sábado, 12 de novembro de 2011

RAINBOW

RAINBOW es una organización sin fines de lucro que lleva a cabo tareas de promoción de la cause e investigación, y ofrece asistencia técnica y asesoramiento en relación con la mutilación genital femenina y los derechos de la mujer con respecto a la integridad corporal.
915 Broadway, Suite 1109
New York, NY 10010-7108, Estados Unidos de América.
Télefono: (212) 477-4154, o visite la página electrónica en la Web:
http://www.rainbo.org

Endereços úteis - Brasil

Endereços úteis - Brasil
Contribua para a igualdade entre mulheres e homens.
Entre em contato conosco e faça suas sugestões e perguntas.


Secretaria Especial de Políticas para as Mulheres:
e-mail: spmulheres@spmulheres.gov.br
telefone: (61) 2104-9381 e 2104-9377
fax: (61) 2104-9362 e 2104-9355

Ouvidoria da Mulher:
e-mail: ouvidoria@spmulheres.gov.br
telefone: (61) 2104-9390 e 2104-9391

Internet
e-mail: web@spmulheres.gov.br
(61) 2104-9151 e 2104-9375

Assessoria de Comunicação
e-mail: spmimprensa@spmulheres.gov.br
telefone: (61) 2104-9358 e 2104-9380

International Federation of Red Cross

International Federation of Red Cross
"There is no quick way to put a stop to this practice, but experience has shown that education and information can have a positive impact, particularly if they focus on the negative health consequences. The fact that UN agencies involved in this issue have set a time-frame of three generations for the eradication of FGM clearly indicates that this goal is by no means an easy one."

http://www.ifrc.org/what/health/mch/fmg.asphttp://www.ifrc.org/what/health/mch/index.asp

Postal address
International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies
P.O. Box 372
CH-1211 Geneva 19
Switzerland

Telephone: +41 22 730 42 22
Fax: +41 22 733 03 95


Visiting address
International Federation of Red Cross
and Red Crescent Societies
Chemin des Crêts, 17
Petit-Saconnex
Geneva
Switzerland

New York Delegation to the UN
International Federation
800 Second Avenue
S uite 355, 3rd floor
New York, NY 10017
USA

Telephone: +1 (212) 338 0161
Fax: +1 (212) 338 9832

http://www.ifrc.org/contact/index.asp?navid=14http://donate.ifrc.org/
 
 

quinta-feira, 27 de outubro de 2011

Important to read

"However much a little girl may want to be excised because all other girls of her own age have been done, or because she has been persuaded that it is the right thing to have done, this does not mean that she doesn't suffer excruciating pain. Similarly, she feels that violence is being done to her body; she is conscious of suffering a physical injury, of being maimed in some way. Whatever other people may claim, what she experiences is a mutilation, even if she has heard it repeated time and time again that her clitoris is a masculine element which has no place in her body and so must be removed." (Awa Thiam, Black Sisters Speak Out)

TANZANIA

Tanzania Media Women's Association
Tanzania Media Women's Association, P. O. Box 8981, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Tel: 255 (22) 2115278,

Fax: 255 (22) 2115278,

E-mail: tamwa@raha.com

E-mail: info@tamwa.or.tz
 
Please write to the authorities listed below. Congratulate them on the efforts made to train police on the law against FGM and the measures already taken to ensure the police carry out the law. Note that the timely intervention of the police in some cases has saved girls from the harmful practice of FGM. Urge the government to continue its efforts to end the practice of FGM through education as well as enforcement of the law and to bring disciplinary action against police officers and court officials who fail to implement the law appropriately. Letters should be addressed to:

Mr. Saidi Mwema
Inspector General of Police
PO Box 9492
Dar-es-Salaam, TANZANIA
Fax: +255-22-213-6556

Honorable Mary Nagu
Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs
PO Box 9050
Dar-es-Salaam, TANZANIA
Fax: +255-22-211-3236

Please send copies of letters with a request for support to:

Honorable Sophia Simba
Minister of Community Development, Gender and Children's Affairs
PO Box 3448
Dar-es-Salaam, TANZANIA
Fax: +255-22-213-3647

CLITORAID

Existe  essa iniciativa que promete reconstruir o clitoris de mulheres mutiladas. Obviamente dependendo do dano isso não é totalmente possível. Mas enfim,existe um hospital e está sendo feito


http://www.clitoraid.org/news.php

http://clitoraid.org/hospital

quarta-feira, 26 de outubro de 2011

JAPÃO

WOMEN’S ACTION AGAINST FGM, JAPAN (WAAF)
2–5–25 Ichigaya Kagacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162–0062, Japan
Tel: +81–3–3235–8266 (voice mail)
Fax: +81–3–3235–8267
Email (General): waaf@jca.apc.org / (WAAF Fund): waafjapan@hotmail.com
URL: http://www.jca.apc.org/~waaf/

JAPAN

JAPAN

Women’s Action Against FGM, Japan (WAAF)
401, Nakameguro 1-4-18,Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0061,Japan
Tel: 81-3-3760-6641Fax: 81-3-3760-6643
E-mail: waaf@jca.apc.org

401, Nakameguro 1–4–18, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153–0061, Japan

Tel: +81–3–3760–6641 (voice mail) Fax: +81–3–3760–6643

E-mail (General): waaf@jca.apc.org / (WAAF Fund): waafjapan@hotmail.com

URL: http://www.jca.apc/org/~waaf/ http://www.wunrn.com/news/04_02_06/040706_japan_women.htm
 
WOMEN’S ACTION AGAINST FGM, JAPAN (WAAF)
2–5–25 Ichigaya Kagacho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162–0062, Japan
Tel: +81–3–3235–8266 (voice mail)
Fax: +81–3–3235–8267
Email (General): waaf@jca.apc.org / (WAAF Fund): waafjapan@hotmail.com
URL: http://www.jca.apc.org/~waaf/

terça-feira, 25 de outubro de 2011

POEMA

Dahabo Elmi Muse

El Faraón quien fue maldito por Dios
Quien no escuchó los sermones de Moisés
Quien se descarrió de las buenas palabras del Torá
¡El infierno fue su recompensa!
¡Ahogarse fue su destino!
¡El estilo de sus circuncisiones,
carnicero, sangriento, con venas chorreando sangre!
¡Cortando, cosiendo y remendando carne!
¡Este repugnante acto nunca ha sido citado por ningún Profeta ni
reconocido por El Hadith!
Ni existe en el Abu Hureyra.
¡Ningún musulmán lo ha predicado!
Ni en el pasado ni en el presente el Corán lo ha predicado
(la circuncisión faraónica)
Y si pienso en mi noche de bodas,
esperándome estaban caricias, dulzura,
besos, abrazos y amor.
Pero no. ¡Nunca!
Esperándome estaban el dolor, el sufrimiento y la tristeza
en mi cama matrimonial yacía gimiendo,
revolcándome como un animal herido, víctima del dolor femenino.
Al amanecer me espera el ridículo.
Mi madre anuncia
sí, es virgen.
Cuando el miedo se apodera de mí
Cuando la rabia se posesiona de mi cuerpo
Cuando el odio se convierte en mi compañía o compañero
Recibo los consejos femeninos, es sólo dolor femenino dicen ellas,
¡y el dolor femenino se desvanece como todas las cosas femeninas!
¡La travesía continúa, o la lucha continúa como dicen los historiadores modernos!
A medida que el buen lazo del matrimonio madura
Mientras me someto y el dolor disminuye
Mi vientre se convierte en un globo
Un rayo de felicidad aparece
¡Una esperanza, un nuevo bebé, una nueva vida!
Ah, una nueva vida pone en peligro la mía
¡El nacimiento de un bebé es muerte y destrucción para mí!
Es lo que mi abuela llamaba los tres sufrimientos femeninos
y si me permiten recordar lo que decía mi abuela:
el día de la circuncisión, la noche de bodas y el nacimiento
de un hijo son los tres sufrimientos femeninos.
A medida que el nacimiento irrumpe: Y yo clamo por ayuda, las dañadas carnes se desgarran.
No hay piedad, ¡empuja, dicen ellos! Es sólo dolor femenino y el dolor femenino desaparece.
Cuando el esposo decide romper el buen
el buen lazo,
cuando él concluye divorcio y abandono,
Me retiro con mis heridas.
¡Y ahora escuchen mi clamor!
Clamor por los sueños destruidos
Clamor por mi derecho a vivir entera
Clamor a tí y a toda la gente que ama la paz
Protejan, apoyen, den una mano
a las niñas inocentes, que no hacen ningún daño, confiadas y
obedientes a sus padres, ancianos
y lo único que conocen son sonrisas.
¡Iniciénlas en el mundo del amor no en el mundo del dolor femenino!
SWDO-AIDOS


Este poema sobre mutilación genital femenina (MGF) ganó el primer premio en una competencia de poetisas de Benadir. Este y la declaración anterior fueron proporcionados a Igualdad Ya por Foundation for Women's Health Research and Development (FORWARD), una organización internacional de derechos humanos con sede en Londres, que trabaja para erradicar la MGF

segunda-feira, 24 de outubro de 2011

AONDE ACONTECE

Aonde acontece

O exemplo da mutilação genital feminina
A mutilação genital feminina, por exemplo, como o informa Carlos Alberto Idoeta[21]é prática comum na África e em alguns países do Oriente Médio. Ocorre também em comunidades de imigrantes em países latino-americanos, asiáticos, europeus, Canadá e EUA. Está ligada à castidade e à crença de que diminui o desejo sexual e reduz o risco de infidelidade (na infibulação, a mulher "costurada" só é "aberta" para o marido). Outros supostos argumentos a dar respaldo consistem em motivos de higiene e estética, com a genitália feminina tida como feia e volumosa. Em algumas culturas, às mulheres não mutiladas é vedado o manuseio de alimentos e água.
O autor aponta que é desconhecida a origem da mutilação. Precedeu o cristianismo e o islamismo, era praticada pelos "falashas" (judeus etíopes), não é preceito de nenhuma das chamadas grandes religiões.
A violência contra as mulheres é uma realidade antiga. Mas, ao contrário de outros grupos oprimidos, as mulheres raramente têm recorrido à violência para a afirmação de seus direitos. Até as declarações de direitos humanos enunciaram direitos do homem e excluíram de sua abrangência formas de violência doméstica ou comunitária como a mutilação genital feminina. A subordinação foi aceita como inelutável enquanto um dos sexos foi, por séculos, assumido como física e intelectualmente inferior ao outro.
Quando a humanidade passa a desafiar, além do racismo e do colonialismo, o patriarcalismo, a violência contra a mulher deixa de ser "pessoal" e adquire a condição de problema político e social. Os próprios defensores de direitos humanos carecem de encontrar quais as formas de lidar com violações cometidas pelo indivíduo contra o indivíduo, em escala ainda maior e autorizadas pela própria família da vítima.
Às dificuldades de ordem prática, soma-se o argumento muitas vezes aplicado de fazer do multiculturalismo um obstáculo ao universal. Enfrentar a mutilação genital feminina, por exemplo, seria uma causa "eurocêntrica", ou ocidental que despr
ou ocidental que despreza valores de culturas milenares? Nesse debate, imperativo se fazer dar voz e vez às próprias vítimas.

A prática da excisão de clitóris encontra amplo respaldo cultural nos países muçulmanos. Conta com o apoio, inclusive, da grande maioria das mulheres. Ora, o próprio ideário dos Direitos Humanos integra o direito à autodeterminação das nações como um dos seus valores. Com isto, não se pretende negar a nenhum povo a prerrogativa de estabelecer os seus próprios regramentos. Este mesmo ideário, entretanto, é incompatível com a oferta de dor e sofrimento a quem quer que seja e queda por oferecer elementos suficientes para um juízo moral a respeito daquela prática de mutilação que é, também, sustentada por uma cultura amplamente repressora frente às mulheres. Está-se, então, diante de um conflito ético que justapõe dois valores absolutamente imponderáveis: a consideração pela independência, autonomia e soberania dos povos, de um lado, versus a intolerância diante da violência, de outro. Apenas a ética universalista dos Direitos Humanos pode manter a exigência de respeito e luta pela afirmação dos dois valores. Se, pelo contrário, toma-se como suficiente a aceitação cultural de determinadas práticas nesta ou naquela comunidade situada historicamente – abandonando, portanto, a perspectiva universalista – estar-se-ia absolutamente desarmado teórica e politicamente para questionar o mal radical produzido com grande aceitação interna pelo nazismo na Alemanha, por exemplo.

http://www.dhnet.org.br/direitos/brasil/textos/dh_univ.htm#5.3
 
A Tanzânia é um dos dez países onde a mutilação genital feminina é amplamente praticada e que aprovou leis para criminalizar a sua prática. Entre as sanções, incluem-se multas e penas de prisão. Os outros nove países são: o Burkina Faso, a Côte d’Ivoire, o Djibouti, o Egipto, o Gana, a Guiné, a República Centro-Africana, o Senegal e o Togo.

- Vários países, como a Austrália, o Canadá, os Estados Unidos, a Nova Zelândia e o Reino Unido, que têm populações de imigrantes que praticam este ritual, aprovaram disposições similares para procurar eliminar essa prática.

- A Nigéria criou o teatro Fístula Vesico-Vaginal e centros de reabilitação para prestar cuidados a menores casadas que tenham sido afectadas pela mutilação genital feminina.

fonte: ONU

http://ruistorm.ptisp.org/simplesmente/arquivos/2004_06.php

sábado, 22 de outubro de 2011

Testemunhos - Depoimentos das vítimas

Testimonials

That topic is destined to people that have been victims of MGF and want to leave here the testimony, or for those that want transcribe depositions already exposed of other women.

"With me, it happened to the five years", reminds Waris Dirie in her autobiography, entitled "Desert Flower", exactly the translation of her name.
Waris, that today lives in New York, became militant in 1997, after having consecrated as model (among their works, it was known the campaign of the perfume Allure, of Chanel). The passages to proceed were removed of her book.

"In the night previous to my circumcision, the family filled me with attentions and I received an extra portion in dinner. The day was clearing up when I heard the gypsy approach. My mother put me on a stone, sat down behind me and, with the open legs, one on each side of my body, pulled my head for her chest. I hugged their thighs and she gave me a piece root to bite. I was paralyzed by the fear. The gypsy turned her bag, from where removed a broken razor blade. There was dry blood on the thread. She spit in the sheet, drying in the dress. Mom tied a sale in my eyes.

Soon afterwards, I felt my meat being cut. I heard the razor blade sawing my skin. I didn't move, therefore knew that the more made, longer it would be the torture. Unhappily, my legs began to shake and to be shaken without control and I prayed: 'Please, my God, make that to end soon'. And happened, therefore I fainted.

When I recovered the senses, it was without sale. The gypsy put thorns to do holes in my skin, which put a white thread to sew me. The pain was so intense that I wanted to die... "
 
A woman of the east of Africa that lives in London, since 13 years ago, tell that had the tip of the clitoris removed by the family when was 7 years old.

"You block her mind, doesn't think that is a great problem. But the more you think regarding the subject, more you say 'My God, what did with me! ' Now I can relate a lot of things with the problem of the past", the victim says, that didn't want to identify.

She tells that had a difficult pregnancy. "When it was pregnant of my daughter, it didn't get to relax on a table to have an exam, and came traumatic memories of the mutilation. If somebody suffers any violence type, the memory of the happened is always bad."
 
Recently, Cameroon's female legislators could be found under a tree in the garden of the country's parliament, listening to Hannah Kwenti: 17, the mother of a five-month-old baby girl -- and a victim of female genital mutilation (FGM).

"I come from Mamfé (in south-western Cameroon), where I was circumcised in January after the birth of Ruth," she told IPS. "My parents-in-law insisted on it, believing that if it was not done, I could one day be unfaithful to Peter (her husband)."

"During the excision I lost a lot of blood, and while the pain was convulsing me the woman there (the circumcisor) said, 'Stop crying, your case is still tolerable. There are some for whom we remove all the stuff there'."

"I wished to die, but God did not want this. I advise against (FGM) for your daughter," Kwenti added, holding her head in her hands.



Official figures put Cameroon's population at about 17 million inhabitants, of which 52 percent are women.

There is no law against circumcision in Cameroon, even though the right to health is protected by the constitution and the penal code.

According to Abunaw, the 20 female legislators (the country has 180 parliamentarians) will conduct a visit to communities next month to meet circumcisors and their victims, as well as civil society organisations -- this ahead of drawing up the first-ever law on FGM. The legislation could be submitted to parliament before the end of the year
 
"I am XXX, a 23 year old Somali refugee now residing in America. I was circumcised as a young girl while still residing in Somalia. Even until very recently i was made to beleive that it was 'good' to be circumcised and as i result i had never fully understood the consequences of this evil practice. Recently i started my university education and have moved out of my parents' house. As a result of this new found freedom i started exploring my sexuality. I thought sex was supposed to be this amazing experience but for me it was extremely uncomfortable and unsatisfactory. I feel like i have done everything to educate myself and escape from the shackles of a restrictive and patriarchal culture but lately i have realised that i've been disarmed by them, possibly for life. I feel like my own parents, my own people, my own culture has failed me. They have taken away from me what is essential to me for my self-identity, my womanhood. I see other women and i feel like i'm lacking something. I am constantly preoccupied by this thought and this has started affecting my psychological health. I do not know who to turn to for help. I came upon your website by chance and it gave me some hope."

Source:http://www.clitoraid.org/news.php?item.4.1
 
 
"My name is Wynshet. I am 13. I have not had the opportunity to go to school. My family never sent me. I was three when I was circumcised. There was so much bleeding. I did not recover for a long time. The pain went on and on.

My parents arranged a marriage when I was 12 to a man of 30. I cried at the ceremony. My family shouted and told me I had reduced my family’s honour. They made me go to my husband’s house. He forced me to have sexual intercourse, but not where it is usually done. There was so much bleeding. Even a week later blood was pouring through my clothes. My relatives say this but told me to go back to my husband."

http://www.womankind.org.uk/how-your-donation-helps.html
 
I allways will hear the sound of the scissors cutting the flesh between my legs." Soraya Mire

http://www.nocirc.org/publish/9-93.pdf#search=%22female%20genital%20mutilation%20donations%22
 
 
I was genitally mutilated at the age of ten. I was told by my late grandmother that they were taking me down to the river to perform a certain ceremony, and afterwards I would be given a lot of food to eat. As an innocent child, I was led like a sheep to be slaughtered.

Once I entered the secret bush, I was taken to a very dark room and undressed. I was blindfolded and stripped naked. I was then carried by two strong women to the site for the operation. I was forced to lie flat on my back by four strong women, two holding tight to each leg. Another woman sat on my chest to prevent my upper body from moving. A piece of cloth was forced in my mouth to stop me screaming. I was then shaved.

When the operation began, I put up a big fight. The pain was terrible and unbearable. During this fight, I was badly cut and lost blood. All those who took part in the operation were half-drunk with alcohol. Others were dancing and singing, and worst of all, had stripped naked.

I was genitally mutilated with a blunt penknife.

After the operation, no one was allowed to aid me to walk. The stuff they put on my wound stank and was painful. These were terrible times for me. Each time I wanted to urinate, I was forced to stand upright. The urine would spread over the wound and would cause fresh pain all over again. Sometimes I had to force myself not to urinate for fear of the terrible pain. I was not given any anaesthetic in the operation to reduce my pain, nor any antibiotics to fight against infection. Afterwards, I haemorrhaged and became anaemic. This was attributed to witchcraft. I suffered for a long time from acute vaginal infections."

Hannah Koroma, Sierra Leone

http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=3205&tid=2467950755912679363&start=1
 
 
As a carefree six-year-old, Kady went to visit her grandmother, expecting a weekend of sweets and treats. She left with blood dripping from her wounds after a bungled circumcision carried out in a dirty toilet.

Kady is now 18 but looks no more than 13. The roughly handled genital cutting she suffered as a child seemed to stunt her growth and stopped her periods.

It is therefore no surprise that she is now firmly behind Burkina Faso’s drive to wipe out the practice, known as female genital mutilation (FGM).

Speaking to IRIN at her home in the capital, Ouagadougou, she recalled the day when she made the 40-km journey to her grandmother’s village of Sapone.

“They asked us to go round [to her grandmother] for sweets and eggs. When we arrived, three women caught me, bundled me into the toilet, pinned me down and undressed me,” Kady explained.

“I saw the knife and knew what was going to happen. I cried out, but I couldn’t find the words to speak.”
The lips of her vagina were cut and then stitched together, leaving just a small hole to allow urine and menstrual blood to escape. Then the old women made Kady jump over a fire, telling her it was part of the cure to ease the pain.

After two days, the pain had gone, but the psychological scars were still raw.

“I wouldn’t wash in front of the other kids – they laughed and teased me because I looked different down there,” she said.
Things got worse a few years later. The hole closed up completely and Kady’s medical problems began.

“Everyone got their periods and I didn’t. I wasn’t growing – all my friends towered above me. I spent the whole time feeling sad.”

It was only after her father died in 2000 that anyone thought of getting medical help for Kady. Her aunt took her to several doctors and two years ago she had an operation to repair the damage.

“Now I’m like everybody else,” she says, her face breaking into a wide smile. “I’ve even grown a bit, and the doctors say I should continue to do so.”
 
Kady hasn’t seen her grandmother since her circumcision but, if she ever bumped into her, she knows what she would say.

“I’d tell her not to do this to any more girls. It’s so dangerous, and can cause so many problems afterwards. I’d say, ‘Please grandmother, just don’t’.”

source: http://www.irinnews.org/webspecials/FGM/45981.asp
 
 
"My name is Abay, and I’d like to tell you my story.

I was born in a small village in Ethiopia. When I was 8 years old, like most girls in my village, I was told I must undergo the rite of passage known as female genital cutting. I said "no." And I ran away from the only life I had known.

Ten years later, I returned to my desert village to work for CARE, determined to help make positive changes in my small community. With CARE’s support, I helped open a school and organize the village to build a water system and a health clinic. In a community with few resources, where one-third of our children do not survive childhood, the support and training provided by CARE made an incredible difference.

As part of my work, I also wanted to convince others that female genital cutting was a harmful practice. I had to help my community learn about the dangers so more girls would not suffer.

People in my village believed strongly in preserving female genital cutting. Opposing it was dangerous for me. But by breaking the silence, I was able to convince the elders in my village to discuss the issue with women and, eventually, to oppose the practice.

Now, women in my village take part in community decisions. Empowering women and girls has vital importance for me, and I am proud I've helped girls to have more control over their bodies and their health. Find out more about my journey by watching this short video.

We all have the power to create change, not only for those in our communities but around the world. And we all need the support of others to create a better, more secure world for everyone.

Thank you for your time and for your commitment to helping CARE."
Video:
http://www.care.org/features/flash/fgc/

Endereços para pedido de asilo

Immigration lawyers:
Sacks & Kolken is law firm that has won a number of FGM-related asylum cases during 1999. Their website is at: http://www.sackskolken.com/

Source: http://www.religioustolerance.org/fem_cira.htm


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Center for gender and refugee studies
http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/ http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/assistance/

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Contact: Malak Bager - Niakan

malakb@asylumaid.org.uk

0207 377 5123

refugge women´s resource project@asylumaidhttp://www.asylumaid.org.uk/New%20RWRP/WAN/Issue%20No.%2057%20Feb%202006.pdf

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www.ICHR.org
Lawyers committee for human rights
333 7th avenue,13th floor
New York - NY 10001-5004
USA
Phone: (202) 845-5200
or
Maryland Avenue NE#500
Washington DC 20002
USA
Phone:(202)547 5692
 
 
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS)
Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS)
University of California, Hastings College of the Law
200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
415/565-4877
415/581-8824 (fax)

If you have an asylum case and would like CGRS's advice, assistance and resources, please fill out this form and we will respond promptly.

Felecia Bartow, Advocacy Coordinator & Development/Communications Director
415/581-8823 / email

Leena Khandwala, New Voices Fellow
415/581-8821 / email

Stephen Knight, Deputy Director
415/565-4791 / email

Karen Musalo, Director
415/565-4720 / email

Diana Rodriguez-Wong, Program Coordinator
415/565-4877 / email

Ana Elisa Martinez, Program / Administrative Assistant
415/581-8830 / email
 

The Refugee & Immigration Legal Centre (RILC)

95 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy VIC 3065 Australia
Advice Line: (03) 9483 1140
Reception: (03) 9483 1144
Facsimile: (03) 9483 1136
Email: rilc@rilc.org.au

Usefull links
http://www.rilc.org.au/links.htm
 
http://www.womenscommission.org/projects/detention/women.php

Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children
122 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10168. • Tel. (212) 551-3115/(3000 after hours for directory) • info@womenscommission.org
 
 
The UC Hastings Clinic
Law students at U.C. Hastings can work with CGRS through the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic.


http://cgrs.uchastings.edu/documents/cgrs/refugee_hr_clinic.pdf

Primeiros Sucessos

Primeiros sucessos

O aventureiro Rüdiger Nehberg — conhecido também no Brasil por seu empenho em favor dos índios ianomâmis — é exemplo de uma iniciativa bem-sucedida na África. Graças a sua atuação na província de Afar, na Etiópia, os chefes das tribos regionais proibiram a circuncisão feminina, em janeiro de 2002.

Mesmo que demore algum tempo até que a prática desapareça de todo, é um primeiro passo. Em alguns países, a proibição foi decretada pelo governo nacional. É o caso da Nigéria em 2002 e, neste ano, de Benin. "A gente percebe que alguma coisa está acontecendo", diz a doutora Nzimegne-Gölz com certo alívio.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,775519,00.html

ORCHID PROJECT

Orcchid project

FGM and HIV transmission

FGM and HIV transmission

segunda-feira, 17 de outubro de 2011

O que é e como é feita

O que é, e como é feita

90% das mulheres da Somália, Djibuti, Eriteira, Etiópia, Serra Leoa, Sudão e Gâmbia são excisadas. Esta é a forma de mutilação genital feminina mais praticada. É tradição em muitos países do continente africano, mesmo que várias legislações nacionais a proíbam. Estima-se que 135 milhões de raparigas e mulheres tenham sido mutiladas e que cada ano 2 milhões de pessoas estejam em risco – aproximadamente 6000 por dia. “A situação é assustadora”, disse ao JPN a directora da Amnistia Internacional (AI) portuguesa, Cláudia Pedra. A AI lançou hoje uma campanha internacional contra os maus tratos às mulheres e o fim da mutilação genital feminina é uma das causas da organização não-governamental.Um vidro partido, uma tesoura, uma lâmina. Estes e outros objectos cortantes são alguns dos “utensílios” usados para praticar a mutilação genital. Esta prática assume três formas: a “suna”, a excisão e a infibulação. A “suna“ consiste no corte da extremidade do clítoris, enquanto que a excisão consiste na extracção parcial ou integral do clítoris e dos lábios menores da vulva. A infibulação é a forma mais extrema da prática e envolve a extirpação do clítoris, a extracção dos lábios da vulva e a costura das extremidades genitais mutiladas. É apenas deixado um pequeno orifício para permitir a passagem da urina e do fluxo menstrual.A mutilação genital feminina acarreta graves consequências para a saúde física e psicológica da mulher. As hemorragias são inevitáveis e, por vezes, levam à morte. As intervenções são em muitos casos feitas sem condições médicas, por anciãs ou parteiras, aumentando o risco de infecções, devido ao uso de objectos cortantes não esterilizados. Outros problemas podem surgir a longo prazo: traumas psicológicos e sentimentos de ansiedade, terror, humilhação e traição. Uma prática ancestralAs razões para este costume são múltiplas, mas partilham um quadro de valores semelhantes. Em sociedades fortemente pratiarcais, a mutilação genital é um meio para impedir as mulheres de ter sexo ilegítimo e para as manter puras, “limpas” e castas. A infibulação, por exemplo, reduz a vagina da mulher a um pequeno orifício. Quando o homem quer ter relações sexuais com a mulher ou se avizinha o parto de uma criança, a vagina é descosida e, depois, cosida novamente.A prática parece ter tido origem na África Central na Idade da Pedra. A sua disseminação para fora de África deu-se através da islamização no século VIII. Nos países industrializados, a prática não foi um tradição tão implementada, mas com o aumento da imigração pensa-se que o número de mulheres mutiladas esteja a aumentar. O forte secretismo à volta deste tema e a carga da tradição impede que se saiba a verdadeira dimensão da prática. Para a directora da AI, “a situação tem-se mantido estacionária” a nível mundial porque “os Estados têm dificuldades em fazer cumprir a lei”.“É uma prática social” e um “ritual de passagem obrigatório” em algumas comunidades culturais, explica Cláudia Pedra. A directora da AI diz ainda que a organização combate esta tradição tentando promover novos rituais de passagem, baseados em “palavras e cânticos”. A denúncia dos casos e a criminalização da prática são também batalhas da AI. A mutilação genital é para a organização “um acto de tortura e não de cultura”.

domingo, 16 de outubro de 2011

DOAÇÃO - A ÚNICA AJUDA PRÁTICA

FAÇA UMA DOAÇÃO - ESSA É A AJUDA PRÁTICA

Já foi aberto aqui um tópico para doações.Abri outro para reforçar dizendo que esse é o único meio prático de ajuda que temos, auxiliando o trabalho de ativistas nos lugares onde isso ocorre,já que estamos geograficamente longe. Existem várias ONGS,mas aqui só vou deixar o endereço da Equality Now, que tenho aconpanhado o trabalho.
https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6208/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=1938

Apelo solene contra FGM

Apelo solene contra MGF

Já existe um apelo solene, uma espécie de abaixo assinado virtual,onde pessoas de países aonde a MGF é tradicionalmente feita, ou importada de tempos recentes,ou simplismente querem lutar contra um costume que viola os direitos e dignidade de milhares de mulheres no mundo,podem participar e postar seus dados pessoais manisfestando - se contra.
Entrem lá e participem.

http://www.stopfgm.org/stopfgm/FGMappeal/appeal.jsp?idMenu=1,13&amp