Act first applied in Sweden
Last week a Swedish court sentenced a Somalis, his daughter had maim abroad. It is the first time that the Nordic country by a corresponding law are exercised.
A Swedish law from 1982 prohibits the genital mutilation of girls and women since 1999, the intervention also be prosecuted if it happens abroad. Last week showed the first law tightening effect. Gothenburg A court sentenced a man coming from Somalia to four years in prison and compensation. According to the Court was of the 41-year-old after the divorce from his wife in Sweden five years ago with his daughter traveled to Mogadishu. After an in many African cultures usual ritual was then 13 years old girls are circumcised. Last year fled the daughter of Ethiopia back to Sweden and then showed the father. This denied in court action and will, according to his lawyer probably challenge the judgment. The World Health Organization WHO, like other international organizations use against genital mutilation, estimates that worldwide from 100 to 140 million women are circumcised. The practice come primarily in 28 African countries. Even in industrialized countries but they had encountered, particularly among migrants from Africa. The WHO classifies different types of genital mutilation (FGM): Type includes a partial or complete removal of the clitoris and their foreskin. Type two are also the inner labia or parts of it cut off. The third form of mutilation, ‘infibulations’, clitoris, inner and outer labia amputated and the Vaginaloffnung together so that only a small opening. Type four are other types of circumcision. In the recent case in Sweden was, according to state prosecutor to an interference of category two. It was “unacceptable that girls in Sweden are exposed to genital mutilation,” says the Swedish Family Minister Berit Andnor. The practice violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. In a brochure of the Social Democrat government, however, that parents who circumcise their daughter, not from doing cruelty. They believed Rather, it as “a better life” to be. In these cultures, many parents fear that a non not circumcised daughter’s husband finds disabled children brings to the world or is not completely to the woman. Swedish women’s and children’s rights organizations welcomed the court judgment. Anna Franking of “Radda Barnen” (Save the Children) said the case shows that the law is working against genital mutilation. Louise Abubakar of “RISK” (Association to stop female genital mutilation) hopes that the judgment signal effect, as compared to the newspaper “Dagens Nyheter” said. In future, more cases might appear. A problem, however, that the affected girls are often not happy, display to reimburse, as this penalties for the closest family members being taken.
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