Fahma Mohamed, 17, who is major the campaign backed by the Guardian towards FGM. Photograph: Patrick Hoeschler
The campaign to persuade the training secretary, Michael Gove, to support finish female genital mutilation by telling headteachers in England to educate mothers and fathers and kids about the practice has gathered more than 200,000 signatures in eight days.
The Modify.org website says a petition on the situation, backed by the Guardian, is one particular of the quickest developing it has seen in Britain. Thirty-3 MPs have so far supported the campaign by way of an early-day movement in the Property of Commons. The Scottish government has already promised to create to heads.
Gove has agreed to meet the campaign leader, the 17-year-old student Fahma Mohamed, a Bristol teenager from a Muslim Somali loved ones, who would like the concern to be flagged up in schools just before this summer’s “cutting season”. Though many girls are currently being taken abroad to be lower, others are becoming mutilated in Britain, according to campaigners.
Teachers and former teachers are presently urging Gove to stick to suit. Heather Sidery Clarke, from Hastings, explained: “Apart from being such needless and primitively barbaric behaviour, genital mutilation is, in this day, a violent crime.
“I have witnessed the results of this assault on children, as they would return to school in the Uk soon after a ‘trip home’ throughout summer season break.
“The minor women had been transformed from currently being satisfied, confident individuals to sullen and uncomfortable with themselves … A kind of ‘shame’ overhanging them. Not conducive to learning and downright unhealthy.”
Kate, who described herself as a headteacher in London, wrote: “I truly feel genuinely strongly about supporting this campaign to keep girls safe. I am in the method of beginning that discussion with workers and households that I work with and agree that this requirements to be addressed and schools can be instrumental in this.”
FGM petition calling on Michael Gove to act reaches 200,000 signatures
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