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.
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The youth of Sierra Leone are asking for an end to female genital mutilation.
"Gauguin was not present at the supposed self-mutilation, " he told Le Figaro newspaper in France.
Bristol's safeguarding children board has estimated about 2, 000 girls in the city are at risk of mutilation.
The charity is urging schools to treat female genital mutilation as they would other forms of child abuse.
Parents who enroll their daughters must agree that they will not be subjected to genital mutilation or early marriage.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has condemned the gang rape and mutilation of a 17-year-old girl who later died.
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.
But in Egypt, American pressure proved too great for an aid-hungry government, and the law now makes genital mutilation a crime.
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At PatientsLikeMe, there are forums where people discuss experiences with AIDS, supranuclear palsy, depression, organ transplants, post-traumatic stress disorder and self-mutilation.
Female genital mutilation is practised in a number of mainly Muslim African communities, and the tradition can travel when immigrants settle abroad.
Maureen Rolls, of South West Equine Protection, said it was the worst case of horse mutilation she had seen in 30 years.
Several witnesses for the prosecution recounted in court last year instances of the mutilation and torture that became common across Sierra Leone.
Some of the worst atrocities, including the mutilation of women and children, were blamed on the main rebel group in Sierra Leone.
Jeremy Browne will also say that the genital mutilation of girls as young as five is "barbaric" and should be regarded as "child abuse".
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.
In our study, we didn't see any adverse effects or 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.
Girls at risk of genital mutilation are not being helped as their teachers lack training in how to deal with this type of child abuse, a charity has warned.
Once limited largely to "dead or alive" offers for suspected killers on the lam, rewards are now routinely announced for far-lesser crimes as well, including theft, vandalism and animal mutilation.
Lumbly makes you believe that this Johnny Appleseed of reading and writing would return to slavery from a free life up North and risk mutilation in order to continue his teaching.
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.
But despite an affluent life as a supermodel who travelled the world and the best surgery money can buy to undo the mutilation, Waris says what she went through will never leave her.
The report also points out that asylum-seeking women often have high-risk pregnancies, due to serious physical health conditions that can be related to having fled torture, sexual violence or female genital mutilation in their own countries.
Suddenly, in the middle of all this, the Farrellys cut to a gruesome close-up of the actual mutilation, which is so unexpected and so cheap, I couldn't decide how I felt about it as a joke.
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Earlier this week, meanwhile, he decided to open up another front on which to fight, with his remarks on immigration, the summer riots in northern towns and various completely unconnected subjects like genital mutilation and forced marriages.
Updated Ofsted guidance says that key staff should be able to show how alert they are to "possible signs that a child has been subject to female genital mutilation or is at risk of being abused through it".
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