Working with the FGM Law. Challenges & Opportunities
Working with the FGM Law
Challenges and Opportunities
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The Importance of Ethnography in FGM Storytelling
Alumni Lecture Theatre (SALT), Paul Webley Wing (Senate House) SOAS University of LondonThornhaug,The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche
Is Zero Tolerance The Best Approach To Ending FGM?
Oxford House Derbyshire St, Bethnal Green, E2 6HG"Judging Without Knowing" A play and panel discussion on FGM
Community Meeting
Britwell Centre Wentworth Avenue,Slough SL2, 2DSRacial Profiling created by the FGM policies, and issues affecting the Somali Community
Free
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The Untold Damage of FGM Protection Orders
Many will mark International Day of Zero Tolerance to end FGM on February 5th, and may even celebrate their successes in furthering that endeavour. But few will consider the damage being caused by the work of the anti-FGM movement itself.
Legislation is an important part of the movement’s armoury and FGMPOs are central to it. They were introduced via the 2015 Serious Crime Act and are designed to help protect children from the practice.
Between July 2015 and Sept 2019, 408 FGMPO applications were made to Family Courts and 489 Orders were granted. Some believe these numbers are too low, believing that daughters and siblings of women and girls who have undergone FGM and are living in the UK, are automatically at risk of FGM.
There is no evidence to support this claim or data to justify it. But the damage and inconvenience that Protection Orders cause to families and children in the application, granting and monitoring processes are unacknowledged or ignored.
Today some people at the receiving end of FGMPOs will tell their stories and illustrate just how damaging and problematic they can be.
Free
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Cutting to the chase on Zero Tolerance for FGM
Many will mark International Day of Zero Tolerance to end FGM on February 5th, and may even celebrate their successes in furthering that endeavour. But few will consider the damage being caused by the work of the anti-FGM movement itself.
Legislation is an important part of the movement’s armoury and FGMPOs are central to it. They were introduced via the 2015 Serious Crime Act and are designed to help protect children from the practice.
Between July 2015 and Sept 2019, 408 FGMPO applications were made to Family Courts and 489 Orders were granted. Some believe these numbers are too low, believing that daughters and siblings of women and girls who have undergone FGM and are living in the UK, are automatically at risk of FGM.
There is no evidence to support this claim or data to justify it. But the damage and inconvenience that Protection Orders cause to families and children in the application, granting and monitoring processes are unacknowledged or ignored.
Today some people at the receiving end of FGMPOs will tell their stories and illustrate just how damaging and problematic they can be.
Free