Available evidence suggests that prevalence and risk of female genital cutting/mutilation in the UK is much lower than widely presumed - policies based on exaggerated estimates are harmful to girls and women from affected communities

It is widely reported that ‘tens of thousands of girls’ are living in the UK with the risk of experiencing Female Genital Cutting or Mutilation (FGC/M). This paper reviews the data on which such claims are based. It finds that the data available with which to establish the scale of such risk is both...

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Autores principales: Karlsen, Saffron, Howard, Janet, Carver, Natasha, Mogilnicka, Magda, Pantazis, Christina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7614508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35034104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41443-021-00526-4

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7614508/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35034104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41443-021-00526-4

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