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An international non-governmental organization based in Senegal Africa geared toward educating the people and ending female genital cutting.
www.tostan.org
An introduction including what it is, countries that practise it, and a discussion on the religious influence, plus links.
www.members.tripod.com
African-led international non-governmental organisation working on issues of women's empowerment, sexual autonomy, reproductive health, and freedom from violence, with a focus on female genital mutilation and women's rights to their bodily integrity.
www.rainbo.org
The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project
Attempts to present the practice from a variety of perspectives and serve as a networking resource for organizations doing work related to FGC.
www.fgmnetwork.org
Listings of national and international agencies, articles, organizations and web sites to find help for and information about female genital mutilation and female circumcision practices worldwide.
www.vachss.com
Female Genital Mutilation and Human Rights
An essay, by Lisa Donaldson, discussing this practice in the 21st century.
www.geocities.com
Amnesty International covers the topic of clitoridectomy, including procedures, why and where practiced, mental and physical effects on women.
www.amnesty.org
Analyses, facts and regularly updated news on female genital mutilation in Africa.
www.afrol.com
Project IDIL - Instruments to Develop the Integrity of Lasses
IDIL is a Daphne Programme project 2001/2003. The project is aimed at defining and experimenting strategies to prevent FGM among immigrant communities/families in Europe.
www.eu-idil.org
A resource centre for FGM activists, written in English, French and Arabic.
www.stopfgm.org
NPWJ Stop Female Genital Mutilation Campaign
International campaign to eradicate the practice of female genital mutilation.
www.stopfgm.org
Ashley Montagu Resolution to End Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide: Petition to World Court
Solicits signatures for online petition against genital mutilation. Includes endorsements by prominent people and information on genital integrity, mutilation and human rights.
montagunocircpetition.org
Epidemiology Of Female Sexual Castration In Cairo, Egypt
In 1985, a group of 350 urban Egyptian women were selected to self-report on their recall of their female sexual castration (FSC) which they experienced as children.
www.nocirc.org
Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying Female Genital Mutilation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Speech presented by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein at The Third International Symposium on Circumcision, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland May 22-25, 1994.
www.nocirc.org
Female Circumcision Issues Page
The World Health Organization has condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens health and as indefensible on humane grounds. In the United States, Rep. Pat Schroeder has written a bill to prohibit female genital mutilation. H.R. 3247.
www.eskimo.com