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ONE in 20 women living in a south London borough were estimated to have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), shocking stats revealed today.
Figures collected by City University London and the human rights organisation Equality Now have shown how almost 5 per cent of women in Southwark have suffered under the procedure.
Estimates came from calculating the number of women in Britain who were born in countries where FGM is practiced, how common the practice is in those countries and where the victims live now.
Women’s fight against violence and legal erosion is central to building a democratic and just Iraq, says Dr SALMA SAADAWI
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN