{"id":5804,"date":"2014-07-01T23:24:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2014-09-09T06:02:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T05:02:49","slug":"uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5805\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg 960w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>More than 20,000 girls under the age of 15 are believed to be at high risk of FGM in England and Wales this year alone, according to government estimates.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><strong>UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a title=\"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/4381\/uk-fgm\" target=\"_blank\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | July 1, 2014<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of schoolgirls in the United Kingdom are at high risk of undergoing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Female_genital_mutilation\">female genital mutilation<\/a> (FGM) during this year\u2019s summer break, according to the British government, which is actively promoting several nationwide campaigns aimed at raising awareness of the spiraling problem.<\/p>\n<p>The summer holiday\u2014often referred to as the \u201ccutting season\u201d\u2014is an especially dangerous time for at-risk girls, anti-FGM activists warn. Many families consider the summer to be a convenient time to carry out the procedure because there is time for the girls to heal before they return to school in the fall.<\/p>\n<p>British girls are often sent abroad during the summer to be mutilated by \u201chouse doctors\u201d in their ancestral countries. Others are being sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/world\/british-girls-flown-to-singapore-and-dubai-for-medicalised-fgm-9369122.html\">Dubai and Singapore<\/a> for a more \u201cmedicalized\u201d form of FGM. But equally large numbers of girls are being cut in Britain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/crime\/fgm-girls-being-cut-in-britain-as-often-as-abroad-says-met-commissioner-9343724.html\">according<\/a> to London\u2019s Metropolitan Police Service.<\/p>\n<p>More than 20,000 girls under the age of 15 are believed to be at high risk of FGM in England and Wales this year alone, according to government estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Britain\u2019s FGM problem is massive and growing, but observers say the solutions implemented so far to reverse the trend have been largely ineffective. Despite years of private and public sector efforts aimed at stopping the practice, there is now a very real sense that the UK\u2019s fight against FGM is failing to gain traction.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/4381\/uk-fgm\" target=\"_blank\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20,000 girls under the age of 15 are believed to be at high risk of FGM in England and Wales this year alone, according to government estimates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,48],"tags":[180,181],"class_list":["post-5804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-islam-in-europe","tag-britain","tag-islam-in-europe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"More than 20,000 girls under the age of 15 are believed to be at high risk of FGM in England and Wales this year alone, according to government estimates.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-07-01T22:24:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-09-09T05:02:49+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Soeren Kern\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Soeren Kern\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Soeren Kern\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/398976192ef9b41439530e643f131b36\"},\"headline\":\"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-07-01T22:24:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-09T05:02:49+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":280,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Britain\",\"Islam in Europe\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Britain\",\"Islam in Europe\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/\",\"name\":\"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-07-01T22:24:14+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-09T05:02:49+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/398976192ef9b41439530e643f131b36\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg\",\"width\":960,\"height\":640},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/2014\\\/07\\\/01\\\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Islam in Europe\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/category\\\/islam-in-europe\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Britain\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/category\\\/islam-in-europe\\\/britain\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/\",\"name\":\"Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East\",\"description\":\"Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/398976192ef9b41439530e643f131b36\",\"name\":\"Soeren Kern\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.soerenkern.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/soerenkern.com\\\/web\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East","og_description":"More than 20,000 girls under the age of 15 are believed to be at high risk of FGM in England and Wales this year alone, according to government estimates.","og_url":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/","og_site_name":"Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East","article_published_time":"2014-07-01T22:24:14+00:00","article_modified_time":"2014-09-09T05:02:49+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Soeren Kern","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Soeren Kern","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/"},"author":{"name":"Soeren Kern","@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/#\/schema\/person\/398976192ef9b41439530e643f131b36"},"headline":"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM","datePublished":"2014-07-01T22:24:14+00:00","dateModified":"2014-09-09T05:02:49+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/"},"wordCount":280,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg","keywords":["Britain","Islam in Europe"],"articleSection":["Britain","Islam in Europe"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/","url":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/","name":"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM - Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg","datePublished":"2014-07-01T22:24:14+00:00","dateModified":"2014-09-09T05:02:49+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/#\/schema\/person\/398976192ef9b41439530e643f131b36"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/uk-fgm-campaign.jpg","width":960,"height":640},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2014\/07\/01\/uk-uphill-battle-fight-fgm\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Islam in Europe","item":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/category\/islam-in-europe\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Britain","item":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/category\/islam-in-europe\/britain\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"UK: Uphill Battle in Fight Against FGM"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/#website","url":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/","name":"Soeren Kern | Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East","description":"Geopolitical Perspectives on Europe, America and the Middle East","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/#\/schema\/person\/398976192ef9b41439530e643f131b36","name":"Soeren Kern","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.soerenkern.com"],"url":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5963,"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5804\/revisions\/5963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}