By Juliet Albert On the 26th of October 2023 the Crown Prosecution Service convicted a woman of trafficking a three-year-old British child to Kenya to be subjected to FGM. The offence took place in 2006. Nine years later (in 2015), the victim confided in a schoolteacher and the police were subsequently informed. This is […]
Category: Female Genital Mutilation
Medical students are not equipped with the appropriate education to be able to conduct their mandatory FGM reporting duties
By Victoria Kinkaid Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the partial or total removal of external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons, as defined by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Importantly, the practice has no health benefits for girls and women and stops them from reaching their full […]
What are the determinants of FGM at an individual, family, and community level?
By Zeinab El Dirani, Ubah Ali and Stephen J. McCall The act of damaging or removing female genital organs without a medical reason is known as female genital mutilation (FGM). It is performed by specific ethnicities, mainly in African countries, but also in Yemen, Iraq, Indonesia, and the Maldives.1 Religious, social norms and cultural beliefs […]