Female Genital Mutilation

  • Estimates show that around 66,000 women resident in England and Wales had been subjected to FGM.

  • In 2004 there were around 30,500 estimates number of maternities in England and Wales to women likely to have undergone FGM.
  • An estimated 24,000 girls and women are at high risk or may have already undergone FGM, Type III and around 9,000 are at high risk or may have undergone FGM, type II. UK legislation on FGM
  • Prohibition of ‘Female Circumcision’ Act came into force in 1985: make it an offence to carry out or to aid, or procure the performance by another person, of any form of FGM, except for specific medical purpose.
  • ‘Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003’: introduces the issue of territoriality. It makes an offence for FGM to be carried out anywhere on UK nationals or permanent residents.

Resources

A statistical Study to Estimate the prevalence of FGM in England and Wales , Dorenko, Morison and Macfarlane, FORWARD, 2007