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| Top Level : Health : Child Health : Circumcision : Female Circumcision | | Links: | | | Pages: 1 2 [>>] | - 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
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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 We offer this article for historical reference only, as well as to emphasize these similarities and expose medical arrogance.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: 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 R
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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