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  • [Togo] Togolese children playing at the 'Centre of Hope', a shelter in the capital Lome for trafficked children who have been rescued. February 2005.
  • [Iraq] Women in Iraq look for their rights.
    Women in Iraq still face discrimination
  • [Djibouti] FGM represents a form of violence against women and is considered by various international and regional legal entities as a fundamental violation of human rights.
    Les mutilations génitales féminines sont une violation des droits humains, selon les experts juridiques
  • [Togo] Enyonam, who has just arrived at a centre for trafficked children in the Togolese capital, Lome, shows her scarred fingertips. He master accused her of stealing eggs and burnt the ends of her fingers with a match as punishment. February 2005.
    Enyonam shows her still-raw fingertips
  • Here, women receiving information about the health consequences of FGM. Education is another pillar in the campaign to ultimately abolish harmful traditional practices. Sierra Leone
  • [Iraq] Son Kul Chapuk, president of the womens NGO and member of the national assembly.
  • [Iraq] Son Kul Chapuk, president of the womens NGO and member of the national assembly.
  • [Cote d'Ivoire] Eugenie Lambe and her mother Martine Don -- Ivorian refugees in Liberia. February 2005.
    Près de 47 000 réfugiés libériens vivent encore en Cote d'Ivoire
  • [Iraq] Displaced Arabs from Kirkuk camped in Diwania.
    Displaced Arabs from Kirkuk in Diwania
  • [Afghanistan] Dismantling a private arms stockpile outside Kabul.
    Dismantling a private arms stockpile outside Kabul
  • [Chad] Denis Baba Tatola, HIV-positive, is a committed campaigner against the pandemic, working to convince people living with HIV/AIDS in Chad to join the fight.
    Denis Baba Tatola discovered his status in 1997.
  • [South Africa] Table Mountain Primary school.
    Something is amiss in South Africa's education system, but you need to look closer
  • [Sierra Leone] These girls dance in their initiation ceremony that leads to their circumcision. If they refuse FGM the will be discriminated against or ostracized from their community.
  • [Sierra Leone] A girl with the knife in her hands in an initiation ceremony. She will be taught to became a ‘sowie’ assistant. The custom provides an income to the women who perform the circumcisions.
    Instruments rudimentaires utilisés pour l'excision
  • [Ethiopia] Sheikh Mohammed is a member of the executive committee for Ethiopia’s Islamic Affairs Supreme Council. Sheikh, as a religious leaders, says “female circumcision, was done starting from prophet Muhammed and we have practiced it for the last
    Sheikh Mohammed is a member of the executive committee of Ethiopia’s Islamic Affairs Supreme Council. Mohammed, explains that “female circumcision, was done starting from prophet Muhammed and we have practiced it for the last 1,000 years”
  • [Sudan] Jan Egeland talks to returnees in Malualkon, northern Bahr el Ghazal.
    Jan Egeland during a previous visit to Sudan.
  • [Swaziland] Factory worker on the job.
    Worker productivity a concern for investors
  • [Central African Republic (CAR)] The chief of Ngarakette (230 km north of the capital Bangui in Ouham province) Dominique Nguemea (in black tee-shirt) expressing his frustrations Central African Republic, Great Lakes, February 25 2005.
    The chief of Ngarakette, Dominique Nguemea (in black T-shirt) expresses his frustrations.
  • [Zimbabwe] Get up stand up.
    Zimbabwean pro-democracy activists have become more vocal
  • [Zimbabwe] Get up stand up.
  • [Iraq] Displaced Arabs from Kirkuk camped in Diwania.
  • [Iraq] Displaced Arabs from Kirkuk camped in Diwania.
  • [Ethiopia] An Ethiopian girl in a meeting organized by an NGO campaign against FGM. She is worried because she doesn’t know how she will get a husband if she refuses to be circumcised.
    An Ethiopian girl in a meeting organised an NGO campaigning against FGM. She is worried because she doesn’t know how she will get a husband if she refuses to be circumcised
  • [Sierra Leone] All female member of the family of girls who will undergo FGM are present at the ceremony. In Sierra Leone the majority of women practice FGM through secrets societies.
  • [Ethiopia] A doctor from the Fistula Hospital tells the immediate and the long term health consequences of FGM.
    A doctor from the Fistula Hospital talks about the immediate and the long term health consequences of FGM
  • [Central African Republic (CAR)] A women in the village of Ngarakette (230 km north of the capital Bangui in Ouham province) a week after bush fires burnt down her house Central African Republic, Great Lakes, February 25 2005.
  • [Djibouti] Djibouti sub-regional conference from 2-3 February in Djibouti City on Female Genital Mutilation, where Daniela Colombo spoke on the practice.
    Djibouti sub-regional conference from 2-3 February in Djibouti City on Female Genital Mutilation, where Daniela Colombo spoke on the practice
  • AIDOS is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) founded by Colombo who has been fighting against harmful practices as FGM since 1986.
  • [Kenya] A Maasai married woman. She, as the 99% of the maasai women, has undergone the type1 of FGM, clitoridectomy. The vast majority, 85%, of genital mutilations performed in Africa consist of clitoridectomy.
    A Maasai married woman. She, as the 99% of the maasai women, has undergone the type 1 FGM, clitoridectomy. The vast majority, 85%, of genital mutilations performed in Africa consist of clitoridectomy
  • [Kenya] Twelve-years old girls from a Masai Community in Kenya. The traditional rite of FGM among the Maasai is performed between the ages of 12 and 14.
    Twelve-year old girls from a Maasai community in Kenya. The traditional rite of FGM among the Maasai is performed between the ages of 12 and 14
  • [Kenya] To be circumcised is a way to assure to get married, because maasai men reject women who are uncut. Circumcision can also be the way HIV/AIDS is spread.
    Circumcision is a way to ensure marriage because Maasai men reject women who are uncut. Circumcision can also spead HIV/AIDS
  • [Sierra Leone] For this woman, FGM is the only way to survive. She told IRIN she has already performed almost 30 circumcisions.
    For this woman, FGM is the only way to survive. She told IRIN she has already performed almost 30 circumcisions

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