FORWARD – FGM Awareness Survey

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FORWARD has launched a UK-wide public awareness survey to understand how much people know about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), its legal status, and the specialist support available for affected women and girls.

FGM is illegal in the UK and recognised as a serious form of violence against women and girls. Yet, thousands of women and girls remain affected, and awareness of available support services remains low. Additionally, there are no national standards for training key professionals to enable them to effectively respond to cases.
This short, anonymous survey takes ten minutes to complete and aims to inform policy, education, and community protection initiatives. The findings will help shape national training, prevention strategies, and support for survivors.

Complete the survey, here.

See also https://www.forwarduk.org.uk/news-events/what-do-you-know-about-fgm-your-10-minutes-will-make-a-difference/

Thanks for this - completed and bumping.

Noting there is an error on one of the questions that should be multi choice, but isn't.

From the Times report today:

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/bmj-academics-criticism-female-genital-mutilation-western-sensationalism-75d2sg03l

Laws that ban female genital mutilation (FGM) are harmful and “stigmatising” towards migrant communities, academics have claimed in a British Medical Journal publication.
The essay argues that criticism of FGM, which involves cutting or removing females’ genitals for non-medical reasons, is “sensationalist” and based on “racialised stereotypes”.

Glad to see that it’s getting more attention, but I really wish newspapers wouldn’t use such euphemistic language. The sanitised little phrases they use to describe it don’t even come close to covering the real horror of what’s been done to these women and girls, and the comparison to circumcision, even in quoted text, creates an idea in readers’ minds that it’s just a little cut. It’s not. At its most extreme it’s the stuff of literal horror.

There's already a thread discussing this paper.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5459808-5459808-de-colonising-fgm-a-paper-in-bmj

You could let FORWARD know [email protected]

I did it. Not that I am aware of knowing anyone who suffered from it.