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26 Nov 2001 - Thirty people from the Tharaka district of Kenya have been prosecuted by a court for secretly subjecting their daughters to female genital mutilation during the school holiday period in August 2000.
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22 Nov 2001 - The Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act was passed in 1985 as a result of lobbying and campaigning by FORWARD and other NGOs in the UK. Despite evidence that FGM continues in this country there have been no prosecutions to date. FORWARD is part of the steering committee for the Parliamentary Hearing on FGM held by the All-party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health.
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7 Sep 2001 - FORWARD's training strategy is based on the premise that professionals in health, education, social services and the police can play an important role in the campaign to stop the practice of FGM in the UK.
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6 Aug 2001 - Eight women and five elderly men have been sentenced to three years in prison for permitting or assisting the genital mutilation of eighteen young girls in the southern Kolda district of Senegal.
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1 Jul 2001 - In 1998 The National Lottery Charities Board and the Department for International Development agreed to fund a 3-year women's health project entitled A Pilot Project on Women's Health and Development in Dambatta, Kano State, Northern Nigeria. The project aims to raise the level of women's health, economic, social and nutritional status to enable them to participate on the sustainable development process in Dambatta.
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26 Jun 2001 - The Tanzanian government has allowed mass FGM ceremonies to take place despite the fact that the practice is outlawed in Tanzania. Equality Now has launched a protest action against the government of Tanzania, because the law is not effectively enforced.
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27 Apr 2001 - FORWARD has recently completed a study on Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of female genital mutilation (FGM) among four ethnic minority communities namely Somalis, Ethiopians, Sudanese and Eritreans in the royal borough of Kensington Chelsea and Westminster.
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22 Feb 2001 - On 19 February 2001 FORWARD held its third annual conference to address the issue Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) the UK with the title strengthening our combined efforts for a future without female genital mutilation. Key speeches included government initiatives to eliminate FGM in the UK and FGM as a human rights issue.
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13 Feb 2001 - FORWARD has recently been awarded a grant by the Body Shop Foundation to produce an information pack on FGM and a wall chart for refugee, asylum seekers and ethnic minority populations living in the UK. The information pack will include information on types FGM, cultural significance and reasons for the practice, prevalence, health implications, FGM as a human rights issue, policies and legislation in the UK and Africa.
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