BAREtruth Theatre presents: Little Stitches - 21-27.08.14
FGM is currently one of the most talked about issues in the press not only in the UK, but worldwide.
On the 25th February 2014, the Bristol student Fahma Mohamed met Michael Gove to press him to seek an end to female genital mutilation in the UK by urging every school to train teachers and parents about the horrors of the practice.
More than 140 million women and girls worldwide have suffered FGM, with up to 98% of girls mutilated in certain African, Middle Eastern and Asian countries. Traditionally seen as a rite of passage carried out to keep girls “pure” before marriage.
According to government figures more than 20,000 British girls are thought to be at risk of being cut every year but, despite previous government promises to stop FGM, experts have warned that girls are not only still being taken abroad to be cut during the holiday “cutting season”, but are also being mutilated in Britain, often flying in elderly cutters who service many girls on the same day at ‘cutting parties’ to save costs. This happens to newborns as well as adults, but is most commonly practiced on girls between infancy and 15 years old.
Please note the time for the show on the 25th August is 17:00 pm
