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WHO Releases Strategy Condemning Medicalizati
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The World Health Organization released the new inter-agency global strategy:
"Global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation"
signed by 5 UN agencies and 6 professional organizations, was in close collaboration with NGOs.
This document aims to eliminate the performance of Female Genital Mutilation by health-care providers.
New Publication
2009 IAC Annual Report
CONGO held the Civil Society Development Forum.
Please click to read the Outcome Document of CSDF 2010 Main Component in New York
THE STATE OF THE WORLD'S CHILDREN (SOWC) Special Edition
Celebrating 20 years of the Convention on the Rights of the child
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Executive Director of IAC Bags an Austrian parliament award for her fight against Female Genital Mutilation
On the 26th of April, the Executive Director of the IAC-Inter-African Committee, Mrs Berhane Ras-Work, an icon of the fight against FGM, was presented with Austria 's highest Order of Merit by Barbara Prammer, President of the Austrian Parliament, at a grand ceremony in Vienna . This award is in recognition of her over 25 years struggle to bring an end to the gruesome practice of FGM. Read more...
THE REPORT OF THE SPECIAL RAPPORTTEUR ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Click here to download
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