Research Studies on FGC

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2024

• Population Institute, Behind Closed Doors: Exposing and Addressing Harmful Gender-Based Practices in the United States
• UNICEF, Over 230 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation

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2021

• Global Platform for Action to End FGM/C, Submission to UN General Report on FGM 2020

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2020

• Sahiyo, FGM and Social Norms: A Guide to Designing Culturally Sensitive Community Programmes
• Equality Now, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Call For A Global Response
• Equality Now, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A Call For A Global Response
• END FGM EU, Global Platform for Action to End FGM/C: Submission to UN General Report on FGM 2020

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2018

• BBC, Study finds ‘huge’ fall in FGM rates among African girls
• We Speak Out, The Clitoral Hood – A Contested Site: khafd of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in India

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2017

• NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Geneva, FGM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – RESEARCH – ADVOCACY – POLICIES – ACTION – May 10-11, 2016 – UN Geneva

• GAO, Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: U.S. Assistance to Combat This Harmful Practice Abroad is Limited
• The San Diego Union Tribune, UNICEF: Most Oppose Female Genital Mutilation
• Relief Web, Female Genital Cutting in Indonesia: A Field Study
• Population Council, State-Of-The-Art Synthesis Report on FGM/C – What Do We Know Now?
• Population Council, Root causes and persistent challenges in accelerating the abandonment of FGM/C

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2015

• Stop FGM Middle East, New Study from Iran: Female Genital Mutilation Impedes Men’s Well-Being
• UNFPA, UNFPA – Demographic Perspectives on Female Genital Mutilation
• UNFPA, 2015 Annual Report of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Metrics of Progress, Moments of Change

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2014

• UNFPA, Implementation of the International and Regional Human Rights Framework for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation