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Showing posts with label FGM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FGM. Show all posts
Monday, 13 January 2020
UK Somalis 'racially profiled' over FGM
BBC News, UK Somalis 'racially profiled' over FGM "Parents are wrongly being arrested and having their children taken into care due to the stigma around female genital mutilation (FGM), members of the UK Somali community have told the Victoria Derbyshire programme. They say figures suggesting tens of thousands of girls are at risk in the UK are inaccurate."
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Friday, 30 November 2018
FGM
Guardian, Female genital mutilation cases more than double in a year in UK "The number of girls in England who have experienced or are believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) has more than doubled in a year, according to assessments by council social workers."
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