Stopping Female Genital Mutilation

All talks 10:00 AM, Cedar Hill Rec Centre, Finlayson & Cedar Hill Road

All welcome!  Coffee available

This Sunday, November 9, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.

Stopping Female Genital Mutilation: from Chattel to Personhood

Joe Scaletta, Clinical Leader (retired), Vulnerable and Incapable Adults, Vancouver Island Health Authority

USEFUL LINKS on FGM from Joe Scaletta, our speaker this coming Sunday morning.  Joe has spent time working in Bawku in northern Ghana, both with CUSO and more recently on his own promoting this project.

This link is on the International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM. The gentleman in the picture is a former student of mine and Veronica is the woman on the left of the other picture with three students.

http://edition.a1radioonline.com/2014/02/12/61-of-people-in-five-communities-of-the-pusiga-district-and-bawku-municipality-still-support-the-practice-of-fgm/

Research on FGM in Bawku

http://www.actionaid.org/sites/files/actionaid/final_fgm__research__in_uelrp-27-12-13__final_review_04-02-14_2.pdf

FGM in Ethiopia

http://28toomany.org/media/uploads/ethiopiafinal.pdf

FGM in Senegal – Tostan approach

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2013/aug/22/social-network-fmg-senegal

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/world/africa/movement-to-end-genital-cutting-spreads-in-senegal.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

English PM  David Cameron Statement on FGM

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jul/22/parents-allow-female-genital-mutilation-prosecuted-cameron-law