Launch: 3rd Edition FGM Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

Established in 2001, Akina Dada wa Africa-AkiDwA (Swahili for sisterhood) is a national network of migrant women living in Ireland.  The organisation promotes the equality of migrant women in Irish society, free of gender and racial stereotyping and applies a holistic approach to integration, promoting a migrant and gender-specific approach to public services, as well as encouraging migrant women’s access to mainstream services and initiatives. AkiDwA employs several strategies to achieve its objectives, outreach, networking, research, policy work and capacity building.For AkiDwA, the term ‘Migrant Women’ includes not only recent immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees, but also migrant workers, students, trafficked and undocumented women. It also includes those who have acquired Irish citizenship but who still consider themselves to be outside the mainstream society in terms of their linguistic, racial or cultural backgrounds, and who therefore still define themselves as Migrants.

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Launch of a handbook to help healthcare professionals deal with clients with FGM backgrounds.

Rotunda Hospital

<p>This handbook is very significant to the work of healthcare professionals, as it has the latest information on how to handle women who have gone through Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Ireland. Currently in Ireland, the number of women who have gone through FGM stands at nearly 6,000. What’s more, it will go a long way in enlightening those working in the sector on how to increase child protection, as we know that currently in Ireland, at least 1,600 girls are at risk of undergoing FGM. You will also be able to learn about what SATU is doing to support women suffering from the consequences of FGM.</p>

Launch: 3rd Edition FGM Handbook for Healthcare Professionals

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