NPR : Atlanta Female Circumcision Case Stirs Concern
- The arrest of an Ethiopian citizen in Atlanta, Ga., raises concerns that female circumcision, a form of genital mutilation common in some African nations, is being performed on young women in the United States. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports. 5.5 minutes radio
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1763682

NPR : Genital Mutilation Can Be Grounds for Asylum Status, Court Rules
- A US appeals court ruling in favor of a young Somali woman says that a history of genital mutilation makes a woman automatically eligible for asylum in the U.S. [2:48 streaming audio broadcast]
- http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4531744

Islam and Female Circumcision
- By Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ph.D. - Minaret of Freedom Institute. Brief article discussing religion and female genital mutilation.
- http://www.minaret.org/fgm.htm

Irin News: Boost for Anti-FGM Effort
- United Nations humanitarian report from Kenya explains how a series of seminars resulted in the resignation two hundred practitioners of female genital mutilation. Includes outline of the cultural aspects.
- http://www.oneworld.net/external/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irinnews.org%2Freport.asp%3FReportID%3D39965%26SelectRegion%3DEast_Africa%26SelectCountry%3DKENYA

Excision Practiced Where Pre-Islamic Traditions Strongest
- Integrated Regional Information Networks article about the persistence of the practice of female circumcision in Mali.
- http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=41684

Senegal bans female circumcision
- BBC News Online - Dec 23, 1998 - Senegal has banned female circumcision on cultural or religious grounds. Anybody found practising circumcision on girls now faces up to five years in prison.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/241230.stm

Mutilated Humanity
- by Ashley Montagu - The story of bodily mutilations would occupy a large volume in the story of humankind, and few would be more strange and interesting than those relating to male and female circumcision.
- http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/montagu.html

Knuckleheaded Islamic Thought: Female Circumcision
- An angry commentary.
- http://www.rjgeib.com/thoughts/circumcision/circum.html

Global Women Intact
- Specializing in female circumcision, genital mutilation, and alternative ritual of passage information.
- http://www.celebrateclitoris.com/

Genital Mutilation & The United Nations: Male And Female Circumcision, Human Rights, & The Restoration Of Spiritual Integrity & Freedom
- Presentation given by Anastasios Zavales about educating the world community about the practice of genital mutilation.
- http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/fourth/zavales4.html

First lady celebrates African village that ended female circumcision
- News Star Online - Apr 2, 1998 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, meeting with villagers who have ended the practice of female circumcision in their community, praised the village for having started "a great movement."
- http://www.news-star.com/stories/040298/lfe_hillary.html

Female Genital Mutilation: Strategies For Eradication
- by Fran P. Hosken. Article discusses how female genital mutilation continues to be practiced in Africa, Indonesia and Malaysia among Moslem populations.
- http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/hosken.html

Female Genital Mutilation - A Human Rights Information Pack (1998)
- from Amnesty International
- http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/intcam/femgen/fgm10.htm

Female Genital Mutilation
- Articles at ReligiousTolerance.org, about the practice in some African and Muslim communities, and in North America and Europe.
- http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_circ.htm

Female Genital Cutting
- Information and resources about the cultural practice of partly or totally removing portions of the external female genitalia.
- http://womenshealth.gov/faq/easyread/fgc-etr.htm

Female Circumcision Issues Page
- The World Health Organization has condemned the mutilations as disastrous to womens health and as indefensible on humane grounds. In the United States, Rep. Pat Schroeder has written a bill to prohibit female genital mutilation. H.R. 3247.
- http://www.eskimo.com/~gburlin/female.html

Erroneous Belief Systems Underlying Female Genital Mutilation in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Speech presented by Hanny Lightfoot-Klein at The Third International Symposium on Circumcision, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland May 22-25, 1994.
- http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/third/hanny3.html

Epidemiology Of Female Sexual Castration In Cairo, Egypt
- In 1985, a group of 350 urban Egyptian women were selected to self-report on their recall of their female sexual castration (FSC) which they experienced as children.
- http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/first/badawi.html

Ashley Montagu Resolution to End Genital Mutilation of Children Worldwide: Petition to World Court
- Solicits signatures for online petition against genital mutilation. Includes endorsements by prominent people and information on genital integrity, mutilation and human rights.
- http://montagunocircpetition.org/

Project IDIL - Instruments to Develop the Integrity of Lasses
- IDIL is a Daphne Programme project 2001/2003. The project is aimed at defining and experimenting strategies to prevent FGM among immigrant communities/families in Europe.
- http://www.eu-idil.org

afrol News - FGM
- Analyses, facts and regularly updated news on female genital mutilation in Africa.
- http://www.afrol.com/Categories/Women/FGM/

The Zero
- Listings of national and international agencies, articles, organizations and web sites to find help for and information about female genital mutilation and female circumcision practices worldwide.
- http://www.vachss.com/help_text/female_g_m.html

The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project
- Attempts to present the practice from a variety of perspectives and serve as a networking resource for organizations doing work related to FGC.
- http://www.fgmnetwork.org/

Rainbo
- African-led international non-governmental organisation working on issues of women's empowerment, sexual autonomy, reproductive health, and freedom from violence, with a focus on female genital mutilation and women's rights to their bodily integrity.
- http://www.rainbo.org/

Tostan
- An international non-governmental organization based in Senegal Africa geared toward educating the people and ending female genital cutting.
- http://www.tostan.org