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Female Circumcision

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 dictate. - U.S. Fund for UNICEF 1998

http://www.unicefusa.org/issues99/jan99/feature3.html

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Articles about Female Circumcision

Historical articles in U.S. medicine.

http://www.noharmm.org/morepages.htm#Science/Sociology

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Common Denominators Between Male and Female Circumcision

Lists similarities between male and female circumcision.

http://www.noharmm.org/comparison.htm

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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.

http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/badawi.html

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Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying Female Genital Mutilation

by Hanny LightfootKlein - I first became aware of the existence of what at that time was still euphemistically called "female circumcision" in 1979.

http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/third/hanny3.html

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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 Schroeder has written a bill to prohibit female genital mutilation (FGM), H.R. 3247.

http://www.eskimo.com/~gburlin/female.html

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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. We offer this article for historical reference only, as well as to emphasize these similarities and expose medical arrogance.

http://www.noharmm.org/femcirctech.htm

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Female Genital Mutilation (Female Circumcision)

by ReligiousTolerance.org

http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_cirm.htm

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Female Genital Mutilation - A Human Rights Information Pack (1998)

from Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/femgen/fgm10.htm

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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 of the Atlantic. In Indonesia and Malaysia, less drastic forms of "female circumcision" are practiced by some of the Moslem populations of this region and sporadic occurrences have been registered among other mainly Moslem groups.

http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/hosken.html

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Genital Mutilation & The United Nations: Male And Female Circumcision, Human Rights, & The Restoration Of Spiritual Integrity & Freedom

by Anastasios Zavales - The world community is increasingly educated on crimes against humanity, in particular, about individuals practicing genital mutilation, commonly termed circumcision. Genital mutilation affects more than 2 million girlchild victims and more than 13.5 million boychild victims annually throughout the world.

http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/fourth/zavales4.html

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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

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Islam and Female Circumcision

by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. - Minaret of Freedom Institute

http://www.minaret.org/fgm.htm

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Knuckleheaded Islamic Thought: Female Circumcision

An angry commentary.