The National Population Council in Egypt has created videos as a part of the council’s work towards abandonment of FGM/C in the country. Following are four links to the videos as well as a general explanation of the content.
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كلنا مسئولون – We are all responsible
(Arabic)
The video “We are all responsible” is a part of a campaign against FGM/C run by the National Population Council and UNFPA. The story revolves around Asmaa, a girl with excellent performance in primary school, something her mother would like to celebrate. However, the mother celebrates her in a different way - she takes her to a clinic to have her cut and Asmaa dies.
The narrator asks who is the responsible for Asmaa’s death. Is it the modest parents who were brought up thinking that cutting the girl ensures her honour and chastity? The doctor who sold his dignity for money? The teacher’s lack of awareness? Or is it some of the religious scholars who still claim that FGM/C is a religious duty, even though Al-Azhar ensures it has nothing to do with religion? Could it be the law? “We are all responsible – make people around you aware”.
Stops along the road – محطات على الطريق
)Arabic with English subtitles)
This video clip produced by the National Population Council outlines the issues related to FGM/C in Egypt throughout the 20thcentury. It recaps various claims made by Egyptian researchers, activists and officials in addition to interviews with religious scholars. Other features include news stories, interviews with people in the street as well as a conference for medical doctors.
No to FGM/C, early marriage and deprivation from education
(Arabic with English subtitles)
This video clip produced by the National Population Council shows a girl as she is growing up happily, pursuing her education and getting married as an adult without being subjected to FGM/C.
FGM/C in religion and medicine
(Arabic with English subtitles)
This video clip produced by the National Population Council emphasizes the fact that FGM/C has no root in either Islam or Christianity, and that medical doctors are not allowed to perform it. Why do we do this to our girls?
Our girls’ future is our responsibility – think twice
(Arabic with English subtitles)
This video clip produced by the National Population Council asks whether a girl’s purity is preserved through performance of FGM/C or if this depends on her education and upbringing. “Our girls’ future is a responsibility that fall into our hands – think twice.”
