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.
After the killing of the Assad militiaman and the mutilation of his body?
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.
According to a 1999 report from the World Health Organization, 97 percent of Egyptian women and girls have undergone the barbaric practice of genital mutilation.
Elsewhere, Charlotte Gainsbourg won the best actress prize for her shocking turn in Lars von Trier's "Antichrist, " featuring scenes of genital mutilation that left audiences stunned.
According to a study based on census data, about 20, 000 girls are at risk of genital mutilation, with one north London hospital recording 450 cases in the past three years.
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.
Midwives may be asked to routinely raise the subject of female genital mutilation with women from communities where it is known to take place, the Department of Health has indicated.
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Some 250, 000 people have now fled the country, bringing with them horrifying accounts of killing and mutilation.
South Africa's President Jacob Zuma has condemned the gang rape and mutilation of a 17-year-old girl who later died.
There is a high incidence among them of self-mutilation, suicide and psychological breakdown.
On reconsideration, however, this behavior should be recognized for what it is: an act of censorship by mutilation rather than by obvious suppression.
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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Her equivalent in the post-revolution parliament is Azza Al-Garf who has been lobbying against the 2003 legislation that criminalizes the savage practice of female genital mutilation .
Danilo Restivo was given a whole life tariff in June 2011 for the murder and mutilation of a mother-of-two in Bournemouth, while David Oakes, 51, shot his former partner before shooting their two-year-old daughter.
The animalistic mutilation of our soldiers and the calls of "Death to the Jews" that are now echoed in the Arab world have raised the eyebrows of even the most ardent supporters of compromise.
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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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The West Side Boys are no longer linked to the rebel Revolutionary United Front, but two years ago they took part in the killing and mutilation of civilians when they fought with RUF during a raid on Freetown.
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.
In a separate development, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) issued a news release condemning the "mutilation" of the bodies of four Americans in Fallujah, Iraq - but pointedly not condemning the murders themselves.
But his rebels now terrorise large swathes of the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and the CAR and he is wanted by the International Criminal Court for rape, mutilation and murder of civilians, as well as forcibly recruiting children to serve as soldiers and sex slaves.
Ms Tamar-Mattis says that American doctors are slowly becoming less heavy-handed, but prompt surgery genital mutilation in the eyes of critics remains the norm in industrialised countries.
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".
Female genital mutilation is all over the websites of UNICEF and the World Health Organisation.
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