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Kenyan women should also be free to choose

Kenyan women should be free to choose circumcision

Bríd Hehir Published 23 October 2019

Tomorrow, Dr Tatu Kamau, a former senior official at Kenya’s Ministry of Health will contest the constitutionality of Kenya’s FGM law.

Despite CPS guidance the FGM law is racist

Despite CPS guidance FGM law remains racist

Bríd Hehir Published 23 October 2019

Race is the prism through which women and girls wanting female genital alterations

We must be free to do what we like to our bodies

Why are specific women being denied bodily autonomy?

Guest Author Published 28 August 2019

Outdated laws are punishing adults for consensual activities, from body modifications like re-infibulation to BDSM.

FGM trial Guilty verdict

FGM Trial: Judge’s sentencing remarks

Guest Author Published 11 March 2019

Judiciary of England & Wales

Christopher Chope

In defence of Christopher Chope

Guest Author Published 14 February 2019

Well-meaning laws, nodded through without scrutiny,

Old Bailey FGM trial

Thoughts on the Old Bailey FGM case

Guest Author Published 14 February 2019

By Barbara Hewson, Barrister

FGM conviction

A miscarriage of justice?

Bríd Hehir Published 5 February 2019

The first FGM conviction in Britain has been secured. But at what cost?

Aus trial not Mutilation

Verdict: Female circumcision is not mutilation

Guest Author Published 24 September 2018

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

Scrap FGM and Khafz laws

Laws against FGM and Khafz need to be scrapped

Guest Author Published 26 August 2018

While I disagree with Dawoodi Bohra’s insisting

Bohras believe that Khafz should not be categorized as FGM

Australia court rules Bohra female circumcision not FGM

Guest Author Published 18 August 2018

The Court of Criminal Appeal Supreme Court in New South Wales, 10 August 2018, acquitted