{"id":1285,"date":"2017-05-18T09:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T08:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2017-05-18T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T08:35:41","slug":"understanding-female-genital-mutilation-the-practice-and-the-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/understanding-female-genital-mutilation-the-practice-and-the-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding female genital mutilation: The practice and the issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Supreme Court issued notices to four ministries on a petition seeking a ban on \u201cfemale circumcision\u201d. The inhuman practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) \u2014 seen in parts of Asia and Africa, including among the 2 million-strong Bohra community in India \u2014 is currently in sharp focus worldwide. Days before the Supreme Court action, a hospital in Detroit had sacked a doctor for performing the procedure \u2014 not only putting a woman\u2019s health in danger, but also violating her right to her body.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/understanding-female-genital-mutilation-the-practice-and-the-issues-fgm-4659216\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/understanding-female-genital-mutilation-the-practice-and-the-issues-fgm-4659216\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Supreme Court issued notices to four ministries on a petition seeking a ban on \u201cfemale circumcision\u201d. The inhuman practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) \u2014 seen in parts of Asia and Africa, including among the 2 million-strong Bohra community in India \u2014 is currently in sharp focus worldwide. Days before the Supreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fgm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}