Legal Articles
Maybe Ireland’s first FGM case really was a straddle injury
The jury at Dublin’s Circuit Criminal Court court found a Dublin couple guilty of being secondary participants to FGM
Read MoreAustralia re-criminalises a symbolic form of FGM
Truly, truth is stranger than fiction in the FGM world.
Read MoreKenyan women should be free to choose circumcision
Tomorrow, Dr Tatu Kamau, a former senior official at Kenya’s Ministry of Health will contest the constitutionality of Kenya’s FGM law.
Read MoreDespite CPS guidance FGM law remains racist
Race is the prism through which women and girls wanting female genital alterations
Read MoreWhy are specific women being denied bodily autonomy?
Outdated laws are punishing adults for consensual activities, from body modifications like re-infibulation to BDSM.
Read MoreUK FGM Trial: Judge’s sentencing remarks
Judiciary of England & Wales
Read MoreIn defence of Christopher Chope
Well-meaning laws, nodded through without scrutiny,
Read MoreThoughts on the Old Bailey FGM case
By Barbara Hewson, Barrister
Read MoreA miscarriage of justice?
The first FGM conviction in Britain has been secured. But at what cost?
Read MoreVerdict: Female circumcision is not mutilation
In Australia, in 2015, three Dawoodi Bohras (a small Shia Muslim sect) were convicted
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