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 […]

Red Triangle initiative aims to encourage people to give police information to detect and prevent female genital mutilation Commander Mak Chishty, the police national lead on “honour”-based violence, has written to every police force in the country reminding them that while progress has been made, there is yet to be a successful prosecution for FGM. […]

Babies are among the victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), campaigners claim, reflecting a growing trend of younger girls being targeted. Girls were traditionally cut when they were around 10 years old, to ‘prepare them for marriage’, but are now being disfigured earlier so offenders can escape justice, say the Africa-based Network Against Female Genital […]

The term “honour killing” should be banned because “political correctness” is putting police off investigating domestic violence, a Conservative MP has said. Nusrat Ghani warned that police officers can be wary of intervening fully in so-called honour cases for fear of offending the community. The MP for Wealden is proposing a Bill which will ban the term “honour killing” […]

An MP is attempting to ban authorities from describing murders as “honour killings”. Conservative Nusrat Ghani said the term was used by abusers as a “pathetic self-justification” for their violence. She proposed a bill in the House of Commons that would ban the use of the description in official publications. The move would make it […]

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – There is a growing global drive to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM) in a generation. Ministers, U.N. officials and campaigners from around the world meet in Rome on Monday for a major conference to discuss how to accelerate efforts to end the practice. Here are some facts. – An estimated […]

Survivors of rape often say they are left with devastating, sometimes lifelong, trauma. One woman who was sexually assaulted in Iraq described her feelings this way: “I have no past and no future at the moment. I am stuck in my anger and pain.” Imagine how much worse this pain would be if you were […]

Mayar Mohamed Moussa, 17, died last year after her mother took her to a private hospital for the procedure. Egyptian experts have criticised lenient sentencing in what is only the country’s second ever prosecution for female genital mutilation (FGM) procedure. The four accused were given suspended prison sentences and fines following the death of 17-year-old […]

  Parveen Bibi will be executed for burning her daughter Zeenat Rafiq to death The 18-year-old angered her mother by getting married to an unapproved man Murderous mother Bibi tied her daughter to a cot and set her on fire in Lahore She then ran out into the street bragging of how she had killed […]