Female Genital Mutilation The World Health Organization on February 2013 estimated that‚ “Worldwide‚ female genital mutilation affects up to 140 million women and girls in varying degrees of severity” (“par”). Female Genital Mutilation also called Female Genital Circumcision includes the excision of the clitoris and the labia minora for non-medical reasons. It is usually performed on girls between the ages of four and ten. However‚ it can also occur at birth‚ at the time of puberty‚ when the female
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your family holding you down. The blade creeping between your legs‚ you scream but no one cares. You beg your family‚ your mother‚ your father to help but then it happens. Now open your eyes. In Somalia alone‚ 98 percent of women experience Female Genital Mutilation at one stage in their lives. FGM is the destruction of women and girls sexual organs for non-medicinal reasons. This act is practice globally in 29 countries and due to immigration‚ FGM has spread to western countries such as Australia. This
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“The Truth about Female Genital Mutilation” Since the beginning of time‚ men have been the more dominating sex. Women have always had to serve and be inferior to men. FGM is performed all over the world. It mostly takes place in West Africa‚ Syria‚ Egypt‚ Turkey‚ and Iran. FGM is even performed in countries where it is illegal; such as the United States‚ Canada and Europe. Women should be allowed to be educated‚ work‚ and in charge of her body
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GROUP NUMBER LEVEL …. INDEX NUMBER NAME TERM PAPER TOPIC: FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS. THESIS: Problems caused by female genital mutilation include problems going to the bathroom‚ not being able to have sex normally‚ problems with gynaecological health‚ sexually transmitted infections‚ pregnancy and delivery problems‚ and psychological and emotional stress and it can be curb by community meetings‚ education‚ substitute rituals‚ changing attitudes‚ and law enforcement.
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Class Presentation Genital Mutilation Should women be forced to do something they do not want to participate in? This is definitely not an option in countries where religious beliefs and culture is above woman’s rights. There was a case where a girl from Togo was getting forced to do cultural things that she nor her parents agreed on doing‚ so the girl decides to flee the country. What was so bad that the girl had to flee her country in order to prevent her from getting forced in to doing
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words Issue (3pts): Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting II. Kairos (4pts): In July 2013 UNICEF published the largest report yet into the extent of FGM. (Report “Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change.”) In July 2013 Germany also passed the first law against FGM‚ including a maximum penalty up to 15 years jail sentence. With this newly introduced law Germany is now considered to be among the strictest persecutors of female circumcision in
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION OF ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN THE GAMBIA INTRODUCTION Origin: it is not known when the tradition of female genital mutilation/cutting originated. Some people believe the practice started in ancient Egypt while some believe it began during the slave trade when black slave women entered ancient Arab societies. It is believed in some quarters that FGM/C initiated with the arrival of Islam in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa. Yet still others believe it started independently in
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W7000 – WRITING SKILLS My research topic is on Female Circumcision‚ otherwise known as Female Genital Mutilation (FMG). Female Genital Mutilation is a procedure that involves intentional alteration or cutting of female genital organs for non- medical reasons‚ from age infant to 10 years and older depending on the community. Studies have shown that this practice does not have any health benefit to any female‚ but rather it causes damages. FGM practice is recognized as a violation of human rights
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Multi-Agency Practice Guidelines: Female Genital Mutilation Multi-Agency Practice Guidelines: Female Genital Mutilation 1 AcknowledGeMents We would like to thank the Royal College of Nursing‚ Leeds Teaching Hospital‚ London Safeguarding Children Board‚ Metropolitan Police Service and the Forced Marriage Unit from whose materials much of these guidelines were adapted. Details of these and other materials available can be found in Appendix E. We would also like to thank members of the
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Female genital mutilation is a surgery where young girls genitalia are surgically removed. It is a surgery that is practiced in some cultures and is considered to be ethical although we as Americans are not a part of those cultures and would be considered outsiders. We still have the opinions we want‚ and its safe to say that it is appropriate to criticize that practice as well as urge cultures that practice it to outlaw genital mutilation. Even if those cultures think that the surgery is completely
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