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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - Female genital mutilation Guidelines for dealing with affected girls and women

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) – Weibliche Genitalverstümmelung Leitfaden zum Umgang mit betroffenen Mädchen und Frauen

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Šalis: Austria
Section:
Female Genital Mutilation
Temos:
Health, Violence
Types of GBV:
Female Genital Mutilation
Pradžios data:
2009
Publication date:
01 Sausis 2009
The information was last updated in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. It makes a reference to the United Kingdom as a member of the European Union and was published before the UK's withdrawal from the European Union on the 31 January 2020. 

Estimates of the Ministry of Health

Data Collection

Author(s)

Umyma Eljelede, Bakk.a, Mag.a Hilde Wolf

Year of data collection

2008 2009

Prevalence data on FGM

It is assumed that around 6.000-8.000 victims of FGM live in Austria. In Vienna, there are approximately 1.900 women who come from a country with frequent occurrence from FGM, thus to a potential risk. In addition, there are indications that girls suffer this fate in Austria. In the context of leisure travel which have to be seen in the connection of leisure travles to their home countries in which they get circumcised forcibly. According to estimates by the Ministry of Health, an estimated 100 girls and women could be affected annually.

Source

Institut für Frauen- und Männergesundheit/ FEM Süd; http://www.fem.at/shared/FGM-Broschuere-Web.pdf

Metadata

Type:
Database
Language:
German
Types of GBV:
Female Genital Mutilation
Keywords:
female genital mutilation
gender-based violence
data collection