{"id":1365,"date":"2017-07-21T21:44:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1365"},"modified":"2017-07-21T21:44:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T20:44:21","slug":"police-fear-young-girls-are-being-taken-on-holiday-for-fgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/police-fear-young-girls-are-being-taken-on-holiday-for-fgm\/","title":{"rendered":"Police fear young girls are being &#8216;taken on holiday for FGM&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrols are being stepped up at London airports amid fears children are being taken on \u2018holiday\u2019 for female genital mutilation (<span class=\"caps\">FGM<\/span>).<\/p>\n<p>Police say they will target flights to-and-from countries where the prevalence of cutting young girls is high, such as Guinea, Somalia and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">FGM<\/span>\u00a0is the altering or causing injury to the female genital organs for non medical reasons, including removal of the clitoris or labia.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say it is impossible to know how many girls are being taken abroad for\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">FGM<\/span>\u00a0because it is normally arranged by their families, and like other forms of child abuse, is relatively easy to hide.<\/p>\n<p>But Equality Now, a charity that campaigns to eradicate\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">FGM<\/span>, says there is anecdotal evidence holiday cutting is taking place.<\/p>\n<p>It says girls are more at risk during the summer holidays because it allows them more time to \u2018heal\u2019 before returning to school<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2017\/07\/20\/police-fear-young-girls-are-being-taken-on-holiday-for-fgm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrols are being stepped up at London airports amid fears children are being taken on \u2018holiday\u2019 for female genital mutilation (FGM). Police say they will target flights to-and-from countries where the prevalence of cutting young girls is high, such as Guinea, Somalia and Sudan. FGM\u00a0is the altering or causing injury to the female genital organs [&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-1365","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\/1365","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=1365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1366,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1365\/revisions\/1366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}