Demand for female genital mutilation treatment service ‘increased 300% over two years’

by badger-biscuits

18 comments
  1. Surely nobody would be surprised by such an increase, right?

  2. Just for some context as the wording of the headline is slightly misleading, this is treatment to help people who have been subjected to FGM, not people looking for FGM.

  3. For the sake of women and girls in the nation, why can’t we create extremely grim penalties for anyone even slightly involved in these acts?

    Those who perform the procedure, know about it, assist in some way getting it etc.

  4. What a disgusting practice, hard to believe this is still going on today 

    Stone Age stuff 

  5. Yet for males it’s cool because of religion or something

  6. Just to point out what someone else said, the article is about people seeking treatment who have had it done to them, not that there is an increase in people looking for it.

  7. I wish we could get rid of religions in general that’s the cancer actually

  8. This is TREATMENT (I.e. helping people who once suffered mutilation). As others have said.

  9. I’m actually not supposed to immigration or any particular nationality coming into the country but when you start seeing an increase of hijabs and nicabs on the Irish street, you can be certain the number of mutilations, honor deaths and child marriages is increasing in tandem behind closed doors.

  10. I was recently passing through Dublin Airport and they had Garda handing out flyers for information on how to access help for FGM.

  11. Should mean automatic deportation for the parents of anyone whos been subjected to fgm along with a barring order preventing any uncles or aunts coming to ireland through a fanily reunificstion scheme

  12. It is absolutely wild how many people support FGM. It really should be grounds for arrest and deportation. Pure and utter barbarism has no place in a modern society. Should be zero tolerance of this practice.

  13. I get that people have misgivings about immigration, but I feel like this shows that these are people who really do need our country’s protection.

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