. However, the fight against FGM is yet to be won and more people, not just women, are needed to follow Ms. Adan’s path. There are many other countries that need the likes of…

    • 685 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    American law enforcement organizations is hierarchal and it is a bureaucratic structure adopting ways of the military. The quasi-military structure found in police departments will emphasize the importance of specializations in task, duties, objectives, and responsibilities. Each level in the chain of command has specific authority and tasks to carry out. Historically speaking, Peel’s principles of a professional police organization can be seen in today’s philosophy of community-oriented policing (COP). Peel’s principles emphasized the following guidelines for a professional police organization: (1) a police mission statement and core values; (2) crime prevention; (3) respect or citizenry; (4) respect for the law; (5) minimizing the use of…

    • 1239 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    Half the Sky Final Essay

    • 2233 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Today, we often are bombarded with upsetting stories of violence and politics happening throughout the world on the internet, our daily televised news stations, the radio, and in newspapers and articles that we read. In the book Half the Sky, written by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, true stories regarding the horrific reality young girls and women are faced with in underprivileged countries across the world are brought to its reader’s attention. Although these stories are not the easiest to read, emotionally, what is inspiring is the work of organizations dedicated to helping these young girls and women. The book includes a number of organizations focused in aiding females in these parts of the world. There were two specific organizations that stood out to me while reading Half the Sky, as their mission has been successful in providing medical care to girls and women who have endured suffering related to sexual violence and inadequate maternal care. The Edna Adan Maternity Hospital and HEAL Africa charitable organizations have taken great strides in providing the necessary services to help girls and women recover; ultimately saving their life. (Please note: According to Half the Sky, it is the Edna Adan Maternity Hospital, however, according the organizations website, (www.ednahospital.org), the name is Edna Adan University Hospital. For this essay, I will be using the name as referenced in Half the Sky.)…

    • 2233 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Lack of understanding of female circumcision (in a social context) has led to it’s becoming a subject of much controversy and debate in political, academic and religious fields, mainly by Westerners and Europeans.…

    • 630 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Half The Sky

    • 419 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Realistic, and inspirational, this book is essential reading for everyone. They tell of an attempt to help a woman dying in childbirth in an African hospital, and the institutional, social, and financial problems that block efforts. They discuss how their support for legalization of prostitution was undercut by the more sordid reality they discovered behind the apparent success of just such a legal zone in India (in Kolkata), and examine how legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands compares as an anti-trafficking technique with the criminalization of sex-service purchases in Sweden. They point out how the campaign against female circumcision has been set back by the campaigners’ use of terminology (“female genital mutilation”) that turned the people they wanted to help against them.…

    • 419 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Seven years ago, a woman and a mother refused to subject her only daughter to be under the atrocious practice of female circumcision. Moolaadé is the story of this woman, Collé Ardo, a seditious and strong-minded second wife of Ciré in a small secluded African village who single-handedly refused to allow five girls to suffer through the customary Salindé ceremony. She was in opposition with the practice of genital mutilation due to her personal experiences and she didn’t want others to suffer like her. Collé’s Moolaadé enraged the Salindana, who were the women who performed “purification” ritual and the male elders who viewed her actions as threats to their values. As a sign of dominance, the men confiscated the women’s radios,…

    • 1928 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Past, present and current relations information. Giving women the advance they need in women’s rights. Meeting urgent needs in communities and building lasting solutions to crisis situations.…

    • 295 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Enforcement of the gag rule drastically curtailed community-based outreach activities, a major means for getting information and services to people in these areas. In addition, the flow and availability of contraceptive supplies were seriously impeded, and related reproductive health care such as postabortion care and screening for cervical cancers and STIs including HIV were also dramatically diminished as FPAK and MSI Kenya had to retrench. Government clinics, exempt from the gag rule, were never able to pick up the slack nor regain the trust of women who had been turned away by the NGOs (Cohen, 2015,…

    • 1637 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    A Mother to her Waking Infant was first published in 1790; the poem is narrated by a mother who is focusing her thoughts and words towards her newborn baby. The poem is directed solely at the child of the title, with the mothers words starting as the child awakes, Now in thy dazzling half-oped eye. Joanna Baillie uses a number of techniques to mirror and represent a new mothers emotions and affections for her child. The meter and form of the poem help to emphasise these emotions and the various other uses of language contribute to the effect of the piece on a reader.…

    • 1556 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Taking Sides Discussion

    • 444 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Summary: The main issue being discussed in the Taking Sides article is that of whether or not it would be right for anthropologists to work to eliminate the practice of female circumcision. This culturally debatable topic was discussed by professor of the history and philosophy of science Merrilee H. Salmon and Professor of anthropology Elliot P. Skinner; Both taking on very different sides in their discussion on the topic. Salmon argues that Anthropologists should work to eliminate such practice due to her argument that “…clitoridectomy (female genital mutilation) violates the rights of the women on whom it is performed.” Also, Professor Salmon brings up the possibility that genital mutilation could very well be a way for males to control women within their society and promote the practice of inequality. On the contrary, Professor Skinner believes that such cultural practices should not be eliminated and “…accuses feminists who want to abolish clitoridectomy of being ethnocentric.” Professor Skinner attempts to cover the cultural aspect of this issue, implying that African women themselves volunteer to perform clitoridectomy and decodes the cultural meaning behind such practice. Such cultural meaning is that of male initiation (later on in marriage) and the transformation of girls into adulthood.…

    • 444 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Half the Sky Review

    • 1170 Words
    • 5 Pages

    In the novel, readers are faced with many issues that are running rapid worldwide. The book and film take readers to unusual countries, where the distress of women is becoming unbearable. Some of those countries include Cambodia, Kenya, India, Sierra Leone, Somaliland, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Liberia, and even the United States. By broadcasting the bravery of women and girls, who rise above their circumstances, shows that there is a light at the end of this tunnel of suppression. Talking about the nations individually in a negative way, may leave you with a bad taste in your mouth about these countries. This review is not to judge any of these countries and their shortcomings. It is to bring specific issues to the surface that are being handled improperly. Forced Prostitution, Maternal Mortality and the lack of a good Education, are the three main issues that need to be reversed in order for the healing process to begin.…

    • 1170 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Imagine that you couldn't do simple things like vote, own property, have most jobs, or even have a good education because of something you can't control. In the 1800’s, many women didn't have equal rights until a war happened. Then, millions of women took charge and fought for what they believed in. " Rosie the Riveter" was a symbol of the contribution of women in women in America. It was used in many ads so that women would get nontraditional jobs in the workplace.…

    • 829 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Emancipation of Women

    • 713 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The emancipation of women, i.e. their liberation from religious, legal, economic, and sexual oppression, their access to higher education, and their escape from narrow gender roles is not easily achieved. The struggle for sexual equality has a long history and is likely to continue for some time. Even if it should soon be won in the industrial nations, it may well rage on in many "underdeveloped” countries.…

    • 713 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays