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Supreme Court Issues Notice To Centre On Plea To Ban Female Genital Mutilation
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a plea to ban the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision prevailing among Muslims, especially in the Dawoodi Bohra community.
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Girl Genitalia Mutilated, Sold For Magic In Ivory Coast
When he was a witch doctor, Moussa Diallo would regularly smear himself in a lotion made from a clitoris cut from a girl subjected to female genital mutilation.
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Mother Stopped From Taking Baby Girl To India For Female Genital Mutilation
A UK court has banned an Indian-origin family from flying their baby daughter to India because she is at risk of being subjected to an "utterly unacceptable" genital mutilation procedure.
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Kerala Government Orders Inquiry Over Reports On Female Circumcision
The Kerala Health department will conduct an inquiry into reports about the alleged prevalence of primitive female genital mutilation practise in the state.
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2 Girls Die After Circumcisions In South Leone, Guinea
A teenage girl died after undergoing a botched female circumcision in Sierra Leone, police said Thursday, just days after the death of a 10-year-old girl in Guinea.
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Battle Within Tiny Indian Muslim Sect On Circumcising Girls
When Bilqis talks about having circumcised her daughter, she goes back and forth on how she feels - sometimes within the same sentence.
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Dear UN, What About Female Circumcision Among My Bohra Community?
Why is India still not on the UN radar, even though the 1.5 million-strong Bohra community practices FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) here?
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I Was Circumcised When I Was a Girl of 7
For men, the circumcision is done for health and hygiene, while for women, it is meant to curb sexual desire and tame them.
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Charges over genital mutilation of minor girls in Australia
Many cases of female genital mutilation likely go unreported in Australia, a state minister said on Friday after four people were charged over the alleged circumcision of two girls aged 6 and 7.
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Circumcision does not protect women from HIV
Circumcision may help protect men from HIV but it does not protect the wives and female partners of infected men.
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Circumcision reduces chlamydia transmission
Circumcised men are less likely to transmit chlamydia trachomatis infections to their female sexual partners as compared to uncircumcised men.
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Circumcision reduces cancer risk
Male circumcision is probably one of the oldest and most common surgical procedure. Globally, for various reasons, about one in four men is circumcised. It seems that this procedure reduces the risk of contracting penile human papillomavirus (HPV) infections which could thereby also reduce the risk of cervical cancer in the female partner. Circumci...
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Supreme Court Issues Notice To Centre On Plea To Ban Female Genital Mutilation
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a plea to ban the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision prevailing among Muslims, especially in the Dawoodi Bohra community.
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Girl Genitalia Mutilated, Sold For Magic In Ivory Coast
When he was a witch doctor, Moussa Diallo would regularly smear himself in a lotion made from a clitoris cut from a girl subjected to female genital mutilation.
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Mother Stopped From Taking Baby Girl To India For Female Genital Mutilation
A UK court has banned an Indian-origin family from flying their baby daughter to India because she is at risk of being subjected to an "utterly unacceptable" genital mutilation procedure.
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Kerala Government Orders Inquiry Over Reports On Female Circumcision
The Kerala Health department will conduct an inquiry into reports about the alleged prevalence of primitive female genital mutilation practise in the state.
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2 Girls Die After Circumcisions In South Leone, Guinea
A teenage girl died after undergoing a botched female circumcision in Sierra Leone, police said Thursday, just days after the death of a 10-year-old girl in Guinea.
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Battle Within Tiny Indian Muslim Sect On Circumcising Girls
When Bilqis talks about having circumcised her daughter, she goes back and forth on how she feels - sometimes within the same sentence.
-
Dear UN, What About Female Circumcision Among My Bohra Community?
Why is India still not on the UN radar, even though the 1.5 million-strong Bohra community practices FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) here?
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I Was Circumcised When I Was a Girl of 7
For men, the circumcision is done for health and hygiene, while for women, it is meant to curb sexual desire and tame them.
-
Charges over genital mutilation of minor girls in Australia
Many cases of female genital mutilation likely go unreported in Australia, a state minister said on Friday after four people were charged over the alleged circumcision of two girls aged 6 and 7.
-
Circumcision does not protect women from HIV
Circumcision may help protect men from HIV but it does not protect the wives and female partners of infected men.
-
Circumcision reduces chlamydia transmission
Circumcised men are less likely to transmit chlamydia trachomatis infections to their female sexual partners as compared to uncircumcised men.
-
Circumcision reduces cancer risk
Male circumcision is probably one of the oldest and most common surgical procedure. Globally, for various reasons, about one in four men is circumcised. It seems that this procedure reduces the risk of contracting penile human papillomavirus (HPV) infections which could thereby also reduce the risk of cervical cancer in the female partner. Circumci...
