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A Centuries-Old Practice, A Deadly Tradition 
FGM and Religion: A False Connection -- FGM, or female circumcision as it is also - but incorrectly - known, is practiced by Muslims, Christians, animists, and nonbelievers in a range of communities, often under the mistaken belief that it is a religious
http://www.unicefusa.org/issues99/jan99/feature3.html
Female Circumcision Comes to America 
by Linda Burstyn - Atlantic Monthly, Oct 1995 - Performed by new immigrants, veiled in deference to a cultural tradition of the developing world, female circumcision is becoming an American problem.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/fgm/fgm.htm
Female Circumcision Issues Page 
The World Health Organization had a conference in February 1979 in Khartoum, Sudan, and unanimously condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens health and as indefensible on medical as well as humane grounds. In the United States, Rep. Pat Schroede
http://www.eskimo.com/~gburlin/female.html
Female Circumcision: Indications and a New Technique 
This 1959 medical journal article reveals how American medicine condoned female circumcision with arguments similar to those still used today to justify male circumcision. Offers this article for historical reference only, as well as to emphasize these si
http://www.noharmm.org/femcirctech.htm
Female Genital Mutilation: Strategies For Eradication 
by Fran P. Hosken - Female genital mutilation - the descriptive term for the different types of operations are "excision" and "infibulation" - continues to be practiced in large regions of Africa, from the Red Sea Coast to the shores o
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/hosken.html
Global Women Intact 
Specializing in female circumcision, genital mutilation, and alternative ritual of passage information.
http://www.celebrateclitoris.com/
How is Female Circumcision Trivialized? 
"In the same manner as male circumcision, of course!" - Read an extensive list of medical and lay comments about female circumcision.
http://www.noharmm.org/trivial.htm
Irin News: Boost for Anti-FGM Effort 
United Nations humanitarian report from Kenya explains how a series of seminars resulted in the resignation two hundred practitioners of female genital mutilation. Includes outline of the cultural aspects.
http://www.oneworld.net/external/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irinnews.org%2Freport.asp%3FReportID%3D39965%26SelectRegion%3DEast_Africa%26SelectCountry%3DKENYA
Islam and Female Circumcision 
By Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. - Minaret of Freedom Institute. Brief article discussing religion and female genital mutilation.
http://www.minaret.org/fgm.htm
Mutilated Humanity 
by Ashley Montagu - The story of bodily mutilations would occupy a large volume in the story of humankind, and few would be more strange and interesting than those relating to male and female circumcision.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/montagu.html
NPR : Asylum & Genital Mutilation 
A Nigerian woman is fighting deportation, saying she needs to stay because of her 10-year-old daughter, who is an American citizen. The mother has overstayed her visa by more than a decade. She says she can't leave her daughter in the US, but she says in
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1034891
NPR : Atlanta Female Circumcision Case Stirs Concern 
The arrest of an Ethiopian citizen in Atlanta, Ga., raises concerns that female circumcision -- a form of genital mutilation common in some African nations -- is being performed on young women in the United States. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports. 5.5 minutes r
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1763682
NPR : Nigerian Woman Challenges Mutilation Ritual 
NPR's Libby Lewis reports on a Nigerian woman who is trying to have the practice of female genital mutilation accepted as a violation of the anti-torture convention, which the United States has signed. The woman lives in Dallas, but is here illegally and
http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=909044
Senegal bans female circumcision 
BBC News Online - Dec 23, 1998 - Senegal has banned female circumcision on cultural or religious grounds. Anybody found practising circumcision on girls now faces up to five years in prison.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/241230.stm
The Rite of Female Circumcision 
Ethnic NewsWatch - "No one should live in fear of having parts of her genitals sliced off against her will."
http://www.africa2000.com/bndx/circum.html
Welcome to Womanhood 
A video about female circumcision and the effort to stop the practice. - 14 minutes, Grades 10-Adult, Directed by Charlotte Metcalf, Produced by TVE and BBC, 1998, VHS ISBN: 1-56029-755-7
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/wtw.html
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