Bristol's safeguarding children board has estimated about 2, 000 girls in the city are at risk of mutilation.
Girls at risk of genital mutilation are not being helped as their teachers lack training in how to deal with this type of child abuse, a charity has warned.
Maureen Rolls, of South West Equine Protection, said it was the worst case of horse mutilation she had seen in 30 years.
Several witnesses for the prosecution recounted in court last year instances of the mutilation and torture that became common across Sierra Leone.
Some of the worst atrocities, including the mutilation of women and children, were blamed on the main rebel group in Sierra Leone.
This is an admirable scruple, but a puzzling one, because it is largely absent from other Grimm tales, many of which feature mutilation, dismemberment, and cannibalism, not to speak of ordinary homicide, often inflicted on children by their parents or guardians.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has condemned the gang rape and mutilation of a 17-year-old girl who later died.
Jeremy Browne will also say that the genital mutilation of girls as young as five is "barbaric" and should be regarded as "child abuse".
In any event, argue some Senegalese opponents of female genital mutilation, by criminalising the practice the government will undermine delicate local efforts to discourage it.
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Suddenly, in the middle of all this, the Farrellys cut to a gruesome close-up of the actual mutilation, which is so unexpected and so cheap, I couldn't decide how I felt about it as a joke.
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Prominent Pakistani commentator Zafar Hilaly, who was also on the show, reacted by saying that while the mutilation of anyone was a "reprehensible act", it was "utter rubbish" to suggest that the regular soldiers of the Pakistan Army were involved.
The 2010 winner, Julia Lalla-Maharajh, is pitching the cause of ending female genital mutilation.
During the discussion, Irina Bokova highlighted the importance of education as a transformative force to prevent female genital mutilation and cutting, underlining the need for all to respect the human rights and human dignity of every girl and women and reminding all of the relevance in this respect of the 2001 UNESCO Universal declaration on Cultural Diversity.
Updated Ofsted guidance says that key staff should be able to show how alert they are to "possible signs that a child has been subject to female genital mutilation or is at risk of being abused through it".
The charity is urging schools to treat female genital mutilation as they would other forms of child abuse.
Female genital mutilation is practised in a number of mainly Muslim African communities, and the tradition can travel when immigrants settle abroad.
The youth of Sierra Leone are asking for an end to female genital mutilation.
In December, the UN General Assembly unanimously approved a resolution on ending female genital mutilation, and in March, the Commission on the Status of Women ended its annual session by adopting strongly agreed conclusions to prevent and end violence against girls and women.
Monday's proceedings open at 2.30 pm with questions to the Home Secretary, including, in a week where the issue of violence against women will be raised on several occasions, tackling female genital mutilation - police efforts on this problem are likely to be criticised at a Home Affairs Committee hearing on Tuesday, and see also Thursday's Backbench Business Committee debate.
Lumbly makes you believe that this Johnny Appleseed of reading and writing would return to slavery from a free life up North and risk mutilation in order to continue his teaching.
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