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PARLIAMENTARY CAMPAIGN "STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN":
FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION

    Legislation and other national provisions

The Inter-Parliamentary Union is attempting systematically to gather information on the current state legislation and other national provisions dealing directly or indirectly with the issue of female genital mutilation.

At this stage, data is available for the following countries (to see detailed information, please click on the country's name):

AAlgeria, Andorra, Angola, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan
BBahrain, Belgium, Benin, Botswana, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi
CCameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Cyprus
D-E-FDemocratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France
G Gabon, Gambia, Germany, Ghana,Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau
I-K-L India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Luxembourg
MMadagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique
NNamibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Norway
P-R-S Peru, Poland, Rwanda, Sao Tomé and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland
T-U-Y-Z Togo, Tunisia, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Country-specific information reproduces the contents of the official communications received to date from national parliaments. Other reliable information, contained in the documents published by the United Nations and the World Health Organization, is also taken into consideration. Whenever necessary, it is specified that the IPU has not received any official information directly.

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