Female Genital

Mutilation
HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Ferrer, Therese
Linawan, Vladimir
Maravilla, Charmae
Molaer, Airisa
Ocampo, Gio
Quilatan, Giselle
Sumague, Inah
Tolentino, Marcel Joseph

 FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN GENERAL

COUNTRIES WHERE FMG IS PREVALENT
EFFECTS OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION5
PHYSICAL EFFECTS
THE EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS
OTHER SIDE EFFECTS OF FGM
HOW FGM IS PRACTICED?
REASONS WHY FMG IS PRACTICED

Female Genital Mutilation

(FGM) or
Female Genital Circumcision
(FGC)
all procedures involving partial or total removal
of the external female genitalia or injury to the
female genital organs for cultural or other nonmedical reasons.
Female genital mutilation (FGM). (2016). World Health Organization.

Four types of FGM

Clitoridectomy
Excision
Infibulation
Other harmful procedures

term female genital mutilation

the first UN General Assembly Resolution (UNGA
Resolution 67/146) on Intensifying global efforts
for the elimination of female genital mutilations.
Other documents include:
Report of the Secretary-General on Ending Female
Genital Mutilation,
Communication from the Commission to the
European Parliament and the Council: Towards the
elimination of female genital mutilation,

Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples

Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa;
Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action;
and Eliminating female genital mutilation: An interagency
statement.
And each year, the United Nations observes the
International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital
Mutilation.
-Female genital mutilation (FGM) frequently asked questions | UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund, 2016

COUNTRIES WHERE FMG IS

PREVALENT
In Africa, 29 countries
Ethnic groups in Asian countries, including India,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka
In the Middle East, Oman, UAE, Yemen, Iraq,
even the States of Palestine and Israel
In South America, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru.
In the Western Countries, Australia, Canada, U.S.
and U.K.

Figure 1 Percentage distribution of ages at which

girls have undergone FGM (as reported by their
mothers)

Figure 2 - Percentage of girls and women aged 15 to 49

years who have undergone FGM/C, by country

EFFECTS OF FEMALE GENITAL

MUTILATION
PHYSICAL EFFECTS
THE EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACTS
OTHER SIDE EFFECTS OF FGM

REASONS WHY FMG IS

PRACTICED
First, for psychosexual reasons
Second, for sociological and cultural
reasons
Third, for aesthetic and hygienic reasons
Fourth, for religious reasons
lastly, for socio-economic factors

RECOMMENDATIONS
It can already be deduced the FGM is part of
cultural belief in respective group of people.
Regardless of their reason this group firmly
believes that a culture should have people to
pass it down, but there can no longer be a
culture to pass down if all of them die because of
wrong and dangerous practice.