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Female genital mutilation on the rise among Southeast Asian Muslims

Global Post, 10.12.2013. More than 90 percent of women surveyed in Malaysia have been circumcised, and experts say increasing regional Islamic conservatism may be the reason why. Though World Health...

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Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation; Action in Asia is needed

By HIVOS and WADI; The Hague, Suleimania, 5 February, 2014.   On the fourth official International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female genital mutilation (FGM), the practice is far from being eradicated....

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Second Middle East Conference on FGM to tackle myths

Berlin, 30.4.2014. By WADI. The Second Middle East & Asia Conference on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by WADI and Hivos will take place from May 7th to May 10th in Istanbul. The conference will...

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Second Middle East & Asia Conference on FGM shows that new strategies are needed

16.5.2014. By Stop FGM Middle East. On May 7th to 10th the Second Middle East & Asia Conference on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was held in Istanbul where more than thirty activists and...

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Revisiting Reza Aslan’s response to Bill Maher about female genital mutilation

21.10.2014. After Reza Aslan called FGM an African Problem, Stop FGM Middle East contacted PunditFact to set things straight. Here is their clarification: “Hannah Wettig, who manages the Stop FGM...

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Yearly Report 2013-14

11.1.2015 by Stop FGM Middle East Stop FGM Middle East was founded as a website and a small research project in early 2013 with the aim of making the existence of FGM in the Middle East and Asia...

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Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM: We need more campaigns in Asia

By Stop FGM Middle East February 5th, 2015. On the fifth official International Day of Zero Tolerance to female genital mutilation (FGM), the campaign against FGM in Iraq is taking up speed and with...

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Vice: Female Circumcision Is Becoming More Popular in Malaysia

I meet 19-year-old Syahiera Atika at the mall. She spends most Sundays prowling Kuala Lumpur’s mega malls like other women her age, but as she eagerly points out she’s also different. Syahiera is a...

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VOA: UN, Malaysia Groups Seek to Repeal Fatwa Requiring FGM

March 02, 2015. By Gabrielle Paluch In 2009, Malaysia’s National Fatwa Committee, the nation’s top Islamic council, required all Muslim women in the country to undergo female genital mutilation,...

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Guardian: In Thailand’s Muslim south, authorities turn a blind eye to FGM

1.4.2015. By Gabrielle Paluch. Eight-week-old baby Amiyah grimaces when sunlight falls on her face as though she isn’t used to the idea of having been born yet. On a Saturday afternoon, in Thailand’s...

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Wadi and Aware organize first ever conference on Female Genital Mutilation/...

9.1.2016. By Hannah Wettig. Women from Malaysia, Thailand, India and Singapore joined on Thursday in Singapore to present their perspectives on FGM/C in their countries and discuss ways to eliminate...

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Malaysia: female genital mutilation on the rise

22.6.2016. By Zofia Reych Walls in the reception of the Global Ikhwan clinic in Rawang, north of Kuala Lumpur, are pale pink and a nice, if medical, scent is hanging in the air. A fashionable headscarf...

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