{"id":15499,"date":"2014-07-22T07:41:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T07:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/fgm-summit-parents-to-be-prosecuted-under-new\/"},"modified":"2014-07-22T07:41:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T07:41:24","slug":"fgm-summit-parents-to-be-prosecuted-under-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/fgm-summit-parents-to-be-prosecuted-under-new\/","title":{"rendered":"FGM summit: Parents to be prosecuted under new measures"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Parents will face prosecution if they fail to stop their daughters undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) under new measures being announced.}}<\/p>\n

Prime Minister David Cameron is unveiling a \u00a31.4m prevention programme aimed at ending the practice at a global summit in London.<\/p>\n

It is estimated that up to 137,000 women and girls living in England and Wales could have undergone FGM.<\/p>\n

The Girl Summit is also looking at ways to end forced marriage.<\/p>\n

Hosted by the UK government and children’s charity Unicef, the summit is being attended by international politicians, campaigners including the Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, and women who have undergone FGM.<\/p>\n

Addressing the conference, Mr Cameron described the existence of the practices as “standing rebukes to our world”.<\/p>\n

He said: “It is absolutely clear about what we are trying to achieve.<\/p>\n

“It is such a simple but noble and good ambition and that is to outlaw the practices of female genital mutilation…. and early forced marriage, to outlaw them everywhere for everyone within this generation.”<\/p>\n

{{‘Big challenge’}}<\/p>\n

The FGM prevention programme will see the NHS working with girls affected by the practice.<\/p>\n

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the executive director of UN Women, said the situation is improving but many girls remain at risk.<\/p>\n

She said: “There’s traction and more people that are willing to take a stand, but not enough yet.<\/p>\n

“The fact that 30 million girls are at risk of being cut in the coming years clearly means that we have a big challenge on our hands.”<\/p>\n

Priscilla Karim, who was forced to undergo FGM in Sierra Leone aged nine, described her ordeal.<\/p>\n

She said: “I felt the worst pain of my life and a heavy object sitting on my chest and I just passed out.<\/p>\n

“It’s like a taboo, they don’t tell you about it. You cannot tell anybody.<\/p>\n

“I grew up with the fear that if I say to anyone, I was going to die because that was what they made me believe – that whatever happens there is kind of a secret.”<\/p>\n

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