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Female Genital Mutilation summit: Parents to be prosecuted under new measures
Good! This hateful and barbaric mutilation of girls must end! 
BBC News
22 July 2014
FGM summit: Parents to be prosecuted under new measures
Parents will face prosecution if they fail to stop their daughters undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) under new measures being announced.
Prime Minister David Cameron is unveiling a £1.4m prevention programme aimed at ending the practice at a global summit in London.
It is estimated that up to 137,000 women and girls living in England and Wales could have undergone FGM.
The Girl Summit will also look at ways to end forced marriage....
MORE at http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-28412179
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