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SC issues notice to Centre on PIL seeking ban on female genital mutilation among Muslims
29 Nov 2025 12:00 GMT
… to ban the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision practised … It is submitted that the World Health Organisation has classified FGM as a … unhygienic conditions.
According to the World Health Organisation, it often leads to repeated …
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Supreme Court to hear plea seeking ban on Female Genital Mutilation
29 Nov 2025 10:54 GMT
… plea seeking a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision, a … Welfare Society emphasized that the World Health Organization classifies FGM as a gross …
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Supreme Court Seeks Centre’s Reply On Plea To Ban Female Genital Mutilation
29 Nov 2025 07:08 GMT
The petition cites the World Health Organisation’s classification of FGM as a procedure that intentionally alters or causes injury to female genital organs for non-medical reasons, resulting in immediate and long-term health complications including severe …
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Plea to ban female genital mutilation: SC seeks Centre’s response
29 Nov 2025 02:59 GMT
… to ban the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision prevailing … . It is submitted that the World Health Organisation has classified FGM as a …
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The young married couple wrongly jailed for Female Genital Mutilation of their baby daughter - and how an extraordinary catalogue of errors and so-called 'expert' witnesses led to their conviction
15 Nov 2025 13:56 GMT
… girls have experienced FGM, the World Health Organisation states.
The situation began … years under the Criminal Justice Female Genital Mutilation Act 2012.
Halawa and … years under the Criminal Justice Female Genital Mutilation Act 2012.
Halawa and Sayeed …
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Do no harm: Joint statement against the medicalization of female genital mutilation in Asia-Pacific - A call to action
16 Oct 2025 09:40 GMT
The medicalization of female genital mutilation (FGM) is one of the … Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in Asia-Pacific, the …
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India News | UNFPA, WHO Condemn Medicalisation of Female Genital Mutilation, Issue Joint Statement
09 Oct 2025 08:16 GMT
… 9 (ANI): The medicalisation of female genital mutilation (FGM) is one of the … Population Fund (UNFPA) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the Asia-Pacific …
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WHO, UNFPA condemn female genital mutilation
09 Oct 2025 05:44 GMT
… World Health Organization (WHO) in the Western Pacific have condemned the medicalization of female genital mutilation …
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Culture or Cruelty: Can the international community put an end to female genital mutilation?
13 Sep 2025 12:01 GMT
… Where the crisis remains intense
Female Genital Mutilation exists worldwide, but is … from institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the practice … repeated international pledges to eradicate Female Genital Mutilation by 2030, enforcement often …
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Feature: Ending Female Genital Mutilation In Ghana: Voices, Data, And TheFight ForChange
09 Sep 2025 10:22 GMT
… an outlawed practice still linger. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), though criminalized for more … consequences are well documented. The World Health Organization (WHO) lists immediate risks such …
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