ResourcesBelow are useful links to publications and resources related
to the key issues we work on: Female
Genital Mutilation (FGM), Child Marriage and Fistula.
Please note that links to external resources are provided on
this page to offer users further relevant information. However,
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necessarily endorse these items.
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on our Useful Links page.
Additional resources are also available on our publications list
FORWARD Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Resources
What is FGM?
London
Child Protection Procedures with respect to FGM (pdf, 86
KB)
FOWARD FGM Fact
sheet (pdf, 130 KB)
FGM
Information Pack (pdf, 606 KB)
Female Genital
Mutilation: Human Rights and Cultural Relativity (2001)
Female Genital Mutilation
as grounds for Asylum (2001)
Female Genital Mutilation: Religious, Cultural and Legal
Myths (2005) - In Collaboration with The Islamic Cultural
Centre and The London Central Mosque
List of UK Hospitals and Clinics offering Specialist FGM
Services
Metropolitan Police and FORWARD 'Stop
Female Circumcision' Posters (pdf, 159 KB) in Arabic and
Somali in relation to the Female
Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (UK).
General Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Resources
Female Genital Mutilation - A joint WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA
statement (1997)
'Abandoning Female
Gential Mutilation ? Prevalence, Attitudes and Efforts to End the
Practice' - Population Reference Bureau (2001)
Statement of the World Health
Organisation's Director-General on FGM at the Global Commission
on Women's Health (1994)
FGM: Models of Good Practice ? Inter-Africa Committee,
Cameroon (pdf)
Save
the Children?s activities on FGM in West Africa and at the global
level
Research on Organisations in the UK and Overseas working in
FGM - UK All Party Parliamentary Group on Population,
Development and Reproductive Health (2000) (pdf)
Female
Genital Mutilation - Fran. P. Hosken
Natural
Causes ? Peter Feibleman (1997)
FGM: Models of Good Practice ? FSAN (pdf)
Female
Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Information Pack - Amnesty
International
Reliability
of Self Reported form of Female Genital Mutilation and WHO
Classification: Cross Sectional Study - Susan Elmusharaf,
Nagla Elhadi & Lars Almroth, British Medical Journal (2006)
Country-Specific Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)
Information
FGM in Africa
The 2005 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey has devoted a
whole chapter, Chapter
16 to the issue of Female Circumcision
FGM in the US
FGC in the US Statistics 2000 ? Brigham African Women?s
Health Centre
Female Genital
Cutting ? The US Federal Government?s Source for Women?s
Health
Mutliple Countries
FGM
Country Profiles -UNICEF
Individual
Country FGM Reports - US Department of State
Female
Genital Cutting Data from Demographic and Health Surveys,
1990-2004 - Measure DHS
The Gender, Institutions and Development Data Base -
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (Includes
FGM Prevalence by country and other useful indicators concerning
Gender Discrimination)
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Health
Resources
World Health Organisation FGM Publications and Documents
(including downloadable guidelines and training manuals for
health workers)
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Statement on
Female Genital Mutilation (2003) (pdf)
Royal College of Midwives Position Paper on Female Genital
Mutilation (1996)
British
Medical Association - FGM Guidance for UK Doctors on Carinf for
Patients and Child Protection (2006)
Female Genital Mutilation ? A Royal College of Nursing
Educational Resource for Nursing and Midwifery Staff (2006)
(pdf)
American Association of Paediatrics Committee on Bioethics FGM
Statement (1998) (pdf)
The World
Medical Association Statement on Female Genital Mutilation
(1993/2005)
Female
Genital Mutilation and Obstetric Outcome: WHO collaborative
prospective study in six African countries - World Health
Organisation (2006). FORWARD Founder Efua Dorkenoo was a
contributor to this study - read an article about this study here
Female Genital
Mutilation Can Cause Infertility - New Scientist (2005)
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Legislation and
Asylum Resources
UK
Female
Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (UK)
UK Parliamentary Hearings 2000 on FGM Report - UK All Party
Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive
Health (pdf)
UK Parlimentary Debate on FGM as Grounds for Asylum - UK
Parliament (Dec 8, 2005)
Scotland
Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act
2005
US
US FGM
Legislation ? Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking
Project
Legislation
on Female Genital Mutilation in the United States - Centre
for Reproductive Rights (2004) (pdf)
African Countries
FGM Legislation for 25 African Countries - No Peace Without
Justice
General
FGM
Legislation ? Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking
Project
FGM -
Governments Respond Resource Paper - WomenAid
International
Centre for
Reproductive Rights FGM Legislation Resources
Prevalence
of the Practice of FGM: Laws Prohibiting FGM and their
Enforcement and Recommendations on how best to eliminate FGM
- US Department of State
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Resource Pages
Centre for
Reproductive Rights FGM Resources
UNICEF FGM
Publications and Resources
IRIN
Razor's Edge - The Controversy of Female Genital Mutilation
(2005)
Female
Genital Mutilation Resources - Johns Hopkins University
School of Public Health Centre for Communication Programs
Female
Genital Cutting Publications / Resources ? Population
Council
FGM -
Religious Tolerance Organisation
PATH FGM Publications - PATH
GTZ FGM Downloads - GTZ
FGM in
Africa Resources - Afrol News
Child and Forced Marriage Resources
Click here to read the FORWARD Document 'What is Child Marriage?
FORWARD
Child Marriage Fact Sheet (pdf, 110 KB)
Early Marriage: Whose Right to Choose? (2000) by The Forum on
Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls (pdf, 144 KB)
Ending
Child Marriage: A guide for Global Policy Action) (2006) by
International Planned Parenthood Federation and The Forum on
Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls (pdf, 318 KB)
Note: Details about Publications on Child Marriage by the
Forum on Marriage and the Rights of Women and Girls are available
on the FORWARD Publication
List.
International
Centre for Women?s Research (ICWR) Child Marriage
Resources
UNICEF
Child Marriage Publications and Resources
UNFPA Child Marriage Publications and Resources
Forced Marriage: A Wrong Not A Right - Summary of Responses to
the Consultation on the Criminalisation of Forced Marriage -
Forced Marriage Unit of the UK Home Office and Foreign and
Commonwelath Office (2006)
Creating Partnerships to Prevent Early Marriage in the Amhara
Region, Ethiopia - Pathfinder International (2006) (pdf)
Protecting
Young Women from HIV/AIDS: The Case Against Child and Adolescent
Marriage - By Shelley Clark, Judith Bruce and Annie Dude
(2006)
Child
Marriage Advocacy Tool Kit - International Centre for
Research on Women(ICRW) (2006) (pdf)
Raising the Age of Marriage for Young Girls in Bangladesh - A
Pathfinder publication (2006)
Harmful Traditional Practices
Fact
Sheet: Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of
Women and Children - UNHCHR
A Plan of Action for the Elimination of Harmful Traditional
Practices affecting the Health of Women and Children - UNHCHR
(1994)
Special
Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and
consequences, - UNHCHR (2003)
Mrs Halima Embarek Warzazi has produced reports for the UNHCHR
on the Implementation of the Human Rights of Women, specifically
on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and the
Girl Child, these are accesible here according to date published,
1996,
1998,
1999,
2000 ,
2001,
2002
Fistula Resources
Click here to read the FORWARD Document 'What is Fistula?'
UNFPA
Campaign to End Fistula Publications and Resources
Love, Labour,
Loss - A documentary film on obstetric fistula
International Human, Women and Child Rights
Instruments
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
European
Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental
Freedoms (1950) (pdf)
Convention
on Consent to Marriage, Minimum Age for Marriage and Registration
of Marriages (1962)
Convention
on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW) (1979)
African
Charter on Human and People?s Rights (1981)
Convention
against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment
or Punishment (1984)
European
Convention for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment (1987)
UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
African
Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990)
CEDAW General Recommendation No. 14 (ninth session, 1990): Female
circumcision
UN
Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women
(1993)
Resolution
A/RES/53/117 Practices affecting the health of women and
girls - United Nations General Assembly (1998)
Resolution
A/RES/52/99 Traditional practices affecting the health of women
and girls - United Nations General Assembly (1998)
Resolution
A/RES/54/133 Traditional practices affecting the health of women
and girls - United Nations General Assembly (1999)
Resolution
A/RES/55/66 Elimination of crimes against women committed in the
name of honour - United Nations General Assembly (2000)
UN Parliamentary Assembly Resolution 1247 on Female Genital
Mutilation (2001)
Resolution E/CN.4/SUB.2/RES/2002/26Traditional practices
affecting the health of women and the girl child - United Nations
Sub-Commission on Human Rights (2002)
Resolution
A/RES/56/128 Traditional or customary practices affecting the
health of women and girls - United Nations General Assembly
(2002)
Protocol to
the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of
Women in Africa (2003)
Cario
Declaration for the Elimination of FGM (2003) (pdf)
Rabat
Declaration on Child?s Issues - Islamic Conference of Ministers
in Charge of Childhood (2005) (pdf)
Working
towards the elimination of crimes against women committed in the
name of honour - UNHCHR (2003)
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