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Can Arab/Muslim Countries Criticize Israel Under the UN Anti-Blasphemy Resolution?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

Read More: Koran, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Israeli Settlements, Bible, Gaza, West Bank, Judaism, Association for World Education, Pakistan, United Nations, Oic, Fgm, Canada, Arabs, Awe, Occupation, Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt, Torah, UN Human Rights Council, Quran, International Humanist and Ethical Union, Blasphemy, Zionism, Israel, Old Testament, Doru Costea, Sharia, Iheu, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?

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WISE Muslim Women Standing Up

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt, Philippines, Women's Rights, Equality, Islam, Muslim Women, Fgm, Gender Equality, Muslim, Female Genital Mutilation, Women's Health, Islamic, Clitoridectomy, Female Genital Cutting, World News
Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Along with over 200 other Muslim women from 55 countries, I attended panels and seminars, all focused on educating and empowering Muslim women and promoting their rights from an Islamic perspective.

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Egypt: Female Genital Mutilation Arrest Made

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.13.2009 | World

Read More: Egypt Female Circumcision, Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt, Circumcision Arrest, Egypt Bans Female Circumcision, Egypt Bans Female Genital Mutilation, Fgm, Egypt Arrests Man Female Circumcision, World News

Egypt has arrested the first person under its ban on female genital mutilation, Al Arabiya reports. Ahmed Gad al-Karim, 69, was arrested on charges o...

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Male Circumcision and the HIV/AIDS Myth

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Lancet Study, Research, Penis, Abraham, Men's Health, Fgm, Kellogg, HIV/AIDS, God, World Health Organization, Female Genital Mutilation, Africa, Circumcision, Foreskin, Medicaid, Health Care, Condoms, Penile Cancer, Female Circumcision, HIV/AIDS Africa, Living News
Ali A. Rizvi

The best way to prevent HIV and other STIs -- whether you're circumcised, uncircumcised, gay, straight, male or female -- is through education and condom use.

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Sudan's Female Genital Mutilation Countered By Henna-Dyed Hands

NYCity News Service | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: Bible, Female Genitalia, Foreign Affairs, Fgm, Sudan Genital Mutilation, Sudan Female Genital Mutilation, Darfur, Sudan, Female Genital Mutilation, Sudan Fgm, Genital Mutilation, Henna, Quran, Darfur Sudan, Advocacy, Sudan News, Circumcision, Female Genital Mutilation in Sudan, Sudanese Henna Designs, World News
NYCity News Service

Sudan has tried to eradicate female genital mutilation since 1946 to little avail. But now women's health groups have taken the crusade in their own hands--or rather, their own painted hands--in an effort to subvert the practice.

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Genital Mutilation: African Women Risk Lives To Fight For Others

The Independent | Katrina Manson | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

Read More: Africa Femail Circumcision, African Genital Mutilation, Female Genital Mutilation, The Independent, Female-Circumcision, Africa, Genital Mutilation, Amazonion Initiative Movement, Circumcision, Fgm, Sexual Mutilation of Women, Sierra Leone, World News

The female journalist was snatched by members of a secret society, forcibly stripped and made to parade naked through the streets. It might sound like...

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Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living

Read More: Corruption, Foreign Aid, Women's Rights, Fgm, Apartheid, Foreign Assistance, Ethiopia, Violation, Prenatal, Conflict, Prevention, Africa, Aids, Racism, Female, Development, Developing Countries, Public Health, Hiv, Gender, Ngo, Contraceptives, Female Genital Mutilation, Health, Sex, Health Programs, Hospitals, Communities, Sexual Education, Condoms, Living News
Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.

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