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41. Sri Lanka
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Sri Lanka
Created on 23 June 2021
42. ‘Girls must be circumcised or they will grow up loose’: Three Sri Lankan women talk about Female Genital Cutting
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by: Bintari Hamza Zafar, a concerned Sri Lankan Muslim citizen Country: Sri Lanka Female Genital Mutilation is a serious problem in Sri Lanka. Almost all Sri Lankan Muslim women are circumcised. Both ...
Created on 23 June 2017
43. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(Article tagged with: Sri Lanka)
... The women fighting against Singapore’s hidden human rights violation Ultra-modern Singapore's dark secret: female genital mutilation FGC in Sri Lanka: Sri Lank-Culture: Mothers Watch as Daughters ...
Created on 04 December 2017
44. FGC in Sri Lanka
(Article tagged with: Sri Lanka)
 Sri Lank-Culture: Mothers Watch as Daughters are Circumcised   Stop FGM Middle East: Sri Lank  Harmful Traditional Practices in Three Countries of South Asia: culture, human rights, and violence ...
Created on 04 December 2017
45. Finally in the spotlight: Female Genital Cutting is getting national attention in Sri Lanka
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Until a few months ago, Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in Sri Lanka was spoken about only in whispers within practicing communities and in a few news articles. Since last month, however, the issue has suddenly ...
Created on 14 December 2017
46. Let there be no more victims like me
(Article tagged with: Sri Lanka)
By Anonymous Country: Sri Lanka I am a victim of Female Genital Cutting – some might want to call it circumcision, I call it Mutilation. Not quite the way that the proponents want to depict it as what ...
Created on 27 September 2018
47. My parents would not have cut me if they had the right information, says a Sri Lankan Bohra
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By: Anonymous Country: Colombo, Sri Lanka Age: in her 50s Circa 1970s, I was seven years old.   I hardly have any memories of my life during this period and most are vague, but I do remember almost ...
Created on 15 November 2017
48. Reflecting before we move forward: Overview of global FGC news from 2018
(Article tagged with: Sri Lanka)
... this lens by a larger constitution bench of the Court – an appeal that the Court finally granted. From September to November, as the Sri Lankan government considered a ban on FGC and gave a platform ...
Created on 16 January 2019
49. Sri Lanka’s first survey on FGM/C: Survivors need space to talk and access to medical care
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... in a first of its kind report for the country titled, “Towards Understanding Female Genital Cutting in Sri Lanka.”  The report, published by the Family Planning Association of Sri Lanka, is the very ...
Created on 14 April 2020
50. To ban or medicalise? Sri Lanka grapples with debates on Female Genital Cutting
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(Please note that a version of this article appears on LankaWeb.com. It has been republished here with permission from the author.) By Fatima Yasmin   Country: Sri Lanka Muslim religious organisations ...
Created on 17 October 2018
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