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    Reuters

    Texas woman charged with taking girl abroad for FGM in landmark U.S. case

    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…

    FGM Network January 14, 2021
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    The Independent

    Fears honour-based abuse could go undetected due to ‘short-sighted’ government plans to scrap term

    ‘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

    FGM Network January 7, 2021
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    Preventing and Responding to FGM in Emergency and Humanitarian Contexts

    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…

    FGM Network December 17, 2020
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    BBC

    Kameel Ahmady: British FGM academic ‘jailed in Iran’

    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

    FGM Network December 14, 2020
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    BBC

    Controversial ‘virginity tests’ sold by UK clinics

    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  

    FGM Network November 27, 2020
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    BBC

    Coronavirus: Concern as FGM reports fall during pandemic

    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.…

    FGM Network November 26, 2020
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    The Guardian

    The battle to bring Kenya’s warrior children back to school – a photo essay

    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…

    FGM Network November 9, 2020
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    Winston Churchill Memorial Trust

    FGM; how healthcare professionals from affected communities are supported

    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…

    FGM Network October 18, 2020
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    Kings College London

    PATRIARCHAL INSCRIPTIONS female bodies contested, invaded defended & owned

    Within a broad spectrum of historical and cross-cultural violence against women, the female body is subjected to patriarchal inscriptions which range from fashion-driven body modifications…

    FGM Network October 18, 2020
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    The Guardian

    Nimco Ali calls for frank discussion on violence against women in UK

    The UK needs a frank conversation about the fear of male violence that women live with every day, according to the government’s new adviser on…

    FGM Network October 9, 2020
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    Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a form of gender-based violence that is outlawed in many countries. FGM represents a violation of the human rights of the girls and women who are subjected to this practice, for which there are no medical benefits.

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