Resources

• Documentation about the "African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa", sometimes also called "Maputo protocol":

UNICEF Innocenti digest

• Cambiare una Convenzione Sociale Dannosa: La Pratica della Escissione/Mutilazione Genitale Femminile
• Changing a Harmful Social Convention: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
• Changer une Convention Sociale Nefaste: La Pratique de L'Excision/Mutilation Genitale Feminine
• Cambiar una Convención Social Perjudicial: La Ablación o Mutilación Genital Femenina
• Changing a Harmful Social Convention: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting - Arabic version

UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund
POPULATION ISSUES: PROMOTING GENDER EQUALITY: Female Genital :: Mutilation/Cutting

• Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
• FAQs on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting

 WHO, World Health Organization

•   Special page on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and documentation

NPWJ's publications and Reports on FGM

• Status of Legislation on FGM (link to stop FGM website)

• Le Dictionnaire des MGF, par Sophie Béssis, édition pour NPWJ (2004).

• Rapporto di NPSG sull’iter del disegno di legge italiana sulle Mutilazioni Genitali Femminili (MGF) (ottobre 2005)

Other Documents

• Italian Law on Mutilazioni Genitali Femminili (MGF) [Legge italiana nr. 7 del 9 gennnaio 2006]
• Mutilazioni genitali femminili - Il Webgiornale, 26.04.2006 (a cura di Federica Mancinelli)
• Bibliografia sulle MGF (Italian)
• Female Circumcision From Islamic Perspective (by DR. / MOHAMED SALIM AL-AWWA, Secretary General of the World Union of the Muslim Ulemas)
• The Great Muslim Scholars Disapprove of Female circumcision (by DR. / MOHAMED SALIM AL-AWWA, Secretary General of the World Union of the Muslim Ulemas)
• L’Excision des filles au regard de l'Islam, écrit par Dr. Mohamed Salim Al-Awwa, Secretaire Géneral des Ulemas Musulmans
• Eritrea Proclamation nr. 158/2007 banning Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)