This site contains information on advocacy, research, and legal reform. This is a link to a collection of human rights-related decisions, reports, resolutions, and statements from UN entities. A visitor to this site may select to view the documents according to body, country, mandate, subject, symbol, or year. This contains documents, arranged according to year, on traditional practices affecting the health of women and the girl child, including female genital mutilation, son preference, traditional marriage and related practices, and traditional birth practices. There are several detailed reports in which visitors may find descriptions and comparisons of harmful traditional practices, discussions of measures taken to eliminate them, and recommendations for the future.
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