Female genital mutilation (FGM) harms women's health and well-being and is widely considered a violation of human rights. The United Nations has called for elimination of the practice by 2030. We used household survey data to measure trends in the prevalence of FGM in 22 countries. We also...
My book,Eradicating Female Genital Mutilation, seeks to identify pathways, particularly in Britain and other first-world countries, to a future without female genital mutilation. The focus is on understanding how FGM has become so prevalent in modern nations (such as – but by no means exclusively...
These estimates were widely quoted to demonstrate the need for appropriate care for affected women and to protect their daughters from FGM. Because there has been extensive migration to England and Wales since 2001 from countries where FGM is practised, a project was commissioned to update and ...
This is a useful concept for understanding also whether gendered surgery is liberating or coercive. Returning to FGM/C, according to UNICEF, ‘more than 200 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to the practice, according to data from 30 countries where population data exist’...