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The Pokot people live in a small region straddling the border of Uganda and Kenya. This film presents the consequences of female genital mutilation through the testimonies of Pokot women, doctors and social...
This is the story of one mother’s courageous battle to protect her two-year-old daughter from female genital mutilation. Skilfully interweaving Mrs Goundo’s tense, landmark court case in America with the...
The documentary explores the local dimension of the female circumcision debate in Kenyan societies. In a region of Kenya that is home to Muslims, Maasai and Somali and crosscut by Christian evangelists,...
Set in a small village, four girls facing ritual "purification" flee to the household of Collé Ardo Gallo Sy, a strong-willed woman who has managed to shield her own teenage daughter from mutilation. Collé...
This film deals with the psychosocial problems and socio-cultural considerations, in which young girls and women who have undergone female circumcision can find themselves, especially when living in a...
Amina Ahmed Abdullah is a trained midwife working in the huge Hatashiek refugee camp in the Somali region of Ethiopia, where infibulation (the most extreme form of female genital mutilation) is widely...
Waris Dirie, supermodel turned UN Special Ambassador for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, talks about her work for the UNFPA and her own experiences of the cultural practice.
An update on the success of the ‘Reach’ project to halt female circumcision in Uganda.
Originally intended as a film about feminist writer Nawal El Saadawi, the film is portrayal of the lives of modern Egyptian women in Islamic society. Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris,...
The stories of four teenage girls coming of age and the personal cost of this transition. A Nicaraguan girl is addicted to glue sniffing and is slipping into a life of prostitution; an Indian girl has been...
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