In November, the UN General Assembly passed its first resolution condemning female genital mutilation. |
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If this mutilation of women and their bodies continues, what will happen to our future, to our daughters and to our herstory? |
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It also has a judicial system strong on execution and mutilation, just like the Romans. |
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Battery hens and broilers suffer disease and injuries, and mutilation such as de-beaking. |
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He was indignant about the mutilation of the cable and wanted to make a complaint about it right away. |
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The initial authors of a report may often object to the mutilation of their manuscript. |
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With an armed uprising by a united Iraqi opposition would there have been the killing and mutilation of thousands of people? |
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Her medical background is evident in the precise descriptions of butchery and mutilation. |
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Human beings over the ages have delighted in the most horrific and fiendish methods of inflicting extreme suffering, pain and mutilation. |
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Now Anna feels like she is considered the resident expert on whippings, body mutilation, and pleasure through pain. |
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The play balances characters that vehemently oppose mutilation with vigorous proponents of a practice that they see as enhancing their culture. |
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He charges him with a wicked deed of violence to be punished by death, or in the twelfth century by mutilation. |
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It is possible that the thumbscrew, the rack, or physical mutilation such as ear-cropping would not have been considered cruel by our forebears. |
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The World Health Organization estimates that about 140 million girls and women have undergone female genital mutilation. |
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Because many books were robbed of steel engravings to put into Granger's history, such mutilation came to be known as grangerizing. |
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Religious edicts have underpinned suicide bombings, amputations, female infanticide and genital mutilation, and the practice of suttee. |
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When police checked his computer it contained information about kidnappings, murder and the mutilation of bodies. |
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Fingers, thumbs and hands were broken in combat, but there are few visible signs of the mutilation. |
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However, the mutilation of the monuments indicate that she had fallen from grace. |
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As furor over female genital mutilation grows, so does the criticism of male circumcision. |
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The images of suffering and mutilation, of limbless children and deformed young women, have been in the media for years, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. |
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Statistics recording injury, illness, mutilation and death from work-related causes show no letup. |
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As her physician, I was incapable of bearing witness to my patient's mutilation. |
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International humanitarian law prohibits the despoliation and mutilation of the dead. |
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Egypt was also able to take significant steps towards eradicating female genital mutilation including by criminalizing it. |
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One of the areas in which we made a change was to prohibit the damaging of children's sexual organs and female genital mutilation. |
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Apart from female genital mutilation, she tackled the issues of honour crime, caste, forced marriage and son preference. |
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She underwent genital mutilation at the age of five and was thirteen when she fled from a forced marriage. |
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Gang rape is common currency, as are other forms of torture and mutilation. |
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When sentenced to ear amputation, the prisoner had to seek out and pay the surgeon to perform the mutilation. |
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Since national sovereignty was restored in 1962, Algeria has worked to rid the country of this instrument of death and mutilation. |
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Each year and estimated two million girls suffer the practice of female genital mutilation. |
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International efforts to end the practice of female genital mutilation have been furthered with Foundation help in countries such as The Gambia. |
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Every year, these weapons cause the death or mutilation of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children. |
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The message that male circumcision is very different from female genital mutilation also needs to be emphasized. |
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The practice of female genital mutilation was one aspect of that discrimination. |
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They may be victims of selective abortion, genital mutilation, neglect and infanticide, including through inadequate feeding in infancy. |
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Human-rights organizations have charged his forces with widespread rape, massacres in churches, mutilation, torture, cannibalism and forced conscription of child combatants. |
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Under the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, and throughout the Middle Ages, criminals were punished by fines and, for serious crime, death or mutilation. |
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Whilst I was thus examining this new development, Joey sat motionless, as so often, totally mute, showing no emotion about the mutilation of his body as now revealed to me. |
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Nelson lost his eye and his arm in the course of his duties, accepting the risk of mutilation and death for what he believed was a higher purpose. |
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As this passage indicates, the white supremacist denial of black success effects a symbolic decapitation, or, more properly, psychological mutilation. |
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The young woman says she is still suffering from psychological damage as a result of the mutilation. |
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Doctors said that the wounded director is deeply depressed about the mutilation. |
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A typical instance of mutilation of a notable literary work to serve commercial interest had come up in a judicial court recently over a TV serial. |
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Political correctness is preventing British officials from taking tough action against female genital mutilation in this country, a report by MPs says. |
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But according to research, FGM still has high support in areas with a lower standard of education, where proponents claim mutilation makes women less likely to commit adultery. |
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Until the end of the 18th century, talion provided the rationale for such corporal punishments as flogging, branding, mutilation, the stock, and the pillory. |
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Genital mutilation had originally been a rite of passage in certain societies, to which the woman had to submit to be respectable and able to marry. |
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Since the risk of fingerprints, tears, dog-eared corners and other physical mutilation increases with the frequency of handling, original and valued materials should be protected from excessive handling. |
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Female genital mutilation has been illegal in the UK since 1985 but is considered to be a growing problem across the country. |
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She also faces the threat of having female genital mutilation performed on her if she is sent back to Nigeria. |
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In many societies female genital mutilation is considered a cultural tradition, which has been used as an argument to continue its practice. |
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Since this practice is generally done under the age of 18, there might be cases where female genital mutilation is relevant to a separated girl child's asylum claim. |
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Many international treaties designate female genital mutilation a violation of the human rights of girls and women. |
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In case of a book, however, mutilation can go much farther without destroying bookhood. |
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Young girls who protest against this mutilation are often threatened that their own mothers will be shipped back to their countries of origin where they will be repudiated and become public outcasts. |
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The incidence of female genital mutilation was decreasing. |
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We will strengthen our action to eradicate female genital mutilation and other acts of violence, including by means of criminal law, within the limits of our powers. |
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Female genital mutilation, also known as FGM, is a painful form of circumcision, illegal in this country. |
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Section 1 defines female genital mutilation using the well-known World Health Organization definition. |
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The perpetrator subjected one or more persons to mutilation, in particular by permanently disfiguring the person or persons, or by permanently disabling or removing an organ or appendage. |
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It is tragic that around five thousand migrant women fall victim annually to mental or physical violence, forced marriage, genital mutilation and crimes committed in the name of honour. |
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Staring about the room he estimated that there were at least thirty bodies in various stages of mutilation and bloatation. |
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He handed Attalus over to Honorius's regime for mutilation, humiliation, and exile, and abandoned Attalus's supporters. |
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Bobadilla reported to Spain that Columbus regularly used torture and mutilation to govern Hispaniola. |
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Slaves were punished by whipping, shackling, hanging, beating, burning, mutilation, branding and imprisonment. |
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Over the course of five centuries, the buildings kept adding wounds, excrescence or mutilation which, paradoxically, reveal a chaotic history while at the same time often hiding its true nature. |
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As news and accounts of the atrocity surfaced, the level of brutality was revealed: atrocities by Armenian troops included scalping, beheading, bayoneting of pregnant women and mutilation of bodies. |
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Likewise, the images of another category of mutilation are also moving: the political deportees, the uprooted, who were systematically and diabolically cast where the fury of the torturers dictated. |
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All acts of mutilation and despoliation of the dead must be criminalized. |
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Moreover, I would rather be in favour of legislation allowing for the prosecution of anyone directly or indirectly involved in the practice of female genital mutilation. |
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This form of mutilation is practised above all by tribes in West Africa. |
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There are numerous eyewitness accounts of the maiming and mutilation of victims. |
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We are not complacent and acknowledge that forced marriages, honour based violence and female genital mutilation are often hidden and under reported crimes. |
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Generally, mutilation and murder of slaves was prohibited by legislation. |
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In a royal court, murder was often punished with mutilation or death. |
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Female genital mutilation affects all ages and classes of women. |
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Health care providers now perform up to 18 percent of female genital mutilation cases and the trend is growing, according to the World Health Organization. |
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Some Indo-Fijians practice thaumaturgic firewalking associated with rituals of self mutilation to overcome personal illness or a misfortune in the household. |
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This section also provides chapters devoted to pediatric problems, genital adornment, female genital mutilation, and genital and perianal diseases of psychogenic origins. |
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The Supreme Constitutional Court turned down on Sunday a lawsuit which called for the law which criminalises female genital mutilation to be scrapped. |
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A further suggestion is that both accounts are accurate, and that Harold suffered first the eye wound, then the mutilation, and the Tapestry is depicting both in sequence. |
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