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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.
[3] [4] [5] A March 2020 report by End FGM European Network, U.S. End FGM/C Network and Equality Now found that FGM was practiced in at least 92 countries across all continents, [3] while 51 of them had a law that specifically criminalised FGM. [1]: 11 FGM was illegal in 22 of the 28 most FGM-prevalent countries in Africa in September 2018. [6]
President Donald Trump will issue an executive order on Wednesday to exclude transgender girls and women from female-designated sporting competitions and teams, a directive that Republicans say ...
Chapman High won its appeal, 14-0, to have its penalty reduced regarding the varsity boys basketball team being banned from the 2025 postseason. The SCHSL penalized the program because players ...
The corresponding legislation for the rest of the United Kingdom is the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in the United Kingdom since 1985 when the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 was passed in Scotland.
The South Carolina high school fall sports season is in full swing. Here are the area's top performers for this week's athletic events featuring schools from Spartanburg, Cherokee and Union counties.
WSPA-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States, serving Upstate South Carolina and Western North Carolina as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside Asheville, North Carolina –licensed CW station WYCW (channel 62).