Policies introduced to protect women and girls are alienating African diaspora communities https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/04/female-gential-mutilation-uk-safeguarding-policies-undermining-welfare-study-finds
Despite multiple accounts of trauma caused by female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Tana River region in Kenya there are concerns it’s on the rise…
A Texas woman has been charged with taking a girl abroad to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in the first such case in the United…
‘It’s removal would further undermine the victims of this horrible abuse who are often hidden,’ says victims’ commissioner https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/honour-abuse-fgm-forced-marriage-b1782200.html
Between October and November, 76 experts from 44 organisations in 31 countries and from 5 world regions gathered online to participate in multiple virtual stakeholder…
A British-Iranian academic has been sentenced to eight years in prison by a court in Tehran, his lawyer says. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-55300694
Women are being offered controversial “virginity tests” at British medical clinics, an investigation by BBC Newsbeat and 100 Women has found. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-55078634
It is feared victims of female genital mutilation in England are not reporting cases because of delays and lockdown closures, charities have told the BBC.…
Shortly after sunrise, three boys step off their motorcycle, pat the dust off their checkered shuka cloths, and enter their family’s boma – an enclosure…
Astrid Fairclough, an NHS programme director from Swanage, Dorset, travelled to Kenya, Egypt, Sierra Leone and Australia to learn how the End FGM projects are…
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