Female genital mutilation among Israel's Negev Bedouins has virtually disappeared -- BGU study

BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL February 20, 2009 A follow-up study by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Beer-Sheva has determined that the once prevalent custom of female genital mutilation (FGM) among Israel's Bedouin population in the Negev has virtually disappeared. The findings...

WHO Warns, Female Mutilation Is Risky And Cruel

Female genital mutilation in females creates more complications in childbirth and infant mortality rate, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Caesareans and death rate of babies rise upto 50 per cent, in women who have had the procedure, a report says. //About 30,000 African women...

Female Genital Mutilation May Lead To Difficult Childbirth:Rep

Women who have had female genital mutilation (FGM) are significantly more likely to experience difficulties during childbirth //and their babies are more likely to die as a result of the gruesome practice, a new United Nations study has shown. The study, the first to give clear evidence of th...

Girls Who Undergo Genital Mutilation Can Become Infertile

A recent study that appears in the current edition of The Lancet said that girls who undergo genital mutilation might be at high risk from becoming infertile.// Female genital mutilation (FGM) is practiced in more than 30 countries. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 132 mi...

Gambia takes on as National Program UAB project to abolish FGM

...he world have been victims to some type of genital mutilation (FGM) and it is estimated that every year over thr... which is the acceptance of the Initiation without mutilation project by the Gambian government and the creation...he rite of passage which would not include genital mutilation but at the same time would continue to be function...

Deathways open doors to unexpected cultural practices

...ds by both sides. He demonstrates how missionaries used it to gain native converts, for instance, while some Indians used European fear of post-mortem mutilation to incite horror through scalping. The book also takes a particular interest in how deathways document the cultural syncretism that, over time, reco...

Is infant male circumcision an abuse of the rights of the child?

...old enough to make their own informed health care choices. Male genital mutilation is not a risk-free procedure, he adds. Far from being a harmless traditiona...the child play little part in determining the acceptability of male genital mutilation in our society, he writes. The profession needs to recognise this and champ...

Egypt Outlaws All Female Circumcision

...cision but remained cautious. "We welcome the ban on female genital mutilation but the key issue is if there is going to be an implementation," she said. ...r this year in Eritrea. The United Nations describes female genital mutilation as a practice with many adverse physical and psychological impacts and with...

Eritrea Bans Female Circumcision

...’s information ministry has said//. Anybody involved in female genital mutilation (FGM) would be punished with a fine and imprisonment, it said. The mov...nd menstrual blood - a process known as infibulation. So drastic is the mutilation involved in the latter operation that young brides have to be cut open to a...

Provoked- When The Husband Is The Sufferer

...er nurse murdered her husband after mutilating him//. The accused, Nurse JoAnn Godt pleaded guilty Monday to the indictment of murder and genital mutilation of her husband, jay Godt then aged 61. She had apparently beaten her husband to death with a baseball bat, and cut off his penis. Mrs. Godt has b...

Mutilation in Medical Dictionary

Skin Cancer

...h can have many causes. The most common skin cancers are basal cell cancer , squamous cell cancer , and melanoma which all trace back to the mutilation of melanin cells. Skin ... Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer . What Is Cancer ? ... Types of nonmelanoma skin cancer ... are discussed in a separ...

Mutilation in Biological News

Unheard of life history for a vertebrate

...late in the season and found something weird," recalls Karsten. "There were no juveniles. But by February, I found carcasses all over with no signs of mutilation or predation. The population plummetedwe've never seen this with other lizards." Now, after five seasons of data and sightings of nearly 400 indivi...

When in danger humans are similar to a deer in the headlights

...ing the unpleasant/mutilation block of pictures compared to the neutral pictures. The number of heartbeats per minute was also lower after viewing the mutilation pictures than after looking at the others. "This pattern resembles the 'freezing' and 'fear bradycardia' seen in many species when confronted with thr...

Mutilation in Biological Definition

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

...ising men for hundreds of generations with no noticeable withering of the foreskin among their descendants. However, Lamarck did not count injury or mutilation as a true acquired characteristic, only those which were initiated by the animal's own needs were deemed to be passed on. Nowadays, the idea of pass...

Mutilation in Biological Dictionary

Skin cell

... which can have many causes. The most common skin cancers are basal cell cancer, squamous cell cancer, and melanoma which all trace back to the mutilation of melanin cells. Skin ... The modified skin cells added to cultured skin substitutes might fight potentially lethal infections in patients ...