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How we can stop FGM: One step at a time
The statistics about FGM are daunting. They are extremely hard to get our head around in human terms. The WHO estimates 140 million women and girls worldwide living with the consequences of FGM; 3...
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“Maybe Hitler didn’t kill enough of them”– anti-Roma racism intensifies in...
From the birthplace of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, anti-Roma hatred intensifies: July 21, 2013: “Maybe Hitler didn’t kill enough of them.” – Gilles Bourdouleix, member of National Assembly,...
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How FGM destroys sexual desire & deepens male domination
An extract from my forthcoming article on FGM: “And therefore through the act of genital mutilation, the young girl not only has her status as marriageable chattel ‘secured’, but her position of...
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“I hear FGM calms a woman down”
A young man in Britain from an FGM-practising community uttered the words in the title of this post. This is the full account of what he said: “I hear if you take it off, it calms the person down. It...
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FGM: 13 reasons given for genitally mutilating young women & girls
It brings status and respect to the girl. It preserves a girl’s virginity/chastity. It is part of being a woman. It is a rite of passage. It gives a girl social acceptance, especially for marriage....
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How FGM silences the suffering of women
By the act of genital mutilation, a young woman or girl is silenced in two senses. Firstly, by having inflicted upon her this act of physical and symbolic domination, she has confirmed a subservient...
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FGM: understanding it; challenging it
This weekend I am putting together an article I’ve been commissioned to write on the challenge of properly understanding the acute risk that FGM poses. Here are some of my thoughts as I work through...
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Social justice review 2013: @DexterDiasQC for OpenDemocracy.net
Thoughts on 2013 – the turning point on female genital mutilation? by Dexter Dias QC 2013 was an appalling year in most respects, including the disastrous Immigration Bill and the continuing rise in...
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Borders of the mind: The profound paradox of Female Genital Mutilation....
Discover Society, Issue 4. January 2014 Dexter Dias QC, Harvard University, Human Rights lawyer (London) The last two months have seen developments on both sides of the Atlantic around...
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The first FGM prosecutions: A time of progress and peril
By Dexter Dias QC, for Counsel Magazine, June 2014 And so it begins. In April we finally witnessed something that activists who have been campaigning against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) for years...
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