when was fgm made illegal in the uk
1985
title: Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005 text: Mutilation Act 2003. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in the United Kingdom since 1985 when the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 was passed in Scotland. The rest of the United Kingdom quickly followed suit with each country creating its own version of the law. Over the decades that this law was in place, no conviction could be mounted as the law itself was too vague to be enforced properly. In order to protect the women of the British Isles the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 was replied and replaced in 2003 when the United Kingdom passed title: Female genital mutilation in the United Kingdom text: who have experienced FGM and tries to eliminate the practice. Dorkenoo received an OBE in 1994 for her work. Two years after she founded FORWARD, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 made it an offence in the UK to perform FGM on children or adults. In 1993 a councillor at the London Borough of Brent proposed a motion that FGM should be legalised and made available on the National Health Service. According to Ann John, a councillor who opposed the motion, the motion called for it to be classed as a "right specifically for African families who want to title: Female genital mutilation text: eight-year sentence for having performed FGM on 48 girls. By 2014 over 100 parents and two practitioners had been prosecuted in over 40 criminal cases. Around 137,000 women and girls living in England and Wales were born in countries where FGM is practised, as of 2011. Performing FGM on children or adults was outlawed under the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985. This was replaced by the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005, which added a prohibition on arranging FGM outside the country for British citizens or permanent residents. The United Nations title: Feminism in the United Kingdom text: that the exemption would be extended until 2030 under the Equality Act 2010. The Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation (Scotland) Act 2005 made it an offence to arrange FGM outside the country for British citizens or permanent residents, whether or not it is lawful in the country to which the girl is taken. The first prosecutions took place in 2015 against a doctor for performing FGM and another man for aiding and abetting; both were found not guilty. The Equality Act 2006 (c 3) is an Act of the Parliament of the United title: Prosecution of gender-targeted crimes text: 2 year-old daughter. A native from Ethiopia and living in Georgia, Adem, circumcised his young daughter with a pair of scissors, and the young girl's mother did not find out about the act until two year later. After this case, Georgia enacted a law specifically forbidding the practice of FGM, but Adem, while originally facing forty years in prison, was only sentenced to ten years. Adem's case was the not first case involving FGM for in 2004, two California residents were arrested for conspiring to perform on FGM on young girls. The first prosecution for FGM in the UK took