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An eight-year old Saudi Arabian girl who was married off by her father to a 58-year-old man has been told she cannot divorce her husband until she reaches puberty.
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The government is being urged to take further steps to eliminate female genital mutilation by making the practice illegal in Ireland.
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The European Court of Human Rights has instructed the Irish Government not to deport Nigerian woman Pamela Izebhekhai and her two daughters until further notice.
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It was a case that shocked many in Pakistan. The parents of two very young children were 'marrying' them off as part of a pre-meditated settlement. According to local officials, child bride Nisha's father had "sold" her off to her father-in-law for Rs 500,000 Pakistani rupees (US$1-Pak Rs 78) to settle a long-standing dispute between the two families.
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Kitovu Hospital in Masaka District has enlarged its facilities with the construction of a new obstetric fistula repair theatre and is now in position to handle more fistula repair cases. The existent theatre building was also reconstructed and modernised, improving services for all surgical patients.
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Mothers who have been suffering silently from fistula can get treatment and even have more children, writes Eunice Rukundo.
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Annet Kusiima’s condition has made her timid but persistent in finding ways to deal with fistula. Kusiima has hope that she will be fine but right now the problem is almost unbearable, writes Rachel Kabejja.
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Women Members of Parliament have appealed to the Ministry of Health to increase facilities used in prevention and operation of obstetric fistula cases.
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After Egypt earlier this year legislated a ban against female genital mutilation (FGM), authorities are now spearheading works to fight FGM at an international level as well. First Lady Suzanne Mubarak next weekend will open a Cairo conference on the issue.
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Freedom isn't an abstraction. For some, it can be as compelling and meaningful a reality as avoiding horrors like physical mutilation.
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Race is on to release trainee GP lured to Bangladesh by family, held captive, beaten, and about to marry a stranger against her will.
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Female genital mutilation is on the increase in Karamoja, a report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has said.
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AJMER: Despite tall claims by the state government of having stopped child marriages, a mass marriage of four girls was planned in Mayapur village of Ajmer district on Sunday evening. However, the marriage did not take place due to the timely intervention of the district administration.
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"FGM is a harmful practice that violates the rights of women and girls and infringes upon children's rights to special protection and has serious social, health and psychological consequences."
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Five days after she was allegedly defiled and later illegally detained at Naguru children’s remand home, the 13-year-old Ethiopian refugee is being forced into marriage by the elders of the Oromo community.
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At least 300 girls in south-western Kenya have fled from home and sought refuge in churches in a bid to escape forced female genital mutilation (FGM).
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It was a custom that made her to, for the first time, consider running away from her own parents’ home. Even if it meant she would never see any member of her family again, Ms Evelyn Chemitai, felt she could endure that more than what her parents wanted to subject her to.
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The introduction of new legislation to protect victims of forced marriages has been welcomed by charities campaigning to eradicate the practice. Under the new laws individuals and the Police can apply for a Forced Marriage Protection Order which prevents families from seizing passports or intimidating victims into travelling abroad. In addition, the Order could force families to reveal a missing victim’s whereabouts to Police.
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One of the International Rescue Committee’s doctors in Kakuma refugee camp, northern Kenya, has been using the period of ‘16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence’ to educate refugee communities about the potential health dangers of early marriage.
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THREE police chiefs are joining forces in a stand against forced marriages and "honour based violence".
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A narrow path leads up from the mountain town of Jibla, through century-old houses, and turns into a mud track before reaching the door of Arwa's home.
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SEMERA - Like most pastoralists in the remote Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, Ahmed Mohammed made sure his daughter was circumcised seven days after her birth.
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Ireland needs to introduce legislation to criminalise the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) according to the National Steering Committee on FGM.
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For officials from the High Commission in Islamabad, rescuing forced marriage victims is a tough, frontline job.
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THE MAYOR of Sligo is to host a civic reception this week for locally-based Nigerian woman Pamela Izevbekhai and her two daughters, who are at the centre of a long-running deportation battle.
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband paid a visit to Islamabad this week where apart from discussing matters related to the government's economic aid plans, Pakistan's part in the 'war on terror' and the role of the 'Friends of Pakistan' group, he spoke at some length on forced marriages. In this context, during this past week as well (Nov 25 to be precise), the Forced Marriage (Civil Protection) Act 2007 became law in the UK. The legislation could have significant impact on British citizens of Pakistani origin, and Pakistani citizens as well, if they enter into a marriage with the former. Miliband, writing recently in The Sunday Times, said that government actions regarding pernicious cultural practices could only go so far and that it was time for communities, through their leaders and civil activists as well as ordinary people, to speak out against forced marriages.
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ISTANBUL, TURKEY �" Huseyin Uzmez denies having sex with a 14-year-old girl. He just defends a man's right to marry one.
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JAKARTA: Indonesian Muslim clerics who claim to be protecting vulnerable women by backing a new anti-pornography law have come out in defence of a fellow preacher who married a 12-year-old village girl.
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Last week, the United Kingdom passed a new law designed to protect women from being forced into arranged marriages. The practice has been on the rise in Europe, but governments have been cautious to tackle the issue, treating it as a matter of cultural difference rather than legal precedent.
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In a small, dimly lit brothel in the red-light district of Kano in northern Nigeria nearly all the young prostitutes lined up on plastic chairs are runaway brides.
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CHILD victims of forced marriage and honour-based violence are seeking refuge in Dorset as the problem reaches epidemic proportions in inner city areas.
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JAKARTA �" Indonesian Muslim clerics who claim to be protecting vulnerable women by backing a new anti-pornography law have come out in defence of a fellow preacher who has married a 12-year-old village girl.
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KANO, 26 November 2008 (IRIN) - Just 26 percent of girls in northern Nigeria make it beyond primary school, according to the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and local NGOs estimate that most of those who leave do so because their families marry them off.
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ALMOST a hundred ethnic minority pupils have disappeared from schools in the past two years - amid fears some have been forced into marriage.
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KALLAR SAIDAN, Pakistan (AP) - Britain's foreign secretary told Pakistanis Wednesday that forced marriages are wrong, a day after a British law took effect to prevent the practice.
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This week's Unreported World reveals the devastating effects of child marriage and pregnancy in Nigeria, where nearly half of all girls in the country's northern states are married by the age of 15, often to much older men.
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NOT everyone understands or agrees with male circumcision, but generally it is respected as a tradition important to the groups that believe in it.
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"I KNOW this pain is not going anywhere," said 20-year-old Ifrah Ahmed, a shy if strikingly self-possessed presence at the launch of Ireland's first action plan on female genital mutilation (FGM) in Dublin yesterday. "God knows what I feel inside my heart. I don't really want to cry. I don't want to feel bad. But this really makes me feel . . ."
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Women have been winning U.S. asylum to avoid female genital mutilation in their homelands. But in 2007 three denials challenged that trend. One of those cases now under review could clarify their legal standing.
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A 21-year-old woman on Tuesday defied cultural dictates by escaping from a forced marriage arranged by her family.
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Ethiopia is poised to become one of the 17 countries in which UNFPA and UNICEF have launched a joint programme for the abandonment of FGM/C.
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ISTANBUL - Forced under age marriage has many physical and psychological effects on young people. The developing bodies of young girls cannot cope with the strains and pressures married life imposes on them and therefore they have problems when giving birth and carrying out normal daily routines, says renowned psychologist Feride Yıldırım
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Ougadougu, Burkina Faso: An overwhelming majority of girls and women in West Africa are affected by Female Genital Mutilation. As a UNV volunteer and specialist in sexual and gender-based violence, Francis Bogie Boogere is committed to fighting this harmful cultural practice by facilitating regional cooperation.
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The High Court has cleared the way for the deportation of Nigerian woman Pamela Izevbekhai and her two young daughters.
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It is perhaps the single most social, brutal procedure surviving the 21st century that can be inflicted on a female. Internationally recognized as a violation of the human rights of girls and women, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), or ‘khitan’ as it is known in Arabic, includes procedures that intentionally alter or damage female genital organs for non-medical reasons. In Yemen, women and children continue to suffer from harmful traditional practices, including FGM.
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Two doctors in Saudi Arabia want to change cultural attitudes to female genital mutilation by gathering evidence of its links to sexual dysfunction.
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Earlier this year, a newly-wed bride took a taxi to the West Court of Sana’a, Yemen and requested a divorce from the husband she was forced into marrying. Her husband, who was almost three times her age, raped and beat her on an almost daily basis, and the bride decided that she had had enough.
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The issue of forced marriages has been under the political spotlight this year and the problem in the North- East is far greater than anyone expected. Julia Breen speaks to a woman who was threatened with death if she didn’t marry a man she had met only once.
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12 Nov 2008 - Parents marry off daughters even before they turn 15 to make some quick money. This is the state of affairs in Yemen. A political party goes to the extent of citing Prophet Muhammad to justify this act.
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12 Nov 2008 - Balika Vadhu is not aimed to eradicate the practice by condemning and criticizing it, instead the intent is for the people to see the consequences of it. In Rajasthan, where child marriage still occurs, the audience gets to see the results clearly.
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Kathmandu, Nepal-- Today, many countries still set a lower minimum age for marriage for females than for males. However, there are an increasing number of women who insist that young girls not be married until they reach a sufficient age to make an informed choice.
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KARACHI, 3 November 2008 (IRIN) - Eighteen-year-old Razia Bibi was very pale and virtually blind after enduring the physical and emotional pain of an 18-hour-long obstructed labour leading to the birth of a stillborn baby.
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HARGEISA, 3 November 2008 (IRIN) - Hawa* is determined her young daughter will not undergo female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), which is widespread in Somalia's self-declared republic of Somaliland.
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PAKISTANI police raided a child marriage ceremony in the city of Karachi and arrested a cleric who was presiding over the wedding of a 4-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, police and residents said.
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Women who suffered female genital mutilation or other dangerous and humiliating treatment in their native countries are wondering if the United States is going to send them back to the same societies that mutilated them.
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The women's stories all begin with a searing childhood memory they cannot describe without weeping.
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An Islamist party leader has defended child marriages in Indonesia saying it is normal to marry children as young as 11 or 12.
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Cross-border female genital mutilation / cutting (FGM/C) is on the rise in West Africa according to the UN, spurring the need to impose a region-wide law banning the practice, say experts.
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Kampala - Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been banned by leaders of the only Ugandan tribe that carries out the practice, a month before the seasonal tribal ritual begins, press reports said on Thursday.
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A community in eastern Uganda has banned the deeply rooted practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), an official has said.
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Far away from the Taliban insurgency, in this most peaceful corner of Afghanistan, a quiet revolution is gaining pace.
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At least 300 women are victims of sexual violence every year in Bamako, according to local police records, but the actual figure is much higher said the president of the Bamako-based non-profit, Women in Law and Development in Africa.
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Children should not be seen as victims of sexual exploitation, but rather the front-line fighters against it, said non-profit Save the Children Sweden at a preparatory meeting in Dakar in advance of the World Congress against sexual exploitation of children and adolescents to be held in Rio, Brazil in November 2008.
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Debate and public outrage in Morocco over a controversial fatwa suggesting marriage be permissible for young girls have prompted an official inquiry into the matter. The fatwa, issued by Cheikh Mohamed Ben Abderrahman Al Maghraoui, said girls may be married as early as age nine.
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Thousands of young girls annually prepare for their initiation into a women's secret association, Sande Society, which operates mostly in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. As part of their initiation, young women take a vow of secrecy after weeks of training in the forest, promising not to not tell uninitiated girls or men what happens to them, to assume new names, and to have their clitorises cut off - known as female genital mutilation (FGM) - according to women in the secret society.
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Much more needs to be done to improve the status of women in Yemen, the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, in line with the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), officials said.
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Fewer Ethiopian parents are subjecting their daughters to female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM), according to an NGO campaigning to eradicate the practice.
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Around the world an estimated 3,500 girls under the age of 15 become child brides every day, while another 21,000 get married before reaching the age of 18.
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They came on holiday but found common cause in what they do to alleviate problems related to the child and shared experiences with their Bhutanese counterparts. A team from the International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN), met with individuals and organizations on August 27.
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Human rights activist from Eldoret Centre Against Torture David Koros is accusing local administration in West Pokot, Marakwet and Mt.Elgon districts for frustrating their efforts in the fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Koros says that their monitoring report indicated that some parents collaborate with the local chiefs to secretly hand over their girls to undergo the outdated traditional act. Following the discovery, Koros is now calling on church leaders and other stake holders in the region to help in sensitizing communities against the practice.
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A barefoot girl watches expressionless as men clad in expensive suits and women in designer clothes make their way on foot to the Community Centre in Kroo Bay, Freetown. They are here to launch the first ever State of Human Rights Report for Sierra Leone; Zainab, 12, is in the midst of another day on the narrow, muddy streets of the area, selling groundnuts to help support her family.
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Marrying off young Saudi girls to men the age of their fathers is stirring a heated debate in the conservative Gulf kingdom amid calls for the state to legalize a marriage age.
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The Saudi Human Rights Commission (HRC) has called on government agencies to take necessary steps to end the practice of child marriages by adopting a clear and unambiguous position on such weddings.
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A new centre to curb post-birth complications will be set up in Garissa before the end of the year.
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An 8-year-old girl is pleading to a Saudi Arabian court for a divorce from a man in his 50s.
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About 120 million women and girls worldwide have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). An estimated two million girls are also mutilated each year, Madam Florence Ali, President of the Ghanaian Association of Women Welfare (GAWW), has disclosed.
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Women in Yemen certainly experience a terrible situation regarding their reproductive lives.
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A 14-year-old girl allegedly married to jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs with her parents' blessing at age 12 was ordered back into foster care Tuesday by a Texas judge.
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Foundation for Women’s Health Research and Development (FORWARD-UK), based in the United Kingdom, indicated that Ethiopia’s effort focused at eliminating Harmful Traditional Practices (HTPs) is successful.
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LIKE about 5,000 other young Cambodian women, Lay Maly was promised a good job in Taiwan.
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PRISCA Ami (not real name), 17, now in S.6, will soon sit her final exams. But she has a few regrets.
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Until 2007, Colombians believed that female genital mutilation (FGM) was a practice unique to some African countries. But last year we learned that it has long been practiced by one of Colombia's aboriginal groups.
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While Maharashtra is wealthier than the nation as a whole based on the wealth index, persistent malnutrition and widespread anaemia continue to be a significant problem for children and adults in the State.
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THE United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has donated medical equipment worth N3.4 million to Mother and Child Care Initiative (MCCI), a pet project of the first lady of Ebonyi State, Mrs. Josephine Elechi, that is fighting to terminate Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF).
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Indian-American urologic surgeon Ashok Hemal and colleagues have performed more robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery to repair abnormal openings between the bladder and vagina known as fistulas than any other team in the world.
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A Form Two student, who won Sh1 million, last year, has donated the money to a centre that fights Female Genital Mutilation.
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After months of being raped and beaten by her husband, Nujood Ali decided that enough was enough and took a taxi on her own to a local courthouse in Yemen in order to get a divorce.
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MANY girls are still at high risk of abuse through Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - a year after police launched a high-profile crackdown.
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Joyce Ingwedo's neighbours in Oderai village, Soroti district called her 'urine' from when she was 17. This was because of urine incontinence that left her with a bad smell.
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Two decades ago, women in Yemen used to adorn their hair with the fragrant leaves of the al mashaqir, a traditional flower. Today, the flower is banned and women’s faces are covered with a veil.
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Authorities are investigating abuse and bigamy allegations involving members of a polygamous sect, NBC News reported Tuesday.
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An 11-year-old boy gave out invitations to his classmates for a big event his family was planning this summer - and it wasn't his birthday party.
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The City Council will vote Wednesday on whether to declare its support for a federal visa program for noncitizens that rewards them for helping fight certain crimes.
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Moving her ministry’s budget for 2008/09 financial year, Minister Sitta said the government would issue 2.1bn/- to enable the proposed institution get a licence from the Bank of Tanzania (BoT). Mrs Sitta said after obtaining the licence the bank would float shares to the public so as to raise at least 6bn/- before starting operations.
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Arrived veiled, surrounded by two women from the left and right. Once she saw her mom, she simply jumped into her arms crying, as she also hugged her uncle seeking protection.
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An estimated 70 million girls and women in 27 African and Middle Eastern countries have been circumcised. The age-old tradition, also known as female genital mutilation, is primarily performed on girls ages 4 to 14, though in some countries it is done on infants. It involves removing a girl's clitoris and sometimes other external genitalia.
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In this small Nile River farming village, Maha Mohammed has started to doubt whether she should circumcise her two daughters.
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The National Women’s Committee (NWC), a government body, has called for an end to child marriage, - common in rural areas - by proposing a minimum legal age for marriage.
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A young girl from a rural area in one of the big four regions charms with a man believed to be faring well in terms of financial income, and subsequently, seen as promising future security.
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In this small Nile River farming village, Maha Mohammed has started to doubt whether she should circumcise her two daughters.
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Lagos State has launched a capacity development initiative to check growing incidence of child and maternal death in the country by introducing a two-day International Obstetric-Drill for doctors, nurses and midwives in the health sector of the state.
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The genital mutilation of adolescent girls is still a common custom in Sierra Leone, where many see it as good preparation for marriage and motherhood. Yasmin had her turn when she was 14. After she was tied up and held down, her external genitals were ‘scraped’ off without anaesthetic. She was warned that if she told anyone she would die. Now 19 years old and living in the UK, she is furious at the violence perpetrated against her and other young girls in her home country
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The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), Rivers State Branch has promised to flush out the activities of quacks and all those who practice alternative medicine in Rivers State.
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Media houses in the country have been asked to cover widely issues that concern the health and well-being of the people, including publishing information on how best to avoid obstetric fistula or how to seek medical intervention.
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The 2008 Lambeth Conference is the second of the decennial meetings to include female bishops and several of them said the welcome is warmer, but that they wish more consideration were given to women's issues.
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Despite a move four years ago to curb child marriage in Morocco, the practice is still quite common in the country, according to new data provided by the authorities.
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Parents who arrange for their daughters to be circumcised are being urged to stop the practice as a Met police operation to raise awareness intensifies.
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In the latest twist to a high-profile marriage in this central Saudi city, a 64-year-old man has announced that he would wait five years to consummate his marriage with his 10-year-old bride.
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Twenty-five years ago, a young professional couple in Toronto visited a plastic surgeon's office with an unusual request.
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They’re angry at plans to base legislation governing marriage and inheritance on Islam.
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Ex-rebels in northern Cote d’Ivoire have launched three violent riots in the north of the country in the last month, and human rights experts say the incidence of violent crime is also high.
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"Police authorities across the country must take the lead and play a coordinating role to drive effective multi-agency work to tackle the menace of forced marriage" said Aneeta Prem, lead member on tackling forced marriages for London's Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA).
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West African immigrant activists have taken their fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) to France where as many as 50,000 immigrant women a year undergo the procedure, according to the French Institute of Demographic Studies.
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Brian Brady reports on a police operation to protect more than 20,000 girls, some aged nine or younger, thought to be in danger of forced genital mutilation
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THE United Nations Population Fund and a charity, Reproductive Education and Community Health, have partnered in a campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kapchorwa district.
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Social Welfare, Gender and Children minister Margareth Sitta has said that the number of female genital mutilation (FGM) cases in the country has decreased by 5 per cent.
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A decision by a federal appeals court in New York has come as a saviour for many asylum seeking African women in the United States. The court ruled that three Guinean women, claiming to be victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), should not be sent back to their home country, saying there were obvious errors in denying them asylum.
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Changing the life style of the people living in Kapchorwa and Bukwo districts at the slopes of Mt Elgon in order to end the traditional female genital mutilation (FGM) is proving to be a headache for the local leadership in the region.
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Subrahmanya, June 9: Renuka Chowdhary, central minister for child and women welfare said that the Home Minister has been asked to increase reservations for women in the army from 10% to 30%.
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JAISALMER: A 13-year-old girl is revolting against a hoary tradition that has crushed many a childhood in Rajasthan - child marriage.
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EGYPT'S parliament today outlawed female circumcision except in cases of "medical necessity", a condition that could undermine the ban, parliamentary sources said.
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FORWARD welcomes the House of Lords' renewed interest in FGM. Baroness Rendell of Babergh's question today in the House of Lords regarding routine disclosure by health professionals when evidence of female genital mutilation (FGM) is discovered in patients, is a step in the right direction.
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Norwegian police accused a Gambian couple on Friday of subjecting five daughters to genital mutilation in the country's first-ever case against the illegal act of female circumcision.
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Over fifty Traditional Birth Attendants and Circumcisers from the five districts of Foni, participated at a three day workshop held in Sibanor, Foni Bintang Karanai. In his welcoming remark, the Governor of Western Region, Mr. Abdou Badgie welcomed GAMCOTRAP in Foni and said that they are happy that the organization is also engaging the Foni area towards the eradication of female genital mutilation - FGM. He reminded the Traditional birth Attendants the important role they play in promoting maternal and child health in particular. Speaking to the circumcisers, the governor noted that despite the fact that FGM is a deep rooted tradition, health is a basic human right to be protected by all. Making reference to the content of the programme, Governor Badjie noted the importance of the issues for discussion based on facts and reiterated the need to stop harmful traditional practices. He appealed to participants to reflect on the economic dimension of celebration of initiation ceremonies in the midst of increased poverty. Governor Badgie added that, eradication of poverty will be difficult while there are extravagance in lifestyles. He posited that with good health, there can be good economic productivity and appreciated the solidarity among women. Mr. Abdou Badgie commended GAMCOTRAP as an important organization on women and children’s health rights in the Gambia.
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5 June 2008 �" Governments and other actors in positions of power and influence must make it a priority to bring perpetrators of violence against women to account, the top United Nations human rights official said today.
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It started with a dead dog, escalated into a tit-for-tat tribal war, and has now reached a grotesque climax with the exchange of 15 child brides.
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Teenager rushed to hospital with life-threatening genital hemorrhaging after
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Djiboutian authorities have been asked to conquer poverty and ignorance if they want their country to "win the struggle against the age-old Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting (FGM/C).
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The sight of children caring for other children, sometimes just a few years younger than themselves, is not uncommon across Pakistan. Most often, the toddlers or babies lugged around by pre-teen or teenage girls as they go about their chores are younger siblings.
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Rosa’s husband was murdered in 1989 during an uprising in Eastern Uganda. An illiterate housewife with no independent source of livelihood, she was left with four small children to look after. Soon after the funeral, rumours started circulating around the village that she had connived with the killers in order to take over her husband’s property. She was in shock, heartbroken at losing her husband and fearful of the future.
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A new family law code waiting to be adopted by Parliament is facing opposition from some Islamic groups who claim it goes against Islamic principles, particularly when it comes to proposed changes to the country’s marriage laws.
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Paramount Chief of Nongowa chiefdom, Kenema district has declared his support for the controversial female genital mutilation (FGM) locally referred to as 'Bondo' society practiced by women in Sierra Leone.
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Poor rural health facilities have in recent years resulted in many cases of childbirth complications that causes 'obstetric fistula'.
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Edna Adan Ismail is an accomplished woman. She is a nurse, midwife, philanthropist, and the former foreign minister of Somaliland, a small country on the eastern Horn of Africa that won independence from Somalia in 1991. She is also one of the world’s most outspoken opponents of ritual female circumcision, or as she calls it, “Female Genital Mutilation” (FGM).
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Girls make up only 35 percent of children in school in Afghanistan, being kept out of the education system by a lack of female teachers, early marriage and the need to work, agencies said Monday.
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Violence against women is costing British society £40bn a year yet charities working to provide refuge and aid to some of the most vulnerable people in society are woefully under-funded, a leading charity warns today.
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According to the Ministries of Education and Health, nearly 60,000 women and girls are circumcised or threatened to be in France. Among those listed are about 3,000 in the Provence-Alpes - Côte d'Azur regions, according to estimates by the National Institute of Demographic Studies, based on populations of migrants.
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With recognition of her social work by the people at last, the road has never been so smooth for Nazima, who at one time was castigated by her own fellow beings calling her a Kafir and a blot among Muslim women in society.
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The family of Bimala Kumari Chaudhari, 16, of Morang Tetaria had to postpone her marriage ceremony scheduled for last Thursday on age grounds.
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Around three million babies born in Ethiopia each year were likely to join the millions facing discrimination in the East African country due to lack of official identification, according to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF).
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Despite pressure of 8-year-old girl's husband refusing to set her free. Simultaneously, Yemeni Parliament does not consider early marriage as a priority and is not moving forward with legislation to prevent it.
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He's found his song in life. Raju Inamdar has taken the novel route of spreading the message of social health across Maharashtra and parts of states like Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh through the novel medium of singing, acting and painting.
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Seventy percent of the world's poorest and vulnerable are women and seven out of 10 hungry people worldwide are also women, according to the UN Commission on the Status of Women. A summit to invest in women and girls as a key to ending global poverty was held Sunday in Washington.
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Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka has said that the formation of the grand coalition cabinet on Sunday will ensure that the over 100,000 children displaced in the recent post election violence resettle back to their normal lives.
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Although the genital mutilation of women and girls is condemned as grievous bodily harm in countries all over the world, it is still practised even in countries like Germany, where an estimated 30,000 women are affected.
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Female genital mutilation has come under fire from women. They say men are to blame for the spread of the vice.
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The human rights situation in Cameroon for 2007 remained poor, the US Department of State report has indicated.
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Uganda is among the three countries in the world with the highest percentage of women suffering from uncontrolled leaking of urine and faeces due to childbirth complications.
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The ICDS officials rescued an adolescent girl from child marriage in Kurnool on Saturday.
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An eight-year-old girl has sought the help of a court judge to seek a divorce after two months of forced marriage to a 30-year-old man in Yemen, press reports said on Sunday.
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Schools in Wales will be asked to look out for unexplained absences of girls they think are at risk of forced marriage, it was revealed today. Teachers and welfare officers should raise the alarm if pupils suddenly disappear from the classroom without warning, Social Justice Minister Brian Gibbons said.
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Forced marriages may seem to belong to the past, but actually still are a reality in European societies. Young people, both girls and boys, are being forced to marry someone their parents or family have chosen for them and are not being given the opportunity to say 'no'. It happens amongst groups of different ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds, also amongst Muslims.
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A research conducted by the World Vision Ghana has revealed that early betrothal and elopement with girls are still being practiced in Bawku West District due to the high poverty rate in the area, and the desire of parents to collect high priced dowry from prospective in-laws. This was made known at a workshop in Zebilla to highlights some of the research findings.
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Sitara Devi of Barh Thaulai village does not want her 17-year-old daughter to be cowed down by her in-laws when she gets married next year.
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Today the Home Office and two charities are launching a 24 hour national helpline for victims of forced marriage and honour violence.
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High bride price levied on men by families and relatives of the would-be wife has been found to be a key factor for the increased rate of rape and abduction in the country, a report by CARE-Ethiopia said on Tuesday.
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A new national helpline for victims of forced marriage and honour-based violence, part-funded by the Forced Marriage Unit, was launched today by Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker.
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The UK asylum system is not "fit for purpose" and falls "seriously below" the standards of a civilised and humane society, the Independent Asylum Commission said yesterday.
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Young, determined and 13, Congress Kanwar from Patlai village in Dag block of Jhalawar district in Rajasthan has become a role model in her community for raising her voice against child marriage.
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Women leaders here have advocated for establishing gender equality with a view to developing women leadership for changing their conditions to ensure overall and uniform socio-economic and national development.
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Kapenda Buyamba was only a small six yr. old child during the early days of the bloody civil war in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1998. Today, Kapenda is only 16 years old, but she has already been married for three years.
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Three weeks ago, asylum seeker Pamela Izevbekhai prayed for a miracle that would enable her and her daughters to return to Sligo, the place they now call home.
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Twenty-nine women suffering from obstetric fistula underwent repair surgery here last week during a three-day marathon training session that involved medical staff from four Asian countries.
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After a lifetime devoted to Ethiopia's social outcasts, the fistula women, Catherine Hamlin is close to realising her dream to put a midwife in every village.
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Zamfara State government has ordered vaccines for cerebra-spinal-meningitis (CSM), worth N23 million, to curb the spread of the disease in the state and awarded N500million contract to combat Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF).
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Now more than ever, Yemen is coming closer to achieving the second Millennium Development Goal regarding primary education.
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A regional conference against female genital mutilation in the Horn of Africa was conducted from March 27 to 28 at the Hager Media Hall within the premises of the Ministry of Information here in Asmara. In The conference organized by the National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW), representatives from Djibouti, Rwanda and Uganda, as well as different international and regional organizations and invited guests took part.
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A police worker praised by MPs for protecting thousands of girls from forced marriages is facing dismissal for speaking publicly about their plight.
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Fears that Australian-born girls as young as three months are being flown to Africa to undergo barbaric circumcision operations have been reported to the Department of Child Safety.
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Rep. Will Bond backed the legislation last year that mistakenly allowed anyone - even toddlers - to marry in Arkansas with parental consent. This week he's asking for a do-over.
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A nine-year-old girl in Pakistan has been forced to marry a man of 24 to punish her father for eloping with a neighbour's daughter.
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Alarming levels of violence against women continue to undermine real progress towards gender equality
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As rain pounded the dark brown soil, former female circumcisers of Monduli District waded into the mud soaked Nanja section of Lepurko village, to surrender their work tools to the Arusha Regional Administrators.
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Federal lawmakers want to raise the minimum age for marriage to 18 for both sexes to keep children from dropping out of school, according to a bill introduced in Mexico's Senate on Thursday.
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Halima [not her real name], a mother of five girls, shudders whenever she remembers how she suffered after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM/Cutting), a practice still widespread in Somalia.
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A victim of the vile practice of forced marriage says it sent her from being a promising student into a spiral of abuse lasting over a decade.
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State authorities took custody Friday of 18 girls who had been living at a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.
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Khalida's father says she's 9 - or maybe 10. As much as Sayed Shah loves his 10 children, the functionally illiterate Afghan farmer can't keep track of all their birth dates. Khalida huddles at his side, trying to hide beneath her chador and headscarf. They both know the family can't keep her much longer. Khalida's father has spent much of his life raising opium, as men like him have been doing for decades in the stony hillsides of eastern Afghanistan and on the dusty southern plains. It's the only reliable cash crop most of those farmers ever had. Even so, Shah and his family barely got by: traffickers may prosper, but poor farmers like him only subsist. Now he's losing far more than money. "I never imagined I'd have to pay for growing opium by giving up my daughter," says Shah.
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Ministers are set to write to all schools and councils setting out their responsibilities in helping prevent forced marriages, junior schools minister Kevin Brennan announced. The move comes after it emerged that many schools in cities with high rates of forced marriages were refusing to display posters raising awareness of the issue because they might offend parents.
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Female genital mutilation, or FGM, is a traditional practice that is performed throughout the Horn of Africa and other parts of the continent. The procedure is often called female circumcision, and it is illegal but still common in the self-declared republic of Somaliland, where health care workers, activists and others are working to end it.
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"One girl was 14 and got married. Now she has a son and she is still a child herself."
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The police today arrested four persons for marrying off a 13-year-old girl in Patiala, thus, violating the Child Marriage (Restrained) Act.
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New legislation could help stop instances of forced marriage in Scotland, a Muslim group has said.
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David Cameron is under pressure to persuade a Tory council to reverse a decision to axe funding to a pioneering women's group. The Conservative-controlled Ealing council in west London has decided to end the funding of Southall Black Sisters, which helped victims of forced marriage and domestic violence.
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Amendments to Egypt's Child Law 12/ 1996 seeking to extend the legal protection offered to children were signed by President Hosni Mubarak on 4 March, and will soon be presented to the People's Assembly for approval.
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The Tasaru Girls Rescue Center offers girls an alternative rite of passage to the deep-rooted cultural practice, also known as FGM.
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It can be a lonely job fighting for women's rights. But Farhiyo Farah Ibrahim, just 25 years old, has found the fortitude to withstand severe ostracism in her fight for a better life for women in Africa.
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Each year, it is believed, thousands of young British Asian women are forced into marriages against their will. Those who resist face ostracism - or far worse. So why do we hear so little about them?
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Speakers at a views sharing meeting of human rights activists and marriage registrars demanded formation of central automated marriage bureau aiming at checking the various fraudulence in marriage and bringing reforms to the existing faulty marriage registration system to stop early marriage.
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Female circumcision or Female Genital Mutilation is not a subject often heard in the corridors of Uganda's Parliament even if there are at least two circumcised female legislators, and scores of MP's who oppose the practice.
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The father of the 17-year-old Junior High School student who was to terminate her education and marry tomorrow, has been arrested.
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A case been registered against a man who allegedly attempted to compulsorily marry off his 12-year-old daughter to a boy, also aged 12, at Chelliampalayam near here.
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The High Court has granted Nigerian woman Pamela Izevbekhai and her two daughters an injunction preventing their deportation pending a judicial review of the case.
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The Coordinator of GAMCOTRAP, Dr. Isatou Touray, has said that 75% of Gambian women are subjected to FGM. Dr. Touray made these remarks recently when a group of journalists, who were undergoing an eight days training program on human rights, visited her office in Bakau.
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A 17-year-old girl's dream of completing junior high school in just a couple of weeks, is unlikely to materialise as her parents are determined to force her into marriage.
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A Sligo-based Nigerian woman facing deportation has been told to report to the Immigration Centre at Baleskin in Finglas at 10.30 tomorrow morning.
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Schools in areas feared to have high rates of forced marriage are refusing to display posters on the issue because they are too hard-hitting, according to a government report.
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There is no doubt that Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is one of the major negative cultural practices that affect the dignity and violate the fundamental human rights of women.
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Australia will provide further support to Ethiopia's Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, which treats women with the debilitating condition, obstetric fistula.
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The President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, H. E. Girma Woldegiorgis called on Ethiopian women to stand up for their constitutional rights and discharge their important responsibility by organizing themselves.
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Two babies and several gaunt women are the only patients in the gloomy wards of the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown.
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Responding to the report "Forced marriage, family cohesion and community engagement: national learning through a case study of Luton" by Dr Nazia Khanum OBE, Aneeta Prem, Metropolitan Police Authority lead member on dishonour based violence, said:
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The number of women who have become victims of forced marriages in the UK has been drastically underestimated, according to a report published today. Government figures had previously suggested there were about 300 forced marriages a year but today's study, which focuses on Luton, suggests the true figure could be up to 4,000.
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Some 800 women in the Sierra Leone town of Kailahun paraded Tuesday in favour of genital mutilation and told donors opposed to the practice to keep their money, demonstrators and witnesses said.
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Here's a shocking statistic. There are over 1.7 lakh divorces that take place among couples who are yet to reach the official marriageable age in the country.
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Afghan women need the freedom to pursue more education and should not be forced into marriage, President Hamid Karzai told an audience of women during an International Women's Day ceremony Saturday.
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The government on Monday launched 'Dhan Laxmi', a conditional cash transfer scheme for the girl child. A significant amount of money will be provided to the family of the girl child on fulfilling certain conditions.
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Sierra Leone has the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world because of underinvestment in health programs, malnutrition, and harmful cultural practices, UN children's agency (UNICEF) Executive Director Ann Veneman told journalists in the Sierra Leone capital.
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It took five operations to repair Lumo's internal injuries after she was gang-raped and left for dead by Hutu militia in eastern Congo, in what women's rights activists call a new form of terrorism, the use of rape as a weapon of war.
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Nawal Nour '88 treats the repercussions of a practice not often seen here - female circumcision. An obstetrician and gynecologist at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, she helps women who have been circumcised and tries in a culturally sensitive manner to dissuade them from doing the same to their daughters.
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Expressing their commitment to the elimination of female genital mutilation, also called female genital cutting and female genital mutilation/cutting, 10 United Nations agencies pledged in a statement today to support governments, communities, and women and girls to abandon the practice within a generation, with a major reduction in many countries by 2015, the year the Millennium Development Goals are set to be achieved.
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The Co-founder and Regional Director of the West Africa Fistula Foundation, Dr. Darius Maggi on Tuesday 19th February 2008 made a courtesy call on the First Lady of the Republic, Madam Sia Nyama Koroma at the First Family's residence in Freetown.
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Harmful cultural practices such as female genital mutilation are hampering efforts to reduce poverty in Sierra Leone, which has the world's worst child and maternal mortality rates, a top U.N. official said.
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The Deputy Minister for Women and Children's Affairs, Daniel Dugan, has called on Members of Parliament (MPs) to assist in ensuring that girls were protected from early and forced marriages.
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Police have vowed to tackle the taboo and mysterious subject of 'honour' crimes which can be conducted within ethnic minority circles.
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Ten United Nations bodies have pledged to end female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2015 in many countries of Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
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The true scale of forced marriage and "honour violence" could be vastly under-reported in Lancashire, it has emerged.
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The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices (GAMCOTRAP), on Saturday 23rd February, organised a day's training and sensitization workshop for the media fraternity in the Gambia. The objective of the workshop was to capacitize the media on how to sensitise the general populace on Female genital mutilation. The workshop brought together Senior Journalists and editors from both the electronic and print media.
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About 200 Gypsies in a Romanian village fought each other with knives and other weapons after the family of a 14-year-old bridegroom canceled his wedding to a 12-year-old girl, authorities said.
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs entered a not guilty plea Wednesday to sex charges stemming from the arranged marriages of three teenage girls to older men.
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A Bill that seeks to criminalise female genital mutilation was presented in Parliament yesterday. If enacted, a person found guilty of engaging in the practice is liable to imprisonment of between seven to 10 years or a fine of not less than sh1m.
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Young girls in Glasgow are at risk of being taken out of the UK to be circumcised illegally, Strathclyde Police said today.
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The mood in the small meeting room in Portcullis House, the building opposite parliament housing MPs' offices, is truculent. It is crammed with leaders and workers from refuges for black and minority ethnic (BME) and refugee women throughout the country who are angry and scared at what they see as a threat to their existence.
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The prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Niger fell dramatically between 1998 and 2006, according to a recent government survey.
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The Irish Family Planning Association has praised new Irish funding aimed at ending the incidence of female genital mutilation in the developing world.
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The United Nations Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) has called on the Government to apply a zero tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
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An adolescent escaped from marriage at the intervention of Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Nandigram upazila in Bogra district on Friday last, officials and local public representatives said.
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Terming child marriage as one of the biggest injustices in society, President Pratibha Patil on Saturday asked the state governments to implement welfare schemes which provide incentive to educate girl child.
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MISS GHANA @ 50, Frances Tekyi-Mensah has called on government to place high on its health agenda Obstetric Fistula, a disease which is gradually becoming common among women in some remote areas of Ghana, especially in the northern part of the country.
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Hadia was a happy and healthy six-year-old girl living in a suburb of Nouakchott when her aunt Fatima came to visit. Fatima, who preached chastity and respect for traditions, did not need to fight hard to convince Hadia's mother to engage in female genital cutting of her daughter.*
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A study using data from 40 demographic and health surveys shows that a substantial proportion of women in developing countries continue to marry as adolescents.
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Betty Chelangat, 23 and Monica Chebichira, 25, have never enjoyed parental love.
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As the world marks the International Day against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), we call upon all Somalis to challenge the deeply rooted socio-cultural practice that discriminate and create the environment for the continuation of human rights violations against women, office of the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia said on Wednesday in a press release.
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These are busy times for Pakhshan Zangana. Head of the women's caucus in the Iraqi Kurdish parliament in Arbil, she is on the verge of pushing through a piece of legislation that is the first of its kind in the Middle East - a law criminalizing female genital mutilation (FGM). "Sixty-eight out of 120 deputies signed our bill, so we could have got it passed by ministerial decree," Zangana says. "But law-making is the job of parliament, and we want everybody to debate this issue openly." The bill received its first reading on Dec. 3 and is likely to be passed by February.
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Two people, one of them a cleric, were arrested and four children were taken into custody in Hamal village near the Warah town on Friday on charges of arranging marriages of two underage girls to clear an alleged adultery allegation. Four others nominated in the case are still at large.
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Cultural Consul of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran Wednesday said Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is not a fundamental practice in Islam and that women should not be forced to undergo it.
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) which is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons is a barbaric act to womanhood.
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At least 50 women circumcisers, including traditional birth attendants and women leaders have participated in a three-day training on sexual and reproductive health rights and entrepreneurial skills in Basse, Upper River Region (URR).
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Mary Clarke, children's advocate and former director of the Social Development and Gender Unit at the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), is concerned about the failure of Jamaicans to report child abuse - and especially sexual abuse - to the Sexual Abuse Registry, established for the purpose.
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A Somali refugee has been honoured for her outstanding campaign against Female Genital Mutilation and forced marriages at the UNHCR Dadaab camp in North Eastern province.
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A minor girl escaped from child marriage at the intervention of local UNO of Hatibandha Upazila at village Dakshin Goddimari of Lalmonirhat district on Friday.
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The archaic practice of child marriage continues unabated in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, despite a Supreme Court directive prohibiting it and a law enacted against the practice as early as 1927, says a new study.
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The Law Commission of India has, in its 205th report, recommended that marriages of persons below the age of 18 years should be prohibited - whether of boys or girls. It also said that marriages below the age of 16 years be made void (empty, not valid, legally not binding).
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Reports indicate that the prevalence rate of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Ghana still hovers around 9-15 per cent.
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HEALTH experts today called for teachers to be trained to identify pupils mutilated in brutal tribal rituals.
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The prevalence rate of female circumcision among women aged between 15 and 49 years has dropped by half (from 5% in 1998 to 2.2% in 2006), within a decade in Niger, according to UNICEF statistics released here Wednesday.
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A MERSEYSIDE doctor has spoken of the horrific results of female genital mutilation (FGM) that she saw while caring for patients in Kenya.
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A round table conference, aimed at addressing the age-old culture of female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM), will be held in Geneva on Tuesday.
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THE United Nations is calling for stronger commitments from governments to end female genital mutilation (FGM) which is widely condemned by health experts.
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AFRICAN tribal elders are being flown into the UK to mutilate young Liverpool girls in a "heartbreaking" cultural tradition.
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The new government in Serra Leone has vowed to outlaw female circumcision, a common practice in the West African country, the social welfare minister said Monday.
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The woes of families displaced by the recent wave of violence in Nakuru and its surroundings have assumed a new, but sad twist.
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IT IS carried out as a cultural practice. But it is wholly illegal in the UK, can have fatal consequences, and has been rightly labelled as child abuse and a violation of human rights.
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LIVERPOOL'S health officials have been pioneers against FGM locally and nationally.
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Investing in young women and girls in developing regions must be a top priority for governments, multilateral agencies and the private sector, say the authors of a report released here [Washington] this week.
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A Nigerian woman who said she feared her daughters would be subjected to the torture of female genital mutilation in her native country, has lost her bid to stop their deportation.
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A Judge in the locality of Cervera in Lleida has taken measures to protect a girl aged 7 years old. Her parents have been forbidden from taking her to Gambia where it is feared that she could be subject to female circumcision.
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9 Jan 2008 - Dr. R.H. Mohammad's article detailing FORWARD Nigeria's project on obstetric fistula in Dambata Kano.
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An exciting new collection of work by young British Somali writers called 'Silent Voices' is out now. It includes 'The Gift' by Zahrah Awaleh; a dark, angry and moving monologue describing a young Somali woman's account of her feelings about FGM and her decision to have a reversal operation. The piece is fictitious, but the issues within it are very real and relevant to the debate on FGM.
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