UNICEF calls on Egypt to stop female circumcision
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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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LONDON -- Female genital mutilation, commonly associated with parts of Africa and the Middle East, is becoming a growing problem in Britain despite efforts to stamp it out.
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Seven thousand fewer girls are born  in India each day than the global average would suggest,  largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex  determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund  (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Canadian Muslims may launch a human rights complaint against soccer's governing body after a Quebec referee ordered an 11-year-old girl to quit a tournament for refusing to remove her hijab.
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A rights group urges Saudi Arabia to halt the execution of a woman convicted of witchcraft.
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The death of a 12-year-old Egyptian girl at the hands of a doctor performing female circumcision has sparked a public outcry and prompted health and religious authorities to ban the practice.
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The World Health Organisation is organising a meeting next week to examine possible recommendations on male circumcision, after trials showed the practice halved the risk of HIV infection, a spokeswoman said Friday.
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A United Nations human rights body  called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to immediately end its system  of male guardianship which it said severely limits the basic  freedoms of women in the kingdom.
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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 [...].
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Lack of power for women in the home increases poverty and harms children, says the Unicef annual report.
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The UN Secretary General calls for efforts to try to end escalating violence in the Gaza Strip.
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AIDS experts have called for a mass circumcision programme in South Africa, condemning a &quot;deafening silence&quot; from policy makers since studies revealed it sharply cut infection rates.
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Seven thousand fewer girls are born in India each day than the global average would suggest, largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
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Protecting the rights of women is a matter of fairness, social stability and public health. Improving the overall societal treatment of women and girls is one way to control the AIDS epidemic worldwide.
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The world's top AIDS donors, including the U.S. president's fund, need to tie the fight against the deadly virus to preventing the rape and abuse of women and girls, rights groups said on Tuesday.
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The United Nations said on Monday it  was calling for a halt to fighting across Sudan this month to  cover a three-day campaign to vaccinate people against polio  and stave off a feared epidemic.
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Egypt strengthened its ban on female  genital cutting on Thursday by eliminating a legal loophole  allowing girls to undergo the procedure for health reasons, the  health ministry said.