{"id":712,"date":"2014-11-21T09:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T09:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=712"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:46:55","slug":"london-school-warns-students-of-fgm-forced-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/london-school-warns-students-of-fgm-forced-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"London school warns students of FGM, forced marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A school in the East end of London has started teaching young people on the prevention of female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation to young people on female genital mutilation and forced marriage is hugely important and invaluable. It is not just about legalization and having laws it\u2019s about prevention and getting to children as young as possible and explaining to them that this could happen to you,\u201d Arifa Nasim, educator and campaigner against forced marriage, told Al Arabiya News.<\/p>\n<p>This week marked the start of a series of talks to young children at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bremer.org.uk\/\">Frederick Bremer School<\/a> in London on FGM and forced marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female circumcision or female genital cutting, is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as \u201cpartial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/perspective\/features\/2014\/11\/18\/London-school-warns-students-of-FGM-forced-marriage.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A school in the East end of London has started teaching young people on the prevention of female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage. \u201cEducation to young people on female genital mutilation and forced marriage is hugely important and invaluable. It is not just about legalization and having laws it\u2019s about prevention and getting to [&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":[],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1830,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/1830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}