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We need to understand FGM history in order to deal with it

We need to understand FGM history to deal with it

Bríd Hehir Published 16 March 2020

Sara Mire’s recent opinion piece entitled ‘We won’t eradicate FGM if we keep misunderstanding its history’

We are submitting women and girls to a cruel experiment.

Gender reassignment: the West’s answer to FGM?

Guest Author Published 26 November 2019

Puberty blockers. Breast binding. Gender reassignment surgery. We are submitting women and girls to a cruel experiment says Dr Sarah Ingham.

Cardiff Somalis perplexed by FGM obsession

Bríd Hehir Published 21 November 2019

More than 70 feisty, vocal women, predominantly of Somali heritage,

Border Force and Metropolitan Police operation ‘highly commended’ at ‘World Class Policing Awards’

Operation Limelight uncritically awarded for FGM work

Bríd Hehir Published 18 November 2019

A joint operation between police and Border Forces has been highly commended, not criticised,

Why should primary schools educate children about FGM?

Bríd Hehir Published 25 July 2019

Teaching school children about FGM is unnecessary.

Tory party leadership and PM hopefuls views on FGM

Tory leadership and PM hopefuls’ views on FGM

Bríd Hehir Published 9 July 2019

Tory leadership and prime ministerial (PM) hopefuls,

FGM panic is harming minority communities

Guest Author Published 9 April 2019

By Sagal Mohamed. In February, the Conservative MP for Christchurch, Christopher Chope,

£375,000 being wasted on FGM awareness raising

Guest Author Published 29 March 2019

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

How much of a problem is FGM in the UK?

Bríd Hehir Published 14 March 2019

The recent FGM trial at the Old Bailey where a mother was convicted

Bristol FGM safeguarding became stigmatising

Somali experience of FGM safeguarding in Bristol

Bríd Hehir Published 11 March 2019

The trauma, victimisation and sense of disempowerment that Bristol Somalis

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