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The arrest of an Ethiopian citizen in Atlanta, Ga., raises concerns that female circumcision -- a form of genital mutilation common in some African nations -- is being performed on young women in the United States. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports. 5.5 minutes radio segment via Realplayer.
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1763682
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First lady celebrates African village that ended female circumcision
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News Star Online - Apr 2, 1998 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, meeting with villagers who have ended the practice of female circumcision in their community, praised the village for having started "a great movement."
http://www.news-star.com/stories/040298/lfe_hillary.html
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Common Denominators Between Male and female circumcision
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Lists similarities between male and female circumcision.
http://www.noharmm.org/comparison.htm
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How is female circumcision Trivialized?
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"In the same manner as male circumcision, of course!" - Read an extensive list of medical and lay comments about female circumcision.
http://www.noharmm.org/trivial.htm
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female circumcision: Indications and a New Technique
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This 1959 medical journal article reveals how American medicine condoned female circumcision with arguments similar to those still used today to justify male circumcision. We offer this article for historical reference only, as well as to emphasize these similarities and expose medical arrogance.
http://www.noharmm.org/femcirctech.htm
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Genital Mutilation & The United Nations: Male And female circumcision, Human Rights, & The Restoration Of Spiritual Integrity & Freedom
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by Anastasios Zavales - The world community is increasingly educated on crimes against humanity, in particular, about individuals practicing genital mutilation, commonly termed circumcision. Genital mutilation affects more than 2 million girlchild victims and more than 13.5 million boychild victims annually throughout the world.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/fourth/zavales4.html
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The Miserable Tradition Of female circumcision
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By Deborah Horan - Sep 28, 1997 - Inter Press Service - When Shaima Mahmoud was nine years old, her mother called the village midwife to the house to perform a female rite of passage that has been practiced among women in her Egyptian village for as long as anyone can remember.
http://www.oneworld.org/ips2/sep/circum.html
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female circumcision Issues Page
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The World Health Organization had a conference in February 1979 in Khartoum, Sudan, and unanimously condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens health and as indefensible on medical as well as humane grounds. In the United States, Rep. Pat Schroeder has written a bill to prohibit female genital mutilation (FGM), H.R. 3247.
http://www.eskimo.com/~gburlin/female.html
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Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying female Genital Mutilation in Sub-Saharan Africa and Male Neonatal circumcision in the United States: a Brief Report Updated
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Hanny Lightfoot-Klein. Presented at The Third International Symposium on circumcision, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland May 22-25, 1994.
http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/third/hanny3.html
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New Ritual Is Alternative To female circumcision
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by Dr. Cesar Chelala - Sep 16, 1998 - San Francisco Chronicle - A NEW APPROACH to dealing with female genital mutilation... offers hope for eliminating a practice that has caused women around the world considerable suffering.
http://www.fgm.org/chelala.html
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