Legal Articles
FGM Recording and Reporting: Re-infibulation and Piercing cases
The legal position relating to re-infibulation and genital piercing was published 8th July 2019.
Read MorePortugal’s first FGM conviction to be appealed?
A statement in regard to Portugal’s first FGM conviction and requesting support for an appeal
Read MoreWomen should be free to choose circumcision
It’s generally accepted in the West that women are equal before the law and have bodily autonomy.
Read MoreImprisoned for the crime of being an African woman
The Shifting Sands piece, and Marge Berer’s excellent blog
Read MoreInjustice arising from pursuit of FGM prosecutions – UK
Britain’s first conviction for FGM was delivered in London, in February 2019
Read MoreConcerns about expertise at FGM trials
A number of important questions were raised by this year’s ‘successful’ FGM prosecutions,
Read MoreMaybe 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
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