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First City of Zero-tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation(FGM)
in UK: Nottingham Model to go Global - www.fgmworldwide.org
Through the Mojatu Foundation’s “End FGM in a Generation”
campaign in the UK and beyond Nottingham City took a strong
stance and declared Nottingham a zero-tolerance to FGM zone,
the first city. The Nottingham Survivor’s Club and Nottingham FGM
Community Steering Group run by Mojatu, put forward a request
for the declaration. This is a remarkable achievement for the city
and will be celebrated in Parliament on 25 th October 2016 as the
campaign goes to a national level.
Sheriff of Nottingham Cllr Jackie Morris (FGM Ambassador) who
moved the motion to the full Council House in September 2016,
will call other cities to follow suit by committing to tackling FGM
through awareness raising, training and working closely with
survivors and affected communities.
• Over 200M girls and women worldwide are affected by FGM.
• Over 137,000 girls and women in England and Wales are
believed to have gone through FGM.
• Over 60,000 girls in the UK are believed to be at risk.
The Sheriff said:
“City of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation – Nottingham
Model to go Global”.
Through a panel discussion, Mojatu Foundation will seek to address
the complexity of appropriate mental health service provision of
FGM survivors and legal protection of girls and women at risk with
the aim of influencing policy. Furthermore, they will explicate the
ways in which research can help to fill gaps in knowledge and
further a greater understanding of FGM.
Valentine Nkoyo, Director Mojatu Foundation, Chair of the Nottingham
Community FGM Steering Group said:
“As a survivor myself, I am so grateful to our city, supporters and
funders for taking such a strong stance on FGM and we hope
other cities will follow and keep the subject on the agenda as we
take this to a national level and beyond. We are very proud to be
part of the Nottingham in Parliament event as this continues to
strengthen our advocacy work to keep our girls and women safe.
We do hope that policy makers and commissioners will consider
the importance of the issues we will be addressing in Parliament.”
“FGM is something that many people think shouldn’t be talked
about but that’s partly what makes the practice continue.
That’s why I helped to move the motion, to make it known that
Nottingham is a Zero-tolerance City to FGM. I am very proud of
the work Mojatu Foundation has been doing and I will support
them on a national level to get other cities on board”. Speakers include FGM Survivors, Sheriff of Nottingham, Sarah
Champion MP, Lilian Greenwood MP, Prof Stephen Regel (Specialist
in Trauma and Mental Health), Terri Harman (Godiva Law), Dr Carol
McCormick (Nottingham FGM Specialist), Dr Catrin Evans (Associate
Professor and Director of Global Engagement at the University of
Nottingham) among others.
As part of Nottingham in Parliament Day(NIPD), Sarah Champion
(MP for Rotherham) will be hosting the Mojatu Foundation’s event Our audience include FGM survivors and campaigners, MPs,
policy makers, Home Office, health and education professionals,
researchers, legal professionals, the police among others.
Nottingham Declared the
first City of Zero-tolerance
to Female Genital Mutilation
(FGM) in UK
Read full story in page 6 of
Issue M022 at
https://goo.gl/SJpqrV
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