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This global strategy against medicalization of FGM has been developed in collaboration with key stakeholders, including UN organizations and health-care professional bodies, national governments and NGOs.

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This is a Fact Sheet about the linkages between Female Genital Mutilation, the Millennium Development Goals, Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers and Agenda 2015.

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Years of experience have shown that information and education alone do not suffice to bring about behaviour change. This Fact Sheet explores how to bring about behavior change in relation to FGM.

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Education is an essential precondition for self-determination and self-realisation. This Fact Sheet explores the effect education has on the abandonment of FGM.

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Approaches aimed at eliminating FGM permanently must ensure that the state and its institutions recognise their accountability for the achievement of this objective. In this way political potential can be harnessed and the conditions created for the sensitive social transformation processes needed to end the practice.

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FGM can be linked to a whole series of physical and psychological injuries, some of which arise immediately following the procedure, some later on. This Fact Sheet deals with the heath related consequences of FGM.

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In work to overcome genital mutilation, the question of whether or not this practice increases the risk of HIV infection for women and girls is frequently raised. This Fact Sheet deals with the relationship between HIV and FGM.

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FGM violates civil, political, social and cultural human rights, including the right to safety and personal freedom, to life and physical integrity, and to health.

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FGM is not mentioned at all in the Qur'an, the holy scripture of Islam. The roots of the practice go back to pre-Islamic and pre-Christian times.

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For a long time, gender-based violence was not recognised as a social problem. This Fact Sheet talks about FGM as a form of violence.