Campaign to ban FGM worldwide

 
UNGA resolution “Intensifying Global Efforts for the elimination of female genital mutilation” [A/RES/67/146], adopted on 20 December 2012

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Official Documents supporting the UNGA Resolution

 

• Declaration of IPU-IGAD Women Parliamentary Caucus, Djibouti, 9 January 2012
• Resolution of Ivory Coast National Assembly (FR), 28 July 2010
• African Union’s Decision to support draft resolution at the 66th session of UNGA to ban FGM worldwide, 17th Summit of the African Union, 1 July 2011
• Uganda Parliament motion, 8 June 2010
• Declaration of Inter-parliamentary Conference of Dakar, 4 May 2010
• Final document Parliamentary Workshop of Mauritania, 4 February 2010
• Declaration High Level meeting of Ouagadougou, 10 November 2009
• Final declaration of the members of the Workshop in Ivory Coast, 4-6 February 2015
• Agenda of the Workshop in Ivory Coast, 4-5- February 2015
• Guidelines of the Workshop in Ivory Coast , 4-5- February 2015
• Final Declaration of the National Workshop in Mauritania, 10-11 February 2015
• Program of the National Workshop in Niger, 6-7 May 2015 
• Guidelines of the National Workshop in Niger, 6-7 May 2015
• Final declaration of the National Workshop in Niger, 20-21 May 2015
• Program of the National Workshop in Senegal, 12 May 2015
• Guidelines of the National Workshop in Senegal, 12 May 2015
• Program Guide of National Consultation to End FGM in the Gambia, 21 May 2015
• Final Declaration of participants of Nationa Consultation to End FGM in the Gambia, 21 May 2015

 
 

 
International Instruments in the fight against FGM
 
International Human Rights instruments under which FGM is considered a violation:
 

• The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
• The Convention on the Rights of the Child
• The African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
• The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa (Maputo Protocol)