Hiiraan Online
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
London, UK (HOL) - Tomorrow the British Prime Minister David Cameron alongside other key international agencies like UNICEF will host a major summit to tackle Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and early and forced marriage both domestically and internationally in London. The event will bring together community leaders, governments, international organisations and the private sector to rally a global movement to end both Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and child, early and forced marriage both locally and internationally.
The summit that opens tomorrow morning will be addressed by the British International Development Secretary Justin Greening, the Home Secretary Theresa May and the Executive Director of UNICEF Tony Lake. Global Civil society members, international policy makers and other influential groups in international governance and on the topics of FGM and forced and early marriage will also address the summit.
The British government, one of the key leaders in the fight against FGM internationally, on its official website claims that both early and forced marriage and FGM are deep rooted cultural practices which violate the rights of girls and women both in this country and overseas and as such it is one that needs an urgent international response. It is due to the life long negative social, personal and economical damage victims of both violations experience and live with that has encouraged the British Government to act now, according to the official British government website. With this international summit, the British government argues communities and international governments are already taking some action against both FGM and early and forced marriages but it wants to play a greater role “in supporting this momentum and this summer’s event will galvanise further action to help end these practices and empower girls.”
The summit will welcome around 200 delegates from around the world to London in order to find policy solutions to the global issue of eradicating both FGM and early and forced marriage for girls.
HOL English News Desk