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    • UN in ACTION, an award-winning television series, reports on the work of the UN and its Agencies around the world. These 3- to 5-minute features illustrate UN peacekeeping efforts as well as projects aimed at reducing poverty and human suffering, fighting disease, providing humanitarian assistance and stimulating economic growth. The series consists of fifty seven pieces a year and is available free of rights to broadcasters. For more information, please contact Diane Barkley, barkley@un.org.
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Senegal: Beyond Tradition

It’s painful and it alters women forever. But female circumcision is a traditional practice in many parts of the world. Up to 140 million women and girls have been cut but opposition is growing. Senegal, a West African country, says it wants to eliminate cutting in 5 years. UNIA Programme # 1268 Transcript (pdf): http://www.un.org/webcast/pdfs/unia1268.pdf

Date:15 December 2010
Programme number:1268
Duration:00:04:50

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