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UNITED NATIONS

Q&A: “A Pastoralist Woman Is Like a Working Machine”

By Mathieu Vaas
"In some communities, you can’t talk about violence against women," says Agnes Leina, executive director of Il'laramatak Community Concerns (ICC), a group that promotes the human rights of pastoralist communities in northern and southern Kenya, with a special emphasis on women and girls.

Q&A: FGM Is About Culture, Not Religion

By Marzieh Goudarzi
The fight against female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) continues to gain traction around the world.
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Q&A: It’s the Beginning of the End for FGM

By Rousbeh Legatis
Journalists can play a crucial role in helping to shift traditional attitudes within societies where the cruel practice of female genital mutilation is an everyday reality.
Alvilda Jablonko. Credit: Julia Kallas/IPS

Q&A: Global Ban Another Tool in the Fight Against FGM

By Julia Kallas
For the estimated 140 million girls and women living with the consequences of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), it is already too late. But since a global ban on FGM was passed at the end of last year, activists hope many more will now escape this brutal practice.

Grandmothers Taking the Lead Against Female Genital Mutilation


By Soumaila T. Diarra
In the southern Senegal village of Kael Bessel, female genital mutilation is no longer a taboo subject. Sexagenarian Fatoumata Sabaly speaks freely about female circumcision and girls' rights with her friends.