{"id":10535,"date":"2011-01-17T02:13:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T00:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:57:20","slug":"desert-flower-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=10535","title":{"rendered":"Desert Flower Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Female Genital Mutilation concerns us all. It is a crime that is being committed in many countries<\/strong>. &#8211; Linked on our blogs with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/2834\">Waris Dirie et la MGF<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/5509\">Give someone you never met, a gift they will never forget<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/10287 \">International Centre for Reproductive Health<\/a> ICHR,with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/2843\">L\u00e9gislation de contraste aux MGF dans les pays africains<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/wp-archive\/5696\">Nigerian family struggles to protect daughters from painful African tradition<\/a>, and with <a href=\"http:\/\/news.world-citizenship.org\/wp-archive\/2696\">Clinic to fight taboo of female mutilation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With my worldwide campaign I want to raise awareness of this cruel practice. I want to contribute all I can to make it possible to finally eradicate FGM worldwide &#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/about-waris-dirie\/waris-mission\/\">Mission<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/\">Homepage<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/sitemap\/\">Sitemap<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/about-waris-dirie\/waris-demands\/\">Our Demand from all Govs<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/category\/news\/\">News<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/what-is-fgm\/\">What<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/desert-flower-the-movie\/\">About the Movie<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflower-movie.com\/\">the Movie Website<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/donate-waris-dirie-foundation\/\">Donate<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertflowerfoundation.org\/en\/about-waris-dirie\/waris-manifesto\/\">Waris&rsquo; Manifesto<\/a>: I demand:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>everyone in the world to recognise genital mutilation as a problem common to all countries and one we can no longer shut our eyes to;<\/li>\n<li>every religious community to take a clear stand against the practice of genital mutilation;<\/li>\n<li>every FGM victim needing help to get the help she needs;<\/li>\n<li>all governments to issue regulations to protect girls from genital mutilation;<\/li>\n<li>all governments to pass legislation enabling perpetrators and their accomplices to be brought to justice;<\/li>\n<li>it to be mandatory for every incident that comes to light of mutilation of a minor to be reported for prosecution;<\/li>\n<li>all countries to regard genital mutilation as equal to political persecution and as grounds for asylum;<\/li>\n<li>everyone to be enlightenend about the status of genital mutilation: not culture, but torture;<\/li>\n<li>all genital mutilation victims at last to be treated with sensitivity and respect;<\/li>\n<li>all health workers to become well-informed about FGM and to know how to help victims,<\/li>\n<li>all victims, where it is their wish, to have free access to surgery to counteract the damage and to receive psychological counselling;<\/li>\n<li>genital mutilation to be a subject that people can and will openly discuss;<\/li>\n<li>all the groups working to combat FGM to come together and agree on their policy and strategies;<\/li>\n<li>all organizations working to combat FGM to have sufficient funding to be able to function efficiently;<\/li>\n<li>everyone to put into action my dream of an end to genital mutilation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female Genital Mutilation concerns us all. It is a crime that is being committed in many countries. &#8211; Linked on our blogs with Waris Dirie et la MGF, with Give someone you never met, a gift they will never forget, with International Centre for Reproductive Health ICHR,with L\u00e9gislation de contraste aux MGF dans les pays &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=10535\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de &laquo;&nbsp;Desert Flower Foundation&nbsp;&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-verifier","category-ngos-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17665,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10535\/revisions\/17665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}