0B792406-3C90-48E8-AF22-4D48618D699F Created with sketchtool.
Search results

Female genital mutilation

Girls in Narok town, Kenya.
Programme
08 January 2019
UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme
Learn how UNICEF and UNFPA are accelerating the elimination of this harmful practice.
Model girls are trained to teach their communities in Afar region, at Erubti woreda, about the harmful practice of FGM in collaboration with the Ethiopian Government, UNICEF Ethiopia and other partners.
Programme
08 January 2019
Female Genital Mutilation
Female genital mutilation is an extreme form of violence against girls and women.
A girl, 5, stands in her home in Aroma Village, near the city of Kassala.
Programme
07 January 2019
Harmful practices
Child marriage and female genital mutilation are internationally recognized human rights violations.
girls-playing
Report
01 June 2022
Global Annual Results Report 2021: Every child is protected
Goal Area 3: Progress, results achieved and lessons from 2021

Download file
(PDF, 22,33 MB)
Document
27 April 2022
Phase IV Programme Document for the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation

Download file
(PDF, 13,85 MB)
Document
08 February 2022
Manual on Social Norms and Change

Download file
(PDF, 913,32 KB) (PDF, 5,66 MB) (PDF, 6,31 MB) (PDF, 2,32 MB)
Mekiya is happy that she is saved from undergoing FGM. Though she is too young to understand all the consequences of the practice, she learned at school that FGM can cause complications during childbirth.
Statement
04 February 2022
A crisis within a crisis: Increased investment critical to end female genital mutilation as COVID-19 rages on
Joint Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem and UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
One of many young girls at a rescue center in Uganda who are fleeing forced marriages and female genital mutilation.
Press release
03 February 2022
On International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, UNICEF warns COVID-19 threatens to reverse decades of progress
Media fact sheet
FGM-report-2020
Report
27 September 2021
2020 Global Annual Report: Eliminating Female Genital Mutil
Sustaining the momentum.

Download file
(PDF, 10,52 MB) (PDF, 19,80 MB) (PDF, 4,94 MB) (PDF, 7,69 MB) (PDF, 7,40 MB) (PDF, 5,78 MB)
Two young girls wearing masks and matching dresses running together
Annual Report
01 April 2021
Global Annual Results Report 2020: Goal 3
Progress, results achieved and lessons from 2020 under Goal Area 3; every child’s right to protection from violence and exploitation.

Download file
(PDF, 25,16 MB)