UK to prosecute parents of girls who undergo FGM

Type Username Here

Not a new member
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
16,368
Reputation
2,400
Daps
32,646
Reppin
humans
A-woman-cuts-seven-year-o-012.jpg


A woman cuts seven-year-old Sheelan Anwar Omer's genitals in Kurdistan. A study has found 10,000 girls under 15 in Britain have been subjected to FGM.

Parents will be prosecuted if they fail to prevent their daughter being cut, and all victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) will get lifelong anonymity, David Cameron will say on Tuesday.

As the prime minister hosts a Girl Summit with Unicef aimed at mobilising domestic and international efforts to end FGM and child marriage, new measures will be announced aimed at ending the practices "once and for all".The announcement comes the day after it emerged that the number of women living in England and Wales who have been subjected to FGM is twice as high as previously thought. A new study reveals more than 137,000 women in England and Wales are living with the consequences of FGM. The number has significantly increased in the past 10 years as women flee war-torn countries to find safety in Britain, according to the report from City University and the human rights group Equality Now.

To mark the first Girl Summit in the UK, the prime minister will announce a change to the law that will make it parents' responsibility to protect their daughters from FGM or face punishment. Currently it is against the law to cut a child in Britain or take a child out of the country for the purposes of FGM, but this new law will extend sanctions.

Cameron will also launch a £1.4m "prevent programme" to help stop the practice being carried out on girls and to care for survivors, and he is expected to unveil new police guidance on how to handle new cases, and a consultation on civil orders to protect those at risk of FGM.

A new specialist FGM service, which will include social services, will identify those at risk of being cut. Cameron will say: "All girls have the right to live free from violence and coercion, without being forced into marriage, or the lifelong physical and psychological effects of female genital mutilation. Abhorrent practices like these, no matter how deeply rooted in societies, violate the rights of girls and women across the world, including here in the UK."

The new study reveals that in England and Wales about 103,000 migrant women aged 15 to 49, 10,000 girls under 15 and about 24,000 women aged 50 or above had been subjected to FGM. The numbers of women from the Horn of Africa – where the most extreme form of FGM is common – had increased by 32,000, while the number of women from east and west Africa also increased by 10,000 over the past decade.

A 2007 report using 2001 census data stated that 66,000 women and girls had been subjected to FGM in England and Wales with an estimated 24,000 girls under 15 at risk. Until now the most recent study, funded by the Trust for London and the Home Office, does not estimate the number of at-risk girls, but reveals 60,000 girls under 15 were born in England and Wales to mothers who had undergone FGM between 2001-11.

Rest at the guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/society/...ale-genital-mutilation-prosecuted-cameron-law

130,000. God Damn.
 

Type Username Here

Not a new member
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
16,368
Reputation
2,400
Daps
32,646
Reppin
humans
The shocking scale of female genital mutilation (FGM) in a Swedish school, where every single girl in one class had been subjected to the procedure, has been revealed.

School health services in Norrköping, eastern Sweden, discovered 60 cases of FGM since March, according to the Norrköpings Tidningar newspaper.
In the class where all of the girls had FGM performed on them, 28 were subjected to infibulation - the most extreme kind where the clitoris and labia are complete cut away, and the genitals are sewn to leave a small vaginal opening.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/fgm-in-sweden-school-where-every-single-girl-in-one-class-underwent-procedure-exposed-9552854.html

:dahell:
 

Cabbage Patch

The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
Joined
Feb 11, 2014
Messages
14,329
Reputation
1,355
Daps
25,841
Reppin
The Last Frontier
These are women doing it to their daughters, not fathers doing it to their daughters. I can't believe that photo was allowed to be taken, and then published. Looks like some 'if I had to suffer, so do you' shyt. And what's the best way to combat that?

While we're at it, time to put an end to male circumcision as well.
 

SCORCH

Veteran
Supporter
Joined
May 1, 2012
Messages
23,810
Reputation
5,287
Daps
70,838
These are women doing it to their daughters, not fathers doing it to their daughters. I can't believe that photo was allowed to be taken, and then published. Looks like some 'if I had to suffer, so do you' shyt. And what's the best way to combat that?

While we're at it, time to put an end to male circumcision as well.
Harrowing as fukk.
 

mbewane

Knicks: 93 til infinity
Joined
May 3, 2012
Messages
19,273
Reputation
4,261
Daps
55,695
Reppin
Brussels, Belgium
These are women doing it to their daughters, not fathers doing it to their daughters. I can't believe that photo was allowed to be taken, and then published. Looks like some 'if I had to suffer, so do you' shyt. And what's the best way to combat that?

While we're at it, time to put an end to male circumcision as well.

This is EXACTLY what it is. I hate it that it's somehow become a "feminist" issue when it's women doing this to girls.

Either way, good move by the UK, other countries should do the same. Thing is, how will they know? It's one thing that a girl speaks up about it, but what about those who won't?

On the other hand, no it's not like male circumcision breh. Both are indeed a mutilation (I agree with you on that part) but FGM is much more invasive and its effects are much worse, from what I've read about it.
 

Type Username Here

Not a new member
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
16,368
Reputation
2,400
Daps
32,646
Reppin
humans
These are women doing it to their daughters, not fathers doing it to their daughters. I can't believe that photo was allowed to be taken, and then published. Looks like some 'if I had to suffer, so do you' shyt. And what's the best way to combat that?

While we're at it, time to put an end to male circumcision as well.

Harrowing as fukk.

The picture is extremely important I think. Otherwise some might get the idea that this is done to an infant under semi-medical environment. This is sick, twisted mutilation done to girls at various ages, usually in the most gruesome way possible. This is not only severe bodily harm (for no logical reason), it can definitely be interpreted as sexual abuse as well. To think that a parent would willfully put their children through something like that is just as sickening. It deserves serious prison time.
 

Type Username Here

Not a new member
Joined
Apr 30, 2012
Messages
16,368
Reputation
2,400
Daps
32,646
Reppin
humans
lol, I know somebody didn't just try to compare this sick shyt to male circumcision. :wtf:

I have my issues with male circumcision, but there is a definite difference between a medical procedure in a medical environment (regardless of arguments about pros/cons of it) done by a medical official, and a religious leader (Rabbi) mutilating a child for a ceremony to honor a deity in a non-medical, non-clean environment/procedure, especially in the cases where the rabbi puts his mouth on an infant's penis to clean the blood.

Babies' herpes linked to circumcision practice
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/07/health/new-york-neonatal-herpes/

That belongs right up there with FGM in my eyes.
 
Top