Female genital mutilation (FGM)
The latest news, comment and analysis on female genital mutilation. Follow coverage of our campaign to
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Information on FGM should be available for all, but it’s the males that need educating, says Katharine Whitehorn
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Letters: Despite the severe financial pressures local authorities are facing, the council is making no reduction in the dedicated FGM community awareness service
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The video, made by a charity for young people, was initially inspired by an article in The Economist, which suggested there were ‘minor’ forms of FGM
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Since opening in 2007, Acton clinic has seen more than 1,000 women and houses experts in the field of female genital mutilation
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End FGM Guardian Global Media Campaign FGM is now considered child abuse, but where is the funding?
Jessica NeuwirthDespite death threats and intimidation African women are working tirelessly to eradicate female genital mutilation on the ground. But not enough funding is getting though -
Development secretary Priti Patel says the UK will lead the way on FGM, child marriage and domestic abuse
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Human rights groups allege female genital mutilation has been carried out on tens of thousands of girls and women in North Caucasus
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The Guardian has been given video evidence of female genital mutilation in Dagestan, where thousands of girls – some as young as three months’ old – are at risk
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Many girls are cut as infants (16% of girls undergo FGM before their first birthday), and most women (82%) aged 15 to 49 who have had FGM state that they were cut before the age of five.
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As the Tory conference opens, the home secretary says the UK has to confront some brutal truths
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The recent ordeal of a woman in eastern Sierra Leone who was allegedly forced to undergo female genital mutilation suggests a ban on the practice imposed after the 2014 Ebola outbreak is no longer being enforced
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Four remarkable women who have put FGM on their respective national agendas joined the sold-out Guardian live event
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Met appeals to Amber Rudd after judge said he did not have authority to ban ‘high-profile’ woman from entering country
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The home affairs committee wants harsher penalties for failing to pass on evidence of female genital mutilation to police
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Moscow-based journalist Marina Akhmedova says criminalisation will drive practice underground in North Caucasus
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Letters: Let’s recognise the limitations of this uninterpretable data collection and question whether the wider cost can be justified
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