Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges

Main navigation

  • Home
  • Series
  • People
  • Depts & Colleges

FMR 49, FGM - The medicalisation of female genital mutilation

Series
Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49)
Audio Embed
The ‘medicalisation’ of female genital mutilation should be denounced on two counts.Firstly, it is usually anatomically more damaging and, secondly, it goes against the ethical basis of the medical profession.

More in this series

View Series
Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49)

FMR 49, FGM - The Istanbul Convention: new treaty, new tool

The new Istanbul Convention provides a powerful tool for more effectively guaranteeing the protection of asylum seekers at risk of gender-based persecution and at risk of FGM in particular.
Previous
Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49)

FMR 49, FGM - FGM: challenges for asylum applicants and officials

Asylum authorities in the European Union need to establish better procedures to help address the specific vulnerabilities and protection needs of women and girls who have undergone or are at risk of female genital mutilation.
Next
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Episode Information

Series
Climate change and disasters (Forced Migration Review 49)
People
Pierre Foldes
Frédérique Martz
Keywords
fmr
forced migration review
fgm
fgm/c
female genital mutilation
female genital cutting
asylum
refugee
europe
ethics
medical ethics
Department: Oxford Department of International Development
Date Added: 04/06/2015
Duration: 00:05:47

Subscribe

Apple Podcast Audio Audio RSS Feed

Download

Download Audio

Footer

  • About
  • Accessibility
  • Contribute
  • Copyright
  • Contact
  • Privacy
'Oxford Podcasts' Twitter Account @oxfordpodcasts | MediaPub Publishing Portal for Oxford Podcast Contributors | Upcoming Talks in Oxford | © 2011-2022 The University of Oxford