THE DEVASTATING impact and scale of domestic abuse in the North-East was discussed at a conference on Thursday. Experts from agencies and charities across the Tees Valley gathered in Stockton to explore the complex nature of abuse and share strategies and methods of tackling the issue. Murder, sexual abuse, coercive control, elder abuse, forced marriage […]

Federal officials recently filed charges against a suburban Detroit doctor for allegedly performing female genital mutilation (FGM) on several young girls. They say doctor Jumana Nagarwala performed female genital mutilation on two seven-year-olds from Minnesota. The practice of FGM is illegal in the United States and two others are charged with conspiring to perform the act. Nagarwala has pleaded “not guilty,” […]

It’s thought that around 5,000 to 8,000 cases of forced marriages happen in England every year. Almost half the cases involve 16 to 25-year-old girls and women, but it’s those who are still in education that are at the greatest risk. People with learning difficulties are also incredibly vulnerable. But despite it being so prevalent […]

New report finds half of female genital mutilation cases are in London, with 65,000 girls at risk across the country. The London Assembly, an elected body, has called on the city’s mayor Sadiq Khan to lead a campaign to end “the hidden crime” of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the capital. An estimated 170,000 women […]

A case of female genital mutilation was discovered every three days, on average, by maternity staff in Wales last year. New figures obtained by BBC Wales show 123 victims of FGM were found by midwives or maternity doctors in 2016. A further 44 children under the age of 18 were highlighted as vulnerable to the […]

Activists campaigning to change Lebanon’s law on rape have staged a macabre protest on Beirut’s famous sea front. What appeared to be more than 30 white wedding dresses were hung from nooses, strung up between the palm trees. Lebanese law currently allows a rapist to be exonerated if he marries his victim. The activists are […]

A female Michigan doctor was charged on Thursday with performing female genital mutilation on minor girls aged 7. This is the first time an indictment for FGM has been filed against a doctor since FGM on minors was outlawed in the United States twenty years ago. Jumana Nagarwala, 44, performed the procedures in the Henry […]

Unless the media talks about celebrities, politics, or President Donald Trump, our country doesn’t want to hear it. But an ongoing movement is developing throughout the world to stop girls and women from undergoing female genital mutilation. Primarily performed on girls between infancy and age 15, female genital mutilation, or FGM, entails all procedures that intentionally remove […]

So-called “honour crimes” have risen by 40 per cent in five years in London, with the number of forced marriages doubling in the same period. According to the figures, obtained by the Evening Standard, some of the children involved in the abuse were younger than ten-years-old. Since 2012, honour crimes reported to the Metropolitan Police […]