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Article: Ministers 'failing to stop female circumcision'
- Article from:
- Yorkshire Post
- 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 without child abuse or cruelty in
mind, that's what it is. I think that if we can persuade the Home
Office to do more when the police are doing so much, I see that at
last there has been a breakthrough and things are going to change. I
hope so."
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