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FGM/C: The Hidden Crime

07 June 2018, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm

FGM: The Hidden Crime

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UCL Laws

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UCL Laws, Bentham House

All fees from this event will be donated to charity

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FGM/C: The Hidden Crime

Thursday 7th June 2018
at UCL Faculty of Laws

About this event
For more than three decades, female genital mutilation / cutting (FGM/C) has been illegal in the UK. Yet, whilst awareness of the practice is growing, there have been no successful prosecutions. Indeed, FGM/C remains prevalent: in England and Wales, there are an estimated 137,000 girls and women living with FGM/C and a further 144,000 at risk of undergoing FGM/C. This panel discussion, led by one of our LLM students, will draw together a diverse range of perspectives to answer some of the key questions surrounding the law on FGM/C. Is the existing legislation sufficient? How can it be enforced more effectively?

The discussion will be followed by questions from the audience, which can be submitted at the time of booking on the Eventbrite page.

The event will raise money for two charities:

  • Orchid Project, a charity with a vision of a world free from female genital cutting (FGC), and
  • #SafeHandsForMothers, which advocates for maternal and new-born health, and for which Hibo Wardere is an ambassador.

The Panel:

  • Hibo Wardere (a FGM/C survivor and public speaker and author about FGM/C)
  • Dr Charlotte Proudman (award winning barrister, academic and speaker/writer on FGM/C, and equality issues)
  • Inspector Allen Davies (Metropolitan Police Service, leading Project Azure which tackles FGM/C).

 

About the speakers:
Hibo Wardere (at the age of 6, Hibo was a victim of type 3 FGM/C. She is now an anti-FGM/C campaigner, public speaker, mediator and delivers training to teachers, politicians, social workers, police, doctors, midwifes and universities. She has also written a memoir 'Cut: One Woman's Fight Against FGM in Britain Today')

Dr Charlotte Proudman (barrister specialising in family law and public law, Affiliated Researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, a former Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School where she studied feminist legal theory, and speaker/writer on FGM/C, and equality issues)

Inspector Allen Davis joined the MPS in 1996 and leads Project Azure, the MPS strategic response to FGM/C.  He works closely with the National Police Chief Council lead for Honour Based Abuse and is the national lead for Operation Limelight, a high profile multi-agency safeguarding operation at the UK border.  Allen also leads Project Violet, the MPS strategic response to Child Abuse to Faith or Belief (CALFB) and is Deputy Chair of the National Working Group on CALFB – a strategic, multi-agency forum supported by the Department of Education to help coordinate the national response to witchcraft / spirit possession allegations against children.

This event has been organised by UCL LLM Students.

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