Little Stitches Free Library - 01.09.14 - 06.10.14

Posted: Apr, 7th 2015

FGM is currently one of the most talked about issues in the press not only in the UK, but worldwide.

On the 25th February 2014, the Bristol student Fahma Mohamed met Michael Gove to press him to seek an end to female genital mutilation in the UK by urging every school to train teachers and parents about the horrors of the practice.

More than 140 million women and girls worldwide have suffered FGM, with up to 98% of girls mutilated in certain African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries. Traditionally seen as a rite of passage carried out to keep girls “pure” before marriage.

According to government figures more than 20,000 British girls are thought to be at risk of being cut every year but, despite previous government promises to stop FGM, experts have warned that girls are not only still being taken abroad to be cut during the holiday “cutting season”, but are also being mutilated in Britain, often flying in elderly cutters who service many girls on the same day at ‘cutting parties’ to save costs. This happens to newborns as well as adults, but is most commonly practiced on girls between infancy and 15 years old.

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Dagenham Library 1 Church Elm Lane Dagenham RM10 9QS	1st September 2014 – 18.00 to 19.30 Free ticket!
Homerton Library Homerton High St, London London E9 6AS	2nd September 2014 – 18.00 to 19.30 Free ticket!
Leyton Library High Rd, Leyton, London E10 5QH 020 8496 1090	3rd September 2014 – 18.00 to 19.30 Free ticket!
Walthamstow Library High Street, Walthamstow London, E17 7JN 020 8496 1100	5th September 2014 – 18.00 to 19.30 Free ticket!
North Chingford Library Station Road, Chingford London, E4 7EN 020 8496 1070	4th September 2014 – 17.00 to 18.30 Free ticket!
Streatham Library Tate Library 63 Streatham High Rd, London SW16 1PN 020 7926 6768	7th October 2014 – 18.00 to 19.30 Free ticket!
Brent Civic Centre Wembley, Greater London HA9 0FJ 020 8937 1234	6th October 2014 – 16.00 to 18.00 Free ticket!