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| Malaysian men jailed for ritual killing of parents BBC News Two Malaysian cousins have been jailed for 10 years each for beating the parents of one of them to death during a ritual to expel evil spirits. ... See all stories on this topic |
| We the Corporations Connect Savannah.com Benito Mussolini You witnessed a ritual killing last week, a public execution. Or was it a suicide? It took Republicans several years to convince Americans ... See all stories on this topic |
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irinnewsContributed by Gandolf
GOZ BEIDA, 6 January 2010 (IRIN) - The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) in Chad is identifying pregnant women in refugee camps who have had their genitalia cut, in order to better prepare for potential complications, according to UNHCR and its medical partners. The exercise is part of efforts in the camps to tackle the health fallout of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) as well as prevent new cutting.
Since September 2009 heath clinic workers at the Djabal camp in eastern Chad started recording how many prenatal patients had been cut; for September it was 22 among 330 women. "This helps us identify at-risk pregnancies because women with closed vaginas [resulting from FGM/C] can tear while giving birth," camp health director Nassourou Drassadou told IRIN.
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Google News Alert for: "female circumcision" OR "genital mutilation" OR "genital cut"
| Mauritanian Muslim imams initiate rare ban on female circumcision Ethiopian Review Human rights campaigners who have been struggling for years to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) in West Africa got a boost this week as news ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Uganda Urged to Stop 'Anti-Gay' Bill OneWorld.net In another triumph for sexual and women's health, the Ugandan parliament unanimously passed a bill in early December banning female genital mutilation. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Torture in Health Care Huffington Post (blog) Female genital mutilation is another practice that can cause severe suffering for no medical purpose. Human Rights Watch spoke with midwives and government ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Health Buzz: One Fifth of U.S. Kids Have High Cholesterol U.S. News & World Report Opponents of circumcision nevertheless call the procedure unnecessary and compare it to female genital mutilation; many contend that it's child abuse and ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| WeNews 21 Leader Survives Quake; 4 Haitian Activists Killed Women's eNews A group of 30 Muslim leaders have issued a religious edict banning female genital mutilation in the West African country Mauritania, the Associated Press ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Many here misunderstand Islam's teaching on violence, women, member says Evansville Courier & Press Oppression, female circumcision and families who murder or mutilate female relatives they believe have dishonored them are all cultural trappings, ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Police laud Bongo Civic Union for promoting peace Ghana News Agency He said negative cultural practices that were against the law including female genital mutilation, elopement and widowhood rites had reduced drastically. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
UNICEF (press release) It's part of a programme that promotes human-rights-based development and encourages communities to abandon female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) and ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Hairdos now in Indonesia Muslim clerics` crosshairs Moneycontrol.com ... need to [proscribe] everything as haram or not. Some injustices such as polygamy and female genital mutilation are more important" than rebonding, she said. See all stories on this topic | ||
| Where Do We Go from Here? Getting Rid of the Oligarchs OpEdNews No genital mutilation. No disease. No neediness. No lack. No starvation. No hoarding. No ownership. No cheating. No adultery. No hidden agenda. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
Vancouver Courier Fans of onscreen genital mutilation and talking foxes rejoice. Things get heavy and disturbing at Vancity Theatre as Lars Von Trier's controversial and ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| MPs debate Violence Against Women DeHavilland (press release) (subscription) The Government have developed a number of linked national action plans on domestic violence, which includes tackling female genital mutilation, ... See all stories on this topic |
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Guardian.co.uk
Contributed by Gandolf
When I was "circumcised" I was five or six, but it happens to girls as young as four. It starts as a ceremony – the girl is bought clothes, gold earrings and bangles. She has henna put on her hands and feet: the preliminaries are regarded as a celebration where she is the centre of attention.
But later they take her and put her in a gadha, which is shaped like a deep dish. They lay her across it and hold her legs open; there are often three people holding her very tight when she's on the gadha, two holding her legs and hands, and one holding her chest and head.
The equipment is handmade: a sharp curved knife which is not sterilised. And the girl is given no anaesthetic. It is usually mostly women in attendance. They leave a little hole for urination. There are no stitches; they treat the wound with herbs, salt and water. It bleeds a lot and the victim is in great pain. I was horribly frightened and crying. The "ceremony" takes as little as 20 minutes or as long as an hour, depending on how much the girl struggles.
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The AustralianContributed by Gandolf
POLICE are considering laying a further 24 charges against a NSW doctor who is already facing 69 charges of aggravated sexual assault and female genital mutilation.
Graeme Stephen Reeves, 59, a former obstetrician from Bega on the NSW South Coast, was originally facing 17 charges, including aggravated sexual assault, indecent assault, female genital mutilation, and grievous bodily harm offences, after being charged by police in September 2008.
Last month Sex Crimes Squad detectives laid an additional 52 charges in relation to further allegations of sexual assault, indecent assault, and grievous bodily harm, putting his March trial date for the previous offences in doubt.
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| Demonizing Haiti, ignoring slavery Ekklesia Yet Robertson, one imagines, finds animal sacrifice and blood vows repellent, and he has no reason to be accepting of any religion other than his own, ... See all stories on this topic |
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| Putting the Ph.D.'s to Work Inside Higher Ed ... even affection, while revealing — perhaps to the astonishment of many abroad — that Americans are not the horned minions of the Great Satan. ... See all stories on this topic |
| Iran blacklist puzzles Yale Yale Daily News ... Secretary of State went to Yale Law School. America is the Great Satan. Yale hosted the infamous artist Mr. Westerfeld whose art amounts to heresy in Islam. See all stories on this topic |
| A pragmatist of ease and grace The Australian On Iran, he helped the green movement immensely by removing the "Great Satan" card from the leadership's weakening hand. If he can target sanctions ... See all stories on this topic |
| Why They're Really at War With Us Human Events (blog) To bin Laden and his ilk, we are the Great Satan. They hate us more than they hate Israel. As for Hamas and Hizballah -- which Pat paints as if they have ... See all stories on this topic |
| History lost, history found Cabinet.com Perhaps Saudi Arabia will. Or Iran. Or, will they, as usual, leave it up to The Great Satan to help those who can't help themselves? See all stories on this topic |
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| Runoff charge debated Charleston Post Courier There's at least one small problem with the exemption -- figuring out how to exclude the religious campgrounds and not exempt business campgrounds. ... See all stories on this topic |
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Chicago Breaking News - Tribune The music director of a Roman Catholic parish in Glen Ellyn and his roommate have been charged with possession of child pornography. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Priest taken into custody on sex assault charge Joliet Herald News 4 by Kane County's Child Advocate Center. Detectives were reportedly on the way to interview Flores on Jan. 6, when he went missing. ... See all stories on this topic |
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| Trial Airs Mormon Church's Role in Fight Over Prop 8 Law.com He testified that his parents discovered a journal in which Kendall confessed homosexual thoughts, and often berated him over his orientation. ... See all stories on this topic |
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Google News Alert for: "female circumcision" OR "genital mutilation" OR "genital cut"
| FORWARD Awarded £30000 To Help Protect Bristol Girls From Genital Mutilation eGov monitor "Female genital mutilation has very serious health implications for girls in this country. Cutting is usually performed before puberty and we estimate that ... See all stories on this topic |
| Raising Awareness At Davos Forbes (blog) The 2010 winner, Julia Lalla-Maharajh, is pitching the cause of ending female genital mutilation. Now she gets a free trip to Switzerland--five days of ... See all stories on this topic |
| Kelis makes fun of PETA News Trends Or female circumcision. Or the Rights of Women in America, we are still paid less for the same work as men. "Moreover, the singer took the opportunity to ... See all stories on this topic |
| Live: Charlotte Gainsbourg's First Live Solo Show Literally Ever Village Voice (blog) ... this year, she won Best Actress at Cannes for a graphic role that included her own genital mutilation; her gamine allure is frequently, mercifully, ... See all stories on this topic |
| Pro-Life is a misdirection Amador Ledger-Dispatch In other areas, female genital mutilation, foot binding, women burning ("witch burning") and other forms of violence go back five to ten millennia after a ... See all stories on this topic |
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Google News Alert for: religious vaccination
| Muslim anger over US 'Jesus' rifles Ninemsn The report said the religious codes - referencing passages from the New Testament ... Disease threat as vaccination rate dropsAustralia is facing the ... |
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Google News Alert for: "child bride" OR "child marriage"
| Board of Ulema member rebukes minor marriage Saudi Gazette "It is impossible to use the marriage of Ayesha, the Mother of Believers (May Allah be pleased with her) as a measure for child marriage because of the ... See all stories on this topic |
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AllAfrica. com
Kigali — Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda, Lesotho and Sierra Leone have numerous cases of female genital mutilation in Africa.
Female genital mutilation (FGM) sometimes called female circumcision or female genital cutting involves the cutting of the girl's genitals in order to curb their sexual desire and preserve their sexual honour before marriage.
It comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. It has no health benefits and harms girls and women in many ways.
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OregonLive.com ARCHIVE: Previous stories about faith healing in Oregon. Jeffrey and Marci Beagley, members of the Followers of Christ church, are charged with criminally ... See all stories on this topic |
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| Taliban Using Suicide Attacks to Hold Sway Over the US The Epoch Times A group of Taliban fighters stormed Kabul's capital killing five people and injuring more than 70 through the use of suicide bomb vests and firearms. ... See all stories on this topic |
| World datelines Deseret News 30 suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees at a remote base in Khost province. JERUSALEM — Israel is arresting a growing number of prominent ... See all stories on this topic |
| After Afghan Attack, Some See US Role New York Times Amrullah Saleh, the chief of intelligence, said the original target had been the government's central bank, which a suicide bomber tried to enter, ... See all stories on this topic |
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The Independant
This is Hanna Abera. She is seven. Her mother and grandmother wanted to slice off part of her genitals. But she was saved by an extraordinarily brave intervention from her aunt after a British charity launched a programme of education on the consequences of female circumcision – which is still widely practised throughout parts of Africa and the Middle East.
No one knows how many women are subjected to the procedure but it is thought that over two million procedures are performed every year. Amnesty International estimates that over 130 million women worldwide have been affected by some form of what it calls female genital mutilation.
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FrontPageMag.com
First, when I say that the marriage of nine-year-old girls in today’s Britain (and the rest of the EU, for that matter) is unsurprising, my statement is based on my own 17 years of experience in the field of immigration: forms of assault based on tradition and religion – including child marriage, forced marriage, genital mutilation, so-called honor-related offenses such as rape and murder – have become established here as a result of immigration, mostly from Muslim countries.
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