UN Commission on the Status of Women 51st Session (CSW): Health and Empowerment and the Impact of HIV/AIDS Epidemic Worldwide and Female Genital Mutilation in African Diaspora Communities

UN Commission on the Status of Women 51st Session (CSW): Health and Empowerment and the Impact of HIV/AIDS Epidemic Worldwide and Female Genital Mutilation in African Diaspora Communities

Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007, 12:00 -1:45 PM
Location: 777 UN Plaza New York, NY 10017

The panel discussed the health and empowerment of women, focusing on the international HIV/AIDS epidemic, female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa and immigrant communities living in Western nations. Although the practice of FGM is viewed by many within the international community as a human rights violation, FGM is reportedly still performed on three million women annually. It is estimated that 130 million girls alive today have undergone FGM. The U.N. has challenged the world to fulfill eight Millennium Development Goals by 2015 that would drastically improve living standards around the world. The panel addressed FGM within the context of these goals, FGM’s relationship to the HIV-AIDS epidemic and directions for the future.

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