Female Genital Mutilation

ActionAid Ireland estimates that up to 2,639 girls living in Ireland today are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM). The cultural practice involves removing all or part of a girl’s external genitalia and is usually performed on girls aged between four and ten. According to WHO, this has happened to more than 200 million girls […]

9 years ago

A one-year-old girl in the UK has been declared at risk of being subjected to female genital mutilation by a High Court judge. After a private hearing of the Family Division of the High Court in London, a judge has placed the toddler under a female genital mutilation protection order. Metro reports that social workers raised concerns that […]

10 years ago

Gardaí are investigating after a toddler was brought to hospital for genital injuries her parents claim she received from falling on a child’s toy.  The 18-month-old girl’s mother is the latest to be questioned, spending all day on Tuesday at Dublin’s Sundrive Road Garda Station. Her father was originally arrested and released without charge in […]

10 years ago

The Gambia has become the latest country to ban female genital mutilation.  President Yahya Jammeh has finally banned the barbaric practice, which three quarters of women in the west African country are forced to endure, after it was initially criminalised in Nigeria earlier this year. Female genital mutilation (FGM) involves the partial or total removal of […]

11 years ago

As one of his last official undertakings, Nigeria’s outgoing president has outlawed Female Genital Mutilation, in a move that has been widely welcomed by campaigners around the world.  Before he stepped down, Goodluck Jonathan signed the ban into law, marking the first time that the barbaric practice has been criminalised across the entire country. Female […]

12 years ago