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RECOMMENDATIONS & ACTIONS
FGM and the like as criminal harm, bad traditions
and human rights abuses.
5. Remember the ‘4 E’s’ of Eradication (See full
paper in the next issue Issue M023)
3. Spread the message!
Programmes RECOMMENDATIONS
such as the Guardian Global
#EndFGM Media Campaign and training in places
Following
the Nottingham
in Parliament
such as Kenya,
Gambia and
Nigeria, for event,
young
several
recommendations
were many
put forward:
journalists
can reach many,
corners of the
Likewise,
be sure
to to
include
whole
range
• globe.
National
standards
ought
be set a out,
defining
of the
people
as activists
and enforcers
and make
services,
that survivors
and those
at risk sure
can
all expect
relevant
are equipped with the
from professionals
the NHS.
and encouraged
understanding
need to training
tackle
• knowledge
It was also
that they
national
FGM.
And we need
also to
need
be talking to for
boys
and
standards
be to
implemented
health
men,
in traditionally practising communities, in
practitioners.
other
shared
public places
in the (not
UK
• schools
There and
needs
to be
a commissioned
service
currently
commissioned)
and
US, and
in political contexts.
• Joint working between agencies
4. Develop a proper paradigm.
I have
tried
in that
my writing
to make
the is case
for a
Due
to the
fact
the current
system
not cost-
conjoined discipline– which will bring together all
effective:
the aspects of this very complex subject. There is a
• There needs for specialised NHS mental health
danger that, without top-level direction and without
commissioning for service to develop,
understanding
of parameters for action for
• a clear
Increase
in current capacity,
various
types
of
activists
and campaigners,
we will
•
Gender balance (especially
for FGM work)
in
begin
– however
much they are not cover.
intended – to
staffing,
formal medical/psychiatric
professional in turf
wars.
In nations such as the
• see Improvement
clinical
facilities.
the time and
simply
for awareness-raising
is past.
• UK,
Enhanced
sustained
funding for research
• Co-ordinated
Community interdisciplinary
involvement in research,
research analyses
priority
setting.
and
actions are now the order of the day.
•
Engagement (in communities)
Education ACTIONS
(about FGM and, critically,
also as preparation for adult life)
We would like to extend our sincere gratitude to you
Enforcement
protection
and of
all for • making
to our event. (legal
It demonstrates
the level
commitment
you all have to or
see the
end to protection
this form of
prosecutions,
FGM
child abuse orders)
that violates
… and the rights of girls and women.
•
Let us • not Economics
end it here. (addressing
Here is our call
action:
the to
fundamental
bases
of
these
human
rights
abuses).
• Help your city declare Zero Tolerance to FGM.
us for
This Contact
interview
was support.
originally published by the AHA
Foundation.
Hilary
Burrage,
a college
• Need help to set up
an FGM previously
Survivors’ Club
or FGM
lecturer,
is a sociologist,
author Please
of two contact
on female
Community
Steering Group?
us for
genital
mutilation (FGM) and a consultant on FGM
details.
for the Guardian Newspaper. She is currently
• campaigning
Continue to
awareness
of FGM
our
to raise
STOP
FGM in the
UK. and
Visit share
https://
work with others.
hilaryburrage.com
or Twitter @HilaryBurrage
•
Support our projects to raise awareness, offer
FGM training, support survivors and affected
Hilary
will be part
the FGM
Mojatu
Foundation’s
communities
and of
train
cutters.
discussion board on the actions needed in
Donations are payable to:
terms of policy and mental health support
Mojatu
Foundation
for FGM
survivors during the Nottingham
Bank Name: Barclays Bank
in
Parliament
day on 25th October 2016
Name: Mojatu Foundation
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