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MPs demand FGM emergency plan
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MPs demanded an emergency action plan to tackle the “national scandal” of female genital mutilation (FGM) yesterday.
The cross-party home affairs committee urged prosecutions through the courts to show perpetrators that the issue is at last being taken seriously.
While the practice of FGM has been outlawed in Britain since 1985, the first prosecution only took place this year.
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