Guest Author, Author at FGM/C Shifting Sands

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£375,000 being wasted on FGM awareness raising

I wish the Communities Secretary, Rt Hon James Brokenshire MP had objectively reviewed

UK FGM Trial: Judge’s sentencing remarks

Guest Author March 11, 2019 Comments Off

Judiciary of England & Wales

Hidden Voices: The importance of ethnography in FGM storytelling

Guest Author February 20, 2019 Comments Off

Sara Johnsdotter

An extraordinary meeting was held in London on 15 February 2019.

In defence of Christopher Chope

Guest Author February 14, 2019 Comments Off

Well-meaning laws, nodded through without scrutiny,

Thoughts on the Old Bailey FGM case

Guest Author February 14, 2019 Comments Off

By Barbara Hewson, Barrister

How an FGM trial became one about witchcraft

Guest Author February 10, 2019 Comments Off

This is the fifth time that FGM has gone to trial in England since 2014.

FGC and the cultural boundaries of medical practice

Guest Author December 5, 2018 Comments Off

In April 2017, Dr. Jumana Nagarwala,

Verdict: Female circumcision is not mutilation

Guest Author September 24, 2018 Comments Off

In Australia, in 2015, three Dawoodi Bohras (a small Shia Muslim sect) were convicted

Laws against FGM and Khafz need to be scrapped

Guest Author August 26, 2018 Comments Off

While I disagree with Dawoodi Bohra’s insisting

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