Tag: Female Genital Mutilation

British filmmaker Leslee Udwin addresses a press conference on her documentary film "India's Daughter," about the Dec. 16, 2012 gang rape in a moving bus, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Censored Women’s Film Festival coming to D.C.

Ashe Schow · September 15, 2015 6:21 pm

In early April of this year, Brandeis University, under pressure from student activists and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, reversed its decision to give an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a global advocate for womenâs rights. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Ayaan Hirsi Ali fights radical Islam’s real war on women

Ashe Schow · December 8, 2014 10:00 am

ISIS call for female genital mutilation in Iraq is a hoax

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ISIS call for female genital mutilation in Iraq is a hoax

Ashe Schow · July 24, 2014 4:35 pm

International women's rights advocate Malala Yousafzai and British Prime Minister David Cameron at the Girl Summit 2014 in London Tuesday. The summit, put on by the British government and UNICEF, brought together community leaders, governments, international organisations and the private sector to rally a global movement to end female genital mutilation and child, early and forced marriage in a generation. (Rex Features via AP Images)

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How many American women are at risk for female genital mutilation? New study to find out

Ashe Schow · July 22, 2014 9:10 pm

Manda Zand Ervin, founder and president of the Alliance of Iranian Women, looks on during the International Conference against Violence on Women, at the Italian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Riccardo De Luca)

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Global human rights advocates condemn ‘war on women’ first-world problems

Ashe Schow · June 3, 2014 7:32 pm

"Growing up, I really didn't know that there was anything wrong with me or anything wrong with female genital mutilation as a whole, because I didn't know what it really meant," Jaha Dukureh told the Washington Examiner. (Screenshot)

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The real war on women: A victim speaks

Ashe Schow · May 20, 2014 4:00 am