Shifting Sands

Call the Midwife?

Bríd Hehir Published21 April 2021

The nostalgic BBC drama, Call the Midwife, set in London’s east end
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The dangers of the anti-FGM campaign

Bríd Hehir Published13 March 2021

In the London borough of Islington last month, the police
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The low horizons of the anti-FGM industry

Bríd Hehir Published5 February 2021

The obsession with FGM which considers recipients little more than victims of violence with mutilated genitals
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Women should be free to choose circumcision

Bríd Hehir Published21 December 2020

It’s generally accepted in the West that women are equal before the law and have bodily autonomy.
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Legal

Re-infibulation and Piercing cases

FGM Recording and Reporting: Re-infibulation and Piercing cases

Bríd Hehir March 11, 2021 Comments Off

The legal position relating to re-infibulation and genital piercing was published 8th July 2019.

Portugal's first FGM conviction to be appealed?

Portugal’s first FGM conviction to be appealed?

Bríd Hehir February 9, 2021 Comments Off

A statement in regard to Portugal’s first FGM conviction and requesting support for an appeal

14 years sentence for being an African woman

Imprisoned for the crime of being an African woman

Guest Author June 3, 2020 Comments Off

The Shifting Sands piece, and Marge Berer’s excellent blog

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@wynnebrendan @susan_bewley @emilysheffield @NimkoAli @standardnews @sarahsands100 Susan. Good to give credit where due but also important to recognise the damage the #FGM Industry has done and continues to as it shifts its focus overseas. shiftingsands.org.uk/the-dang…

"Only half of women in developing world in charge of their own bodies - UN" Yet Kenyan women who tried to regain control e.g. #femalecircumcision in Kenya are denied it @linnytayls @UNKanem @GPtoEndFGM news.trust.org/item/202104140… shiftingsands.org.uk/women-sh…

The #FGMindustry is heavily reliant on foreign #Aid. This very useful briefing paper asks, but lets the reader decide, whether the UK should reduce its #foreignaid budget. debatingmatters.com/topic/the…

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