{"id":1585,"date":"2018-10-07T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T15:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2018-10-07T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T15:30:14","slug":"fgm-awareness-campaign-launched-across-uk-as-illegal-practice-remains-cloaked-in-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/fgm-awareness-campaign-launched-across-uk-as-illegal-practice-remains-cloaked-in-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"FGM awareness campaign launched across UK as illegal practice remains ‘cloaked in secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A campaign raising awareness of the dangers of\u00a0female genital mutilation<\/a>\u00a0(FGM) has been launched by the government as the practice remains \u201ccloaked in secrecy\u201d.<\/p>\n

As\u00a0many as 100,000 women and girls in the UK are estimated to have undergone the illegal procedure, but a fraction of that number have disclosed it to the NHS.<\/p>\n

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Despite the strengthening of laws, there has not yet been a successful prosecution over\u00a0FGM\u00a0<\/a>and campaigners have said education will be a more effective way of stopping the practice.<\/p>\n

Police operations\u00a0have focused on preventing girls being taken abroad to undergo FGM, but a survivor told\u00a0The Independent t<\/i>hat\u00a0\u201ccutters\u201d are also being flown into the UK to carry out procedures to order<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hoda Ali, an activist who works in safeguarding in the London borough of Ealing, said: \u201cThe reality is we need to open our eyes. We don\u2019t need to think just about far-away countries because right now we have girls who are in their late teens or even early 20s who were cut in this country. They are British girls who were born here and they were cut here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Home Office\u2019s awareness campaign, called Let\u2019s Protect Our Girls, will target parents and community elders in practising communities mainly from Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Egypt, Iraq, Gambia and Nigeria.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/fgm-female-genital-mutilation-uk-law-awareness-campaign-government-health-effects-a8570101.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A campaign raising awareness of the dangers of\u00a0female genital mutilation\u00a0(FGM) has been launched by the government as the practice remains \u201ccloaked in secrecy\u201d. As\u00a0many as 100,000 women and girls in the UK are estimated to have undergone the illegal procedure, but a fraction of that number have disclosed it to the NHS. Despite the strengthening […]<\/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-1585","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\/1585","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=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}