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Book review: Female Genital Mutilation: Law and Practice
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Amelia Nice5 St Andrew’s Hill Chambers
The practice of female genital mutilation remains widespread across the globe. The risk to women and girls in this country is not limited to being taken abroad but includes the risk of being mutilated in this country. The adverse physical emotional and psychological consequences are invariable severe and lifelong.Zimran Samuels’s extremely useful comprehensive and readily accessible book sets out the key legal developments of recent years. It will provide invaluable and much needed guidance to all professionals who encounter the issue. Read the full article here.
