
Irish police and health services have issued a warning that children are increasingly being taken from the UK to Ireland to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), as the UK scrambles to secure it’s first prosecution for the brutal practice. “There
by Liam Deacon27 Oct 2015, 9:15 AM PST0

Authorities arrested four girls and their parents in Pokot Central Sub County in Kenya after the children received female genital mutilation (FGM).
by Mary Chastain9 Oct 2015, 5:55 PM PST0

The “shocking” extent of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK is beginning to be exposed. In the first year that the NHS has been required to collect such data, it was revealed that there were 1,036 new cases of FGM
by Liam Deacon24 Sep 2015, 8:57 AM PST0

Police are swarming Scottish airports to protect females during the peak of “cutting season,” otherwise known as female genital mutilation (FGM). The airports provide direct flights to countries where the practice still occurs.
by Mary Chastain22 Jul 2015, 6:05 AM PST0

A three-year-old girl has been made a ward of court after South Yorkshire Police identified the child as a potential victim of female genital mutilation (FGM). A High Court judge banned her family from applying for a UK passport or taking
by Sarkis Zeronian17 Jun 2015, 4:19 AM PST0

Campaigners have responded furiously to new NHS rules which come into force next month saying that women who have vaginal piercings are to be classed as victims of female genital mutilation (FGM). Health chiefs have said that any woman whose
by A.B. Sanderson18 Mar 2015, 6:42 AM PST0

Doctors at a hospital in Birmingham are having to deal with six girls a week who have suffered female genital mutilation (FGM), internal figures reveal. The Heartlands Hospital in the Midlands have had to deal with 1,500 cased of FGM
by A.B. Sanderson29 Jan 2015, 7:21 AM PST0

Twelve years after being made illegal, the UK’s first female genital mutilation (FGM) trial is under way with the suspects appearing in court yesterday. Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena stands accused of carrying out FGM at a London hospital after the delivery
by Donna Rachel Edmunds20 Jan 2015, 8:58 AM PST0