Legal Articles
Women should be free to choose circumcision
It’s generally accepted in the West that women are equal before the law and have bodily autonomy.
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Imprisoned for the crime of being an African woman
The Shifting Sands piece, and Marge Berer’s excellent blog
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Concerns about expertise at FGM trials
A number of important questions were raised by this year’s ‘successful’ FGM prosecutions,
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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
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Australia re-criminalises a symbolic form of FGM
Truly, truth is stranger than fiction in the FGM world.
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Kenyan 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.
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Despite CPS guidance FGM law remains racist
Race is the prism through which women and girls wanting female genital alterations
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Why are specific women being denied bodily autonomy?
Outdated laws are punishing adults for consensual activities, from body modifications like re-infibulation to BDSM.
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