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IAC is an African non-profit organisation which fights for the basic human rights of women and children. In its campaign against FGM and other harmful traditional practices, IAC needs all the financial support it can get.

For online donations by credit card click on the Donate button.

Also we would more than welcome any contributions via transfer into our Swiss bank account.

Name of account:

Inter-African Committee

145, rue de Lausanne

1202 Geneva

Address of our bank:

UBS
Rue du Rhone 8

1204 Geneva

Switzerland

Account number:

0279-HU171096.4

For international transfers, please use these numbers:

IBAN: CH8400279279HU1710964

BIC: UBSWCHZH80A

Please click here if you need a currency converter.

IAC would also accept any legacies, and we extend our gratitude to anyone who could consider including us among the beneficiaries of their estate.

Thank you for helping our cause. We are very grateful for your support.

Last Updated on Thursday, 21 January 2010 13:43

News

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

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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
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MISSION

To promote gender equality and contribute to the improvement of the health status, social, economic, political, human rights and quality of life of African women and children through elimination of harmful traditional practices and the promotion of beneficial ones.

VISION

To see a society in which African women and children fully enjoy their rights to live free from harmful traditional practices.

Affecting the Health of Women and Children