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1 Dec 1999 - The Women's Health and Development project, in Kano state, Nigeria, started in October this year. This is an innovative project, which adopts a multi-dimensional approach to meet the diversity of problems for women in the multiple roles that they perform.
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21 Nov 1999 - In October, FORWARD was invited by Skin of Skunk Anansie, to attend her UK tour, to promote awareness about FGM. It was a unique opportunity to reach out to a young audience and invite them to find out more about what FORWARD does.
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10 Nov 1999 - Guinea: Hundreds of women who have been circumcising young girls have handed over their ceremonial knives at a weekend ceremony in Korosa in the east of the former French colony Guinea.
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24 Oct 1999 - Kadi's first scream went through me like a dagger ... Kadi, the cheerful four-year-old, had just discovered pain, the horror of tradition. They had circumcised her on a rafia mat ... Isabel Ramos Rioja's article, published in a Spanish magazine, expressed the horror and naked truth of what so many African girls were undergoing.
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10 Sep 1999 - The first phase of the 'Mobilising men to campaign against FGM' came to its completion in July this year. This two-year project, funded by Comic Relief and The World Bank, is a joint initiative by FORWARD and PATH Kenya, to identify the need to include men in the campaign to stop FGM. In Kenya, over 50 percent of women have undergone the practice of FGM. Most of the communities practising FGM are patriarchal, thereby men's involvement in the campaign becomes pertinent. Phase 1 involved condu
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23 Jul 1999 - New York: A Ghanaian woman who claimed she fled from her home in Africa two years ago to escape being genitally mutilated has been awarded political asylum in the USA.
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1 Jun 1999 - FORWARD is privileged to have three new additional members in our council of management: Angela Robson (Amnesty International), Florence Harding (Commonwealth Secretariat) and Dr Fareda Banda (Department of Law, SOAS).
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8 May 1999 - Dr Faith Mwangi-Powell, FORWARD's National Community Development Officer, is now the Acting Director of FORWARD. She will now additionally be in charge of managing personnel, national and overseas project, and overseeing fundraising. We are confident she will lead the way in moving FORWARD forward! Amanda Lawrence is FORWARD's new Administrative Assistant and joined us in August. Amanda graduated in Sociology from the LSE in July and we hope she has a long and fruitful working relationship w
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3 Apr 1999 - FORWARD's work in the UK now covers three key areas: Community Education development Research and Professional Training.
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1 Apr 1999 - In March this year, support for the Women's Health Project came to an end. Since 1996 FORWARD has supported BAFROW in the three-year project in two districts (Banjul Kombo St Mary and the Lower River Division) of The Gambia.
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1 Mar 1999 - The UK NGO AIDS Consortium, a group of UK based organisations working together to understand and develop effective approaches to problems associated with HIV/AIDS, organised a two-day seminar that addressed the vulnerability of the adolescent and preadolescent girls to HIV/AIDS.
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19 Feb 1999 - Paris: In February this year, 53 year-old Hawa Greou from Mali was sentenced to eight years in prison for circumcising up to 50 young girls.
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