‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGM
‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGMArt and counselling are helping women and girls in Kenya to process anger and…
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ACERS-UK Delegates Observe Reconstruction Surgery Procedure at Dr. Pierre Foldes Clinic in France
In April 2024, a small delegation from ACERS UK project, consisting of a midwife (Juliet Albert), a consultant urogynaecologist (Dalia Saidan), and a plastic surgeon…
First FGM Surgery Masterclass held in Geneva, 16th & 17th February, 2024
Representatives from the UK’s ACERS-UK project (Advocating Research into Clitoral Reconstruction Surgery and Emotional Support for FGM Survivors), Juliet Albert (FGM Specialist Midwife, The Sunflower…
ACERS-UK launches a Parliamentary Petition on International Women’s Day: Advocating for research into Clitoral Reconstruction and psychosexual and Emotional Support for FGM survivors
In celebration of International Women’s Day, on March 8th, 2024, the ACERS-UK project is launching a parliamentary petition. ACERS-UK is a voluntary collective of FGM…
International Women’s Day – March 8th 2024
To celebrate International Women’s Day, March 8th the ACERSUK project (Advocating Access to Clitoral reconstruction surgery and Emotional support for FGM Survivors within a Research…
Zero Tolerance to FGM Day – 6th February 2024
We recently celebrated Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Day by hosting a national stakeholder event! Our conversations revolved around an issue that is…
Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Dataset Consultation
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has commissioned NHS England to carry out a review of the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Enhanced Dataset. The…
Woman convicted of taking British girl, three, for female genital mutilation in Kenya
Amina Noor, 39, found guilty of assisting another person to carry out FGM, in first conviction of its kind. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/26/woman-found-guilty-taking-british-girl-3-kenya-female-genital-mutilation
‘No doctor in the country will touch you’: how the NHS is failing FGM survivors
At least 137,000 women in the UK live with the painful and traumatic consequences of cutting, but there is no provision for reconstructive surgery https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/dec/21/how-the-nhs-is-failing-fgm-survivors?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
More than a dozen FGM victims in Milton Keynes, Luton and Beds seen by NHS services last year
More than a dozen victims of female genital mutilation were seen by NHS services in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes in the year to March,…