Publication

How to Transform a Social Norm

Publication date: 06 Sep 2018

Author: UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme on Female Genital Mutilation Publication Date: 2018

Publisher: UNFPA, UNICEF

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Media Advisory

UNFPA Exhibition to Highlight Continued Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation

31 January 2019

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News

For girls escaping FGM in rural Tanzania, crowdsourced maps show the way to safety

Ending FGM takes a multi-pronged approach – from offering a refuge for girls at acute risk to engaging families and communities to raise awareness of the harm it causes, and transform the social norms that uphold the practice. Here, girls in Tanzania’s Mara region participate in an alternative rites of passage camp at the UNFPA-supported Masanga Centre. © UNFPA/Mandela Gregoire
  • 22 October 2018
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Resources

Manual on social norms & change - handouts

Resource date: 2016

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

Publication

Manual on Social Norms and Change (2016)

Number of pages: 24

Publication date: 02 Jun 2016

Author: UNFPA, UNICEF

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Statement

Joint Statement on International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

06 February 2015

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#endFGM: How an organizer of cutting ceremonies became a change-maker

Published on: 07/02/2017

"I received a lot of information about this harmful practice. And I decided to stop organizing cutting ceremonies for girls. Our ancestors weren't aware of the dangers."

Read Aja's story here

Publication

Demographic Perspectives on Female Genital Mutilation

Number of pages: 54

Publication date: 20 Jul 2015

Author: UNFPA

Publisher: UNFPA

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What we do

Published on: 06/04/2017

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