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 States, the justice department said. https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-law-fgm-idUSL8N2JP3UX
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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
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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 dialogue sessions in the run up to the FGM Donors Working Group meeting on 16-17 November. https://www.endfgm.eu/news-en-events/news/online-dialogue-on-preventing-and-responding-to-fgm-in-emergency-and-humanitarian-contexts/
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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
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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
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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. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55089000
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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 built from thorny acacia branches in eastern Samburu. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/nov/09/kenya-warrior-children-back-to-school-photo-essay
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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 being sustained and embedded, especially considered how health professionals involved in the work are being supported to do this. She...
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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 to brutal mutilation – related practices on a continuum of acceptance and repulsion which obscures commonalities and erases distinctions. A...
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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 violence against women and girls. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/09/nimco-ali-calls-frank-discussion-violence-against-women-uk
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