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The facts Articles

FGM UK. Prevalence

How prevalent is FGM in the UK really?

Published 15 February 2017

Monday Feb 6th was apparently FGM Awareness Day,

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Acton FGM clinic closure

FGM facts irrelevant

FGM facts were irrelevant in 2016

Published 14 December 2016

Campaigners and crusaders against FGM face a dilemma

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Access to FGM patient information is inadequate

Access to FGM patient information is inadequate

Published 5 December 2016

NHS recording and centralising sensitive, patient-identifiable, FGM data

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FGM experimental stats

The mists begin to clear on FGM statistics

Published 10 October 2016

Readers may recall that I have long been interested

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Bondo/Sande initiation in Sierra Leone

Women’s Empowerment in Sierra Leone’s Sande/Bondo Society

Published 10 August 2016

It is rare to come across an article that describes

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FGM scaremongering

FGM: the reality refuses to live up to the scaremongering

Published 20 June 2016

A new dataset on female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK,

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Religious intolerance in FGM

Double standards secure FGM conviction and religious intolerance

Published 5 May 2016

An Australian FGM trial has helped promote intolerance

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FGM data inaccurate unreliable

FGM NHS data is neither accurate nor reliable

Published 6 April 2016

It will take the NHS 25 years, at this rate,

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FGM moral crusade

The FGM moral crusade is anti-humanist

Published 8 March 2016

International Women’s Day affords an opportunity to consider

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