{"id":1332,"date":"2017-06-27T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2017-06-27T11:11:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T10:11:07","slug":"i-was-haunted-by-the-blood-i-caused-by-circumcising-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/i-was-haunted-by-the-blood-i-caused-by-circumcising-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I was haunted by the blood I caused by circumcising girls&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALMOST 3,000 GIRLS living in Ireland could be at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation.<\/p>\n<p>FGM refers to the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is most common in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and carried out for cultural or religious reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Unicef data states that <a href=\"https:\/\/data.unicef.org\/topic\/child-protection\/female-genital-mutilation-and-cutting\/\">at least 200 million girls and women<\/a> in 30 countries worldwide have undergone the extremely painful procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Three women\u2019s rights leaders were in Ireland this week to discuss how they are trying to stop FGM \u2013 also referred to as cutting \u2013 in their region.<\/p>\n<p>An ActionAid study carried out in 2016 found that 2,639 girls living in Ireland may <a href=\"https:\/\/actionaid.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/AFTER-Project-Briefing-Document-Baseline-Study-2016.pdf\">currently be at risk<\/a> of undergoing the practice.\u00a0Thousands more have undergone FGM before moving to Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALMOST 3,000 GIRLS living in Ireland could be at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation. FGM refers to the ritual cutting or removal of some or all of the external female genitalia. The practice is most common in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, and carried out for cultural or religious reasons. Unicef data states [&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-1332","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\/1332","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=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1333,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}