Eritrean custom stronger than law on cutting girls
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For 3-year-old Amira, a law  banning female genital mutilation in Eritrea came too late.
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Iraqi children are haunted by dreams of bad guys wielding knives or kidnapping relatives. For some, like 13-year-old Zaman, the nightmares become reality. She was abducted, beaten and threatened with rape.
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Despite tough odds, some Mideast women are gaining power.
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It was easier for 16-year-old Nadia Arabi to remove her Islamic head scarf Thursday than to defy a new law banning religious signs in the classroom, or to risk contempt for breaking a national chain of ...
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The wife of Djibouti's President Ismael Omar Geulleh delivered a strong attack on female genital mutilation, calling for an end to the practice that is widespread in her country.
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afrol News, 16 September - Eritrea was listed as one of eight countries worldwide on a US government blacklist of &quot;countries of particular concern&quot; regarding the situation of religious freedom.
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Activists intensified pressure on African governments to outlaw female circumcision, a custom that has afflicted up to 130 million women and children across the world.
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NAIROBI, Sept. 8 -- The prevalence and intensity of sexual violence against women in eastern Congo are "almost unimaginable," the top U.N. humanitarian official said Sunday after visiting the country's most fragile region, where militias groups have preyed on the civilian population for years.
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The most wicked acts are spoken of openly and without reserve in Iraq. Rape is different.
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More parents are turning to medical clinics to perform genital mutilation, wrongly assuming that it spares girls physical and psychological damage, a U.N. agency warned on Monday.
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Children who do not conform to gender norms are being supported in their choice by parents and doctors.
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ZAGREB, Croatia  - A 13-year-old girl who paid off three older teens so they wouldn't tell her parents she smoked soon found herself in even worse trouble: the teens threatened to kill her father if she didn't fork over more money, police said.
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Text of report in English by Eritrean opposition website Meskerem.com on 4 March  Eritreans, including main players of the Eritrean opposition express anger at the Western media's speculative and scant evidence- based reporting.
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When the teenager went to the police a few months ago to report she was gang-raped by seven men, she never imagined that the judge would punish her &#151; and that she would be sentenced to more lashes than one of her alleged rapists received.
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Police in Burkina Faso arrest 14 people for carrying out female genital mutilation on young girls.
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The UN children&#39;s fund on Monday called for pressure to be maintained to stop female circumcision in Egypt, where more than three quarters of 15 to 17 year-old girls are subjected to the practice.
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The post from World Health Organization researchers on the practice they call female genital mutilation (FGM) has prompted a couple of critical responses from other researchers. One is a comment from Richard Shweder of the University of Chicago, who calls it "bureaucratic boilerplate" and says it's further evidence that "identity politics has triumphed over science [...].