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FGM

Girls in Narok town, Kenya.
Programme
01/08/2019
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
01/08/2019
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
01/07/2019
Harmful practices
Child marriage and female genital mutilation are internationally recognized human rights violations.
Document
05/06/2020
COVID-19 Disrupting the Elimination of FGM
Document
03/03/2020
The ACT Framework
Towards a new M&E model for measuring social norms change around female genital mutilation
Statement
02/05/2020
Unleashing Youth Power: A Decade of Accelerating Actions Towards Zero Female Genital Mutilation
Joint statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
In Ethiopia, 47 per cent of girls aged 15–19 have undergone FGM. Girls in Afar region undergo training to teach their communities about the harmful practice.
Press release
02/05/2020
Approximately 1 in 4 survivors of female genital mutilation were cut by a health care provider
Increased prevalence in medicalized FGM obscures global progress on eliminating support for the practice. Twice as many women in high-prevalence countries want the practice to end compared to 20 years ago
A girl sits on a bed with her head in her hand, Sierra Leone
Article
03/04/2019
What is female genital mutilation? 7 questions answered
How the harmful practice affects millions of girls worldwide
A woman gathers with children, Djibouti
Article
02/06/2019
Ending female genital mutilation
“I could see the regret in my mother’s eyes. But it was too late.”
A lady sitting
Statement
02/05/2019
Take action to eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030
Joint statement by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director, and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Women Executive Director