This is the page for discussing the topic ‘community and public involvement’ in the Chapter 9, on Prevention: Information and Education, of Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation (obtainable from the publishers). The full list of topics considered in Chapter 9 can be seen here.
Please ensure your contributions concern the specific topic here under discussion. There are many other threads on this website if you want to discuss other aspects of eradicating FGM (the Topics tag cloud in the column to your right will take you to whichever issue/s you are considering).
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Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation 
One aspect of community engagement in making FGM history is the celebration of the announcement demanding abolition by the Inter-African Committee (IAC), on 6 February 2003 (which date is also, back in 1918, the date of Royal Assent to British women’s enfrachisement). Here’s some background to (and thoughts on) the IAC designation of 6 February as the annual International Zero Tolerance to FGM Day: http://hilaryburrage.com/2016/02/06/citizen-action-in-support-of-zero-tolerance-to-fgm-day/
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