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Article: Author criticises Government for delays on female circumcision.(News)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2008
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Ministers are failing to act to prevent young girls being circumcised, Labour peer and crime writer Ruth Rendell said today.
The long-term campaigner against the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) spoke out as the police prepared to announce a new initiative against it later this week.
She said it would not be classified "not as a quaint custom but as child cruelty, as child abuse, because that's what it is".
"Even if it may be committed ...
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