The 2010 winner, Julia Lalla-Maharajh, is pitching the cause of ending female genital mutilation.
In Guinea, female genital mutilation carries the death penalty, but it has never been applied.
ECONOMIST: Banning the practice may not be the best way of ending it
The youth of Sierra Leone are asking for an end to female genital mutilation.
Female genital mutilation is all over the websites of UNICEF and the World Health Organisation.
The issue of female genital cutting is not one that many people are necessarily eager to discuss.
He has endorsed female genital mutilation as a - which is euphemistically referred to as female circumcision.
The charity is urging schools to treat female genital mutilation as they would other forms of child abuse.
In Bristol some 117 women, seen by midwives, had undergone female genital mutilation, according to a NHS study.
The CPS had launched a "female genital mutilation guidance pack" to help assist prosecutors, Lady Verma told peers.
Thus Mayan science was as good as European science, and female genital mutilation is not for Westerners to judge.
The debate about female genital mutilation, like polygamy and witchcraft, is highly charged.
ECONOMIST: Banning the practice may not be the best way of ending it
In January, the schools watchdog, Ofsted, announced it would be including schools' safeguarding arrangements on female genital mutilation in inspections.
Female genital mutilation has been banned in some African countries, but it is still practiced in some remote, close-knit communities.
She was working as an advocacy adviser when she first came across female genital mutilation and started her campaign against it.
Both women were speaking at the Female Genital Mutilation Conference in London, organised by the Agency for Culture and Change Management.
Forced marriage, "honour" killings, trafficking for sexual exploitation and female genital mutilation are all crimes exclusively or mainly perpetrated against women.
Female genital mutilation is practised in a number of mainly Muslim African communities, and the tradition can travel when immigrants settle abroad.
"Female genital mutilation is an extremely painful and harmful practice that has no religious significance whatever, " says Home Office Minister Baroness Scotland.
Thus rap music becomes art, Aztec science was as good as European science, and female genital mutilation is not for Westerners to judge.
In any event, argue some Senegalese opponents of female genital mutilation, by criminalising the practice the government will undermine delicate local efforts to discourage it.
ECONOMIST: Banning the practice may not be the best way of ending it
The EU will also finance information campaigns on female genital mutilation in its Member States and support initiatives against this practice elsewhere in the world.
He spoke of the need to grant equality to women without making mention of common Islamic practices like so-called honor killings, and female genital mutilation.
About three million women and girls face female genital mutilation globally every year, and nearly 140 million have already undergone the practice, according to the United Nations.
Ms Davis argues that in America at least, it is not acceptable to criminalise all female genital cutting while adopting a relaxed stance to the male sort.
Her equivalent in the post-revolution parliament is Azza Al-Garf who has been lobbying against the 2003 legislation that criminalizes the savage practice of female genital mutilation .
No, we are assured, they aren't taking about the brutal theo-political-legal code that features such barbaric practices as beheadings, floggings, stonings, amputations, female genital mutilation and mysogeny more generally.
Midwives may be asked to routinely raise the subject of female genital mutilation with women from communities where it is known to take place, the Department of Health has indicated.
BBC: Midwife 'role' as NHS targets female genital mutilation
In some communities female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision, is seen as a traditional rite of passage and is used culturally to ensure virginity and to make a woman marriageable.
Figures that reveal that fewer girls in Africa and the Middle East are being subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) show it is possible to end the practice, the UN has said.
Mr Dilly Anumba, a consultant obstetrician at Sheffield University who has recently published work showing that TLRs are present in the female genital tract, said Professor Bennett's theories were logical and well worth pursuing.
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