Researching policy responses to Female Genital Modifications in the UK and globally

We work with and alongside affected groups to:

• Mainstream marginalised voices and provide platforms for affected communities;
• Improve understanding of the nature and extent of FGMo in the UK;
• Challenge stigmatizing and harmful policies and professional practices;
• Identify and change pejorative global discourses;
• Provide empirical evidence to inform and improve law and policy;
• Improve and expand healthcare responses for families with lived experience.

We use the term modifications to draw attention to the current inequity in the law and policy which criminalises and stigmatizes those with migrant-heritage for practicing Female Circumcision or Cutting / ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ (FGM) whilst facilitating analogous practices such as Female Cosmetic Genital Surgeries for the majority.