30 January 2018 - NPWJ News Digest on FGM & women's rights

Articles

Beirut protest after spate of violent deaths of women
by The Daily Star, 30 Jan 2018

BEIRUT: Dozens of people protested Saturday outside the Lebanese parliament against violence against women, denouncing inaction by the authorities after eight women have been killed since early December.

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Judge bans man from taking daughter out of the country for the next 11 years over FGM fears
by The Telegraph, 29 Jan 2018

A judge has banned a man from taking his six-year-old daughter out of the country for the next 11 years over fears she may be forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM). 
 

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Liberia bans female genital mutilation - but only for a year
by Reuters, 25 Jan 2018

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Liberia has imposed a one-year ban on female genital mutilation - a highly contentious issue in the West African country - but campaigners said on Thursday it may not be enforceable and urged new president George Weah to push for a permanent law.

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