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The state funded FGM industry should be discontinued

Time to decriminalise FGM and end funding the industry

Bríd Hehir Published 23 June 2020

Barnardo’s Children’s Charity and the Local Government Association who jointly run The National FGM Centre, seem happiest

Contributions to APPG on PDRH – FGM

Bríd Hehir Published 9 March 2020

The year’s first APPG on PDRH (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Population, Development and Reproductive Health)

Working with the FGM laws: challenges and opportunities

Bríd Hehir Published 13 April 2019

Professionals could learn a lot from communities about FGM.

FGM: People have moved on. Why don’t campaigners?

Bríd Hehir Published 4 March 2019

Although families and communities who may have or used to practice FGM have moved on,

Hidden Voices: The importance of ethnography in FGM storytelling

Guest Author Published 20 February 2019

Sara Johnsdotter

An extraordinary meeting was held in London on 15 February 2019.

Operation Limelight must be scrapped

Bríd Hehir Published 11 September 2018

Despite that officials consider the overall impact of Operation Limelight limited,

Female Circumcision: Consent and Parental Rights

Guest Author Published 21 February 2018

Parents’ rights to consent for their children

Female Circumcision (FGM): A civilising mission?

Guest Author Published 10 December 2017

This prescient piece analysed

FGM campaigns: advancing the cause of freedom?

Guest Author Published 20 November 2015

How do you rate in these two tests

Feminism is divisive and needs to be confined to history

Guest Author Published 13 November 2015

WORLDbytes* volunteers hear the case against feminism

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