{"id":631,"date":"2014-09-05T09:38:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T09:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:35:31","slug":"thousands-at-risk-from-fgm-in-greater-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/thousands-at-risk-from-fgm-in-greater-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Thousands&#8217; at risk from FGM in Greater Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\" class=\"introduction\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Up to 2,000 girls are believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Greater Manchester, the area&#8217;s police and crime commissioner has said.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Lloyd said the practice was &#8220;barbaric&#8221; as he campaigned to raise awareness and support victims.<\/p>\n<p>In the past two days, officers intercepted 20 families at Manchester Airport, mostly on flights from Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Police are also investigating cases in Wigan and Bury and have reports of girls at risk in Trafford.<\/p>\n<p>FGM involves procedures that include the partial or total removal of the external female genital organs for cultural or other non-medical reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Although banned in the UK, thousands of girls are subjected to FGM each year, with Greater Manchester identified as one of six &#8220;hotspots&#8221; in the UK.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caption body-width\" style=\"color: #505050;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption body-width\" style=\"color: #505050;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption body-width\" style=\"color: #505050;\">Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-manchester-29028799<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 2,000 girls are believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Greater Manchester, the area&#8217;s police and crime commissioner has said. Tony Lloyd said the practice was &#8220;barbaric&#8221; as he campaigned to raise awareness and support victims. In the past two days, officers intercepted 20 families at Manchester Airport, mostly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56,45,98,4,10,148],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-crime","tag-female-genital-mutilation","tag-fgm","tag-halo-project","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-manchester"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","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=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}