The hon. Gentleman mentions the Gambia. A friend of mine was, unfortunately, forced to move back there, having done a lot of work in Scotland on FGM and having helped to co-ordinate the FGM strategy in Scotland. She has now set up an NGO called Women in Liberation and Leadership, and she is supporting a young woman called Binta—that is not her real name, because we are trying to protect her—who was subjected to FGM, was raped by an older man, and has been subjected to terrible persecution by her own family and been cast out by them. We are now raising funds to try to get her into a safe house. Does the hon. Gentleman think that she is the kind of person we could do more to support and more to reach out to?
Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [Lords]
Proceeding contribution from
Hannah Bardell
(Scottish National Party)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 11 March 2019.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Children Act 1989 (Amendment) (Female Genital Mutilation) Bill [Lords].
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