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Further information about
the subject of Female Genital Mutilation can be found the
following online resources:
UK Based Active
Organisations
City Parochial Foundation
An independent charitable
foundation that aims to enable and empower to poor of London
to tackle poverty and its root causes, and to ensure that
its funds reach those most in need.
Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
A funding body
that provides organisations that have the ideas and ability
to achieve change for the better. Its primary interests are
in the UK's cultural life, education and learning, the
natural environment and enabling disadvantaged people to
participate more fully in society.
Rosa
The first
UK-wide fund for projects working with women and girls
envisioning that every female in the country has what she
needs to be the best she can.
UK Based Resources
RCN: Female Genital
Mutilation: An RCN educational resource for Nurses and
Midwives.
(2006) (PDF Document)
RCOG Statement.
(May 2003) (PDF Document)
BMA: Female Genital
Mutilation - Caring for patients and child protection.
(July 2006)
RCM: Position paper.
(1998 for updating in 2006) (MS Word Document)
World Health Organisation Resources.
American Based Resources
Circumcision
Information and Resource Pages.
Australian Based Resources
Royal Women’s Hospital:
Clinical practice guideline on Female Genital Mutilation.
Other Resources
Aldeeb, Sami. "To Mutilate in
the Name of Jehovah or Allah." Proceedings of the Fourth
International Symposium on Circumcision, University of
Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 9-11 August 1996.
Apena, Adeline. "Female
Circumcision in Africa and the Problem of Cross Cultural
Perspectives." Africa Update 3, no. 2 (1996).
Badawi, Mohamed.
"Epidemiology of Female Sexual Castration in Cairo, Egypt."
Proceedings of the First International Symposium on
Circumcision, Anaheim, California, 1-3 March 1989.
Baker, Jeannine. "The Wound
Reveals the Cure." Proceedings of the Fourth International
Symposium on Circumcision, University of Lausanne, Lausanne,
Switzerland, 9-11 August 1996.
Demeo, James. "The Geography
of Genital Mutilations"." Proceedings of the Fourth
International Symposium on Circumcision, University of
Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 9-11 August 1996.
Emeagwali, Gloria. "Editorial
: Female Circumcision in Africa." Africa Update 3, no. 2.
(1996)
"Female Genital Mutilation :
Five Girls a Minute." Infomundi (June 1996). In Dunia no.
442,
(1996)
British Medical Association. (2004)
Female Genital Mutilation - Caring for patients and child
protection.
(Accessed May
2006)
IRIN Africa
An in-depth
report on the current status of FGM practices in Gambia. |
