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FGM
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Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
U.N. Sees Progress in Ending Female Genital Mutilation
Thaflif Deen reports for the International Press Service: After nearly 30 years of intense campaigningagainst female genital mutilation (FGM), the United Nations says thatseveral countries, including Canada, Belgium, Spain and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Reps. Lofgren and Conyers Call on Attorney General to Review Female Genital Mutilation Ruling
Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) joined with Representative John Conyers (D-MI) in co-signing a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, expressing their concern over a recent decision by the Board of…
ImmigrationProf Blog
A Call for Women’s Rights
A message from Lisa Frydman, Staff Attorney Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, UC Hastings College of the Law :Dear colleagues,Take action to insist that the US recognize that women's…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NYT Photo Essay on Female Genital Cutting
The New York Times (Sunday Magazine 1/20), A Cutting Tradition, by Sara Corbett: When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to a free circumcision event held…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Drawing a Line Between Enduring Harm and Legitimate Fear
Adam Liptak writes, for the New York Times:When Alima Traore was a young girl in Mali, parts of her genitalia were cut off, which is the custom there.“In my country,…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
News coverage of Female Genital Mutilation
"Kenya: Woman Quits Job to Wage War Against the Cut,", via AllAfrica.com:She quit her job as a primary school teacher to save girls in her community from early marriages.Hurt by…
ImmigrationProf Blog
NEW BIA Precedent: Matter of A-T- (FGM Not Continuing Persecution for Asylum Purposes)
The BIA on Friday issued Matter of A-T-, 24 I&N Dec. 296 (BIA2007), Interim Decision #3584, September 27, 2007 and ruled that"Because female genital mutilation (“FGM”) is a type of…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NY Times: “Voices Rise in Egypt to Shield Girls From an Old Tradition”
Via the New York Times:The men in this poor farming community were seething. A 13-year-oldgirl was brought to a doctor’s office to have her clitoris removed, asurgery considered necessary here…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Song, dance helps West Africa fight genital cutting
Via Reuters:DIABOUGOU, Senegal, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Marietou Ndiaye waited in vain for her daughter as the other children were brought back bloodied from an initiation ceremony in the woods.She…
ImmigrationProf Blog
BIA: Parent Not Automatically Eligible for Asylum Based on Child’s Possible FGM
The contours of asylum claims for feared female genital mutilation continue to be defined by the courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals. In Matter of A-K-, Interim Decision #3579…