femalegenitalmutilation
More than 230 million women and girls around the world have now undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children's agency. In the last eight years, some 30 million people have undergone the procedure, in which external genitalia are partially or fully removed, UNICEF estimated in the report, which was released on International Women's Day. The percentage of women and girls who experience female genital mutilation is declining, UNICEF said, but it warned that efforts to eradicate the practice are too slow to ...
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A group of Indigenous women in Greenland has sued Denmark for forcing them to be fitted with intrauterine contraceptive devices in the 1960s and 1970s and demanded total compensation of nearly 43 million kroner (€5.8 million), their lawyer said on Monday. The 143 Inuit women say Danish health authorities violated their human rights when they fitted them with the devices, commonly known as coils. Some of the women — including many who were teenagers at the time — were not aware of what happened or did not consent to the intervention. They each are demanding 300,000 kroner (€40,000), the women’s...
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The original draft of the bill, tabled by the European Commission in March 2022, defined the crime of rape as sex without consent – with no need for victims to provide evidence of force, threats or coercion. It was based on the "only yes means yes" concept that has taken root in many member states amid a scourge of sexual crimes against women and girls. But after months of painstaking negotiations, 14 member states continued to block the consent-based definition. They included Eastern states such as Bulgaria, Hungary and the Czech Republic, as well as France, Germany and the Netherlands, consi...
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