Female genital mutilation (FGM) and harmful practices

PUBLICATIONS

Advocacy

• An update on WHO's work on female genital mutilation (FGM)
  Progress report
  19 May 2011
• Female genital mutilation programmes to date: what works and what doesn't
  Policy brief
  19 May 2011
• Global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation
  UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, WHO, FIGO, ICN, MWIA, WCPA, WMA
  28 May 2010
• Platform for Action towards the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)
  A matter of gender equality
  10 December 2008
• Eliminating female genital mutilation
  An interagency statement - OHCHR, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNECA, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, WHO
  11 March 2008
• Female genital mutilation and obstetric outcome: WHO collaborative prospective study in six African countries
  31 December 2006
• Female genital mutilation: a handbook for frontline workers
  31 December 2000
• Female genital mutilation: programmes to date: what works and what doesn't. A review
  31 December 1999

Clinical guides

• Management of pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period in the presence of female genital mutilation
  Report of a WHO technical consultation
  31 December 2001
• Female genital mutilation: integrating the prevention and the management of the health complications into the curricula of nursing and midwifery
  A teacher's guide
  31 December 2001
• Female genital mutilation: integrating the prevention and the management of the health complications into the curricula of nursing and midwifery
  A student's guide
  31 December 2001

Evidence

• A multi-country study on gender, sexuality and vaginal practices: Implications for sexual health
  Policy brief
  20 July 2012
• Estimating the obstetric costs of female genital mutilation in six African countries
  Research summary
  20 July 2011
• Sociocultural motivations for female genital mutilation: matrimonial strategies, family motivations and religious justifications among the Al Pulaar and the Soninké in the River Senegal Valley
  13 July 2011
• Men’s and women’s perceptions of the relationship between female genital mutilation and women’s sexuality in three communities in Egypt
  Social science policy brief
  16 September 2010
• Dynamics of decision-making and change in the practice of female genital mutilation in the Gambia and Senegal
  Social science policy brief
  16 September 2010
• Estimating the obstetric costs of female genital mutilation in six African countries
  Article - Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  14 April 2010
• Female genital mutilation and obstetric outcome: WHO collaborative prospective study in six African countries
  31 December 2006
• A Systematic review of the health complications of female genital mutilation including sequelae in childbirth
  31 December 2000

Monitoring and evaluation

• Measuring sexual health: conceptual and practical considerations and related indicators
  26 July 2010
• Numbers of women circumcised in Africa: the production of a total
  2 March 2008

Policy and programmatic issues

• A multi-country study on gender, sexuality and vaginal practices: Implications for sexual health
  Policy brief
  20 July 2012
• An update on WHO's work on female genital mutilation (FGM)
  Progress report
  19 May 2011
• Female genital mutilation programmes to date: what works and what doesn't
  Policy brief
  19 May 2011
• Measuring sexual health: conceptual and practical considerations and related indicators
  26 July 2010
• Global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation
  UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, WHO, FIGO, ICN, MWIA, WCPA, WMA
  28 May 2010
• Platform for Action towards the abandonment of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C)
  A matter of gender equality
  10 December 2008
• Effects of female genital mutilation on childbirth in Africa
  Policy brief
  16 May 2008
• Eliminating female genital mutilation
  An interagency statement - OHCHR, UNAIDS, UNDP, UNECA, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNIFEM, WHO
  11 March 2008
• Female genital mutilation and obstetric outcome: WHO collaborative prospective study in six African countries
  31 December 2006
• Female genital mutilation: the prevention and the management of the health complications. Policy guidelines for nurses and midwives
  31 December 2001
• Female genital mutilation: a handbook for frontline workers
  31 December 2000
• Female genital mutilation: programmes to date: what works and what doesn't. A review
  31 December 1999