February 2018 - FGM/C Shifting Sands

Monthly Archives: February 2018

The (evangelising) FGM Detectives

Bríd Hehir Published 28 February 2018

The FGM Detectives, a Channel 4 TV documentary

Another ‘FGM’ wild goose chase

Guest Author Published 24 February 2018

Yesterday (22 February 2018) a Somali man

Female Circumcision: Consent and Parental Rights

Guest Author Published 21 February 2018

Parents’ rights to consent for their children

Zac Goldsmith, an authority on FGM?

Guest Author Published 14 February 2018

Earlier today, BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour

Female Genital Mutilation: Prosecution Rates

Bríd Hehir Published 9 February 2018

Parliament UK.

Zero Tolerance for FGM: Winning battles but losing wars

Bríd Hehir Published 7 February 2018

Essay. February 6th 2018 was #MeTooFGM day.

A religious ritual to be tried in the U.S.

Bríd Hehir Published 2 February 2018

On 14 January 2018, a federal judge in Detroit, Michigan,

Recent Tweets by @ShiftingSandFGC

@PaulEmbery Next he’ll be declaring that he’s a woman!

@Future_Cities @JuliaHB1 It’s sad that interviews like this are so rare that they stand out as exceptional. Wish there were more journalists like @JuliaHB1 calling people to account.

Ldn’s Mayor reported May 31 for financial years 2018-21, 70 FGM offences & 3 detections by MET. Included were crimes flagged for FGM, using a crime report with HO classification, failing to protect girls from it or breach FGM PO. Two charges reported. #FGMepidemic still anyone? pic.twitter.com/I7mTwRFXZh

@clareemurph @AnnKeen11 That was then and it was brutal. Even some unmarried health care workers had their babies ‘adopted’. But we live in a very different world now. This Govt is not responsible for what happened then so why should it apologise and for what?

@AnnFuredi @unherd So true. Wish the #FGM ‘industry’ was similarly scrutinised @unherd

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