I had known for a few months that I was going to be speaking at the ‘its not ok’ event and sharing my experience of child sex abuse and honour based violence. I had written my speech over the Christmas and New Year holidays and was confident and looking forward to the event. I had […]

MSP Mary Fee has called for a global effort to end the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). The West Scotland politician spoke during a debate supporting International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. In Scotland, it is estimated that 24,000 living in the country today were born in lands that practise FGM […]

So little was known, until recently, about the secretive practice of FGM in a small  Muslim community that India is not even on the UN’s list of FGM countries. India’s Dawoodi Bohra community has been so closeted about its practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) that its recent disclosure shocked even women’s rights activists. It […]

KENYA A PASTOR in Kenya is making a stand against female genital mutilation (FGM) to protect his daughters from an “injustice that would rob them” of their human rights, education, and well-being, an anti-FGM campaigner in the country, Susan Krop, has reported. The pastor, Emmanuel Longelech, and his three daughters, live in West Pokot, a […]

Pakistan has outlawed child marriage and toughened penalties for those guilty of the crime in an effort to crack down on the practice which is estimated to affect one in five girls in the country. The legislation passed by the National Assembly, or lower house of parliament, also bans forced marriage involving women from minority groups. Under […]

EGYPT : The world celebrated the International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM on Monday. It is a day meant to display our collective resistance to the crime of female genital mutilation (FGM), which is in the sixth of February every year. The fact is that this heinous crime still assassinates the innocence of many […]

Bristol has one of the highest rates of Female Genital Mutilation in the country and university boffins are hoping to discover why. It will look at why FGM continues to be a major problem in certain areas such as Bristol. It comes as Avon and Someret Police lead the way in investigating the phenomenon having […]

The Conservative MP for Wealden Nusrat Ghani, has proposed, in a new private members Bill – the Crime (Aggravated Murder of and Violence Against Women) Bill – that the use of the widely used and accepted term “honour” killing should be banned from official publications and that this form of violence against women and girls […]

A case of female genital mutilation (FGM) is either discovered or treated at a medical appointment in England every hour, a charity has said. Plan International UK said statistics showed there were 8,656 times when a girl or woman was assessed at a doctor’s surgery or hospital. Charity boss Tanya Barron said: “These figures are […]