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Circumcised Girls and FGC/M
Circumcised Girls and FGC/M
140 million girls and women circumcised/mutilated.
3 million girls and women are facing risk of undergoing FGM/C every year.
27 Countries in Africa and the Middle East/Arab World are facing FGC/M related challenges.
Our immediate strategies to eliminate FGC/M include:
- Enhance capabilities of young peoples’ network and strengthen adolescent girls’ communication skills to become advocates and effective agents against FGM/C within their community.
- Engage credible traditional and religious leaders as advocates for reducing social support and for total abandonment of FGC/M.
- Empower health providers as effective behavior change agents and potential resource in campaigns to eradicate FGM/C.
- Advocate with governments to implement laws against FGM/C as effective component of human development and positive social change.
- Support intensive media campaigns for public awareness and discussion of FGM/C.
- Support the development of a mechanism, in specific countries, for providing health care and psychosocial assistance to circumcised girls suffering from the practice.
