Female Genital Mutilation
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- Types of Female Genital MutilationInfibulation is so severe that women must be opened up for their husband's penetration on their wedding night and then they are cruelly sewn up again.
- Which Cultures Practice Female Genital MutilationThe Islamic community is divided on this issue; female genital cutting is practiced in some parts of the Arabian Peninsula as well as African nations.
- African Women Against Female Genital MutilationNinety percent of the women in the small and impoverished East African Nation of Eritrea are circumcised. However, the women are now against it; realizing the dangers involved in this unnecessary procedure
- Health Complications from Female Genital MutilationThe United Nations declared February 6 of each year to be the day set aside to protest against the practice of female genital mutilation.
- International Agencies Calls for an End to Female Genital MutilationInternational agencies have called for an end to female circumcision in the world. Three organizations; The World Health Organization,
Female Genital Mutilation Won't End Until Women Attain Equality WorldwideThis should be on the agenda of everyone who believes in democracy.
The Child Protection Act: Female Genital Mutilation in the U. SFemale genital mutilation has been illegal in this country since 1996, yet the law is seldom enforced, and the practice is reported to be rising. A bill in Congress, the Girls Protection Act, aims to close a loophole in the original law.- Female Genital Mutilation is Happening in the United StatesFemale gentile mutilation, in the form of female genital cutting, is happening right in the United States. This is due to Dix Poppas and his research and Weill Medical College at Cornell in New York.
Desert Flower by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller: A Deep Look into an Amazing MemoirThis is a descriptive overview and analysis of Desert Flower by Waris Dirie and Cathleen Miller. Desert Flower is a memoir of Waris Dirie and her experience in growing up as a nomad.- Female Genital Mutilation: The Demand for Strict CriminalizationPersuasive research paper on the serious nature of the procedure known as Female Genital Mutilation (FMG). It is also sometimes called Female Genital Circumcision or Female Genital Cutting. This research paper is done in MLA style.
- Will We Ever See the End of Female Genital Mutilation?Female genital mutilation involves the partial or total removal of the female genitalia. The practice is forbidden in the West because of the obvious mutilation and the risk factors involved.
- Putting an End to Female Genital MutilationFemale Genital Mutilation, or FGM is a very inhumane act among women and girls. This is an act that society should take notice.
- Female Genital Mutilation in Little Girls, Part IImagine your "baby" daughter, or granddaughter, anywhere from the age of 4 to 12 years of age, being held down on the ground by several women, her legs spread and stabilized as either a rusty knife or thorns from an Acacia Tree are being used to cut out her clitoris.
- Understanding the Practice of Female Genital Mutilation - But Not Forgiving ItThe very term 'female genital mutilation' makes most of us shudder in horror and question how this practice could possibly allowed in any part of the world.
- Female Genital MutilationFemale Genital Mutilation has been essential to most African cultures for as long as 2,000 years. However, in the past decade, outside pressures have turned the Female Genital Mutilation ritual into something taboo rather than something to be anticipated.
- Female Genital Mutilation: An Islamic Practice?This research paper discusses female genital mutilation in terms of how it relates to the religion of Islam, where it all began, and whether it is sanctioned or condmened by the Qu'ran.
Female Genital MutilationHow does one differentiate between what may seem to be a violation of one's human rights and what is actually simply an ethnocentric perception?- The Four Types of Female Genital MutilationFemale Genital Mutilation is the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia, which includes the clitoris labia, mons pubis (the fatty tissue over the pubic bone), and the urethral and vaginal openings.
- Female Genital MutilationIn this paper I will define the term Female Genital Mutilation,
provide reasons that other cultures practice it, as well as explain the dangers of such a practice. - False Thinking and Female Genital MutilationFalse thinking has led to many horrors, history tells the story. Is it possible to change the thinking of people? If so what would it take? Do you think it is worth the effort to try?
- Girls as Young as Three Go Through the Painful Process of Female CircumcisionGirls as young a three-years-old go through female genital mutilation in some African countries. Most of the time there is no anesthesia administered.
- The Cultural Practice of Female Genital MutilationThis procedure is normally done throughout African cultures and it is also known as a female circumcision. Most of us look at this as a form of torture that is not necessary and yet they seem to use it as part of their cultral.
- Female Genital MutilationWhat is female genital mutilation (FGM)? FGM is partial or full removal of parts of woman's genitals; sometimes also know as woman's circumcision.
- Female Genital Mutilation in TogoA look at Female Genitail Mutilation (FGM) and the journey of Fauziya Kasinga to escape it.
