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Furthermore, TERRE DES FEMMES makes use of the International Day "Zero Tolerance towards Female Genital Mutilation" on February 6 for the continuous battle of the human rights violation. We have been fighting to end FGM for over 30 years now. Together with the EU-wide projects "CHANGE" and "CHANGE Plus", both coordinated by TERRE DES FEMMES, we sup... port trainings of local propagators (CHANGE Agents from different countries) in order to achieve the abolishment of Female Genital Mutilation across Europe. As the German partner organisation we contribute to the EU-co-financed project "United to END FGM" by having created a multilingual online learning platform for different fields of profession worldwide. The platform will be launched on February 6, 2017 in thecontext of a conference of the German Ministry of Family Affairs in Berlin. This conference primarily addresses professionals who come into contact with survivors of FGM and/or girls and women in danger of having to undergo FGM during their everyday work. The professional fields in question are therefore the medical sector, counselling, and the educational (amongst others). Extensive support of the survivors as well as improved protection of the endangered is needed urgently, which is one reason why it is so important raise awareness among the professionals in question. The learning platform seeks to achieve one part of this educational work and can be reached by everyone interested in the topic from February 6, 2017 on. It will be presented online in nine languages and is free of charge.Read More