Tahera Shafiq, 48, is charged with conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation and aiding and abetting female genital mutilation.
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The Attars and Nagarwala face one count of conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation, two counts of female genital mutilation and one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
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The Attars and Nagarwala each face two counts of female genital mutilation, one count of conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation, and one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
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Genital mutilation victim: It 'hurted a lot' According to court documents filed on April 13 in Hennepin County: In February, the girl was driven to Michigan to receive the genital mutilation procedure.
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" Most memorably, one person had likened it to "self-mutilation.
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His wife was also threatened with mutilation, the lawsuit claims.
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Many of their remains show signs of mutilation and abuse.
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There's abuse of captive guards and other inmates, even mutilation.
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"There were no signs of torture or mutilation," another said.
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Such a ruling affected the law prohibiting female genital mutilation.
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With his mutilation hurting my eyes, I turned away and cried.
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Take, for example, June's mutilation of her ear in the premiere.
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They must grasp laws tackling female genital mutilation and modern slavery.
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They believe in female genital mutilation, honor killings and child brides.
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Yet Nan's mutilation and Ketty's violent despair never quite ring true.
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Female genital mutilation is labeled "abuse," a "brutal" or "barbaric" practice.
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Ayaan is a survivor of female genital mutilation and forced marriage.
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When she was 12, she was subjected to female genital mutilation.
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That was merely self-mutilation born out of fear and despair.
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Public stoning, rape, mutilation and forced prostitution are all common consequences.
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After all that reprocessing 'Positive Mutilation' seemed like a very apt title.
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Some 70% of Egyptian men still approve of female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Most countries where female genital mutilation is common have laws against it.
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To educate yourself on the impacts of female genital mutilation, visit here.
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Many more Africans with albinism are victims of violence, rape and mutilation.
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This includes sexual assault, rape, intimate partner violence and female genital mutilation.
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They are also working to end child marriage and female genital mutilation.
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Nagarwala is accused of performing the mutilation while the Attars allegedly assisted.
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This summer Egypt enhanced a 53 law against female genital mutilation (FGM).
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When confronted by people who use terms like mutilation, I generally recoil.
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So why are these surgeries and female genital mutilation perceived so differently?
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"Self-mutilation is something that…it comes home to roost," McCain said.
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Twenty years ago, no one talked publicly about female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, the lead defendant, was charged with committing female genital mutilation in violation of federal law at a clinic in Livonia, Michigan, plus conspiring to commit female genital mutilation, as well as aiding and abetting others.
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Q: What do you think of using the term "cutting" instead of mutilation?
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"Even though surgery was my choice, it felt like forced mutilation," she said.
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Miller highlighted Equality Now, an organization that fights to end female genital mutilation.
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The violence, hate speech, and mutilation of corpses in Libya is completely unacceptable.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects millions of women and girls around the world.
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"There was no mutilation of any genitals, of any kind," Burton-Harris said.
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And you'll still come across news articles that say your vagina is mutilation.
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We have another project called Break the Blade, about stopping female genital mutilation.
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Rick Snyder signed legislation into law to make female genital mutilation a felony.
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Female genital mutilation as an economic transaction as much as a cultural tradition.
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More than 125 million women and girls have been subjected to genital mutilation.
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There, in an empty room, a woman subjected them to female genital mutilation.
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Some women deemed apostates by more radicalized women have reported beatings and mutilation.
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Progressives abhor those abuses of women — F.G.M. (female genital mutilation), honor killings, etc.
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Last year, in the first court case involving the genital mutilation law, the judge in Michigan cited the Morrison case to rule that Congress had failed to clearly draw a connection between interstate commerce and the practice of female genital mutilation.
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" Saddam Hussein's son Uday was an insatiable torturer who "took special pleasure in mutilation.
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Dassey was convicted in 2007 of homicide, sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse.
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In groups where mutilation was rare, by contrast, it was the other way around.
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It is a common procedure in the region known as female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Dassey was convicted in 43 of homicide, sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse.
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These crimes range from female genital mutilation to inciting a prison riot to arson.
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" He expanded, "I regret that we're not doing something about…genital mutilation in Africa.
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The torture and mutilation of Indian soldiers sparked national outrage during the Kargil war.
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In most countries where female genital mutilation (FGM) is common, it is formally banned.
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Fortify Rights has documented many cases of indiscriminate killing, rape, mutilation and other crimes.
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Female genital mutilation, or female ritual cutting, involves altering or injuring female genital organs.
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It's also really easy to come across articles that describe the surgery as mutilation.
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Female genital mutilation is not an issue I ever thought about in economic terms.
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This novel is not wall-to-wall mutilation; it's wall-to-wall moral vacuity.
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Human rights groups have recorded numerous examples of evidence of torture, mutilation and massacres.
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Her mutilation horrified the country and immediately became an issue in the national elections.
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There's a lot of overlap between surgery on intersex infants and female genital mutilation.
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Female genital mutilation should be opposed, especially when practiced on young children and minors.
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Mr. Dassey was convicted of intentional homicide, sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse.
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Terrorism, sexual assault and female genital mutilation are, in his telling, all on the rise.
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Emily (Alexis Bledel) was forced into a genital mutilation surgery as retribution for alleged wrongdoing.
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Click here to view original GIFThere is no shortage of gadget mutilation videos on YouTube.
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She only married that white guy to protect her family from murder, mutilation, and enslavement.
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The official declined to go into detail about how or exactly when the mutilation occurred.
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Chance faces charges of mutilation of a body and concealing the death of an individual.
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Narratives of female self-mutilation, conversely, tend to veer towards self-abnegation and self-annihilation.
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Check out the VICE News doc on the procedure that can reverse female genital mutilation.
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It said sharia justifies the oppression of women and homosexuality, and advocates female genital mutilation.
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But she has also used the publication to explore genital mutilation, abortion restrictions and politics.
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Activists want it to include a ban on female genital mutilation practices in the country.
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Finally, the Army even has considered granting waivers for bipolar disorder, self-mutilation and ADHD.
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It said sharia justifies the oppression of women and homosexuality, and advocate female genital mutilation.
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Though the army offered no specifics, mutilation in the past has referred to a beheading.
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Harmful practices, such as child marriage and female genital mutilation, should be consigned to history.
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Unfortunately, we've seen an uptick in self-mutilation, and we've seen an uptick in depression.
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That kind of sexual-mutilation murder is very specifically the male form of serial killing.
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Female genital mutilation happens all the time, all over the world, and it is horrifying.
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Not exposing practices of female genital mutilation that had been shrouded in secrecy for centuries.
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A similar bill, aimed to "protect minors from mutilation and sterilization," was proposed in Colorado.
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Detroit emergency room physician Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, internal medicine physician Dr. Fakhruddin Attar and his wife, Farida Attar, face one count of conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation, two counts of female genital mutilation and one count of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding.
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Many girls and young women die every year from complications associated with genital mutilation, authorities say.
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The hope is that the NCAA finds this self mutilation acceptable and imposes no further discipline.
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She only married that white guy to protect her family from murder, mutilation, and enslavement. 95.
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Protesters in Madrid during the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation in 2016.
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Rashida Tlaib (who was scheduled but could not make the event) to condemn female genital mutilation.
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"Mutilation is horrible, but it's not true that it happens here" in Indonesia, Ms. Fitri said.
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He was convicted of first-degree murder, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse.
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Dassey is serving a life sentence for intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and sexual assault.
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" Mr. Rips recalled that Mr. Bard paused a moment before continuing, "Though not the first mutilation.
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But at the time, no amount of self-mutilation would stop such a power-hungry pedophile.
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Women are also campaigning to outlaw female genital mutilation and are increasingly promoting education for girls.
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"He believed in cryonics, but he didn't believe in mutilation," his brother Jim told the outlet.
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There was some consensus that he abducted children, and that deaths, commonly involving mutilation, would follow.
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The narratives will converge, but not before traversing a louche landscape of sadomasochism and genital mutilation.
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While the word "clitoridectomy" is never spoken, it's clear this is the mutilation imposed on Ofglen.
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Urge the department to take seriously "honor" violence, female genital mutilation and other misogynistic cultural practices.
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Why, for example, do audiences revel in the protracted, gruesome torture and mutilation of beautiful women?
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Last month, he defended female genital mutilation (FGM) by saying men are already having problems in bed.
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The African diaspora brought new cultures and customs to London; female genital mutilation, unfortunately, came with it.
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In most of the cases, genital mutilation brings urinary infections, as well as menstrual and abdominal pains.
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Dassey was convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse.
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But this was not a medical operation to provide treatment -- it was mutilation to remove her clitoris.
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Some might view Lee's body modification avocation as self-mutilation, but he sees it as self-improvement.
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The report did not include violence related to self-harm, female genital mutilation, human trafficking or conflict.
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They were charged with three federal criminal counts including conspiracy, female genital mutilation and aiding and abetting.
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Setting aside the substance of Vargas-Cooper's argument, using words like "mutilation" to describe surgery is insulting.
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The inventor has been detained and charged with murder, mutilation, and "sexual assault without intercourse," BBC reports.
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UNFPA is also on the front line of combating horrors like child marriage and female genital mutilation.
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In developed countries most will undergo surgery, she told an international conference on female genital mutilation (FGM).
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A sequence involving female genital mutilation had me gasping out loud and hasn't left my mind since.
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Asylum is more likely to be granted if their histories involved genocide, genital mutilation or a dictatorship.
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Why must so many revenge fantasies fixate in such detail on the physical mutilation of women's bodies?
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A counselor holds up cards used to educate women on the risks and dangers of female genital mutilation.
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Female Genital Mutilation violates human rights, has NO health benefits and it must NEVER be performed #EndFGM pic.twitter.
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Advocate for an end to female genital mutilation by supporting organizations that work to end the practice completely.
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He imprisoned a man for being gay and only spared him at the price of poverty and mutilation.
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According to a UNICEF report, more than 200 million women and girls worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation.
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District Court Judge Bernard Friedman's ruling on Tuesday effectively overturns the federal government's ban on female genital mutilation.
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Thanks to the camera's agility, the landscape becomes a character, its mutilation interchangeable with that of the farmers.
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Other research indicates that in the case of women, eating disorders and self-mutilation share a striking connection.
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How you can help stop female genital mutilation 'Fear still lives inside me' The psychological trauma is immense.
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In an instant, she became one of the millions of girls and women who experience female genital mutilation.
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Female genital mutilation is a harmful practice and a violation of the human rights of girls and women.
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In Sierra Leone, 90% of women ages 15 to 49 have undergone female genital mutilation, according to UNICEF.
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That kind of impact begins with the passion of women like Masooma Ranalvi, a Female Genital Mutilation survivor.
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A young Egyptian woman has died after undergoing an illegal female genital mutilation (FGM) surgery, according to CNN.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is illegal in Nigeria but there has not been a single conviction, campaigners say.
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Female genital mutilation involves the altering or removing of the female genitals, such as the clitoris or labia.
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Britain: A woman in London was found guilty of the genital mutilation of her 3-year-old daughter.
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Serb paramilitaries entered the conflict with a campaign of murder, rape, mutilation and expulsion mainly against Bosnian Muslims.
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Women in the Kuria tribe, a deeply patriarchal community, also face customs like female genital mutilation (FGM) and polygamy.
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She told judges on Thursday that the term mutilation is "offensive" and denigrates the cultural significance of the practice.
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Daubin told AP the dolphins washing up on France's beaches this year show a more extreme level of mutilation.
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Human trafficking, forced marriages, and genital mutilation are no longer inflicting horror and terror on girls and women worldwide.
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Principal Wade rightly thinks the word "mutilation" should be left out of any conversation with kids younger than 22.
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The fantasies involved sexual mutilation, and soon she began sending me pictures and videos of her masturbating on camera.
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At the same time, captive orcas often display unusual stress-related behaviors, such as self-mutilation, listlessness, and agitation.
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In 2014, for example, the Kenyan government launched a hotline to curb female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage.
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Dassey was convicted at 17 of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse.
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Songs about vicious battles and chainsaw mutilation are fucking rad, but discussing actual murder and execution is uncalled for.
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Circumcision is irreversible, and many argue, quite stridently, that this is "genital mutilation" inflicted on children for no reason.
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And yet the new television version gestures toward dark backstories of abuse and deceit, the suggestion of bodily mutilation.
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LONDON(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - There is a growing global drive to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) in a generation.
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He complained of the mutilation of Indian soldiers by militants believed to have come across the border from Pakistan.
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Noisey is not responsible for any writing, occultism, or genital mutilation that results from the reading of this interview.
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The infection shows up in animals within two weeks and includes symptoms like excessive salivation, aggression, and self-mutilation.
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Defense attorney Shannon M. Smith told Majzoub that her client did not perform female genital mutilation on the girls.
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Some argue that these stories are the backbone to the practice of suppressing women's sexuality through female genital mutilation.
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As if he were saying, you thought the genital mutilation in "Antichrist" was bad, well, I'll show you violence!
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But we're still waiting for a march against honor killings, child marriages, polygamy, sex slavery or female genital mutilation.
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A Florida school reported an uptick in self-mutilation and threats of suicide among students after the show's release.
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In illustrations for the "Iliad" alone there are scenes of mutilation, murder, attempted rape, suicide and aborted human sacrifice.
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Victims testified during international trials about the brutality of rebels, who used mutilation and rape against the civilian population.
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On Monday, Latunski was charged with murder and mutilation and disinterment of a body, the Lansing State Journal reported.
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For Ryan, minor self-mutilation was better than the alternative: blisters forming on the tips of his pitching fingers.
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"Steven Avery committed this murder and this mutilation, and Steven Avery is exactly where he needs to be," he said.
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How about going out and demonstrating against female genital mutilation or the bombing of the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.
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Women's groups protested at plans to make optional any teaching around the subject of forced marriage and female genital mutilation.
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What surfaced was a host of violent paintings dealing with issues such as female genital mutilation, honor killings, and beheadings.
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"Black Museum" features a remarkably wide range of nightmarish elements, from physical mutilation to human minds locked in inanimate objects.
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First of all, it's inclusive in a way we rarely see on television to people who have experienced genital mutilation.
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Records obtained by PEOPLE show that her incarceration has been marred with disciplinary infractions for self-mutilation and drug use.
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"Determining the magnitude of female genital mutilation is essential to eliminating the practice," said Rao Gupta, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director.
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Bailey suggests that the painter's notorious act of self mutilation was set off by the news of his brother's engagement.
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Anyway, in our figurative scenario, despite local prohibition and the threat of mutilation, you've decided to try fireworks for yourself.
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Faced with the urgency of saving 400,000 girls from severe mutilation each year, arguments without evidence are not good enough.
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Step aside, Quentin Tarantino and Martin McDonagh, and all you other macho purveyors of mutilation and mayhem with a smile.
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The former detective believes that his father was trying to emulate the surrealist artist's work with mutilation of Short's body.
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In 1996, genital mutilation of girls was banned, and in 2013, so was traveling outside the United States for cutting.
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Gebre's charity is credited with virtually eliminating the practice of female genital mutilation in the region where she grew up.
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She says growing up at Umoja allowed her to thrive without the threat of female genital mutilation and forced marriages.
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"We don't know who or when," said Mr. Kader, adding there was evidence of mutilation by early Christians and Muslims.
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That documentation includes medical records, photos of self-mutilation submitted by the recruiter, and a detailed statement from the applicant.
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Some clerics have publicly opposed his tough stance against female genital mutilation, though officially al-Azhar agrees with him on this.
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Learning about foot-binding's demise could have implications in the current fight against customs like female genital mutilation, Bossen told CNN.
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They expected to find a cyst, not menstrual blood stagnating as result of the "cutting," also known as female genital mutilation.
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"Female genital mutilation is organized crime against gender," Nimko told me when I met her in a cafe in east London.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a non-medical procedure that involves the total or partial removal of a woman's external genitalia.
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MARYUM SAIFEE was in a college anthropology seminar when she realised she had been a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Its policies included support for a burqa ban and compulsory genital checks for children judged to be at risk of mutilation.
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A U.N. report on female genital mutilation (FGM) this year listed 30 countries where cutting is practised, almost all in Africa.
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Jaha Dukureh knows what it's like to be "cut," which is how she refers to the ritual of female genital mutilation.
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Today, with half the league jacking up at least one three-pointer for every three shots, it's more like self-mutilation.
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Even the term "self-mutilation," now common parlance, seems to spring from the 1960s cutter stereotype of the 193s and 70s.
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Nothing quite says "Halloween" like the ritualistic mutilation of gourds, but some Canadians just took things to a whole new level.
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Jordan McClahanan, 23, is charged with first degree murder and mutilation of a body in the death of Jessica White, 21.
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The nephew, then 17, was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse.
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Damba's mother and mother-in-law both performed Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) — locally known as excision — on girls across their community.
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The group said at least 13,000 additional girls were at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM), which is banned in Germany.
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There's the holiday that omits the murder and mutilation of Native Americans (Thanksgiving, which we call The National Day of Mourning).
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Juveniles running to the sea often had to risk the extreme pressure differences and physical mutilation from passing through electric turbines.
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Beyond the partisan distortion, this mutilation has had the secondary but no less cancerous effect of making congressional districts deeply homogeneous.
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The thing was so brutal, so full of graphic mutilation and child murder scenes, around 100 people stormed out midway through.
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At least 200 million survivors of the practice worldwide live with the scars of mutilation, according to the World Health Organization.
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Unicef has data on violence indicators that may be telling for travelers, including domestic violence, female genital mutilation and female homicide.
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Her most provocative work was a series on female genital mutilation, first published in 2010 with subsequent pieces continuing through 2012.
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A jury convicted Chance of second-degree murder, mutilation and evidence tampering charges on September 30, following a five-day trial.
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It has since grown into a refuge, welcoming women escaping abusive marriages, female genital mutilation, rape and other forms of assault.
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She fled there to escape genital mutilation Learpoora never met her father -- she was told he died when she was 3.
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The recent news that a Michigan doctor has been arrested for performing Female Genital Mutilation on young girls may seem shocking.
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The SDP also appeared likely to snag the finance and labor cabinet posts—The Guardian UN Warns: 68 Million Girls to Endure Genital Mutilation by 2030The UN Population Fund has predicted that the number of girls subjected to genital mutilation is on track to rise from 3.9 million per year to 4.6 million per year by 2030.
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Massive speakers played "America and Israel, death and mutilation to you" and "five or fifty years, we will face the criminal coalition".
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Many are also being subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), which is seen as a "rite of passage" before they are wed.
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The news release said this is believed to be the first case under law 18 U.S.C. 116, which criminalizes female genital mutilation.
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In the past, those projects have culminated in apps to cut ticket queues, help phone recycling and even end Female Genital Mutilation.
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Perhaps nothing better else explains honour killings (and female genital mutilation, for that matter), than describing them as a clash of civilisations.
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Poverty -- at least as much as culture, in Bishagazi's community -- stood behind the continuation of female genital mutilation, he came to realize.
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The practice of female genital mutilation is outlawed in Tanzania but continues despite the threat of imprisonment, especially among the nation's poorest.
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She also argued that the federal female genital mutilation law she and others who assisted her were being prosecuted under is unconstitutional.
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"We are denied the terminology, so we're silent, and so abuse from female genital mutilation [FGM] to rape carries on," said Rees.
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Many are executed on the orders of male tribal councils called jirgas, which have also handed down sentences of rape or mutilation.
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The politician who called for genital mutilation, and has also quit, belonged to the conservative Liberal Party of Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 200 million females alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM).
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It also seems to have led to surprising progress in the movement to curb female genital mutilation in the poor West African country.
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One in three women are married before 18, while nine out of 10 have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), the United Nations (U.
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The show tackles some of the country's most pervasive problems, including stigma around menstruation, child marriage, female genital mutilation, and access to education.
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And they&aposre their crimes, when they do kill somebody it&aposs usually a mutilation, beheading, stabbing bodies hundreds and thousands of times.
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As part of the final autopsy on Wall&aposs torso, officials found multiple mutilation wounds "in and around the genitals," according to police.
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But activists who work to end female genital mutilation say that the ruling is essentially a green light for the practice to continue.
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Brühlmann brings in body horror and mutilation on a level rivaling Kafka's The Metamorphosis, but she mixes it with teen angst and existentialism.
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The Conservatives said at the time the measure was aimed at protecting women and children from forced marriages, polygamy or female genital mutilation.
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"The latest forensics expertise leads us to conclude ... that the most likely hypothesis is self-mutilation," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
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He believes his mural was protected by the California Art Preservation Act, and wants at least $250k for the "mutilation" of his piece.
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Kenneth Langley examines what he believes to be a cattle mutilation near the gate of Area 51, the United States Air Force base.
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Data shows the highest rates of genital mutilation among women between the ages of 15 to 49 are in Somalia, Guinea, and Djibouti.
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Which is good, mutilation by arrow would be an awful thing to show on television, let alone have happen to any human being.
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If you have accumulated enough tangential things, they start stringing together, so 'sunflowers' automatically goes to 'van Gogh,' automatically goes to 'self-mutilation.
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They found evidence of mutilation on the statue, for instance chiseling around Psamtik's mouth, which could suggest someone was trying to silence him.
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It also provided a steadier source of income than female genital mutilation, which is only conducted for a short period every two years.
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Anger fueled the mutilation of Timothy Coggins' body," she said, adding of the defendant, "Rage against African-Americans still exists in his heart.
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Between the plates, you place a double-edge blade, the kind you might associate more with cocaine or self-mutilation than with shaving.
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She has campaigned against female genital mutilation and fought for the broader rights of girls and women in patriarchal societies of East Africa.
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They then coalesced into a common narrative about daycare operators forcing children into rituals involving physical mutilation and animal slaughter, among other horrors.
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Obueza, an evangelical Christian, said she fled Nigeria for Japan in 1991 to escape female genital mutilation and applied for asylum in 2011.
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In a 30-year career spawning 12 albums, she has been a prominent campaigner for freedom of expression and against female genital mutilation.
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It counts such cuts and pricks as female genital mutilation (FGM), even if they cause no lasting harm to health or sexual sensation.
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But the language of romance can seem jarringly out of place when contrasted with the starvation, mutilation and murder of thousands around them.
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When it was suggested that violent online videos inspired the mutilation, he disagreed, saying that he watched them to access feelings of empathy.
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Hodel also says that Man Ray's "Minotaur" (1934) may have also served as inspiration for his father's alleged mutilation of the Black Dahlia.
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"I explained to her, 'This is what a woman's private part looks like versus someone who went through cutting, mutilation," Ms. Welcome recalled.
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The mutilation of the body, the prosecutor said, was a spur-of-the-moment decision to get the body out of the consulate.
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At least 10,000 intersex babies are born each year in India, but infanticide, abandonment and mutilation are common, according to LGBT+ rights groups.
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But some Jewish parents, aghast at what they see as unnecessary infliction of pain or even mutilation, are retreating from the ancient ritual.
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The active-duty Army gave waivers to 22019 recruits with a history of mood disorders and 49 with a history of self-mutilation.
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The New York Times would not use the term "Female Genital Mutilation" in its article about the Michigan doctors, except in a quote.
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The women of Umoja are all of the Samburu culture, an extremely patriarchal society that practices female genital mutilation and believes in polygamy.
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At the time she thought she was taking part in an art installation aimed at drawing attention to female genital mutilation in Africa.
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A Danish inventor was sentenced to life in prison for the 2017 murder and mutilation of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, according to multiple reports.
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Worldwide, more than 200 million girls and women are believed to have undergone female genital cutting or mutilation (FGM), according to United Nations figures.
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What that something might be is in turn suggested by the two researchers' second finding: the consequences of mutilation for a woman's reproductive output.
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The teens created I-Cut to help victims of female genital mutilation in their country and hopefully end the practice once and for all.
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There were more than 1,300 results when I searched the app on Wednesday afternoon for the tag #proana, and more than 1,500 for #mutilation.
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Washington (CNN)A senior aide to Donald Trump's campaign claimed Sunday that "uncontrolled migration" has put 500,000 U.S. girls at risk of genital mutilation.
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Measures included a ban on the burqa, annual gynaecological examinations of girls considered at risk of genital mutilation and a crackdown on sharia courts.
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Physician Jumana Nagarwala's bio on the Henry Ford Health System website before she was fired following charges of performing genital mutilation on multiple girls.
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Mia Wasikowska joins Abbott as Jackie, a prostitute he plans to murder, until he discovers she has a fascination with scissors and self-mutilation.
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Five teenage girls from Kenya are headed to California to make their dream of ending female genital mutilation (FGM) in their country a reality.
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The term "female genital mutilation," or FGM, refers to the non-medical practice where external genitalia, including the clitoris, is removed partially or entirely.
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She frames her anti-Islam views in terms of human-rights abuses, such as female genital mutilation, whereas the BNP was simply "openly racist".
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And then there's a woman who was subjected to female genital mutilation as a girl, and has had clitoral reconstructive surgery later in life.
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At least 200 million women and girls in 30 countries now live with female genital mutilation, according to a UNICEF report published this month.
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FGM: Inside Kenya's illegal 'Cutting Room' To find out more about how you can help stop female genital mutilation, visit CNN's Impact Your World.
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The ọgbanje are associated with mutilation of the flesh, since cutting the body of a dead child has been thought to prevent its return.
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For many, the condition is the equivalent of having a moving target painted on their back, making them vulnerable to rape, murder, and mutilation.
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Bina Shah KARACHI, Pakistan — In January a horrifying story emerged from Afghanistan, about the mutilation of a 20-year-old woman named Reza Gul.
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Self-mutilation is a foreign concept to people with good mental health but someone struggling with depression finds the practice to be comforting.4.
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The adults are focused on growing vegetables, earning incomes and spreading the word that female genital mutilation risks women's lives and the community's health.
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Female genital mutilation was criminalized in the U.S. in 1996, and in 2013, the Obama administration outlawed taking a girl overseas for the procedure.
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"It is possible that khafd [and] khatna could be interpreted to fall within the meaning of female genital mutilation in this statute," it said.
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It is believed that the self-mutilation generates a release of opioids in the brain that soothes them and helps them regulate their feelings.
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Full of shocking, graphic, and obscene illustrations of mutilation, abuse, dismemberment, and sexual assault, it immediately triggered several red flags for the police officer.
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Fogle said in the complaint that her parents were liable for her "harmful activities" like alcohol abuse, substance abuse, self-mutilation, and sexual activity.
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Keola Racela's debut feature, with more than one instance of genital mutilation played for laughs, made festivalgoers squirm but got them talking as well.
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Matiko and Samir belong to the Kuria tribe, a deeply traditional community that affirms harsh patriarchal customs like female genital mutilation (FGM) and polygamy.
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Cover: Maryah Haidery, F.A. Cole and Mariya Taher (left to right) are survivors of female genital mutilation fighting the practice in the United States.
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Through interpreters, the assembled talked for over two hours about subjects ranging from female genital mutilation in Africa to divorce in the United States.
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Known as FGM, female genital mutilation is a ritual that usually involves the partial or total removal of the external genitalia, including the clitoris.
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He doesn't believe that "Jack" — which contains grim, exceedingly unpleasant-to-watch images (human taxidermy, torture, mutilation, murder) — represents a shift in his approach.
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As recently as the mid-20th century, Americans used "outrage" very differently: It referred to things like floggings, torture, rape, mutilation, arson and lynching.
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One of the "Refugee Tales" detainees — who escaped his homeland after being threatened for campaigning against female genital mutilation — described this situation as limbo.
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"Female genital mutilation differs across regions and cultures, with some forms involving life-threatening health risks," said UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Geeta Rao Gupta.
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I told my mother about the negative effects of female genital mutilation (FGM), citing the World Health Organization (WHO) to back up my argument.
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Another India-based group WeSpeakOutAgainstFGM that fights female genital mutilation (FGM) used WhatsApp to give survivors a safe space to talk about their experiences.
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Like many young girls, Leyla Hussein didn't learn that she was going to have to undergo female genital mutilation until the day she was cut.
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The most severe type of female genital mutilation—infibulation, also known as Type III FGM—involves the total removal of the clitoris and the labia.
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But a new art project is confronting the silence around one of the most harrowing examples of gender-based violence — female genital mutilation, or FGM.
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Female poverty is worsened by violence and empowerment is hindered by traditional practices such as polygamy, child marriage and female genital mutilation, says UN Women.
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An earlier version of this story said he worked for the organization at the time he sent an article about female genital mutilation to Yiannopoulos.
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Even though female genital mutilation has been a criminal offence in Britain since 1985, the authorities have yet to bring a successful prosecution for FGM.
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She wants the Kenyan government to annul the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act 2011 and the board set up to enforce the law disbanded.
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Dassey is serving a life sentence for first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and sexual assault in connection with Halbach's death in 2005.
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Washington (CNN)A Detroit emergency room physician has been charged with allegedly performing female genital mutilation on young girls, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), which involves the partial or total removal of the female genitalia and can be fatal, is not a crime in Russia.
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Though at-risk girls and women are thought to live in every state but Hawaii, just 25 states have enacted laws against female genital mutilation.
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Nayeri, the presumed mastermind of the breakout, was in the Orange County jail on charges stemming from the 2012 mutilation torture of a kidnapping victim.
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Tanzanian charities designed to stop female genital mutilation have offered women startup capital to get them to end these practices and focus on small business.
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His narrators are all witness to a single casualty, their multiple perspectives finally forming a gestalt view of a soldier's journey from mutilation to recovery.
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His 228 film Antichrist starred Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a bereaved couple coping with their grief through, among other things, graphic genital mutilation.
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"The ADF was also responsible for brutal attacks on women and children in several villages, including acts of beheading, mutilation, and rape," the statement said.
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In particular van Gogh's life has fed a narrative about art as a self-destructive undertaking, exemplified by his famous self-mutilation and subsequent suicide.
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If all who today practice female genital mutilation can be persuaded to substitute the pinprick, as some groups have done, much good will be achieved.
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In memoriam: Bogaletch Gebre, an Ethiopian activist and scientist who helped lead a successful campaign against female genital mutilation, died this month in Los Angeles.
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In Egypt, where female genital mutilation is common, "it was often the mothers and aunts who were the biggest enforcers of the practice," Raffo said.
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And, you know, in South Dakota we don't allow mutilation of our children -- I don't care if it's doctors, I don't care if it's parents.
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The singer, who has spoken about her struggles with an eating disorder, self-mutilation, drugs, and alcohol, celebrated six years of sobriety in March 2018.
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I apologize to Edna Adan, a heroic Somali woman who has battled for decades for women's health and led the fight against female genital mutilation.
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Analysis showed that in ethnic groups where mutilation was common, mothers who were themselves mutilated had more children over their reproductive lifetimes than did the unmutilated.
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And while the Ugandan government has cracked down on female genital mutilation, Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni himself has given the Imbalu practice his stamp of approval.
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The U.N.'s children's agency UNICEF said on Friday more than 200 million girls and women globally have suffered genital mutilation, far higher than previously estimated.
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Others on Time's list were U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters, LGBT community activist Janet Mock and Nice Nailantei Leng'ete who is combating female genital mutilation in Kenya.
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Although a direct view of the self-mutilation is apparently not shown, the allusion to such graphic self-harm upset many trans viewers of the film.
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Not just the wanton killing and egregious mutilation of so many travelers but as a rallying call for more jihadists, from all points over the globe.
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I also know that you have obstacles that many of us in recovery can't imagine – you've spoken openly about your bipolar, eating, and self-mutilation disorders.
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Madsen denied the charges of manslaughter and mutilation of a dead body but admitted to "irregular conduct with a corpse" according to Swedish outlet The Local.
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What I can say is that compositions for the left hand would never have existed without all the mutilation that happened because of the Great War.
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The World Health Organization has estimated that more than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone genital mutilation, which can cause lasting health problems.
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Since the story came out, former member Sarah Edmondson has been called stupid and blind for believing in Nxivm's personal development programs and submitting to mutilation.
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And the agency knows of girls who have already been cut being subjected to further mutilation at the insistence of relatives unsatisfied with the initial result.
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Having watched Clancy solve the puzzle his way on the tape, you now have certain puzzle solutions that allow you to bypass mutilation and ultimately death.
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For example, Rick Snyder, the governor of Michigan, signed a new law that increases existing penalties for anyone who performs female genital mutilation on a minor.
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The job had international scope—she toured with the Guatemalan activist Rigoberta Menchú—but she was frustrated that the group neglected women's issues like genital mutilation.
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She came to study but stayed after becoming pregnant, fearing that her baby, like her other two daughters, would suffer genital mutilation if she went back.
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" Other horrors he described were bodies broken on the rack, genital mutilation and starvation so severe that inmates would lick "the verye moisture of the walls.
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The commission judged that she was "implicated" in the murder, and that she allowed her home to be used as a place for assault and mutilation.
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The action erupts into shoving and shouting matches, and then escalates into beatings, child endangerment and self-mutilation, and finally into suicide, incest, rape and murder.
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The central metaphor of the game — J.J.'s constant, deliberate self-mutilation —is a lens that reveals the pain she has experienced as a closeted trans woman.
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At least 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone female genital mutilation, and women and girls account for about 70% of human trafficking victims globally.
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Leibel used a knife in a "prolonged attack" in which Kasian was "alive for the better part of the mutilation and mayhem," prosecutor Tannaz Mokayef told jurors.
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In animals, self-injurious behaviors ranging from penis self-mutilation in lab mice to obsessive feather plucking in birds are a well-established measure of psychological distress.
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The package of measures itself, which includes raising the minimum sentence for rape and putting female genital mutilation on the statute book, does not specifically target foreigners.
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That enabled Ms Howard and Dr Gibson to establish the prevalence rates of mutilation in each of these groups, and to search for explanations of any variation.
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But a center run by the Samburu Girls Foundation - which rescues girls facing early marriage and female genital mutilation - has a new high-tech source of it.
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"Congress overstepped its bounds by legislating to prohibit [female genital mutilation]," Friedman wrote, adding he believes the issue falls under the purview of state law, not Congress.
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Leyla Hussein, whose portrait appears in London's trendy Soho area with her hair wrapped in an orange turban, is a leading global campaigner against female genital mutilation.
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Bossen said her research offers lessons for the modern fight against other customs that are damaging to women and girls -- such as female genital mutilation, or FGM.
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Six people were charged for either committing or assisting in performing female genital mutilation on two 7-year-old girls, who were brought into Michigan from Minnesota.
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If not for your mutilation at the hand of a second-rate sorcerer, you wouldn't be here helping the Lord's chosen bring his light into the world.
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Mutilation, intentional attacks against the civilian population and the use of soldiers under the age of 15 are among the war crimes of which he is accused.
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But Madurai said the number could be much higher as parents often do not register their baby as intersex, adding that infanticide, abandonment and mutilation were common.
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Last year, Judge Bernard Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan declared the federal law banning female genital mutilation to be unconstitutional.
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More than 230 million women want to prevent pregnancy but are not using modern contraception, and every year more than four million girls face female genital mutilation.
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Most in the United States would agree that religious communities should be prohibited from practicing female genital mutilation or polygamy, both of which are in fact illegal.
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More than 230 million women want to prevent pregnancy but are not using modern contraception, and every year more than four million girls face female genital mutilation.
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"And the mother supports the practice of female genital mutilation and wants to spread it throughout the US." I'm just not sure I believe that's true, Joe.
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The federal law, enacted in 1996, targets practitioners of female genital mutilation as well as individuals who carry a child across state lines to undergo the procedure.
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By looking back at the past, and remembering its collapse, there was an implied allusion to the 16th-century's own religiously motivated mutilation of people and places.
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This ranges from the symbolic, such as rubbing with turmeric or other herbs, through singeing or excising part of the clitoris, to grotesque mutilation (see chart 1).
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During last year's International Day of Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation on February 6, a coordinated message went out throughout the mosques in Guinea, with imams denouncing FGM.
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"The Mermaid" is no ordinary fantastical rom-com though, encompassing as it does weaponized sea urchins, incredibly delicious roasted chickens, man-octopus self-mutilation and other comic oddities.
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Egypt has made significant strides in legislation aimed at improving women's lives, including more stringent laws that criminalize areas such as female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual harassment.
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Daud stopped cutting girls after the Network against Female Genital Mutilation (NAFGEM) taught her about the risks of FGM and encouraged her to find another source of income.
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It was a gigantic puzzlement that she would poison herself with pills, and that the toxic reaction to whatever she swallowed would create an impulse for self-mutilation.
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As well, the renewable energy network is powering a center for vulnerable girls fleeing early marriage and female genital mutilation – both problems common in the area, Parkesian said.
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In 21997, during my second week of graduate school at Montana State University, several students and I were discussing a recent cattle mutilation that was associated with UFOs.
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She wonders if fostering social connections between "cut" and "uncut" women in a community might reorganise support networks specifically in a way that reduces the advantages of mutilation.
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Taking in the stream of voices (I listened to about 25 stories), a number of themes came up, most prominently lying, self-mutilation, mental illness, and unrequited love.
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His story has been the most difficult arc to follow, involving sexual trauma, mutilation, and the establishment of his alternate, humiliated persona Reek at the hands of Ramsay.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) was criminalized in December, a month after Jammeh announced a ban on the practice in Gambia, where three in four women have been cut.
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"Female Genital Mutilation has serious implications for the health and well-being of girls and women," said Daniel Lemisch, acting US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan.
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She has been charged with female genital mutilation, transportation with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and conspiracy, and making a false statement to a federal officer.
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In the past seven years, she has been disciplined at least five times for various infractions, including self-mutilation and the use and possession of narcotics or marijuana.
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But it wasn't female genital mutilation, she said, according to court documents; it was a non-invasive, religious cleansing ritual in the Dawoodi Bohra tradition, rooted in India.
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Worldwide, the female sex faces high rates of violence — genital mutilation, forced marriage, domestic abuse, rape, and honor killings are common — and the United States is not exempt.
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It's not quite that suicide, mutilation and murder are treated as jokes, but more that the boundary between the serious and the silly has been almost entirely erased.
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That all this boils down to is a sanctioned form of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), just another way to reduce women's bodies to mere objects for male pleasure.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sierra Leone has banned female genital mutilation (FGM) as part of a wider clampdown on initiation ceremonies by secret societies, a minister has confirmed.
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Lawyers for Dassey argued he was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of rape, murder and mutilation based solely on his confession with no physical evidence.
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The women staying at the Farm are most often victims of domestic violence and those who have escaped abusive relationships, attempted honor killings, or female genital mutilation (FGM).
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As he details the mutilation and rape that they expected at the hands of the Allies, it becomes obvious that this story is not going to end well.
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The DOJ confirmed that Nagarwala is the first person to be charged under 227 U.S.C. 116, a federal law that criminalized female genital mutilation, or FGM, in 2012.
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The DOJ confirmed that Nagarwala is the first person to be charged under 18 U.S.C. 23, a federal law that criminalized female genital mutilation, or FGM, in 2012.
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It also features a do-what-you-gotta-do scene of self mutilation so convincing that I watched between my fingers despite knowing I was safe at home.
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Morrison said her posts, which included one on genital mutilation, were at odds with the views of the Liberal Party, which rules in coalition with the National Party.
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The blunt title of the exquisite "Van Gogh's Ear," now at the Pershing Square Signature Center, does not refer to art history's most notorious act of self-mutilation.
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But these personality-free characters fade from your mind even as you're watching the screen, making the brutality waged against them akin to animated mutilation of cartoon creatures.
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The court asked the Home Office not to enforce the decision to deport the girl until the conclusion of a separate application of the Female Genital Mutilation Act.
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She has depicted rape, mutilation, guns, racial epithets and prejudices, always with work so beautiful that the viewer is seduced by aesthetics before they can ingest the content.
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The blue hair, bright red lips, violet and green skin, and black circles and holes for eyes on the two heads in "Untitled" evoke torture, mutilation, and murder.
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"[Clitoraid] in my eyes is disgusting and somewhat deranged," says Nimco Ali, a London-based anti-FGM activist who believes that labiaplasty is a form of female genital mutilation.
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At the extremes, in groups where mutilation was almost ubiquitous or almost unheard of, the average difference amounted to a third or more of an extra child per lifetime.
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LONDON — YouTubers and bloggers are "disrupting" their videos and photos on social media as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the threat of female genital mutilation (FGM).
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An American Christian missionary in Kenya has demanded an apology after local media wrongly reported she had voluntarily undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) as part of a traditional wedding.
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It is undeniable that these problems, and a great many more, from wage inequality to so-called "honour" violence, female genital mutilation to workplace sexual harassment, disproportionately affect women.
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A spokeswoman said in an email that khafd and FGM were "entirely different" practices, and that there was "no place for any kind of mutilation" in the Bohra culture.
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Female genital mutilation, or FGM, is still not illegal in Pakistan, and many members of my sect who live abroad have returned to Karachi to have their daughters cut.
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" Operating in the Freudian school, he deduces that there were numerous motives for her self mutilation: The first was that "cutting was a sort of symbolical substitute for masturbation.
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And while the production does hold back when it comes to the most graphic mutilation, it is, at times, an unbearably confronting experience, leading some audience members to flee.
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British-based charity Forward, which supports survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM) in African communities, said it had not come across breast ironing cases in the country so far.
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The fund serves women and children in 150 countries, increasing access to contraception and maternal care and fighting to end gender-based violence, female genital mutilation and child marriage.
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My vagina is not a mutilation, but I must admit I might not like it as much as I should after reading so much horrible language directed toward it.
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"If you don't fit conveniently into [binary gender] roles, [doctors] feel this need to force genital mutilation, to force you to fit before you have a voice," Chandler said.
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Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, and the time is way overdue to stand up for the voiceless and criminalize this horrific practice.
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But once she took up those pursuits, she went all out, proving to be a prolific writer and an ardent activist, campaigning against female genital mutilation and other abuses.
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I discovered it wasn't just about women fighting for equal pay, but also about extending access to education, ending female genital mutilation and domestic violence and supporting visionary entrepreneurs.
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This activist showed me what ground-level investigation, hard-core determination and a lot of community conversation taught him about the practice of female genital mutilation: Follow the money.
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Some women in the Dawoodi Bohra community, the only South Asian Muslim community known to practise female genital mutilation, are calling for an end to the centuries-old custom.
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I guess the strangest thing would be sitting outside a club and having all the members of Mutilation Rites come out, sit down and start talking about their balls.
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Jones said female genital mutilation bans have been passed or were under consideration in several other states, including Minnesota and Texas, but he believed Michigan's would be the toughest.
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Changes in the killer's methods of mutilation remind Commissioner Roosevelt, who is present when the team examines the corpse, of massacres he witnessed during his time in the Dakotas.
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AMSTERDAM — How do you distill a 720-page novel that takes place over decades and vividly depicts child rape, self-mutilation and amputation into two hours of palatable theater?
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More than two decades ago, Congress adopted a sweeping law that outlawed female genital mutilation, an ancient practice that 200 million women and girls around the world have undergone.
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But the traditional practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) left her in agony, bedridden for a week then with painful periods every month and troubles conceiving when she married.
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"Whether it is female genitalia mutilation or the plight of prostitutes, Mae has been willing to capture the attention of a nation that ignores these sensitive topics," Sieh said.
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Referring to gender-affirming care for trans youth as "genital mutilation," House Bill 465 would subject any physician caught offering hormone therapy or confirmation surgery with a felony charge.
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But he also scolded the people and leaders of Kenya for "stupid" traditions like holding back women economically through a lack of education access and practicing female genital mutilation.
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"Female genital mutilation has an appalling physical and emotional impact on victims that usually lasts their entire life," said Lynette Woodrow, a deputy chief crown prosecutor, in a statement.
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As written by Sophocles, the original "Oedipus Rex" is an oldie but a goody, provided your definition of a goody is heavy on the incest and the self-mutilation.
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According to documents obtained by USA Today, the Army will now consider waivers for recruits with a history of "self-mutilation," bipolar disorder, depression, and drug and alcohol abuse.
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UNICEF figures published this year indicate that some 200 million girls in the world are subjected to genital mutilation, 44 million of whom are younger than 15-years-old.
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It's considered "self mutilation" by the federal Bureau of Prisons and can cost an inmate up to 60 good behavior days or up to six months of solitary confinement.
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Rain is watering the flowers, the ocean is getting warmer, the earth is returning to life, and I have to go into a rehearsal for a musical about genital mutilation.
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It was not until she saw the blood and heard the cries from the other girls that it dawned on her -- she was about to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Dassey, 30, is serving a life sentence for first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and sexual assault in connection with 25-year-old Teresa Halbach's death in 2005.
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And Ghaffar Hussain, who had previously worked at the controversial counterextremism organization Quilliam, sent Yiannopoulos news that a lecturer at a British university had spoken ambivalently of female genital mutilation.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The first person in Britain to be convicted of female genital mutilation was sentenced to 11 years on Friday for cutting her three-year-old daughter.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A solicitor forced his eldest daughter to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) twice at the family's London home as a "punishment", a court heard on Monday.
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We have been teaching our members and urging them to immediately report female genital mutilation, early marriage, security and parents who deny their children a chance to go to school.
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The law, which reiterated that polygamy is a crime, as are "barbaric practices" such as genital mutilation and the forced marriage of children, was criticised for having an Islamophobic tone.
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This week, I speak with anti-female-genital-mutilation campaigner Alimatu Dimonekene on how FGM harms not only women's sexualities but also their physical, social, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
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The tech-punk duo of Chappy Hull and Yautja/Mutilation Rites drummer Tyler Coburn have returned to challenge all conventional notions of rhythm and harmony with their new album, Crucial.
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"Declawing is a violent, invasive, painful, and unnecessary mutilation that involves 10 separate amputations – not just of cats' nails but of their joints as well," PETA writes on its website.
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Montano, 37, pleaded no contest to two counts of second-degree murder and guilty to two counts of mutilation of dead bodies on Monday, Campbell County officials confirmed to PEOPLE.
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It is through the eyes of these two teens—navigating friendship, school and pop music—that we are taken to the murky underworld of FGM (female genital mutilation) in Britain.
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Biases can be very subtle, where rather than exploring the effects and the dynamics of a topic like female genital mutilation, you are telling people not to circumcise their daughters.
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In an era in which the Islamic State beheads its enemies, it is worth remembering that mistreatment of prisoners, mutilation and taking of body parts was once common in warfare.
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Dollars drive the practice Once Bishagazi figured out that one big part of the incentive behind female genital mutilation was economic, he decided to ask more about how and why.
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It was also the most dangerous country in the world for cultural traditions that impact women, the survey found, citing acid attacks, female genital mutilation, child marriage and physical abuse.
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The Belgian authorities said the process was slow because of the mutilation of many bodies, particularly at the subway, where the bombs did more damage because of the enclosed space.
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The Painted Bird prompted walkouts from audience members at the festival after graphic scenes of violence, sexual assault, bestiality and mutilation, according to review by Xan Brooks for The Guardian.
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In Michigan, an Indian-American emergency-room doctor who belongs to the Dawoodi Bohra community, a Shiite Muslim sect, was charged with performing female genital mutilation on several young girls.
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In memoriam: Bogaletch Gebre, 66, an Ethiopian women's rights activist and scientist who helped lead a successful campaign in her homeland against female genital mutilation, a practice she herself endured.
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Aden Mohamed, a survivor of the procedure, said young girls continue to bear the consequences of the practice because of the government's reluctance to pass anti-female genital mutilation laws.
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One in four women are married before 18, while nine out of 10 have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) in the strict Islamic north African nation, the United Nations (U.
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Also prominent on the dramatic dais are self-mutilation, unrealistic body image, low self-esteem, sabotaging professional rivalry, revenge porn, ageism and the paucity of strong theater parts for women.
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A U.N. report last year said hundreds of LGBTI people have been killed and thousands injured in recent years, in violence that included knife attacks, anal rape and genital mutilation.
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According to a September memo obtained by USA Today, potential recruits with histories of self-mutilation must provide "appropriate documentation" including a psychiatric evaluation and "clearance" to receive a waiver.
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Her mother said she stole her daughter overseas to protect her from female genital mutilation, but said the pair became separated en route after she entrusted the child to a friend.
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It has found itself grasping at ever-farther reaches of the populist right, with proposals to ban full-face coverings and inspect girls judged to be at risk of genital mutilation.
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According to the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, "the take, possession, disturbance, mutilation, destruction, selling, transference, molestation, and harassment of marine turtles, nests or eggs" is restricted under Florida law.
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McClanahan, who allegedly said he was high on Oxycontin and Xanax at the time of the killing, has pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and mutilation of a body charges.
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Our mom is a therapist and says it's a form of self-mutilation - she has tattoos by the way - like it's a way for you to engage in creating memory etc.
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However, most of the new cases appear to be a largely ceremonial, involving just a nick or scratch, rather than the severe mutilation often found in Africa and the Middle East.
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Or what it's like to live where half of women have been affected by female genital mutilation, and where one in 24 women die during pregnancy or childbirth, as in Liberia.
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This month, two Michigan doctors and the wife of one of the doctors were charged with performing a banned female genital mutilation procedure on the two little girls, both from Minnesota.
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Worldwide, more than 200 million girls and women are thought to be affected by female genital cutting or mutilation (FGM), which involves the partial or total removal of the external genitalia.
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But since that fateful event nearly 128 years ago, there has been continuing debate among scholars about the severity of that mutilation, which took place in Arles, France, in December 1888.
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Recent articles in the Guardian and Süddeutsche Zeitung have detailed the difficult choices that Facebook faces regarding whether to delete posts containing graphic violence, child abuse, revenge porn and self-mutilation.
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Flight cabin crews have been trained to help identify people who may be at risk of forced marriage or other crimes such as female genital mutilation or modern slavery, officials said.
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Avery's nephew, Brendan Dassey, who was convicted in 2007 of "homicide, sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse," had his conviction overturned, but remains behind bars after an appeal from prosecutors.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A London mother became the first person in Britain to be convicted of female genital mutilation on Friday - more than 30 years after the practice was outlawed.
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One in three women in the world, and up to three-quarters of women in some nations, experiences gender-based violence, including early and forced marriage, female genital mutilation and murder.
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How best to follow up a six-volume, 3,600-page, terrifically indiscreet autobiographical novel that cops to infidelity, self-mutilation, premature ejaculation, alcoholism, attraction to reactionary politics and ambivalence about fatherhood?
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The mass implantation of IUDs amounted to "involuntary, forced acts of mutilation," Han Haoyue, a popular columnist, wrote in a post shared nearly 3,000 times on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
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For example, the Breitbart article about genital mutilation was based on a study that estimated that a half-million women currently living in the United States have had their genitals mutilated.
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But Army documents reported by USA Today last year showed that the service tried to relax the waiver process for recruits with a history of self-mutilation, bipolar disorder and depression.
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But Tsvangirai pulled out of the second round, declaring he could "no longer participate in a race that's been marred by the widespread intimidation, torture, mutilation and murder" of his followers.
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But given John Harvey Kellogg's aggressive promotion of female genital mutilation and the eugenicist Race Betterment Foundation, Mr. Markel should not be surprised that the doctor's scientific standing will remain mixed.
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I decided in the course of reporting that case — especially after a reporting trip to Togo, her home country, and the Ivory Coast — to call it genital cutting rather than mutilation.
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When she was about 12 years old, Gebre underwent the practice of female genital mutilation that she would eventually spend her life fighting to end, her organization said on its website.
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The work where I "correct" and confront my insecurities sometimes feels like a form of mutilation, and even though the final results are often humorous, the process can sometimes feel harmful.
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With no explanation, the 103-year-old was given away to another family, who forced her to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) then married her off to their middle-aged son.
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Female genital mutilation, for example, has been outlawed since 2008, but only two cases have been brought to court under this law -- and only when the girls involved died during the procedure.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Men in India and Pakistan are joining a campaign to end female genital mutilation (FGM), adding greater heft to the movement in the deeply patriarchal Dawoodi Bohra community.
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Recognizing this as a complication of female genital mutilation (FGM), Sokogi decided to visit 19-year-old Kpaaré, a mother-of-two, in the hope of convincing her go to a hospital.
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The midwives will not only learn how to save a mother and child's life, but also how to detect women at risk of domestic violence and female genital mutilation (FGM), Saraki said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya could end female genital mutilation in a generation, campaigners from its conservative Maasai and Kuria communities said on Tuesday - but only if men are brought on board.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female genital mutilation (FGM) will not end unless women are lifted out of poverty and donors stop wasting money on ineffective aid programmes, said a prominent Gambian activist.
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In addition to those moments, Season 2 attempts to tackle self-mutilation, the relationship between sex and grief, denial, addiction, guns, deception, infidelity, homelessness, consent, bullying, catfishing, homophobia, and the legal system.
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Men decide if their wife or wives can use birth control or have access to money; fathers decide if their daughters stay home from school, marry young, or undergo female genital mutilation.
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Note that despite male rape being frequent in both modern and premodern war, the writers have found ways for male characters to develop without such scenes (with the exception of Theon's mutilation).
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A federal judge in Detroit has dropped nearly all charges against a doctor accused of performing female genital mutilation procedures on underage girls, in the first federal case targeting the controversial procedure.
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Investigators described it as a "religious and cultural community" they allege practices female genital mutilation -- a painful surgical procedure to remove part of the clitoris or clitoral hood to suppress female sexuality.
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There were familiar faces like Thou, Hell, and Mutilation Rites (who had played both Wisconsin Gilead Fests and the first Migration), and new additions such as Tomb Mold, Scorched, and Cloud Rat.
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In a two-minute film launched by Equality Now, the show's cast and others share the words of women and girls describing scenarios of sexual violence, sex trafficking and female genital mutilation.
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Female genital mutilation is the cutting of part of a girl's genitals and has been illegal in the United States for decades, but this is the first federal case of its kind.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Burkina Faso police have arrested at least 13 people for female genital mutilation, the biggest crackdown to date, after 50 girls were hospitalized, government officials said on Wednesday.
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The military's top prosecutor announced last week that seven soldiers had been charged in connection with a video that appears to show soldiers massacring suspected militia members, including for murder and mutilation.
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Marie Kamara, a primary school student in Matetie village, died during an initiation into a secret women's society that involves the practice of female genital mutilation, also known as FGM, police said.
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Young Tony was inspired by Rheinhardt's inhuman flamenco jazz skills, made all the more impressive by the French shredder's own digital mutilation from a candle flame that got way out of control.
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The authors, gynaecologists Kavita Arora and Allan Jacobs, argue that some types of cutting, such as those common in Indonesia, do not harm physical functioning and should not be described as "mutilation".
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sierra Leone has banned female genital mutilation (FGM) until after its March elections to stop candidates buying votes by paying for cutting ceremonies, the government said on Monday.
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Mr. Nadler promised that one amendment — raised by Mr. Gohmert — offering protections for female survivors of gender mutilation would be included, but asked that its language be adjusted before a formal vote.
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The report notes that while female genital mutilation is most prevalent in Africa and some Middle Eastern regions, research shows that the practice also exists elsewhere in Asia and the Middle East.
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Patten said brutal acts of sexual violence had occurred in the context of collective persecution that included the killing of adults and children, torture, mutilation and the burning and looting of villages.
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DEBRAM ASKS: While there are certainly examples of moral relativism, I believe it is wrong to say that people on the left do not speak out against child marriage or genital mutilation.
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Through her efforts, the rate of female genital mutilation in the areas where KMG Ethiopia operated dropped to 3 percent from 100 percent over 10 years, according to a 2008 UNICEF study.
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Jessica Neuwirth is the founder of Donor Direct Action, which supports organizations around the world working to end Female Genital Mutilation and other forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls.
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A case of female genital mutilation (FGM) was reported every 109 minutes in England between April and September last year, yet there has not been a single prosecution, according to government figures.
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As with COUM, performances might involve nudity, self-mutilation, dead animals and Holocaust imagery; the band's best-known single, "Zyklon B Zombie," referred to the poison gas used in Nazi death camps.
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These documents state that self-mutilation, depression, bipolar disorder, and drug and alcohol abuse are no longer "nonwaiverable," that is, automatically disqualifying, and waivers will be considered for recruits with these conditions.
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"FGM is still taking place because it is a big source of income for the cutters," said Valerian Mgani, a project manager with the Association for the Termination of Female Genital Mutilation (ATFGM).
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The Michigan man who allegedly confessed to killing his longtime friend and hiding her body in his attic pleaded not guilty to first degree murder and mutilation of a body charges on Thursday.
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The average rates of mutilation in the groups the researchers looked at tended to cluster towards the ends of the distribution, near either 0% or 100%, rather than being spread evenly along it.
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The grisly killing and mutilation of Ingrid Escamilla, a 25-year-old Mexican woman, set off a massive protest among activists who are concerned about the rising trend of femicide in the country.
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"I would see such horrendous mutilation of the bodies, even if it was a relative of mine or a neighbor or a friend, I wouldn't even be able to recognize (them)," he says.
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Both ghastly and beautiful in a way you wouldn't expect from a broadcast network, NBC ran Hannibal for three seasons, in which viewers were treated to a macabre parade of mutilation and murder.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Popular British period drama "Call the Midwife" is to feature female genital mutilation (FGM) in a storyline about a pregnant Somali woman living in east London in the 1960s.
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LONDON, Feb 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female genital mutilation (FGM) will take centuries to eradicate despite world leaders promising to end the practice by 2030, according to United Nations data released on Thursday.
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The season 2 midseason finale alone, "Silent Night, Deadly Night," included the reveal of a serial killer, a surprise kiss, a romantic reunion, a kidnapping and mutilation, identity theft, and awkward Christmas gifts.
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IS NOT A 'NICK' – DON'T LET SPIN HIDE BRUTAL REALITY AS MICHIGAN TRIAL STARTS The substitute and teenager continued contacting each other through Snapchat but did not meet up again.
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" Martinson also addresses the writings on her horror blog, "Nightmare," for which she penned graphic stories about death and mutilation: "The truth is, my writings have nothing to do with what I did.
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But the doctor who allegedly cut the girls is now at the center of the first-ever criminal prosecution under a 20-year-old federal law banning female genital mutilation (FGM) in America.
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Female Genital Mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) includes all procedures that involve the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
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LGBT+ delegates said while ending harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation were discussed, there was little mention of practices such as forced surgeries on intersex people or conversion therapy.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned that more than 500,85033 women and girls in the United States were at risk of or had suffered from female genital mutilation in 2012.
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LGBT+ delegates said while ending harmful practices such as child marriage and female genital mutilation were discussed, there was little mention of practices such as forced surgeries on intersex people or conversion therapy.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of girls in Africa are at risk of female genital mutilation because their governments are failing to enforce laws banning the internationally condemned practice, campaigners said on Thursday.
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Inspired by seeing common atrocities such as genital mutilation and rape as a weapons of war, Jolie co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI), a global campaign against sexual violence in conflict.
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Someone who can't avoid mutilation on account of an illness now as preventable as polio doesn't care about himself, and someone who doesn't care about himself is a danger to everyone around them.
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But the comparison of female genital mutilation to intersex surgeries helps to shed light on what shapes our ideas about what is barbaric and unacceptable — and how those ideas subsequently shape our laws.
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The immigrant communities of color that are being targeted by the bills regarding female genital mutilation need outreach and resources, not punitive measures like imprisonment and the removal of children from their families.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 513,000 women and girls in the United States were at risk of or had been subjected to female genital mutilation in 2012.
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"Ovid may have emphatically silenced his women in their transformation or mutilation, but he also suggested that communication could transcend the human voice, and that women were not that easily silenced," she writes.
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A string of articles on Muslim immigrants and female genital mutilation had been beyond the pale, O'Kelley said, leaving him no choice but to cut ties with the then-prominent right-wing site.
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They decorated their palaces in Nineveh (present-day Mosul) and their other cities with carved limestone friezes showing scene after scene of battle and enslavement and mutilation, brutality of the most depraved sort.
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CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Egypt has detained a retired doctor after the death of a 12-year-old girl on whom he performed female genital mutilation (FGM) sparked anger among women's rights activists.
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Its most powerful segment shows the Somali-born psychotherapist Leyla Hussein, a prominent campaigner against female genital mutilation, demonstrating the brutal procedure to a group of young men using a large clay model.
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CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Egypt has detained a retired doctor after the death of a 12-year-old girl on whom he performed female genital mutilation (FGM) sparked anger among women's rights activists.
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Other women taking part in #March4Women include campaigner Gina Martin who successfully headed a movement to ban "upskirting" - or secretly taking photos up women's skirts - and anti-female genital mutilation campaigner Leyla Hussein.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - African survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM) said mental health services are their biggest need and urged governments and charities to provide support for dealing with long-term trauma.
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Moscow (AFP) - A senior Muslim cleric in Russia has prompted controversy by urging universal female genital mutilation after a rights group released a report on the practice in the country's North Caucasus region.
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Despite growing momentum to end female genital mutilation (FGM), experts warned that booming populations in some high prevalence countries were undermining efforts to tackle the practice widely condemned as a serious human rights abuse.
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That case is the Beverly Jean Shaw mutilation murder case from "Episode 4," which gets more obscure as Ford and Tench delve deeper into the investigation with their local, tender-hearted collaborator, detective Ocasek.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women activists campaigning to end female genital mutilation (FGM) in a minority Muslim community in India hailed a minister's pledge to introduce a law to end the centuries-old custom.
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According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 200 million women alive today have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), with an additional 3 million girls still at risk of receiving the procedure every year.
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"Reports of mutilation included the cutting and spreading of entrails, severed limbs or hands/feet, pulling out nails or burning beards and genitals to force a confession, or being burned alive," the report said.
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For instance, Aslan maintained on CNN that female genital mutilation (FGM) is a central African problem, not a Muslim problem as is commonly believed—an explanation that has been rated "mostly true" by Politifact.
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She doesn't intend to rend her body into parts; even for a performance artist whose works have often included mutilation, suffocation, abnegation, fasting, extreme denial, and rivulets of blood, dismemberment would feel overly gruesome.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Countries that have banned female genital mutilation (FGM) should allow less invasive practices such as small surgical nicks to girls' genitalia as a compromise, two American gynecologists said on Monday.
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They're still white and privileged, of course, because this is Hollywood's Westeros, but they're also seen as second-class citizens: They're women, they're disabled, they're victims of rape or mutilation, they're illegitimate or underestimated.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ethiopia's Bogaletch Gebre - feted for almost eradicating female genital mutilation in her home region - has died, her charity said on Wednesday, as activists vowed to push on with her work.
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"The law ... doesn't explicitly prohibit intersex genital mutilation (IGM), nor criminalize or adequately sanction IGM, nor address obstacles to access to justice and redress for IGM survivors," said Daniela Truffer, co-founder of StopIGM.org.
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There's a touch of Jim Jarmusch's Western fantasy Dead Man in the dreamy, languorous wandering here, and a little of Robert Rodriguez's gleefully trashy Planet Terror in Arlen's mutilation and how it changes her.
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Two months ago, the Department of Justice issued a statement on the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, calling it a federal crime punishable by imprisonment or removal from the country.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) brought charges Wednesday against a Detroit emergency room doctor who allegedly performed illegal female genital mutilation procedures on young girls between the ages of 6 to 8 years old.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM), which involves removing or injuring parts of the female genitalia for non-medical reasons, is often considered a social norm in patriarchal societies where sex and women's sexuality are taboo.
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I understand the title as a mutilation of the notion of the pastoral, the literal and figurative field of vision and activity progressing from the image of nurturing nature into endless precincts of nightmare.
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Last month, many were up in arms about the news that the Justice Department would not defend a federal prohibition on female genital mutilation that was thrown out by a lower court last fall.
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She worked for more than a decade at the Ford Foundation, which financed work aimed at ending female genital mutilation, a ritual practice that persists in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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Around the corner, a typical Thomas Hirschhorn work adds some gore and more paradox to the mix, with a large collage combining a fashion spread juxtaposed with a bloody scene of mutilation and death.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female genital mutilation has dropped drastically among African children this century, research shows, but campaigners said on Wednesday that teenagers and young women remained at risk of the harmful practice.
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In a statement, Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman Katie Waldman pointed to the administration's work to combat human trafficking, female genital mutilation and sex crimes, including through efforts by the agency's immigration enforcement arms.
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USA Today reported that those with a history of "self-mutilation," bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse will be permitted to get waivers to enlist, according to documents obtained by the publication.
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"We talk about it in the tea rooms," Paula Sheriff, a pro-Remain Labour MP who has been threatened with murder, rape, and mutilation, told a British television network after her speech to Parliament.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of young girls in Kenya's ethnic Kuria community will be spared female genital mutilation (FGM) in 2017 because of a superstition that the number seven is unlucky, campaigners say.
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USA Today reported that those with a history of "self-mutilation," bipolar disorder, depression and drug and alcohol abuse will be permitted to get waivers to enlist, according to documents obtained by the publication.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A three-year-old girl was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) by a "witch" as her parents held her down at her London home, a court heard on Wednesday.
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The story of the sisters Procne and Philomela is one of the truly gruesome Greek myths, full of rape and murder and bloody mutilation — but also, and this is rather nice, tremendous sibling devotion.
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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) was a rite of passage Daud had watched numerous girls undergo and the community valued the old women who wielded the razor blades, especially those who didn't kill too many girls.
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Ten years later, Beard, who battled bulima and self-mutilation while winning international competitions, became the second-youngest Olympic medalist (one gold, two silver) in American swimming history at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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Symptoms include hypersensitivity to stimuli, perceptual distortions and hallucinations, anxiety, revenge fantasies, rage, appetite and weight loss, heart palpitations, headaches, problems sleeping, self-mutilation, suicidal thoughts, and, in rare situations, lower levels of brain activity.
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The sliced eyeball in Un Chien Andalou, the copious shit in River of Fundament, the corporeal mutilation of the entire torture-porn genre: it's all an amuse-bouche for the final course that is Kuso.
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The darkness of many of Kahraman's themes—trauma, war, genital mutilation, and "honor" killings—is counteracted by the delicacy of her style, which borrows from the traditions of Persian miniatures, Japanese illustration, and Renaissance painting.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Swedish city is advising girls who fear being taken abroad for forced marriage or female genital mutilation (FGM) to tuck a spoon in their underwear before going through airport security.
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"Shame/Retreat" is all delicate folk melodies and sparse, plaintive vocals, while songs like "Self Mutilation by Fire and Stone" rumble awake like sleeping mammoths and"Silent Salt" slings shards of hurly-burly noise rock.
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Often, just by spending time in the area and talking to locals, she discovers less apparent but more serious issues, such as girls subjected to genital mutilation, child marriage, malaria, malnutrition and low school attendance.
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The new education guidelines will also see children aged 11 and older being taught about the harm caused by female genital mutilation (FGM), as well as grooming, forced marriage, domestic abuse and "honour-based abuse".
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COPENHAGEN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female genital mutilation (FGM) will never end until men also throw their weight behind efforts to eradicate the potentially deadly practice, says Nigerian law student and anti-FGM activist Kelechukwu Nwachukwu.
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Ocasio-Cortez or one of her colleagues could pick up his mantle and get agreement in Congress to establish new statutory requirements to press federal agencies to do their part to prevent female genital mutilation.
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In the Michigan case, a federal judge late last year dismissed FGM charges against a doctor and others from the local Indian Dawoodi Bohra community involved in the mutilation of nine young girls in Detroit.
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The New York Times does not use the term "Female Genital Mutilation" (FGM) in its article about a Michigan doctor who is being prosecuted for allegedly performing that procedure on two seven-year-old girls.
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The government denies that its forces employ excessive force but has charged seven soldiers with crimes including for murder and mutilation in connection with a video that appears to show troops massacring suspected militia members.
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VANCOUVER, Canada (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tackling female genital mutilation (FGM) should be made a global priority like HIV/AIDs, according to campaigners concerned about growing evidence that the abusive practice was more widespread than thought.
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The military's top prosecutor, Major General Joseph Ponde, told reporters in the capital Kinshasa on Saturday that charges against the seven soldiers include the war crimes of murder, mutilation and cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment.
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Gregory's attorney, Peter Scoolidge, says his client is protected not only by several federal acts that outlaw the intentional or malicious destruction, mutilation or modification of an artist's work, but also by the First Amendment.
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Eleven months later, after the disastrous cohabitation with Gauguin that led to his self-mutilation and prolonged incarceration in asylums, van Gogh used heavy impasto and more agitated brushstrokes in the second and third versions.
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In all of these experiments, which one study by the Jewish Virtual Library describes as "acts of torture," prisoners were forced into danger, nearly all enduring mutilation and pain, and many experiments had fatal outcomes.
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The new education guidelines will also see children aged 11 and older being taught about the harm caused by female genital mutilation (FGM), as well as grooming, forced marriage, domestic abuse and "honor-based abuse".
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I would listen to the news constantly, and you'd hear these stories of female genital mutilation happening in Northern Iraq or honor killings, and these various women who have been consumed by this extreme violence.
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The statement called him "a pious leader, who has nothing but respect for Gambian women and women around the world," and noted that he had enacted laws to abolish the practice of female genital mutilation.
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LONDON, March 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female genital mutilation affects far more countries than previously thought, meaning global estimates for the number of women who have been cut are "woefully" low, researchers said on Tuesday.
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For example, in 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam -- two white men -- went on trial in Mississippi for the brutal kidnapping, murder and mutilation of Emmett Till -- a black 14-year old boy from Chicago.
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Bogaletch Gebre, an Ethiopian women's rights activist and scientist who helped lead a successful campaign in her homeland against female genital mutilation, a barbaric practice she herself had endured growing up there, died on Nov.
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Five Kenyan teenagers, who call themselves "The Restorers," have created an app called i-Cut which aims to connect girls affected by the outlawed practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) with legal and medical experts.
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Terrified that her extended family would force her to undergo female genital mutilation, her mother strapped her to her back and fled to Umoja, where they've lived as part of the sisterhood for 15 years.
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The United Nations also revealed on Friday that the scale of the practice around the world was far higher than previously estimated, with more than 200 million girls and women globally having suffered genital mutilation.
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"I reconstructed a Somali woman who had been the victim of female genital mutilation—specifically infundibulation, in which her labia minora and clitoris were completely removed and the genitalia sutured closed," says Dr. Heather Furnas.
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Campaigners said films about often overlooked abuse of women - such as female genital mutilation and child marriage - helped raise awareness about the reality of these practices and could help bust myths and false narratives spanning decades.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A London teenager, who says her father forced her to undergo female genital mutilation twice at the family home, told a court on Tuesday it was done as a form of punishment.
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The artist talks about the work in terms of pain and safety, both ongoing issues for women, but Landau's act of perverse self-mutilation also seems a sad metaphor for what has happened to Israel politically.
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Winning money has the same effect on a brain as a cocaine addict getting a fix, while losing money has the same effect on risk-averse people as a nasty smell or pictures of bodily mutilation.
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My entrance essay was on the horrific practice of female genital mutilation, and the program broadened my knowledge of less physical but still insidious assaults on women (like emotional abuse, one of my areas of focus).
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By speaking up about sex, she hopes to spark discussion on issues such as virginity tests on women who want to join the Indonesia's military or police force and the ritual of female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Encouraging religious leaders to speak out against child marriage and violence against women, including female genital mutilation (FGM), is another strategy being used by U.N. Women and NGOs in countries such as Ethiopia, Kenya and Indonesia.
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Soon after her arrest, police learned that Martinson was a self-described "horror fanatic" who had penned a blog she named "Nightmare," in which she wrote graphic stories and poems about blood, mutilation, death and dying.
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" The counterclaim also alleges that Dennis "has been diagnosed with multiple mental health conditions, including but not limited to Bi-Polar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, attention deficit disorder, kelptomania, self-mutilation, and cluster B Personality Traits.
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The thought of Cousins jog-walking up the floor, forever behind the ball, preventing the Pelicans from jabbing a backpedaling defense with 18 seconds still on the shot clock, was New Orleans's idea of self-mutilation.
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Perhaps 90s goth and grunge culture created a sheen of "cool" around self-mutilation, but that doesn't seem to account for the most recent reports of a sharp rise in cases of self-harm among teenagers.
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London (CNN)Concerns about female genital mutilation, or FGM, are rising in the UK after the number of children who've had the procedure or are at risk of it more than doubled in the past year.
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The book explored the history of women's rights as well as misogyny and violence against women, including sexual mutilation, which she wrote about after encountering it on a visit to Burkina Faso, then called Upper Volta.
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"Kenya commits to eliminate female genital mutilation by 2022," President Uhuru Kenyatta told a global conference on sexual and reproductive health and rights as part of a series of commitments made by governments at the event.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Silence around female genital mutilation (FGM) in Egypt is costing lives, campaigners warned on Tuesday ahead of the traditional "cutting season" when thousands of girls are expected to undergo the ancient ritual.
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Like other FGM survivors, Mirza said she was glad the Michigan case brought awareness to the fact that genital mutilation does happen in the U.S. In the end, though, the ruling was not in their favor.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United States unveiled plans on Thursday to ramp up efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) after figures showed more than half of million women and girls were living at risk.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Malawi must urgently overhaul its criminal justice system to protect people with albinism who risk mutilation and murder for body parts that are prized in black magic, rights groups said on Thursday.
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Zahra Humed Ali has turned her experience into action, and leads her region in efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation in her role as the Afar regional Director of the Bureau for Women and Children's Affairs.
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When a Somali woman become inexplicably upset during a gynecological examination, her doctor called Longa, who learned from the woman that she was concerned about revealing she had undergone female genital mutilation in her home country.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations said on Friday it had sent a fact-finding team to eastern Uganda to investigate a "surge" in the number of women and girls undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM).
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Type the word refugees into Facebook and some alarming "news" will appear about a refugee rape crisis, a refugee flesh-eating disease epidemic and a refugee-related risk of female genital mutilation — none of it true.
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The women started with small proposals, like asking if men and women could sit together in public, then questioned whether women could become elders, then moved on to demands for the eradication of female genital mutilation.
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION - An estimated 3.9 million girls are cut every year, according to UNFPA, and this could rise to 4.6 million by 2030 due to population growth without major efforts to prevent that happening 5.
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION - An estimated 3.9 million girls are cut every year, according to UNFPA, and this could rise to 4.6 million by 2030 due to population growth without major efforts to prevent that happening 5.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights activists condemned Liberia's parliament on Wednesday for removing a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) from a new domestic violence law in a country where half of women have been cut.
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He says they frequently fought and abused alcohol in front of "Jane Doe," which caused her to suffer major depression and engage in "destructive behaviors" -- including abuse of drugs and alcohol, self-mutilation and having suicidal thoughts.
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THAWUYA, Sierra Leone, August 08 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Salimatu Kanu trained for four years at the shrine in her Sierra Leonean village to become a "sowei" - women who initiate girls into adulthood through female genital mutilation (FGM).
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More than 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of female genital mutilation (FGM), also called female circumcision -- with another 15 million young girls expected to undergo the process in the next decade.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - New, unharmful rites of passage should replace female genital mutilation, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said on Monday after new data showed there were more victims of the custom than previously estimated.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain is to spend £50 million ($64 million) on combating female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa, the government said on Friday, calling it the biggest single investment to date in ending the practice.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The first ladies of Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin promised on Monday to "end the scourge of female genital mutilation" (FGM) in their countries amid warnings the practice had gone underground in Benin.
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" Soufan was also told that the president had recently signed an executive order that excluded Al Qaeda or Taliban detainees from protection under Common Article 220 of the Geneva Conventions, which prohibited "mutilation, cruel treatment and torture.
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Read: Michigan doctor accused of performing genital mutilation on young girls is denied bail Nagarwala still faces charges of conspiring to travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct, and conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a 10-year-old in rural Kenya, Beryl Magoko was not surprised when her Kuria community arranged for her to undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), as it was normal for girls.
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The three defendants belong to a "religious and cultural community" that investigators allege practices female genital mutilation on young girls -- a painful surgical procedure to remove part of the clitoris or clitoral hood to suppress female sexuality.
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Child marriage is a human rights issue, but should also been seen from a security standpoint, said Ngom, speaking on the sidelines of an African summit on female genital mutilation (FGM) and child marriage in Dakar, Senegal.
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The Handmaid's Tale's premise — a puritanical authoritarian dystopia where women are reduced to breeding stock — requires the show's cast to confront the upsetting realities of Gilead, like governnment-sanctioned rape, genital mutilation, corporal punishment, and victim-blaming.
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And with every incident, like today's pantomime, that moderates excuse by the meagreness of their criticism and their refusal to acknowledge the systematic crisis engulfing their party, their right to our pity over Labour's self-mutilation diminishes.
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" She added that she requested a new editor for her 1992 novel, "Possessing the Secret of Joy," because its subject, genital mutilation, required "someone who deeply cared about the sexual (and other) health of primarily African women.
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A federal judge on Tuesday declared the country's female genital mutilation law unconstitutional, dismissing nearly all charges against two doctors in Michigan and others accused of subjecting minor girls to genital cutting at a clinic in Detroit.
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U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman reportedly concluded in the case that the law criminalizing female genital mutilation that Congress passed in 1996 was unconstitutional and said that the regulation of the practice is up to the states.
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Genital mutilation of girls, typically involving removal of all or part of the clitoris, is banned by several international treaties but remains a common cultural or religious practice in some African countries, including Somalia, Sudan and Egypt.
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Almost all Somali girls are subjected to an extreme form of genital mutilation: All the genitals are cut away, and the raw flesh is sewn shut with wild thorns, leaving a tiny opening for urine and menstruation.
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Her death was announced by the website of the nonprofit organization she founded, KMG Ethiopia, which in its two decades has helped end the culturally entrenched practice of genital mutilation and has empowered women in that country.
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Senators can also instruct Homeland Security to provide legal assistance to victims of female genital mutilation and other instances of "honor" violence so that they do not lose their immigration status if they leave an abusive situation.
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There can be serious side effects (besides the trauma of surgery without consent), like permanent infertility, pain, incontinence, loss of sexual sensation, and depression, according to the UN."These surgeries are genital mutilation and are irreversible," Davis says.
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In a tweet about the walkouts, Setoodeh claims the psychological horror film, which stars Uma Thurman and Riley Keough alongside Dillon, "depicts the mutilation of women and children," and prompted many in the audience to leave in disgust.
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The call by the U.N. Secretary-General was heard by diplomats, campaigners and survivors gathered at the U.N. headquarters in New York to mark the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, which fell on Saturday.
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To date, the V-Day campaign has raised over $100m, used to fund educational campaigns about violence against women—including marital rape and female genital mutilation—and to fund more than 13,000 anti-violence programmes and shelters internationally.
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CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights activists hailed the Egyptian government on Monday for advocating increased prison sentences for perpetrators of female genital mutilation (FGM) but warned that a new law could shroud the practice in greater secrecy.
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Only in 18 cases was the mutilation said to have taken place in the UK, including about 11 women and girls born in the UK. Of all the UK cases around 10 were genital piercings, the HSCIC said.
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According to Title 18, Chapter 17, Section 333 of the U.S. Code ("Mutilation of national bank obligations") the destruction of a bank bill is subject to punishment, though it seems this law's in place to prevent counterfeit money.
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Secretary of State Michael Pompeo authorized the move to cut $32.5 million in funding to the agency for its core operations addressing maternal death, female genital mutilation, child marriage and gender-based violence and meeting family planning needs.
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But Ebola did something women's rights activists in the country have not been able to achieve through decades of campaigning — it ended female genital mutilation (FGM), a procedure involving partial or total removal of the clitoris and labia.
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"I'm talking self-mutilation, self-inflicted gunshot wounds, very desperate measures so they would be evacuated to a hospital in the United States and then be declared feet dry and then paroled in the United States," Zukunft said.
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Hundreds of LGBTI people have been killed and thousands injured in recent years, in violence that included knife attacks, anal rape and genital mutilation, as well as stoning and dismemberment, the U.N. said in a report last year.
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"As laudable as the prohibition of a particular type of abuse of girls may be ... federalism concerns deprive Congress of the power to enact this statute," Friedman wrote in his opinion of female genital mutilation, abbreviated as FGM.
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Crucifixion and torture, Episodes 230, 28, 29, 210, 93, 29 If you don't share Ramsay's taste for sadism, skip his slicing, dicing and psychosexual mutilation of Theon, mostly while the poor devil is strapped to a saltire cross.
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Non-medically necessitated surgeries on intersex children may be perceived as "normalizing" by some in the United States; female genital mutilation may be seen as "normalizing" in Somalia, for instance, and in turn, in Somali communities in America.
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The surgery is still viewed with skepticism by some medical experts, and the World Health Organization cautions that there isn't enough evidence of its safety or effectiveness for women who have experienced cutting (also called female genital mutilation).
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UNFPA - which also works to end child marriage and female genital mutilation - said the cut impedes its work but Kanem pledged not to fail the 200 million plus women and girls globally that have no access to contraception.
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Reports of the killing and mutilation of hundreds of cats over several years in London provoked intense interest until the mystery was solved in 2018: After a three-year investigation, the police concluded that foxes were to blame.
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The sisters' death comes two months after Somalia's government vowed to pursue a landmark prosecution in the case of a 10-year-old girl who died after female genital mutilation, a practice that is legal in the country.
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Beneficiaries of the U.S. program are meant to include people whose lives are in danger for assisting the U.S. military, orphaned children, and victims of female genital mutilation as well as many other fleeing civil strife and war.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Every country must ban female genital mutilation to protect girls and help end poverty, Somali-born British campaigner Nimco Ali said as she launched a global project to end the practice by 2030.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A British court said on Wednesday it had no power to stop the deportation of a 10-year-old girl at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) after authorities rejected her mother's asylum application.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The #MeToo campaign against sexual abuse should include the stories of survivors of female genital mutilation (FGM), activists said ahead of a global day on Tuesday to raise awareness about the internationally condemned ritual.
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As this week's Handmaid's Tale installment, "Women's Work," proves, all the human-trafficking, body mutilation, rights snatching, and, yes, even seemingly state-forced knitting, has nothing to do with ensuring more births and healthy, safe babies, as Gilead claims.
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Symptoms of prolonged solitary confinement include hypersensitivity to stimuli, perceptual distortions and hallucinations, anxiety, revenge fantasies, rage, appetite and weight loss, heart palpitations, headaches, problems sleeping, self-mutilation, suicidal thoughts, and, in rare situations, lower levels of brain activity.
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Police actively liaise with health institutions to intercept cases of FGM in the UK. In 2015, it became mandatory for health professionals to report cases of female genital mutilation in girls under the age of 18 to the police.
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When Nimko met the Gender Equality Minister of Burkina Faso, where the incidence of FGM in women between 15 and 49 is 76 percent, she gave her the best explanation possible on the relationship between genital mutilation and culture.
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It's then that he starts visibly shaking, and though Theon has said repeatedly that he's not afraid to die, wants to die, and deserves to die, the threat of further physical mutilation is what scares him over the side.
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Ilhan Omar gave a polite verbal thrashing to an audience member who asked her to condemn female genital mutilation during a conference in DC on Tuesday, saying she's "disgusted" by some of the questions asked solely of Muslim politicians.
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Tatu Kamau is asking Kenya's courts to allow women above the age of 18 to be able to practice female genital mutilation (FGM), saying they have a right to choose what they do to their bodies at that age.
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At issue is the habeas petition filed by Dassey seeking to reverse the 2007 state court jury verdict that found him guilty at age 17 of first-degree intentional homicide, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse.
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KINSHASA (Reuters) - A litany of killing, rape, mutilation, pillage and torture committed by successive governments and armed groups in Central African Republic from 20153-15 may constitute crimes against humanity, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday.
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The anti-Sharia protest organizer in Seattle, Anthony Parish of Kent, told KOMO the group came out to show opposition to practices like the mutilation of young girls and honor killing -- issues mentioned on the ACT for America webpage.
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Shockingly, in many parts of the world today, girls and women continue to lack economic opportunity, adequate health care and education, and suffer horrific abuses such as child marriage, female genital mutilation, femicide, trafficking, honor killings, and other atrocities.
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I watched False vocalist Rachel (who is a registered nurse), and half a dozen others helping someone who had passed out at the end of a long Saturday night of ingesting Mutilation Rites, Krallice, and who knows what else.
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Her "Bricolages" from the 23s incorporate claws, animal pelts, taxidermy eyes, and other objects into bubbling, volcanic pours of enamel and watery stains of paint — intimations of mutilation and bodily fluids, or violent scrawls pulsing with vitality and terror.
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In due time, Megson and Newby's performances under this name earned a them reputation for 'transgression,' what with their affinity for exposing themselves publicly, live sex, self-mutilation, and playing with dead animals and bodily fluids, among other things.
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Disinformation and unproven allegations originating on obscure blogs, including stories that Ms. Omar supported female genital mutilation and had married her brother, were widely retweeted and picked up by an array of right-wing sites such as PJ Media.
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It introduces us to the title character, Dr. Kreizler, as he learns of the brutal murder and mutilation of a child prostitute in a city where police bang their nightsticks against lampposts to alert one another of a crime.
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More than 4,100 victims of his alleged crimes are being represented in the case, which has been hailed by human rights groups as a critical step towards bringing the brutal cult, known for using mutilation as punishment, to justice.
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Whatever happened in those fleeting moments, the encounter would lead to Emmett's kidnapping and murder and the mutilation of his body four days later in a crime that would shake the nation and galvanize the nascent civil rights movement.
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This year, Olga Khazova, a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, voiced concern about "the still existing practice of non-consensual genital mutilation" - in remarks confirmed by the Office of the High Commissioner.
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Female genital mutilation remains traditional in many African countries as well as in South Asia and the Middle East, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated as many as 140 million women have been subjected to the practice.
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Jahnn, whose dramas were censored in 193s Germany for their portrayal of "deviant" sexuality (incest and self-mutilation), seemed to equate sexual liberation with personal and collective freedom, exemplified in the sexual interrelationships between male and female Ugrino members.
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The problem with the claim that more half dollars were redeemed than ever produced is that the government had no record of the number of half dollars redeemed through the coin mutilation program, making this allegation impossible to prove.
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The band's full-length debut, Exegeses, is a tornado of yearning guitars and frantic percussion, more melodic and emotionally unburdened than efforts by peers like Mutilation Rites or Krallice (the latter of which also features Anicon drummer Lev Weinstein).
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In the series, Adams plays Camille Preaker, a reporter with a history of self-mutilation and addiction who is sent back to her hometown to cover the brutal murder of a local teenager following a short stay at a psychiatric hospital.
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Female genital mutilation, or cutting, involves cutting away the clitoris or even all of the genitals of babies and young girls, and has no health benefit; it is extremely painful, occasionally causes death, and can lead to complications in childbirth.
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In 2012, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution to eliminate the practice of female genital mutilation, aiming to increase education on the harms of the practice, strengthen health care support in developing regions and increase advocacy in highly impacted areas.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of delegates from African governments and campaigners gathered in Senegal this week to discuss how to end female genital mutilation (FGM), which world leaders pledged to eradicate under a set of global goals agreed in 2015.
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The distribution's shape suggests that, if mutilation rates in societies where FGM is now the norm could somehow be pushed below 50%, then positive feedback might continue to reduce them without further effort (though such effort could well speed things up).
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There are other women on the planet who can't go to school, who can't work, who can't drive, who have no access to medical care, maternal care, no childcare support, and are subjected to antiquated patriarchal practices like genital mutilation.
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Instagram's IGTV algorithm recommended videos of disturbing and graphic content Why it matters: During a three-week Business Insider investigation, potentially illegal videos of child exploitation and genital mutilation — some with over 1 million views —took five days to be removed.
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And in the end, not only is her ridiculous rationale proven right, but she's met with adoring gratitude from Lizzie, who comes to accept the need for her own bodily mutilation and reconciles with Charlotte by the end of the film.
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Within months, the two from Minnesota, along with seven other girls, were at the center of a landmark prosecution: the US government's first federal case over female genital mutilation, the partial or total removal of external female genitalia for nonmedical reasons.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Thousands of cases of female genital mutilation have been identified over the past year in Britain, according to data published on Thursday that experts said showed the need for stronger action to tackle the illegal practice.
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In November, actor and director Simone Shepherd made a video that shed light on police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement, and in December, UNICEF recreated the challenge to show the horror of female genital mutilation (FGM) around the world.
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" The standards call for Facebook to provide resources to people who post "images where more than one cut of self mutilation is present on a body part and the primary subject of the image is one or more unhealed cuts.
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A 2012 US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found that roughly 513,000 women and girls in the United States were at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation, which was more than twice an earlier estimate based on 1990 data.
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Female genital mutilation has been a criminal offense in Britain since 1985 and new legislation in 2003 introduced a jail term of up to 14 years for British citizens carrying out FGM abroad, even in countries where it is legal.
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") In a copy of a July 2014 letter she wrote to advocates, Meadows described her experiences as having included: "[suicidal] attempts or thoughts, also thoughts of self mutilation (mainly self castration), sufferings from severe stress, anxiety, sadness, loneliness, depression and discomfort.
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At least 200 million women and girls in 30 countries now live with female genital mutilation, according to a new UNICEF report published in time for Saturday's International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM, as the practice is often abbreviated.
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The prosecutor charged Evariste Ilunga Lumu, a 17-year-old student, and Daniel Mbayi Kabasele, a 30-year-old palm nut farmer, of the war crimes of murder and mutilation as well as participation in an insurrectional movement, Kabangu said.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somalia's first prosecution for female genital mutilation (FGM) following the death of a 10-year-old girl has run into problems because her parents will not help investigators locate the cutter, an activist said on Thursday.
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BLANTYRE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Three people have been sentenced to death in Malawi for the murder and mutilation of a person with albinism, a court official confirmed on Wednesday, a sanction the judge said would serve as a strong deterrent.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A 10-year-old girl has died after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) during an initiation into a secret women's society in Sierra Leone, police said on Wednesday, sparking renewed calls for the practice to be banned.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A decision by the U.S. Department of Justice not to fight to defend a federal law banning female genital mutilation (FGM) sends a "damaging message" to those working to end the practice, advocates said on Friday.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenya's president on Tuesday promised to end female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2022, a goal women's rights campaigners said was unrealistic due to insecurity and high prevalence rates in some parts of the east African nation.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The failure of British authorities to bring one successful prosecution for female genital mutilation in more than 30 years is a "national scandal", lawmakers said on Thursday calling for greater action against professionals not reporting the practice.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been a criminal offence in Britain since 1985 and new legislation in 2003 introduced a jail term of up to 14 years for British citizens carrying out FGM abroad, even in countries where it is legal.
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In 22016, women and girls from three countries alone—Egypt, Somalia, and Ethiopia—accounted for half of all potential victims in the U.S. Worldwide, a 22016 U.N. report estimated that at least 20143 million women and girls have undergone genital mutilation.
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Hirsi Ali, a former Dutch Member of Parliament and human rights activist, is a champion of women's rights and spirited critic of several practices extant throughout the Muslim world such as honor killings and female genital mutilation (which she personally endured).
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