Monthly Archives: January 2017
Acton’s FGM Clinic closure is good news
A petition aimed at stopping the imminent closure of Acton’s FGM Community Clinic is circulating.
Read MoreFGM legislation is too weak and too strong?
An interesting and timely paper by Dr Arianne Shahvisi
was published recently.
‘Fuambai’s strength’. A moral portrait
Anthropologist Carlos Londoño Sulkin recently published an unusual and very interesting bioethnographic case study.
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Recent Tweets by @ShiftingSandFGC
Doubt Nonnatus House midwives would approve of midwives' policing role today @CallTheMidwife1 @MidwivesRCM #YouAreNotAlone @nasw @FGMspecialistnetwork @rcmpublishing @rcog @MumsnetTowers @NHSDigital @pritipatel shiftingsands.org.uk/call-the…
@dublin_damo Just had first lunch of the year plus a lovely pint in a (mostly) sunny pub garden near to Guildford.
@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…