Female Genital Mutilation: A Guide to Laws and Policies WorldwideThis is the most extensive report currently available on the use of law and policy to address the practice of female circumcision/female genital mutilation (FC/FGM). In encouraging a proactive governmental response to the practice, the book places it firmly in a human rights and legal framework. The result of a major research report in 41 countries, both North and South, it covers not only the prevalence of FC/FGM but the various laws and other measures in place to prevent it. |
Contents
Background and History | 3 |
Duties of Governments Under Human Rights Law | 44 |
Recommendations for Governments | 56 |
Legal and Policy Strategies for NGOs | 73 |
Nationallevel Legal Measures 95 35 | 95 |
Prevalence rates and official action against FCFGM | 101 |
Belgium | 107 |
Burkina Faso | 114 |
Chad | 127 |
Democratic Republic of Congo | 133 |
Egypt | 140 |
Ethiopia | 147 |
The Gambia | 155 |
Ghana | 164 |
GuineaBissau | 170 |
Canada | 120 |