A 30 year old Dutch man of Moroccan is on trial for genitally cutting his six year old daughter. The public prosecution has requested the sentence saying that the girl has been permanently mutilated by the man. The charges came after the girl told foster parents that her father cut her. Female circumcision is a…
In Denmark’s first case involving sentencing of parents for the genital mutilation of their daughters, a court found the mother guilty of allowing two of her daughters – now 10 and 12 years old – to have the controversial operation performed on her children, and the parents have been charged with planning to have a…
According to a new report prepared for the Ministry of Children and Equality and Ministry of Health in Norway, female circumcision is much less widespread than originally thought. Between 2006 and 2007, there were 15 known cases of female circumcision. Six of the fifteen cases had been reported to the police. Researches think that the…
Former internist and oncologist Jannes Mulder wrote in the medical journal _Medisch Contact’ that girls in the Netherlands are still being circumcised, even though female circumcision is banned in the country. The Dutch Council for Public Health estimates that at least 50 girls undergo the procedure each year, mostly within the Somali community. In his…
The Norwegian government presented its plan to fight female circumcision, including the confiscation or refusal of issuing passports to parents or children when there is a suspicion a female child will be circumcised. In June of 2007, after it was revealed that Norwegian-African girls are sent to their homeland to be circumcised, the government presented…
