Egypt: Female circumcision crackdown
Egypt: Female circumcision crackdown
Bikya Masr
30 August 2009
CAIRO: Reports on Thursday said that the first doctor in Egypt was being charged under a new Egyptian law that forbids the controversial practice of female genital mutilation, or FGM. The man allegedly illegally circumcised a young girl last week and is being charged after a local hospital notified the authorities following the 11-year-old girl’s admittance into the hospital with heavy bleeding as a result of the procedure.
According to al-Arabiya news organization, the doctor performed the procedure at the girl’s Minya home – some 400 miles south of Cairo – for 150 Egyptian pounds ($27). read more »
Egypt women leaders welcome State Council decision
Egypt women leaders welcome State Council decision
Bikya Masr
29 August 2009
CAIRO: A large number of Egyptian women leaders and the judges of the State Council have welcomed last week’s decision by Counselor Mohammad Husseini, head of the State Council, to appoint women as judicial functionaries of the council. The Private Council, the country’s highest administrative authority, upheld and earlier decision to appoint women to the body in a move that has sparked much hope among the country’s female leaders, who have said “it is long overdue.” read more »
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