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Sex charge should stick in mutilation case, feds say

endfgmtoday October 24, 2017 October 24, 2017ACLU, at-risk girls, Detroit, Domestic Violence Act, Elizabeth Yore, endorsers of FGM in America, Federal Charges, Feminism, FGM, Health Information, Immigrants, Importing FGM to America, Islam, Jumana Nagarwala, Media, Michigan, Religious practice, U.S.

full article originally posted at: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/10/19/sex-charge-stick-genital-mutilation-case-feds-say/106793430/ Detroit – Dr. Jumana Nagarwala digitally penetrated and cut the genitalia of 7-year-old girls and should face a sex charge in the nation’s first female genital mutilation trial, prosecutors said Wednesday. Prosecutors made the argument four weeks after the Northville doctor and Dr. Fakhruddin Attar of…

NCC talk: Ending genital mutilation and child marriage

endfgmtoday October 18, 2017 October 18, 2017ACLU, at-risk girls, Dawoodi Bohra

Originally posted at : http://cccnews.info/2017/10/16/ncc-talk-ending-genital-mutilation-and-child-marriage/ Jaha Dukureh, a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced child marriage, will speak at Nassau Community College about Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage in This Country and Around the World on Wednesday, November 1 at 9:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m.…

FGM bill rejected in Maine House

endfgmtoday July 18, 2017 March 19, 2018ACLU, Legislation, Maine, Michigan

Last week, while Michigan governor Rick Snyder was signing new legislation to make female genital mutilation (FGM),the practice that cuts or removes the outside of the female genitalia, a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison, the Maine legislature was turning a blind eye to the grim reality of FGM…