Monthly Archives: February 2017

Wanted: Three IMS delegates for 2017 – apply by 17 February

It is that time of year again: the IMS Delegate elections are coming up! All Individual Members with their membership fees paid are invited to submit their candidacy. Are you eager to strengthen the role of the IMS within LYMEC? Do you want to act on your pan-European instincts? Are you eager to represent the…

LYMEC condemns all mutilation, and calls for international cooperation to end Female Genital Mutilation worldwide.

6 February is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. FGM is the ritual removal of some or all of the female genitalia and it affects about 200 million girls and women alive today. It is mostly carried out on young girls sometime between infancy and age 15. It is often seen…