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Tackling Honour Based Violence, Forced Marriage and FGM – 7th July – Central London

Published: April 18th, 2015 Updated: December 1st, 2021

Capita’s Tackling Honour Based Violence (HBV), Forced Marriage (FM) and FGM Conferencecomes as the government amends the Serious Crime Bill to introduce the mandatory duty to report all cases of female genital mutilation, and following the introduction of a new civil protection order that will protect those most at risk.

This event brings together expert speakers from police, education, local authorities, health and the voluntary sector to enhance partnership working and to examine how adopting a stronger multi-agency response can enable prevention, as well as early intervention and support for victims and those at risk.

Attend this event to gain crucial knowledge and make sure that your organisation is fully equipped to deliver effective, holistic services that safeguard vulnerable individuals.

Speakers Include:

  • Keynote: Chaz Akoshile, Joint Head, Forced Marriage Unit
  • Keynote: Tim Thompson, Deputy Chief, Crown Prosecutor, and London Lead for Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)
  • Chair: Aneeta Prem, Founder, Freedom Charity
  • Sophie Allen, Headteacher, Stonebridge Primary School
  • Alison Byrne, Specialist FGM Midwife, Heart of England NHS Trust, and Member, FGM National Clinical Group
  • Anthony Stansfeld, Police and Crime Commissioner, Thames Valley Police
  • Vivienne Hayes, CEO, Women’s Resource Centre

Website: http://www.capitaconferences.co.uk/public-sector-conferences/detail/article/tackling-honour-based-violence-forced-marriage-and-fgm-conference.html?code=SMMK

Brochure: http://www.capitaconferences.co.uk/pdfgen.html?filename=HBV__FM_and_FGM.pdf&code=SMMK

Source: http://www.24dash.com/news/communities/2015-04-17-Tackling-Honour-Based-Violence-Forced-Marriage-and-FGM-7th-July-Central-London

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All-women shows of new FGM play from National Theatre of Scotland

Published: April 14th, 2015 Updated: December 1st, 2021

THE National Theatre of Scotland is to put on its first women-only matinées for its new play about female genital mutilation.

Rites, by the award-winning director and writer Cora Bissett and Manchester-based theatre practitioner Yusra Warsama, examines female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female circumcision or cutting.  Rites is based on interviews with young women and girls who have been cut, their mothers who feel the need to carry on the practice, and the health professionals, teachers and others who deal with the consequences.

FGM involves partial or total removal of external female genitalia.

The reasons for it are complicated and differ depending on a number of factors, including which of the African and the Middle East countries where FGM is concentrated the girl has come from or has roots. Bissett, whose previous work includes the powerful and award-winning Roadkill and Glasgow Girls, hopes the play will fairly and sensitively discuss FGM.

She said: “Theatre is an extremely powerful medium to explore complex stories, put cultural practice under the spotlight and to find sensitive ways of portraying traumatic human experiences.

Read More:http://www.thenational.scot/news/all-women-shows-of-new-fgm-play-from-national-theatre-of-scotland.2007

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Police at Liverpool John Lennon airport to raise awareness of human trafficking

Published: April 14th, 2015 Updated: December 1st, 2021

Police officers will be at Liverpool John Lennon Airport, over the next few days, to talk to travellers about human trafficking.

The officers will be in the departures area working with colleagues from Karma Nirvana and The UK Border Force Safeguarding Team speaking with people and offering them help if they have concerns or information about issues like forced marriage, honour based violence and female genital mutilation.

Detective Chief Inspector Natalie Perischine from the Liverpool Protecting Vulnerable People unit, said: “This is a busy time of year when people will be using Liverpool John Lennon Airport to connect with destinations across the world.

“This operation is all about raising awareness of FGM, forced marriage and honour based violence and encouraging people to speak to us if they have information or concerns.

“School holidays can see an increase in the number of young people being forced to travel abroad and we are determined to work with LJLA and a range of partners to provide a visible presence and show our absolute commitment to tackling these problems and supporting victims.”

Read More: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/police-liverpool-john-lennon-airport-9022691

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Our Film About ‘Honor Violence’ Should Not Be Censored

Published: April 1st, 2015 Updated: December 1st, 2021

Last Sunday, a group of students at the University of South Dakota planned to attend a screening of our film, Honor Diaries, a documentary focused on the abuses women face under the honor system.

The film follows the stories of nine women’s rights activists — of Christian, Sikh, and Muslim backgrounds — as they tackle the taboo surrounding honor-based violence: murders in the name of honor, forced and early marriage, and female genital mutilation (FGM).

The film has won awards at multiple film festivals, been screened at the UK House of Commons, Amnesty International, and the UN in New York and Geneva, as well as hundreds of universities across the countries. But the students in South Dakota never got a chance to watch the film. They were not given the platform to explore its issues, celebrate its women, or become empowered by its message. A professor at the university who supports the film called it “stealth repression” that the film screening was mysteriously canceled. Organizers of another Honor Diaries screening, scheduled for April 10 at the university, have been under steady attack and pressure to do the same. Fortunately, they are holding out and standing strong in the name of freedom of expression, human rights and women’s empowerment.

Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/raheel-raza/honor-diaries_b_6968630.html

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Law firm Makin Dixon says child sex abuse grooming ‘massive issue’ for Huddersfield

Published: March 26th, 2015 Updated: December 1st, 2021

Child sexual abuse grooming is a ‘massive issue’ for Huddersfield, a law firm has said.

West Yorkshire law firm Makin Dixon, which has offices on Queen Street, says it has been dealing with a marked increase in cases of girls being groomed for sex by older men.

The company has been working to obtain injunctions to prevent perpetrators contacting their victims, some of whom have children to their abusers. Makin Dixon partner, Jane Campbell, says victims and their relatives have become more willing to report abuse, which also includes ‘honour’ violence, forced marriage and female genital mutilation. But much of it still passes ‘under the radar’.

Ms Campbell, who works at Queen Street, says the company deals with hundreds of cases of ‘honour’ violence each year, together with about 100 cases of forced marriageacross West Yorkshire.

Read More: http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/child-sex-abuse-grooming-massive-8906647

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UN, Malaysia Groups Seek to Repeal Fatwa Requiring FGM

Published: March 3rd, 2015 Updated: March 3rd, 2015

BANGKOK—

In 2009, Malaysia’s National Fatwa Committee, the nation’s top Islamic council, required all Muslim women in the country to undergo female genital mutilation, otherwise known as female circumcision.

A recent study indicated that nearly all Muslim women in the country have had the procedure. But now the United Nations is working with the Committee to repeal ruling that made it mandatory.

Government health officials who are in negotiations with Malaysia’s National Fatwa Committee say the ruling by the country’s top religious authority requiring female genital cutting for all Muslim women may be overturned.

The World Health Organization defines any type of invasive procedure in the female genital area as mutilation, and subdivides practices into four types of increasing severity. It has banned them all.

Read More: http://www.voanews.com/content/un-malaysia-civiv-groups-seeking-to-repeal-fatwa-requiring-fgm/2664244.html

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Cleveland & Durham Police & Crime Commissioner talk Female Genital Mutilation

Published: February 11th, 2015 Updated: December 1st, 2021

Two of the North East’s Police and Crime Commissioners have spoken about their support for raising awareness of International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation.

Cleveland Police and Crime Commissioner, Barry Coppinger, and Durham Police and Crime Commissioner, Ron Hogg, have pledged their support and have made a commitment in the long term to raise further awareness and understanding of female genital mutilation (FGM).

The International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a United Nations Campaign held on 6 February each year to stop genital mutilation to women and girls.

FGM refers to a range of procedures which involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons. It is sometimes referred to as female circumcision or cutting.

As a part of the day the Police and Crime Commissioner’s for Cleveland and Durham, alongside the Halo Project, a local charity supporting victims of honour based violence, forced marriage and FGM have launched a poster campaign encouraging victims of FGM to come forward and break the silence.

Yasmin Khan, Director of the Halo Project, said: “The Halo Project is working in partnership across Cleveland and Durham to supportvictims of FGM and raise awareness of the risks and signs of this abhorrent crime.”

Read More: http://policehour.co.uk/cleveland-durham-police-crime-commissioner-talk-female-genital-mutilation/9405

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Men Break Down Watching Footage Of Female Genital Mutilation, Vow To Speak Out Against Practice

Published: February 9th, 2015 Updated: February 9th, 2015

Sometimes it takes a glimpse into a dark reality in order to spark positive change.

In a video produced by advocacy group Safe Hands for Mothers, young men were asked if they knew what female genital mutilation, or FGM, is, and none of them did. The men then watched clips from a documentary that showed the abusive practice — which partially or entirely removes the female genitals for non-medical reasons (the clips were recreations and did not show actual victims, according to Safe Hands for Mothers).

Many of the young men cringed, squirmed in their seats and cried as the disturbing footage played.

“This is just barbaric,” one of them said.

“I felt powerless,” another man noted. “I felt like I couldn’t do anything to help.”

The video concludes with the men saying, “Now that I know, I say ‘no’ to FGM.”

Although most African countries have banned FGM, the practice is still most prevalent there, as well as in the Middle East, as Reuters reported. FGM — which has no health benefits and can cause infertility, problems urinating, severe bleeding and infections — has affected more than 125 million girls and women who are alive today, according to the World Health Organization.

Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/06/fgm-young-men-video_n_6630498.html

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Woman arrested at Heathrow for conspiracy to commit FGM

Published: February 9th, 2015 Updated: December 1st, 2021

Zimbabwe-born British national was arrested as she boarded a flight from London to Ghana via Amsterdam with an eight-year-old girl

A 42-year-old woman has been arrested for conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation by officers carrying out an FGM awareness operation with colleagues from the Border Force at Heathrow airport.

The Zimbabwe-born British national was arrested just after midday before she boarded a flight from London to Ghana via Amsterdam with an eight-year-old girl. The child has been taken into the care of social services.

The arrested woman was taken to a west London police station before being transferred to Northamptonshire police who are to investigate further.

Read More:http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/06/woman-arrested-heathrow-fgm

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