Tag: Female Genital Mutilation
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“4.3 million Nigerian girls are at risk of female genital mutilation this year”- UN
The United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Population Fund have said 4.3 million girls are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) this year and the number is projected to reach 4.6 million by 2030. This was as the two agencies pointed out that Nigeria accounts for the third-highest number of women and…
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Female genital mutilation: Egypt’s Coptic Church collaborates with UN to end practice
The Egypt Coptic Orthodox is collaborating with the UN to end all forms of violence against women, including female genital mutilation around the world, the supreme head of the church has announced. Pope Tawadros 11, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, made the announcement in Cairo on Friday when he…
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Ekiti State frowns at medical practitioners over female genital mutilation
The government is now more severe about the implementation and those still practicing the harmful custom will be punished
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How female genital mutilation promotes promiscuity
How female genital mutilation promotes promiscuity
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UNICEF raises alarm over Female Genital Mutilation practices in Ekiti
The United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) and Ekiti State Government have decried the increasing rate of Female Genital Mutilation, (FGM) in the state. They, however, said that it would take collective efforts from all stakeholders to curb the menace. UNICEF and the state government made this known at the end of the stakeholders meeting…
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Female genital mutilation is bad, reject it henceforth, Ambode’s wife charges women
Wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode on Monday called on mothers, women groups and high-powered government organizations, to step up advocacy towards total eradication of female genital mutilation. She made the call in Alausa, Ikeja, while interacting with journalists on the occasion of the 2017 International Day of Zero Tolerance for…