FGM has been acknowledged by several international and regional treaties and consensus as a clear violation of the human rights of women and girls and also as a form of discrimination. The outcome documents of these international and regional agreements constitute essential legal frameworks for advancing and promoting the human rights of women and girls including the elimination of female genital mutilation. They thus provide protection against FGM and other harmful traditional practices. These include:
The resolution of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women1 on ending female genital mutilation (Geneva, May, 2008)
World Health Assembly resolution WHA61.16 on Female Genital Mutilation (2008).
United Nations General Assembly resolution 60/1 on the 2005 World Summit Outcome
Solemn Declaration on Gender Equality in Africa (2004)
Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa(adopted in Maputo on 11 July 2003)
Commitments relevant to the girl child made at the United Nations General Assembly special session on children (2002)
United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2000
UN General Assembly resolution A/RES/52/99 on Traditional or Customary Practices affecting the Health of Women and Girls (1998)
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of the Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) and their reviews
Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development ( Cairo (1994) and their five- and ten-year reviews
World Conference on Human Rights, Vienna Declaration and Plan of Action (1993)
UN General Assembly, Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women (1993)
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child (1990)
Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (1981)
Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979)
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976),
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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