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30 Dec 2009 - It is with great pleasure and excitement that we share with you the FORWARD 2009 Annual Report "Empowering girls and women for a better world".
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24 Nov 2009 - FORWARD calls upon the UK Government to engage with African nations at the upcoming International conference and protect the rights of young women and girls who are subjected to, or are at risk of FGM at home and abroad.
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27 Aug 2009 - The guide is produced as a resource for use in schools by young people and adults who work with young people. It provides basic information on FGM and related health and social issues.
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26 Aug 2009 - The study is being conducted to increase our knowledge about women and girls affected by female genital mutilation (FGM) in England and also to find out more about knowledge and training needs of key health professionals around FGM
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26 Aug 2009 - This was a qualitative peer study conducted with women in London in July and August 2008. The aim of the research was to gain in-depth insights from women originally from high-prevalence FGM countries, and currently living in and around Westminster.
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20 Jul 2009 - Lars von Triers film "Antichrist" addresses the issue of female self-genital mutilation (FGM), a grave human rights violation.
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2 Jul 2009 - In May the UNHRC issued a guidance note and summary on refugee claims relating to FGM.
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Memories of the five-phased elections of April and May have already been swept away in the government formation. But rewind for a moment to those who queued up under the punishing sun to cast their votes in the ever-present hope that the people they vote for would help make their lives a little less stressful, a little more hopeful.
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Here is a message from someone who has contacted FORWARD:
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Women ages 17 to 70 sit on vinyl mattresses, drainage bags on the floor next to their hospital beds, catheter tubes stretching from under colourful skirts. Each one has a serene, triumphant look.
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According to the 2007 UN Secretary General's report on violence against children, Ethiopia is still one of the countries with the highest rates of Female Genital Cutting in Africa. The 2005 Ethiopia Demographic Health Survey (DHS) shows that the rate of FGM declined only 6% from 80% in 2000 to 74% in 2005.
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To catch a ride to Nairobi Michael Ole Sayo, a 24-year-old Maasai living in Kenya's Rift Valley, negotiates fields of volcanic rock boulders, spiky thorn trees, and lions.
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The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has taken suo motu notice of reports that 10 child couples were forced to tie the knot on February 14 as part of a mass marriage ceremony at Mundargi village, Raichur.
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Police have booked three persons for compelling a 13-year-old minor girl to marry a 35-year-old man. The marriage allegedly took place at Alandi on Friday.The victim's mother, Sangeeta Navnath Valhekar, lodged a complaint in this regard with police.
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Lying side by side on a narrow bed, talking and giggling and poking each other with skinny elbows, they looked like any pair of teenage girls trading jokes and secrets.
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The rebels were known for asking their victims if they preferred "long sleeves" or "short sleeves." They then cut off the hands of those who chose the first option and the full arm of those that picked the second.
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The arrival of women at top positions in Ghana's government and security forces has highlighted the question of whether such milestones will translate into concrete benefits in women's lives.
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People must be more willing to challenge ideas that conflict with core British values, the communities secretary has said.
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The Uganda Law Reform Commission is drafting a bill to criminalize Female Genital Mutilation also known as female circumcision.
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Although Yemen's parliament has agreed to set the minimum age for marriage at 17, there are concerns the decision may be rescinded as some members of parliament (MPs) say the amendments violate Sharia (Islamic) law.
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The Karas Regional Health Directorate has vowed to reduce maternal and child deaths in the region.
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BHUBANESWAR: Despite all tall claims of initiation of effective measures to curb the high maternal and neonatal mortality rate, Orissa continues to be among the highest incidence states, according to the State of World Children report 2009 (SoWC) released by Unicef recently.
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Wife of the President, Turai Yar'Adua, on Monday called on relevant government agencies in the country to take measures that strengthen health related programmes and facilities to reduce high rate of maternal and newborn deaths.
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A new Yemen law that limits the minimum age of marriage to 17 was welcomed by child-rights organizations, but they said it would require rigorous awareness campaigns in order to stamp out the widespread phenomenon of child marriages.
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Democratic Kampuchea policy of forced marriage is crime against humanity that requires investigation, say civil party co-lawyers.
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RIYADH: Despite continuous efforts by private and government bodies to eliminate marriages involving minors, such marriages do take place every so often. In a recent case, two sisters from Al-Jouf, aged 13 and 14, were married off by their father to two elderly men.
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The World Health Organisation has classified Portugal as 'high risk' for practice of female genital mutilation due to the large number of immigrants from countries like Guinea-Bissau where the custom is widespread, an expert said this week.
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A new helpline to help victims of forced marriage and honour based violence is already receiving calls.
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A firm of solicitors which helped a 22-year-old woman escape a forced marriage in Pakistan are expecting many other women to seek legal protection.
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The UNICEF has called for increased efforts to end female genital cutting, as the world, on 6 February, marked the International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation.
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Every year, around two million girls undergo excision (sometimes known as genital mutilation or cutting). Most of these girls live in sub-Saharan and north-eastern Africa.
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Sanaa - A new law passed in Yemen gives women greater legal protection, in relation to marriage and motherhood. The law raises the minimum age for marriage to 17, and provides for the right to alimony and recognition of the mother as the sole guardian of her children.
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BERLIN - Life hangs in the balance in a new film about an Iraqi girl whose father betrothes her to a local sheikh, leaving her with a very adult choice: submit and forget dreams of education or risk death in the name of honor.
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A young woman has been saved from a forced marriage after police used new legal powers to prevent her father from taking her to Pakistan.
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Reporters Without Borders is shocked and appalled by the abduction and intimidation of four women journalists in the eastern city of Kenema on 6 February by members of a women?s secret society that practices female genital mutilation (FGM). One of the journalists was forced to walk naked through the city?s streets.
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There will be a 10-day programme of activities taking place at the beginning of March to celebrate International Women's Day - and one very special woman, whose book on honour-violence contributed to changes in the law, is paying a visit to the city to talk about her work. Jemma Walton reports.
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GAMCOTRAP, an NGO working for the eradication of harmful traditional practices, has on Friday, 6th February, 2009, celebrated 'Zero Tolerance Against FGM' at the Barra Hotelin the North Bank Region.
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A clear strategy for banning female genital mutilation on EU territory and the need to acknowledge the problem in EU immigration law and cooperation agreements were among the key points of a report, adopted on Tuesday by the EP Women's Rights Committee, aimed at stamping out this practice.
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Young girls and women of Jammu and Kashmir, who are surviving forced marriages to militants, allege that the ultras and their associates married young girls at gun point.
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UNICEF called for increased efforts to end female genital cutting, as the world marks International Day against Female Genital Mutilation.
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A 22-year-old woman has used new legislation to protect herself from being married against her will in Pakistan
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A 29-year-old man from Haarlem has been arrested for the circumcision of his five-year-old daughter, reports Trouw. It is the first time anyone in the Netherlands has faced prosecution for female circumcision, the paper says.
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A helpline set up in the North East to help women who are forced into marriage has been so successful it is being rolled out to other parts of the country.
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The United States Embassy in Sierra Leone has strongly condemned the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on women and young children in Sierra Leone.
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In its campaign against child marriage, the Human Rights Commission (HRC) worked with the Ministry of Health in the preparation of a report on the effects of underage marriages on girls. The ministry issued the report in which it warned of the physical effects on girls who married at an early age as well as on the offspring of their marriages. The report also specified the psychological effects of these marriages and said that girls who are deprived of their childhoods often end up mentally ill.
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Right activists slammed a decision by the Sudanese cabinet to drop an article banning the practice of female genital cutting in the country. The government took its decision in accordance with an Islamic fatwa on the issue.
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Many Indian women living in Britain are being pushed by their families into forced marriages, unprotected by the authorities. Rebecca Seal and Eva Wiseman meet two escapees
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Pretoria - Laws against female genital mutilation are driving the practice underground and across borders, says UNIFEM.
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) today called for greater efforts to end female genital mutilation, as the agency marked the International Day against the harmful practice that three million girls and women endure each year.
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Genital mutilation victims enjoy new pleasure and dignity, thanks to science.
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SHARANA, PAKTIKA PROVINCE - Haleem, aged nine, is a full-time servant for US$60 a month at Abdul Malik Khan's house in Zherok District, Paktika Province, southeastern Afghanistan. His tasks range from cleaning, washing, serving tea and baby-sitting to night patrols and gate-keeping.
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JEDDAH: Health Minister Hamad Al-Manie responded yesterday to a letter sent by the National Society for Human Rights (NSHR) regarding child marriage by asserting that such practice could inflict physical and psychological damage to the young girls.
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In 2005, the Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey found that over 95 per cent of Egyptian women had undergone some form of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This basically consists of the ablation of the clitoris, and sometimes, other genital parts as well. Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen are just some of the other African and Muslim nations where FGM is prevalent.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Every day in Afghanistan, women are committing suicide by setting themselves on fire. In a country where women are often oppressed, self immolation has become a common practice to escape family problems. And the cases of self immolation are growing at an alarming rate.
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Legislation outlawing female genital mutilation (FGM) and prohibiting parents of Irish-born children from sending them to countries to have the procedure carried out should be considered in Ireland, the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children has said.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM), partial or total removal of external genitalia, continues to be practiced illegally throughout Africa. FGM is practiced as a rite of passage in 28 African countries. Approximately 3 million young women annually are forced to undergo FGM as an initiation into womanhood. Liberian government health worker Mary Mah told IRIN that "over 20 percent of the initiates die from excessive bleeding after their clitoris has been removed."
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The Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has called upon the media and other stakeholders to put pressure on the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs to put into law a ban on Female Genital Mutilation.
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Priscilla Bosibori, now 17, was 14 when an aunt fetched her from her school in Kisii, western Kenya, on the pretext of taking her to an important family function. Once they had left the school grounds, her aunt said her family had found a way of protecting her from HIV.
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Women performing excisions in Burkina Faso are cutting babies instead of young girls to escape increased scrutiny, according to the government and organisations fighting female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C).
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Early marriage and lack of access to medical intervention until complications become severe are two factors that have hampered improvement in the situation.
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Just as land is valuable because it is fertile, women too are for the same reasons. And that really sums up the status of women in India and the South Asian region.
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The High Court is expected to deliver its judgment next week in the case of the Sligo based Nigerian woman Pamela Izevbekhai.
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POLICE in Tarime District have arrested a woman who is engaged in a harmful traditional practice of circumcising girls, the District Commissioner, Mr Stanley Kolimba said yesterday. The DC told the 'Daily News' by phone yesterday morning that the woman was forcing about 50 girls to undergo genital mutilation.
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HOSUR: The revenue and police department officials have reportedly prevented six child marriages on Wednesday at Chennappanayaganoor village near Uthangarai.
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A WOMAN who fears her two daughters are at risk of female genital mutilation if returned to Nigeria yesterday renewed her High Court challenge to deportation orders against the family.
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YANGON - Mya Khin never once saw a doctor when she was pregnant. All four of her children were delivered at home by an untrained, illiterate birth attendant.
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Multiple stories involving child marriages made international news this week on the heels of tales from the UK about hundreds of girls being kidnapped or coerced into forced marriages.
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SANAA - The maternal mortality rate (MMR) remains high as a result of poor health care and harmful social practices, including child marriage and female genital mutilation, a UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) official in Yemen has said.
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A report recently released by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), The State of the World's Children 2009, has found that women living in the least developed countries of the world are 300 times more likely to die as a result of childbirth or pregnancy-related complications than women living in the developed countries.
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JEDDAH: The Human Rights Commission (HRC) has taken steps to end marriages involving minors following the high-profile coverage of such matrimonies in the Kingdom.
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Thousands of children supposedly educated at home by their parents are at risk of abuse, neglect, forced marriage, sexual exploitation or domestic servitude, the Government said yesterday.
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In previous recessions men bore the brunt of job losses but this time it will be different. With more women working in the hardest hit areas - retail and services - it is they who will suffer most, jeopardising their hard earned financial independence and equality at work. Could this downturn reverse the huge economic gains women have made over the past few decades?
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The controversy over legalizing a minimum age for marriage in Saudi Arabia continued as members of parliament and human rights activists likened marrying minor girls to the slave trade, local press reported Sunday.
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AHN) - The Saudi government-run Human Rights Commission declared that child marriages are an 'inhumane violation' against the rights of the child. Activists say the girls are given away in exchange for hefty dowries or to protect them from illicit relationships.
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The Reproductive and Child Health Programme Unit (RCH) of the department of state for Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with UNFPA and World Health Organisation over the weekend, conducted a two-day sensitisation meeting for media practitioners on obstetric fistula at the School of Nursing in Banjul.
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Two school girls have been chased from their homes after rejecting to be circumcised in Tarime District, official said yesterday. Tarime District Education Officer (DEO), Emmanuel Johnson, identified the girls as Bhoke Matiko, a form two student at Bungerere Secondary School and Maria Sylvester, who has this year been selected to join form one.
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This Republic Day, when the bravery awards are given away, the name of Ansu Kanwar, a young girl from western Rajasthan, who showed great courage in standing up against a centuries old oppressive custom - child marriage - will appear on the list.
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The debate over the controversial practice of child marriage in Saudi Arabia was pushed back into the spotlight this week, with the kingdom's top cleric saying that it's OK for girls as young as 10 to wed.
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A NIGERIAN woman has established substantial grounds to challenge as "unreasonable" the Refugee Appeals Tribunal's conclusion that she could reasonably expect to be protected by Nigerian state authorities against being "forcibly circumcised", the High Court has ruled.
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AGADEZ - In a country with the world's highest incidence of early marriage according to the UN, child rights activists say the phenomenon is changing in Niger from a village tradition to a cross- border business transaction.
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More than 40 per cent of the world's child marriages take place in India, even though the legal age for wedding is 18.
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Women in poor nations are 300 times more likely to die in childbirth or from pregnancy complications than those in the developed world, Unicef warns.
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HARGEISA - Improved healthcare facilities have considerably reduced the rate of maternal mortality in the self-declared republic of Somaliland, but officials say much more still needs to be done.
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Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric was quoted Wednesday as saying it is permissible for 10-year-old girls to marry and those who think they're too young are doing the girls an injustice.
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This year, UNICEF's flagship report, 'The State of the World's Children' - to be launched on 15 January - addresses the need to close one of the greatest health divides between industrialized and developing countries: maternal mortality. Here is one in a series of related stories.
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A law passed in November 2008 prohibiting female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the state of Southern Kordofan is unique in Sudan. But for it to translate into genuine abolition, deep-seated attitudes and misinformation will have to be overcome.
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