Female Genital Mutilation in UK Law
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M (Children)
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I merely observe that cases such as this demonstrate the continuing need for a remedy which, despite its antiquity, has shown, is showing and must continue to show a remarkable adaptability to meet the ever emerging needs of an ever changing world. I add that the use of the jurisdiction in cases where the risk to a child is of harm of the type that would engage Articles 2 or 3 of the Convention – risk to life or risk of degrading or inhuman treatment – is surely unproblematic.
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Fornah v Secretary of State for the Home Department
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First, claims based on fear of FGM have been recognised or upheld in courts all round the world.
FGM may ensure a young woman's acceptance in Sierra Leonean society, but she is accepted on the basis of institutionalised inferiority. As I have said, FGM is an extreme expression of the discrimination to which all women in Sierra Leone are subject, as much those who have already undergone the process as those who have not. I find no difficulty in recognising women in Sierra Leone as a particular social group for purposes of article 1A(2).
Nor can the context be compared with male circumcision. As the UNICEF Innocenti Digest, Changing a Harmful Social Convention: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (2005) observes:
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Re B (A Child) (Habitual Residence) (Inherent Jurisdiction)
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However, we are satisfied that the present case does not approach the very high threshold necessary to justify the exercise of the jurisdiction. The situation falls short of the exceptional gravity where it might indeed be necessary to consider the exercise of the inherent jurisdiction.
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V.N.M. v Secretary of State for the Home Department
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By October 2001 the appellant's boyfriend had joined the Mungiki and he was soon elected as its leader in the village, also near Nairobi, where she and he had set up home. Early in April 2002 he told her that she should also join the movement but, being a Christian, she refused. About three days later a group of Mungiki elders, including her boyfriend, confronted her at home.
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Re K (Forced Marriage: Passport Order)
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In assessing the length of time that any provision within a FMPO is in force, the court should bear in mind that the circumstances within any family, and relating to any individual within such a family, may change. It is unlikely in all but the most serious and clear cases that the court will be able to see far enough into the future to make an open-ended order which will remain in force unless and until it is varied or terminated by a subsequent application.
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Serious Crime Act 2015
...... 2003, the Street Offences Act 1959, the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, the Prohibition of ......
- Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003
- Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005
- Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Act 2019
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Female Genital Mutilation in the UK Population
This article considers the definition of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the context of United Nations work which aims to end this practice. The piece focuses on the prevalence of FGM in the UK ...
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Perception and barriers: reporting female genital mutilation
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the perceptions of and barriers to reporting female genital mutilation (FGM) by victims and survivors of FGM to the police in England and Wales. De...
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Perversion and Perpetration in Female Genital Mutilation Law: The Unmaking of Women as Bearers of Law
Female genital cutting (FGC) or, more controversially, female genital mutilation, has motivated the implementation of legislation in many English-speaking countries, the product of emotive images a...
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Shaping Priority Services for UK Victims of Honour‐Based Violence/Abuse, Forced Marriage, and Female Genital Mutilation
Victims of honour‐based violence/abuse (HBV/A), forced marriage (FM), and female genital mutilation (FGM) are now defined as ‘priority groups’ in the UK's Code of Practice for Victims of Crime (com...
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Whistle Blowing And The 'Public Interest'
...... individuals affected by domestic violence, female genital mutilation or HIV. She was employed as a ......
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Reasonable belief and whistleblowing claims
Background to reasonable belief in the public interest - The public interest test was introduced as an additional requirement for whistleblowing protection in 2013. In order to be considered a ......... for victims of domestic violence and female genital mutilation. Her probationary period had ......
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Was Disclosure In The Public Interest When Made In Defence Of Concerns About Poor Performance?
...... by RCA to support domestic violence and female genital mutilation victims. Her probation period ......
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Reasonable Belief And Whistleblowing Claims
...... for victims of domestic violence and female genital mutilation. Her probationary period had ......
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Application for a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Protection Order
Family forms including the form to apply for a non-molestation order or an occupation order (Form FL401).
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Application for leave to apply for a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Protection Order
Family forms including the form to apply for a non-molestation order or an occupation order (Form FL401).
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Application for a Warrant of Arrest (Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Protection Order)
Family forms including the form to apply for a non-molestation order or an occupation order (Form FL401).
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Application to vary, extend or discharge a Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Protection Order
Family forms including the form to apply for a non-molestation order or an occupation order (Form FL401).