{"id":937,"date":"2015-07-28T08:56:59","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T08:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:56:16","slug":"london-airport-staff-battle-to-stop-fgm-during-summer-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/london-airport-staff-battle-to-stop-fgm-during-summer-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"London airport staff battle to stop #FGM during summer holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"firstPar\">\n<p>Heathrow\u2019s border control staff are facing a \u2018huge challenge\u2019 to protect girls at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage during the summer holidays.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"secondPar\">\n<p>Border Force officers at London\u2019s biggest airport have been trained to look out for girls who are being taken out of the country to undergo the illegal practice of FGM or other forms of violence, such as trafficking.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"thirdPar\">\n<p>National school summer holidays are known to be exceptionally high risk for young girls \u2013 in some parts of Africa it is known as \u2018cutting season\u2019 for FGM &#8211; meaning staff are putting extra efforts into identifying victims of FGM and forced marriage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fourthPar\">\n<p>Heathrow and Gatwick airport are conducting joint operations alongside the police to educate and protect potential victims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fifthPar\">\n<p>Today, Heathrow airport demonstrated its work to Home Office minister Karen Bradley by simulating the arrival of a young woman who was suspected to be a trafficking victim.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/womens-politics\/11755793\/London-airport-staff-battle-to-stop-FGM-during-summer-holidays.html\">http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/womens-politics\/11755793\/London-airport-staff-battle-to-stop-FGM-during-summer-holidays.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heathrow\u2019s border control staff are facing a \u2018huge challenge\u2019 to protect girls at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced marriage during the summer holidays. Border Force officers at London\u2019s biggest airport have been trained to look out for girls who are being taken out of the country to undergo the illegal practice of [&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":[300,45,98,7,4,8,31],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-border-force","tag-female-genital-mutilation","tag-fgm","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-honour","tag-victims"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}