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The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 (c. 31) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom applying to England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It replaced the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985, extending the ban on female genital mutilation to address the practice of taking girls abroad to undergo FGM procedures, and increased the maximum penalty from 5 to 14 years' imprisonment. [2]
Female genital mutilation in the United Kingdom is the ritual removal of some or all of the external female genitalia of women and girls living in the UK. According to Equality Now and City University London, an estimated 103,000 women and girls aged 15–49 were thought to be living with female genital mutilation (FGM) in England and Wales as of 2011.
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Despite this there have been no successful prosecutions for FGM in the UK. [2] Keith Vaz, then the Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, "It is shocking that 28 years on from female genital mutilation first being made a criminal offence, there has not yet been a successful prosecution in the UK. The Committee's inquiry will seek to find ...
The UK Government considers that the main purpose of public inquiries is in “preventing recurrence”. [5] Between 1990 and 2017 UK governments spent at least £630m on public inquiries, [ 5 ] with most expensive being the Bloody Sunday Inquiry costing £210.6 million.
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A woman feared being “cursed” if she failed to hand over a three-year-old British girl for female genital mutilation (FGM) in Kenya, a court has heard.
A former PhD student has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in prison after he became the first person to be convicted of conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation in England and Wales.