FGM: INTACT's e-newsletter January 2009

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This is the first e-newsletter in 2009 by the International Network to Analyze, Communicate and Transform the Campaign against Female Geintal Mutilation (INTACT).

It covers stories on FGM from Middle East, Africa and Europe:

Egypt: Cairo Declaration on FGM +5:

Iraq: Female genital mutilation in Iraqi Kurdistan "we will never stop because Islam and our elders require it.

Yemen: Yemen working to reduce female genital mutilation 30% by 2012

Kenya: Hiding from the cruelest cut

Uganda: Criminalize female genital mutilation

Kenya: FGM spreads in Bukow

Ethiopia: New initiatives against FGM/C

France: Thousands of FGM reconstructions 

pdf: http://www.crin.org/docs/E_newsletter_January_2009.pdf

Organisation: 
The International Network to Analyze, Communicate & Transform the Campaign against Female Genital Mutilation (INTACT)
Articles: 
Article 19: Protection from abuse and neglect
Attachment Link: 
http://www.crin.org/docs/E_newsletter_January_2009.pdf

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