Prohibited Sexual Behavior and Sexual Violence

Sexual Violence: Mutilation of Female Sex Organs: Prevention:
Official Statements

United Nations
In March 2007, the UN Commission of the Status of Women urged the world to ban the mutilation of female sex organs and forced marriages. Some 6000 women from governmental and grassroots groups passed the respective resolutions. The first of these "urges states to take all necessary measures to protect girls and women from female genital mutilation, including by enacting and enforcing legislation to prohibit this form of violence and to end impunity."

UNICEF
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) also has adopted a very clear position. It calls the mutilation of female sex organs “a fundamental violation of the rights of girls. It is discriminatory and violates the rights to equal opportunities, health, freedom from violence, injury, abuse, torture and cruel or inhuman and degrading treatment”. UNICEF further emphasizes that all of these rights are already protected in international law. (For more information click here.)

World Medical Association
The World Medical Association is an international organization devoted to achieving the highest medical standards for all people in the world. It unequivocally “condemns the practice of genital mutilation including the circumcision of women and girls and condemns the participation of physicians in such practices.”