Female Genital Mutilation in UK Law
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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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Failure to Protect Girls from Female Genital Mutilation
Whilst FGM had been a crime in the UK for over 2 decades, over 60, 000 girls continued to be mutilated. In 2015 the UK took its international obligations to protect girls from such physical harm mo...
- Towards a ‘Sensitive’ Approach to Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Africa
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Decoration or Mutilation? Female Genital Piercing and the Law
This article assesses the legality of Female Genital Piercing (FGP), which refers to the piercing of female genitalia to adorn it with jewellery, for decoration or sexual enhancement. The position ...
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FGM/Cutting
This paper seeks to present issues relating to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM) in a manner which is more socio-legal than is usual in this journal, partly because, while there is an importa......... paper seeks to present issues relating to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM) in a manner ......
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Honour Suicide and Forced Suicide in the UK
The article aims to explore the phenomenon of suicide in relation to honour based violence (HBV). Although HBV is explored in depth in relation to honour killing, forced marriage and female genital......... honour killing, forced marriage andfemale genital mutilation, its link and ... mostly by men in order to control female behaviour.8Both types of vio-lence have ......
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Honour Suicide and Forced Suicide in the UK
The article aims to explore the phenomenon of suicide in relation to honour based violence (HBV). Although HBV is explored in depth in relation to honour killing, forced marriage and female genital......... honour killing, forced marriage andfemale genital mutilation, its link and ... mostly by men in order to control female behaviour.8Both types of vio-lence have ......
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