Project: IDEA: Informing Decisionmakers to Act
Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Lessons From a Decade of Progress
(2014) Over the last 20 years, significant efforts have been made at the community, national, and international levels to address the issue of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Numerous international and national policy statements have called for an end to FGM/C, which has been recognized as a violation of girls' and women's human rights and an obstacle to gender equality.