VOA慢速英语 200707180041

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Egypt has fully banned the tradition that some call female circumcision and others call female genital mutilation. The government acted after a girl in southern Egypt died. Her mother took her to a docto

NPR美国国家公共电台 NPR 2015-11-02

Egyptian officials say they found the two black boxes from a Russian passenger plane that crashed on its way from Sharm El-Sheikh to St Petersburg this mooring. They say there are no survivors. NPR's AF reports the airbus went down in the Sinai Penin

每日一词【94】spike：铁路枕木上的道钉

今天学的词组是spike。Spike是一种大钉子，比如铁路枕木上的道钉。Spike也有突然增加的意思。比如利率突然提高 - interest rate spikes; 腐败案件突然增多 - corruption cases spiked。 那么说到腐败，美国

Female Genital1 Cutting

Broadcast: Feb 24, 2003 By Jill Moss This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Activists for the rights of women have declared a yearly observance to oppose the cutting of female sex organs.

VOA慢速英语--肯尼亚女孩开发应用程序

Kenyan Girls Develop App to End FGM Five Kenyan schoolgirls have developed an app to help women and girls end female genital mutilation (FGM). The girls will soon take part in the yearly international Technovation competition in California. Technovat

专业术语—皮肤科词汇中英对照(20)

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Conference in Kenya Pushes for Global Ban on Female Genital

By Cathy Majtenyi An international conference to press for the eradication of female genital mutilation in Africa and around the world opened in Kenya Thursday.

2006年VOA标准英语-Opposition Growing in Senegal and Guinea-Bissau

By Phuong Tran Dakar 26 December 2006 Village leaders from a wide area of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau gathered this week to denounce the traditional practice of female genital mutilation. Public-health advocates have been working for years to educate

VOA慢速英语 Health Report - Male Circumcision Reduces Chances of

This is the VOA Special English Health Report. Male circumcision is the cutting off of a small amount of skin from the tip of the penis. In many parts of the world it is done when a baby is a few days old. However, in other parts of the world it is

AS IT IS 2016-02-13 UN: More Female Genital Mutilation Than Thought

AS IT IS 2016-02-13 UN: More Female Genital Mutilation Than Thought Millions more girls and women are victims of female genital mutilation than previously thought, said the United Nations (UN). UNICEF is the UN childrens agency. They said in a report

2007年VOA标准英语-Humanitarian Prize Goes to Senegalese Group Fig

By Phuong Tran Dakar 13 August 2007 A Senegalese non-profit group, which has fought against female genital mutilation for more than 15 years, has won a humanitarian prize of$1.5 million dollars. For VOA, Phuong Tran has more from Dakar. The non-profi

每日一词【205】spike：大幅度上升

今天我们要学的词是spike。 Spike做为名词，有大幅度上升的意思，demand spike，就是需求的猛增，sales spike，就是销售的上涨。最近，美国开车上班的人又开始叫苦连天。这是因为， We have seen a

PBS高端访谈:塞内加尔女性痛苦的成长阶段

JEFFREY BROWN:Next: abandoning a widespread and painful rite of passage. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited the West African nation of Senegal. His report is part of our Agents for Change series. And a note: Some viewers may find the su

2007年VOA标准英语-Surgery Helps Women Recover from Female Genital

By Naomi Schwarz Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso 17 July 2007 Groundbreaking reconstructive surgery for women who have undergone gential mutilation is being performed in Burkina Faso. Despite efforts across Africa to stop the practice of excision, includin

VOA标准英语2009年-Uganda Bans Female Genital Mutilation

The Ugandan parliament has banned the controversial practice known as female genital mutilation, or FGM. The traditional rite - which critics decry as inhumane - is still carried out across much of the region. Alan Boswell | Nairobi 11 December 2009

VOA常速英语2008年-Female Genital Mutilation Still Common in Somal

By Cathy Majtenyi Somaliland 03 March 2008 Female genital mutilation, or FGM, is a traditional practice that is performed throughout the Horn of Africa and other parts of the continent. The procedure is often called female circumcision, and it is ill

2007年VOA标准英语-Eritrea Bans Female Genital Mutilation

By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 05 April 2007 The Eritrean government has banned the practice of female genital mutilation. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. Proclamation 158 went into force on the last day of March. It mandates jail terms or fi

2007年VOA标准英语-UNICEF Urges End to Female Genital Mutilation i

By Lisa Schlein Geneva 18 September 2007 The United Nations Children's Fund says the practice of female genital mutilation remains unacceptably high in Egypt.But, a UNICEF representative tells VOA the Egyptian government is committed to ending this

【英音模仿秀】埃及，最不适宜女性居住国家？

模仿文本： Egypt's come at the bottom of a list of 22 Arab states in which to be a woman. Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital mutilation and the surge in violence in Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring have all contributed toEgypt