Female genital mutilation (FGM)

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  Border Force officers issue warning about FGM 'cutters' flying into UK

  10 Sep 2014:

  Team at Gatwick airport claim to have made significant impact after targeting proponents of female genital mutilation

• Majority in Iraqi Kurdistan oppose female genital mutilation

  8 Sep 2014: Survey reveals widespread knowledge of FGM’s dangers, with 68% of people saying it should be eliminated

• Bridget Christie: ‘It’s trickery, hiding serious bits within a comic framework’

  29 Aug 2014: Two years ago she delivered her standup routine to 10 people in a strip club. Now she’s a star of the Edinburgh Fringe and touring the country. She talks biros, big families and why the new pope is ‘bloody marvellous’, writes Mark Lawson

• Circumcision: South Africans should stop allowing our boys to be butchered

  28 Aug 2014: Fezisa Mdibi’s 11-year-old son will soon be called to take part in the Xhosa rite of passage – circumcision. But with dozens dying each year from botched operations, she believes it’s time the practice was banned

• Labour appoints shadow minister to tackle violence against women and girls

  25 Aug 2014: Ed Miliband says appointment of Seema Malhotra shows importance Labour government would place on tackling problem

• Playwrights explore trauma and psychological damage of FGM

  21 Aug 2014: Team behind Little Stitches, BAREtruth's four-part play about female genital multilation, aims to open up debate on the issue

• Young Londoners: 'Most people don't know they're in a gang until the media tells them they are'

  14 Aug 2014: As part of the first instalment in a GuardianWitness project on interesting and inspirational young people in the UK, those living and working in London share their stories
  

• Weekly highlights: summer memories, Eisteddfod and young Londoners

  8 Aug 2014: We’ve been getting such great contributions from our readers that we want to share them on our blog. Here are some of this week’s highlights

• Letters: what is participation if it doesn't put communities centre stage?

  Guardian Professional, 6 Aug 2014: The Girl Summit showed the problem is not just with governments, NGOs also shift communities to the periphery

• Bridget Christie's Edinburgh fringe show is a bold and bravura campaign against FGM

  5 Aug 2014:

  Mark Lawson: Christie's material about yoghurt-advert rape fantasies and female genital mutilation is astonishingly complex and uproariously funny

• Domestic violence refuge provision at crisis point, warn charities

  3 Aug 2014:

  Women's groups say broadscale closure of safe houses putting support for some of most vulnerable people back 40 years

• World in a week: Uganda's courts overturn 'backward' anti-gay law

  Guardian Professional, 1 Aug 2014: 28 July - 1 August: Catch up with all the development-related news you may have missed this week

• What kind of men support FGM? An illustrated guide

  Guardian Professional, 1 Aug 2014: Understanding the types of men who support female genital mutilation can help campaigners to end the practice
  

• Where were the grassroots voices at the Girl Summit?

  Guardian Professional, 30 Jul 2014:

  The global event on FGM and child marriage was a big step in the right direction, but there are still four key areas to address

• The Guardian view on the campaign to end female genital mutilation: keep up the momentum

  27 Jul 2014: Editorial: There is still more to be done to stop female genital mutilation

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