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Female Genital Mutilation: Proposals for Change

by Scilla Ellworthy & Efua Dorkenoo - £3.95  Minority Rights Group (1992)
paperback    ISBN 13: 9780946690909 | ISBN 10: 0946690901

Medically unnecesary and extremely painful operations are routinely carried out on babies and young girls. In their most severe forms they involve the partial to complete removal of the external female genitalia. This little known custom affects more than 80 million women and girls in over 20 countries in Africa.

African women today are raising their voices, demanding that governments take the lead in initiating and coordianting programmes against these practices. This report, Efua Dorkenoo and Scilla Elworthy, is concise, practical and non-sensational in its contents and approach. It presents the views of women campaigners from Africa, and what steps African governments, Western states and international agencies can take to end the custom.

Female Genital Mutilation: Proposals for Change is an essential resource for all those concerned with the health and welfare of women and children, with development, social change and human rights. It is of particular interest for those in Western countries - health professionals, teachers, social workers - who may encounter the practice in African immigrant or refugee communities and who seek positive and practical ways to abolish it.

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