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"Mr President, I voted in favour of the motion for a resolution on female genital mutilation (FGM). With an estimated 140 million women and girls worldwide living with the terrible consequences of female genital mutilation, and at least half a million of them in Europe –including, sadly, many in my own region of London – this is a huge issue.
Though FGM is a traditional practice in the Horn of Africa, it is not a requirement of any religion. It is a barbaric practice performed for the most part on girls younger than fifteen years old, leaving them with very serious long-term consequences and irreparable injuries. Complications of the procedure such as haemorrhaging, infection, transmission of the HIV virus and complications – even to pregnancy and eventual childbirth – can sometimes be fatal.
I back calls for the UN General Assembly to ban the practice across all its member states, and for our own Member States in the European Union to criminalise the practice at national level. In the United Kingdom we need to see more prosecutions of both parents and surgeons who do this. It is still going on illegally and yet our police, for reasons of cultural sensitivity, are very reluctant to act, sadly."@en1
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