Bríd Hehir, Author at FGM/C Shifting Sands

Author: Bríd Hehir

New advisor missed opportunity to celebrate FGM decline UK

The International Day of the Girl Child (IDGC), October 11,

The state funded FGM industry should be discontinued

Time to decriminalise FGM and end funding the industry

Bríd Hehir June 23, 2020 Comments Off

Barnardo’s Children’s Charity and the Local Government Association who jointly run The National FGM Centre, seem happiest

Injustice arising from pursuit of FGM prosecutions – UK

Bríd Hehir May 18, 2020 Comments Off

Britain’s first conviction for FGM was delivered in London, in February 2019

Barnardo’s sows suspicion of child abuse linked to faith and belief

Bríd Hehir May 5, 2020 Comments Off

Lockdown, we are told, is a dangerous time for children and families.

We need to understand FGM history in order to deal with it

We need to understand FGM history to deal with it

Bríd Hehir March 16, 2020 Comments Off

Sara Mire’s recent opinion piece entitled ‘We won’t eradicate FGM if we keep misunderstanding its history’

Contributions to APPG on PDRH – FGM

Bríd Hehir March 9, 2020 Comments Off

The year’s first APPG on PDRH (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health)

Zero Tolerance to engagement about FGM manifesto

Bríd Hehir February 6, 2020 Comments Off

Action:FGM,‘a coalition of organisations that are working to end FGM and other harmful practices that undermine the well-being of women and girls’ recently circulated a manifesto asking for endorsements.

Worrying questions about expert evidence at FGM trials

Concerns about expertise at FGM trials

Bríd Hehir December 12, 2019 Comments Off

A number of important questions were raised by this year’s ‘successful’ FGM prosecutions,

Maybe Ireland’s first FGM case really was a straddle injury

Bríd Hehir December 9, 2019 Comments Off

The jury at Dublin’s Circuit Criminal Court court found a Dublin couple guilty of being secondary participants to FGM

Cardiff Somalis perplexed by FGM obsession

Bríd Hehir November 21, 2019 Comments Off

More than 70 feisty, vocal women, predominantly of Somali heritage,

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