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Female genital mutilation (FGM) (also known as female genital cutting, female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision [a]) is the cutting or removal of some or all of the vulva for non-medical reasons. FGM prevalence varies worldwide, but is majorly present in some countries of Africa, Asia and Middle East, and within their ...
In 2014, 17-year-old Bristol student Fahma Mohamed created an online petition with Change.org on the International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, asking Michael Gove, then the education secretary in the United Kingdom, to write to the leaders of all primary and secondary schools in the United Kingdom, encouraging them to be ...
Araweelo was born in Somalia, [2] where she underwent FGM at age 6, without any anesthesia or pain relief. [3] [4] Although her mother was opposed to FGM, she was not in the country at the time, and Araweelo's relatives decided to pursue it. [4] Her seven-year-old cousin underwent FGM on the same day, with Araweelo watching.
Example of a pedagogical tool: a booklet intended to explain contraception during sexual education sessions (District Museum Josefstadt, Vienna, Austria). Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, safe sex, and birth control, sexual ...
Map showing the % of women and girls aged 15–49 years (unless otherwise stated) who have undergone FGM/C according to the March 2020 Global Response report [1]. Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting (FGC), female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and female circumcision, [2] is practiced in 30 countries in western, eastern, and north-eastern Africa, [3] in ...
Despite international reports to the contrary, [8] [2]: 45 [1]: 26 female genital mutilation has been explicitly criminalised in the Netherlands since 1 February 2006, namely in the then Articles 5.3 and 5a.1 of the Dutch Criminal Code (Wetboek van Strafrecht), [9] and the statute of limitations was increased on 1 July 2009 by not starting ...
IB Primary Years Program (PYP), Middle Years Program (MYP) and Diploma Program (DP) 700: 1995 Dover Court International School (DCIS) United Kingdom: Dover Road: Reception to Year 13: International Primary Curriculum (IPC), English National Curriculum (IGCSEs) and IB Diploma Program (IBDP) 1,650 [1] 1972 Dulwich College Singapore United Kingdom
Certain cultural practices, such as female genital mutilation (FGM), negatively affect women's health. [36] Female genital mutilation is the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. It is rooted in inequality between the sexes, and constitutes a form of discrimination against women. [36]