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GAMS
(Women’s Group for the abolition of female genital mutilation and
other harmful practices affecting the health of women and children)
66,
rue des Grands-Champs, 75020 Paris
Tel: (33) 1 43 48 10 87
Fax: (33) 1 43 48 00 73
Metro: Buzenval, Avron
Our office hours: Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon and from
2 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (please call or e-mail in advance).
The GAMS is at your disposition during our office hours and
24/7 on our answering machine.
The
GAMS is a non-profit association according to the law of
1901. Its members are African and French women with a variety of
professional skills in the health, social and educational sector
as well as a profound knowledge and long experience in the prevention
of female genital mutilation (FGM). The GAMS is financed by the
Women’s Rights Service and the Social Action Fund.
In France: the GAMS
The GAMS is recognized as the French section of the Inter African
Committee (IAC). The GAMS was established in Paris in 1982.
In Europe, the IAC is represented by four groups/ sections. Who
is directly concerned? On the African continent where maternal and
infant mortality is the highest in the world, more than 130 million
women and girls in 26 countries are concerned by female genital
mutilation.
In France, about 30.000 are concerned. However, women and girls
in other parts of the world also suffer from FGM: in Yemen, Indonesia,
Malaysia, Bahrain, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Saudi-Arabia, India,
but also in the immigrant community in the occidental countries
like the United States, Canada, Norway, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands,
Switzerland, Germany, Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom and Belgium
among others. .
In Africa: the Inter African
Committee (IAC)
It consists of 26 national committees on traditional practices affecting
the health of women and children. The IAC was established at Dakar
in 1984.
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The
GAMS provides assistance to you:
 To be better
informed about these practices and to prevent them;
To obtain support
and counsel in order to better react to situations of excision,
of polygamy and of forced or precocious marriage;
To organize
prevention and awareness campaigns;
To enrich your
professional training program with a class on traditional practices
affecting the health of women and children;
To do research
for a thesis.
The
GAMS is at your disposition during our office hours and 24/7 on
our answering machine.
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