Genital Mutilation

1. afrol News - FGM  (site info) Analyses, facts and regularly updated news on female genital mutilation in Africa. http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Women/FGM/ 2. Female Genital Mutilation  (site info) Amnesty International covers the topic of clitoridectomy, including procedures, why and where practiced, mental and physical effects on women. http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/femgen/fgm1.ht... 3. UNICEF and the Medicalization of FGM  (site info) Documentation of the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Kenya. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ay813/Profile.html 4. NPR : Asylum & Genital Mutilation  (site info) 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 Nigeria, the girl would be subject to a painful procedure known as female genital mutilation. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports. [4:47 minute Realaudio segment] http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfI... 5. NPR : Mutilation - Asylum  (site info) NPR's Margot Adler reports on the story of Adelaide Abankwah. Abankwah is the second woman in U.S history to be granted political asylum because she feared she would be subjected to female genital mutilation if she returned to her native Ghana. Abankwah spoke out today for the first time since her release from a detention facility - where she spent two years and three months. [4.5 minute Realaudio segment] http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfI... 1-5 of 20. Next »