September 28

8:30 – 9:15  Reception and Registration

9:15 – 09:45  Opening Ceremony

Luís Reto, Rector of ISCTE-IUL

Luís Nuno Rodrigues, Director CEI-IUL

Laura Nuño Goméz, Principal Investigator MAP-FMG & Project Coordinator, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Clara Carvalho, Project Coordinator MAP-FGM, CEI-IUL

09:45 – 10:15 Opening Intervention

Catarina Marcelino, Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality

10:15 – 11:15 Keynote Speaker

Fatou Sarr Sow (Institut Fondamental de l’Afrique Noire – Senegal)

11:15 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Roundtable 1 – Models of Combat and Prevention of FGM/C in West Africa

Chair: Michela Fusaschi (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)

Speakers:

Maire ni Mhordha – “A critical analysis of the Tostan approach to FGC.” 

Adriana Kaplan – “Transnational Observatory of applied research to knowledge transfer in cascade”

Abdoulaye Doro Sow – “Cultural counter-argumentation as cultural strategy to combat the practice of FGM”

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 16:30 Roundtable 2 – Implementation of Human Rights Conventions and Treaties in West Africa

Chair: Els Leye (RHEA & Vrije Universiteit Brussels)

Speakers:

Annemarie Middelburg – “FGM/C as a human rights violation: implementation of human rights treaties in Senegal”

Alpha Amadou Bano Barry – “Strategies and Actions of Promotion of the abandonment of excision and the socioanthropological determinants of excision in Guinea

Fatumata Djau Baldé – “Female Genital Mutilation, a question of human rights of women in Guinea Bissau”

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 – 18:30 Documentary screening:

“Este é o meu corpo” (“This is my body”) (Inês Leitão&Daniela Leitão)

September 29

09:30 – 11:00 Roundtable 3 – The fight against FGM/C as a form to promote gender equality

Chair: Ana Lúcia Teixeira (FCSH-UNL & ONVG)

Speakers:

Carla Martingo – “Voices and leaderships for the ending of FGM”

Filomena Djassi – “Promoting behaviour change towards the eradication of Female Genital Mutilation”

Alexandra Alves Luís – “Girls and young women living with FGM/C in Portugal – needs and expectations”

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 Roundtable 4 – Institutional responses in Health

Chair: Alice Frade (P&D Factor)

Speakers:

Comfort Momoh – “Treating and caring for girls and women living with FGM – United Kingdom Response”

Owolabi Bjalkänder – “Treating and caring for girls and women living with FGM/C – Sierra Leone Response”

Michela Villani – “Reparative Approaches in Healthcare: Taking in Account Women’s Meanings of « Reparation » After FGM in Switzerland and France”

Nora Salas Seoane – “Empowering primary care professionals to prevent FGM in a municipality of Catalonia”

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 – 16:30 Final Roundtable: Institutions Responding to FGM/C

Chair: Clara Carvalho (ISCTE-IUL)
Speakers:
Mónica Ferro, Director of the UNFPD Office in Geneva

Ana Carla Correia, Portuguese Ministry of Health / Directorate-General of Health (DGS)

Helena Leitão, GREVIO (Group of Experts on Action against Violence against Women and Domestic Violence)

Teresa Fragoso, President of Gender Equality Commission (CIG)