Female genital mutilation (FGM)
The latest news, comment and analysis on female genital mutilation. Follow coverage of our campaign to
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Boys as well as girls should be told about the evils of FGMInformation on FGM should be available for all, but it’s the males that need educating, says Katharine Whitehorn -
Ealing council, FGM and funding for the Acton African Well Woman CentreLetters: Despite the severe financial pressures local authorities are facing, the council is making no reduction in the dedicated FGM community awareness service -
Bristol anti-FGM video is an online hitThe 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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London FGM clinic to close after funding cutSince 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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FGM is now considered child abuse, but where is the funding?Despite death threats and intimidation African women are working tirelessly to eradicate female genital mutilation on the ground. But not enough funding is getting though
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Extra £6m in development funding to fight abuse of women and girlsDevelopment secretary Priti Patel says the UK will lead the way on FGM, child marriage and domestic abuse
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Russia orders inquiry into claims of FGM in DagestanHuman 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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FGM in Dagestan: where gynaecologists offer to cut girls for £10 – videoThe 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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Nigeria: 20 million women and girls have undergone FGMMany 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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The Conservatives will lift the shroud of silence to protect society’s vulnerableAs the Tory conference opens, the home secretary says the UK has to confront some brutal truths
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Captured and cut: FGM returns to Sierra Leone despite official banThe 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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EndFGM: Guardian live event held in LondonFour remarkable women who have put FGM on their respective national agendas joined the sold-out Guardian live event
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Police urge home secretary to ban FGM practitioner from entering UKMet appeals to Amber Rudd after judge said he did not have authority to ban ‘high-profile’ woman from entering country
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MPs demand hard line against clinicians who do not report FGMThe home affairs committee wants harsher penalties for failing to pass on evidence of female genital mutilation to police
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Tough prison sentences 'will not end FGM in Dagestan'Moscow-based journalist Marina Akhmedova says criminalisation will drive practice underground in North Caucasus
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We need better data on FGM, not propagandaLetters: Let’s recognise the limitations of this uninterpretable data collection and question whether the wider cost can be justified
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