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FGM

Statement
06 February 2022
Vision 2030 won’t be achieved unless we address cross-border female genital mutilation in Eastern and Southern Africa
UNFPA and UNICEF Regional Joint Op-ed on International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM
Warda Hassan Mahmud, a UNICEF-supported councillor, speaks to a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Hargeisa, Somaliland on 1st February 2021.
Explainer
16 June 2021
Promising practices to end child marriage, FGM
Celebrating the Day of the African Child 2021
A woman holds a young child.
Report
30 May 2021
Multi-sectoral approaches to addressing harmful practices
A programme brief

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Profile of two adolescent girls
Document
30 April 2021
Ending child marriage and female genital mutilation in ESA
Case studies of promising practices from across the region

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A line of girls sitting next to each other; view of the hands on laps only
Report
28 February 2021
The Medicalization of FGM
In Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea

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Botege Sancha, the focal person for women issues in Ebot Trora kebele, saved Mekiya from undergoing FGM.
Report
28 February 2021
The Decline of FGM in Ethiopia and Kenya
Rates are declining but progress is slow and uneven across regions and demographics

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Two girls embrace
Statement
05 February 2021
2 million additional cases of FGM likely in next decade
As COVID-19 shutters schools and disrupts programmes that help protect girls from this harmful practice
2 girls photographed together
Article
21 January 2021
My best friend is my awule (rescuer)
How friendship saved a girl from FGM in Ethiopia
Former circumciser, Meriem Mohammed Omer, 55
Report
01 November 2020
C4D Works! Eritrea
Community engagement to end female genital mutilation

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Faida Noreen 17 years of Marila Village, Mugi Parish in Ciforo Sub County Adjumani District with her one year and 6 months baby Letaru Faith at their home where she lives with her mother.
Statement
18 June 2020
Statement to mark International Day of the African Child
Opinion editorial by Justine Coulson (UNFPA), Roberta Clarke (UN Women) and Mohamed M. Fall (UNICEF)