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HRWF Women's Rights & Gender Equality Newsletter Table Of Table of Contents • RUSSIA: Russian activists urge probe over young girl's genital cutting • SOMALIA: Somalia sees "massive" rise in FGM during lockdown and Ramadan • SUDAN: Sudan bans female genital mutilation, UNICEF vows to help support new law • WORLD: Global report - FGM/C: A call for a global response • KENYA: Kenyan cardinal blasts cult advocating female circumcision • EU: MEP Assita Kanko: We are determined to put an end to Female Genital Mutilation • AUSTRALIA: High Court rules female genital mutilation illegal in all forms, NSW court erred in quashing convictions • EGYPT: When health workers harm: the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Egypt • ASIA: A new network to end FGM across Asia launched by ARROW & Orchid Project at Women Deliver • USA: Top female GOP senators just introduced a bill to fight the abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation • AFRICA: Survivors of female circumcision call for help with mental trauma • UK: A closer look at the UK’s only FGM conviction • SWITZERLAND: Court upholds a suspended eight-month prison sentence in a FGM case in 2019 • WORLD: Female genital mutilation policy polemic • USA: U.S. woman says strict Christian parents subjected her to FGM • UK: London mum gets 11 years in jail after first-ever FGM conviction • EGYPT: Egypt has highest FGM surgeries at 82%. It’s time to stop pain • INDIA: Dear dissenters, ‘Khafz’ involves cutting a girl’s genitals too • GHANA: FGM in Ghana: A note to The Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Protection • AUSTRAILIA/SOMALIA: Queensland mum convicted over female genital mutilation procedure • WORLD: ‘Religious freedom’ claims used to defend FGM in courts in four countries • JORDAN: Lawmaker who changed Jordan's rape law takes on child marriage • KENYA: Committed to end FGM - CS Sicily Kariuki • SCOTLAND: FGM victims treated in Scottish city hospitals HRWF Women’s Rights & Gender Equality Newsletter • USA: Idaho lawmakers introduce bill to outlaw genital mutilation of children • WORLD: We have to stop blaming ‘backward’ culture for FGM and child marriage • INDIA: Dawoodi Bohra practice of khafz has been wrongly labelled as female genital mutilation by those with an agenda • SCOTLAND: African schoolgirls help launch research project to prevent FGM • MALTA : High risk of genital mutilation but low prosecution • USA: Connecticut renews push to ban female genital mutilation • UK: FGM 'increasingly performed on UK babies' • UK: Mother of three-year-old is first person convicted of FGM in UK • UK: Mother guilty of genital mutilation of daughter • TANZANIA: New project protects scores of girls from undergoing FGM in Serenget • UGANDA: U.N. investigating 'surge' in female genital mutilation • UGANDA: Police arrest 19 people over FGM gang attacks on women • KENYA: Schoolgirls to face compulsory tests for pregnancy and FGM • USA: Every state needs a law against FGM! • USA: Ohio legislature passes ban on female genital mutilation • FINLAND: THL: 10,000 girls and women in Finland have undergone FGM • KENYA: Woman jailed for six years for circumcising twin daughters • MALAYSIA: Female circumcision: Culture and religion in Malaysia see millions of girls undergo cut • AFRICA: FGM rates in east Africa drop from 71% to 8% in 20 years, study shows • SCOTLAND: Strengthening protection from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM): consultation • SOMALIA: Under renewed scrutiny over FGM after two more young girls die • UK/USA: UK and US border officials join forces in bid to tackle female genital mutilation • UK: Schoolgirls pressured into FGM, campaigner says • LIBERIA: ‘Ban FGM,’ Civil society groups demand government • INDIA: Court should not decide validity of religious practice on PIL: Dawoodi Muslim group • INDIA: Women from the Bohra community are fighting against Female Genital Mutilation to win back their freedom HRWF Women’s Rights & Gender Equality Newsletter • WORLD: Women’s testimonial videos about FGM – Female Genital Mutilation • SOMALIA: First prosecution for female genital mutilation • GUINEA: It takes a village: Ending FGM by creating new rituals • KENYA: How outlawing female genital mutilation in Kenya has driven it underground and led to its medicalization • USA: Maine Democrats quash bill to criminalize FGM • EGYPT: Rights coalition takes on female genital mutilation • ARAB STATES: FGM performed in clinics can make it dangerously attractive • GAMBIA: With newfound democracy, Gambia faces resurgence in FGM and child marriage • USA: FGM in Michigan — Get the facts • UGANDA: Married women now undergoing FGM • EGYPT: Female genital mutilation and Syrian girls • UK: FGM: More than 5,000 newly-recorded cases in England • USA: Michigan mosque paid for FGM, lawyer alleges • USA: Michigan doctor accused of performing FGM to claim freedom of religion defense • WORLD: Why 'Medicalization' of FGM is a serious threat to women • UK: No prosecutions for female genital mutilation in Britain, so what is the problem? • EGYPT: Increases in prison terms for female genital mutilation • EGYPT: Female genital mutilation needed because Egyptian men are ‘sexually weak,’ lawmaker says • RUSSIA: Female circumcision as senseless cruelty • RUSSIA: Mufti of the North Caucasus for circumcision of all Russian women • EGYPT: Egyptian girl dies during banned female genital mutilation operation • EU: Publication: Female genital mutilation in Europe • EGYPT: Top religious leaders start outreach program to end female genital mutilation • AFRICA: Finally girls matter: Why religious leaders are vital in the fight to end FGM • INDIA: Fighting female genital mutilation among India's Bohra • FRANCE: Tough stance on female genital mutilation is working, say campaigners HRWF Women’s Rights & Gender Equality Newsletter RUSSIA: Russian activists urge probe over young girl's genital cutting By AFP The Moscow Times (21.05.2020) - https://bit.ly/2TEWPjP - Russian rights campaigners are urging the prosecution of relatives of a nine-year-old girl who was subjected to a genital cutting operation as well as management of the clinic which performed the procedure. Russia does not have a specific law banning female genital mutilation (FGM) and a fully fledged probe into the case would be a first for the country. Activists say that the practice is rife in the conservative majority-Muslim Northern Caucasus, with hundreds of girls subjected to the life-threatening procedure every year. A nine-year old girl underwent the operation at a clinic in Magas, the capital of the Northern Caucasus region of Ingushetia, in June 2019 at her father's initiative. The girl, who lives in neighboring Chechnya, was cut without her mother's consent when she went to Ingushetia to see her father. The child was held down by medical personnel and her stepmother, who ignored her screams, local media reported. The girl's mother pressed charges against Izanya Nalgiyeva, the gynecologist at the Aibolit clinic who performed the operation. Last July, a probe was opened and the gynecologist is now on trial. But Stichting Justice Initiative (SJI), a Russian human rights group which has taken up the case, wants the Investigative Committee to conduct a comprehensive probe into the clinic and all those involved in the girl's case. "Not all accomplices to this crime are in the dock," Tatyana Savvina, a lawyer with SJI, told AFP on Wednesday. She said they had requested that investigators probe the management of the clinic on suspicion of crimes including sexual abuse and intentionally causing grievous bodily harm to a minor. She said the rights group will press for the punishment for "all accomplices" including the girl's father and stepmother. A spokesman for the Investigative Committee in Ingushetia, Zurab Geroyev, said that the activists' request was being looked into. "So far a decision has not been made," he told AFP. Savvina said that the organization is planning to turn to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg if a comprehensive probe in Russia was not possible. HRWF Women’s Rights & Gender Equality Newsletter Each year more than 1,200 girls undergo genital cutting in the Northern Caucasus and religious authorities in the region support the practice, arguing it promotes women's chastity, according to Stichting Justice Initiative. Ismail Berdiyev, the mufti and chairman of the North Caucasus Muslim Coordination Center, has said all women should be cut "to end depravity on Earth." International rights groups have for years decried as barbaric the practice which can lead to myriad physical, psychological and sexual complications and, in the most tragic cases, death. SOMALIA: Somalia sees "massive" rise in FGM during lockdown and Ramadan By Emma Batha Thomson Reuters Foundation (18.05.2020) - https://reut.rs/2LVFgrI - Somalia’s coronavirus lockdown has led to a huge increase in female genital mutilation (FGM), with circumcisers going door to door offering to cut girls stuck at home during the pandemic, a charity said on Monday. Plan International said the crisis was undermining efforts to eradicate the practice in Somalia, which has the world’s highest FGM rate, with about 98% of women having been cut. “We’ve seen a massive increase in recent weeks,” said Sadia Allin, Plan International’s head of mission in Somalia. “We want the government to ensure FGM is included in all COVID responses.” She told the Thomson Reuters Foundation nurses across the country had also reported a surge in requests from parents wanting them to carry out FGM on their daughters while they were off school because of the lockdown. FGM, which affects 200 million girls and women globally, involves the partial or total removal of the external genitalia. In Somalia the vaginal opening is also often sewn up - a practice called infibulation. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has warned that the pandemic could lead to an extra two million girls worldwide being cut in the next decade as the crisis stymies global efforts to end the practice. Allin said families in Somalia were taking advantage of school closures to carry out FGM so that the girls had time to recover from the ritual, which can take weeks.
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