Awards

  • De Schaepdryver-Caenepeel Award for development work in health care, Female genital mutilation

    De Schaepdryver-Caenepeel Award for development work in health care, “Female genital mutilation”, 2000. Triennial award from the Royal Academy of Medicine Belgium

  • Award for scientific achievements for advancement of women

    Soroptimist International Belgium, Award for scientific achievements for advancement of women (for work on Female Genital Mutilation in Europe), 2009, five-yearly award.

  • Women for Peace 2011 Award

    Women for Peace 2011, Award received from Belgian Platform 1325, Women’s Council and Institute Equal Opportunities Women and Men

  • Flemish Woman of 2015

    Flemish Woman of 2015, Award received at the Parliament for my international commitment to end violence against women.

PhD students

  • Sophie Withaeckx, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, RHEA Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality, title: “Honour, Gender and Violence. A qualitative research and critical analysis of meanings and experiences with honour and honour related violence in a migration context”, successfully defended September 17 2014.

  • Annemarie Middelburg, Intervict (Institute Victimology), Universiteit Tilburg, Law School, title: “Empty Promises ? The impact of the international human rights framework on the eradication of FGM”, successfully defended March 18 2016.

  • An Van Raemdonck, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Ghent University, title “Female genital cutting and the politics of Islamicate practices in Egypt”, successfully defended December 16 2016.

  • Quentin Wodon, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, title: “Impacts of Child Marriage on Girls Marrying Early and their Children”, successfully defended March 20 2017

  • Alexia Sabbe, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, title “Forced and child marriage at the intersection of health, gender and human rights: understanding the determinants in Morocco and the impact of the migratory context in Belgium”, successfully defended June 17 2019

  • Anna N. Niinsima, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, RHEA Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality, title “Context matters: Assessing the Environment for Sexuality Education to Deliver ‘Healthy’ Outcomes for Adolescents in Uganda”, successfully defended October 1 2019

  • Susan Dierickx. Gender & Diversity Studies Ghent University & Gender and Diversity, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, title “Women experiencing infertility in The Gambia. A contextual understanding of agency, harm and violence”, successfully defended February 7 2020.

  • Nina Van Eekert, Faculty of Medicine, Ghent University, title: “Female genital cutting in a comparative perspective. A study on changes in prevalence, type and medicalisation in African countries”, 2016 – 2020.

 

Publications 

Here are some of my key publications per topic of the most recent years; a full list of my publications is available at a simple request via this e-mail: els.leye@skynet.be 

 

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    Van Bavel H, Coene G, Leye E. 2017. Changing practices and shifting meanings of female genital cutting among the Maasai of Arusha and Manyara Regions of Tanzania. April 2017, CULTURE, HEALTH AND SEXUALITY,

    http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2017.1313449

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    Leye E, Coene G. (eds.). Researching Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting. Proceedings of the 2nd International Academic Seminar of MAP-FGM Project. Brussels: VUB Press, 2017.

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    Ortensi LE, Farina P, Leye E. 2018. Female genital mutilation/cutting in Italy: an enhanced estimation for first generation migrant women based on 2016 survey data. BMC PUBLIC HEALTH. 18. DOI: 10.1186/s12889-017-5000-6

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    Johansen REB, Ziyada MM, Shell-Duncan B, Kaplan AM, Leye E. 2018. Health Sector Involvement in the management of female genital mutilation/cutting in 30 countries. BMC HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH. 18. DOI: 10.1186/s12913- 018-3033-x.

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    Leye E, Kehrer I. Female genital mutilation as a form of torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment: Intersections with the migration context. In: Gender Perspective on Torture: Law and Practice. American University. Washington College of Law. Centre for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law Anti-Torture Initiative, 2018

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    “Technical paper on strategies to address medicalization of FGM”, paper for UNFPA WACRO, 2018.

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    Cappa C, Van Baelen L, Leye E. 2019. The practice of female genital mutilation across the world: Data availability and approaches to measurement. GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH. 14(8) p. 1139-1152. DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2019.1571091

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    Leye E. 2019. Multidisciplinary care for women affected by female genital mutilation/cutting Findings from Belgium. In : Body, Migration, Re/Constructive Sugeries : Making the Gendered Body in a Globalized World. Griffin G, Jordal M (eds.). Routledge Research in Gender and Society, p 63-77.

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    Leye E, Van Eekert N, Shamu S, Esho T, Barrett H, ANSER.

    Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): learning from (policy) experiences across countries. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, (2019) 16: 158. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-019-0817-3

  • Female genital mutilation/cutting

    Barrett HR, Brown K, Alhassan Y, Leye E. Transforming Social Norms to end FGM in the EU: An Evaluation of The REPLACE Approach. Accepted for publication in REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, February 2020.

  • Gender Equality

    Kemigisha E, Nyakato VN, Bruce K, Ruzaaza GN, Mlahagwa W, Ninsiima AB, Coene G, Leye E, Michielsen K. 2018. Adolescents' Sexual Wellbeing in Southwestern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Assessment of Body Image, Self- Esteem and Gender Equitable Norms. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 15(2). DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15020372.

  • Gender Equality

    Ninsiima AB, Leye E, Michielsen K, Kemigisha E, Nyakato VN, Coene G. 2018. "Girls Have More Challenges; They Need to Be Locked Up": A Qualitative Study of Gender Norms and the Sexuality of Young Adolescents in Uganda. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH. 15(2). DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15020193.

  • Gender Equality

    Ninsiima AB, Michielsen K, Kemigisha E, Nyakoto VN, Leye E, Coene G. Poverty, Gender and Reproductive Justice. A Qualitative Study among Adolescent Girls in Western Uganda. CULTURE, HEALTH AND SEXUALITY, DOI:10.1080/1369105058.2019.16604062019, February 2020.

  • Gender Based Violence

    Fonck K, Leye E, Kidula N, Ndinya-Achola J, Temmerman M. Increased risk of HIV in women experiencing physical violence: findings from the STI referral clinic in Nairobi, Kenya. AIDS AND BEHAVIOR, 9;3:335-9, (2005).

  • Gender Based Violence

    Amanda J Mason-Jones, De Koker P, Matthijs Eggers S, Mathews C, Temmerman M, Leye E, J de Vries P, de Vries H. Intimate partner violence in early adolescence: The role of gender, socioeconomic factors and the school. THE SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL JOURNAL, 2016;106(5):502-509.

  • Gender Based Violence

    Leye E, D’souza Hayley, Meurens Nathalie. The added value of and resistance to the Istanbul Convention: a comparative study in 27 EU Member States and Turkey. FRONTIERS IN HUMAN DYNAMICS, November 2021.

  • Hymenoplasty

    Leye E. Ogbe E, Heyerick M. 2018. ‘Doing hymen reconstruction’ : an analysis of perceptions and experiences of Flemish gynaecologists. BMC WOMENS HEALTH. 18. DOI: 10.1186/s12905-018-0587-

  • Hymenoplasty

    Leye E, Ogbe E. Vaginal practices across cultures: expressions of gender inequalities? In: Interrogating Harmful Cultural Practices: Gender, Culture and Coercion, Longman C, Bradlin T (eds.), 2015, Ashgate Publisher.

  • Comprehensive sexuality education

    Kemigisha E, Ivanova O, Ruzaaza GN, Ninsiima AB, Kaziga R, Bruce K, Leye E, Coene G, Nyakato VN, Michielsen K. Process evaluation of a comprehensive sexuality education intervention in primary schools in South Western Uganda. SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE 2019. 21 p.51-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.srhc.2019.06.006

  • Comprehensive sexuality education

    Coene G, Michielsen K. 2019. Sexual health of very young adolescents in South Western Uganda: a cross-sectional assessment of sexual knowledge and behavior. REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH. 15(148). DOI: 10.1186/s12978-018- 0595-3

  • Comprehensive sexuality education

    Ninsiima AB, Coene G, Michielsen K, Najjuka S, Kemigisha E, Ruzaaza GN, Nyakato VN, Leye E. 2019. Institutional and contextual obstacles to sexuality education policy implementation in Uganda. SEX EDUCATION. Doi: 10.1080/14681811.2019.1609437.

  • Comprehensive sexuality education

    Ninsiima AB, Michielsen K, Najjuka S, Kemigisha E, Nyakoto VN, Leye E, Coene

    G. “Ours is abstinence only education”: Resistance to Comprehensive Sexuality Education in Uganda. Submitted to AFRICAN STUDIES JOURNAL, 2019.

  • Child, early and forced marriage

    Sabbe A, El Boujaddayni, Temmerman M, Leye E. 2019. Marriage and Migration: Moroccan Women’s Views on Partner Choice, Arranged and Forced Marriage in Belgium. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION AND INTEGRATION. Doi:10.1007/s12134-018-00646-9. P.1-24.

  • Child, early and forced marriage

    Leye E. Forced Marriage in Europe: The Case of Belgium. In: Responding to domestic violence. Emerging challenges for policy, practice and research in Europe. Holt S, Overlien C, Devaney J (eds.). London: J Kingsley Publishers, 2018, p. 251-269.