Fears over girls being taken abroad for FGM during summer holidays
There are fears that girls from the UK will be taken abroad by their parents to undergo female genital mutilation during the summer holidays.
There are approximately 137,000 women and girls affected by FGM living in the Britain, and it's estimated that a further 60,000 women and girls are at risk.
The United Nations has labelled the practice as child abuse, and the 麻豆社鈥檚 Tulip Mazumdar has been looking at what's being done here and abroad to combat it.
Her report contains upsetting and graphic details.
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