Hamburg, the 03/02/2011. The task force welcomes the commitment of the Hamburg Senator for Social Affairs, Family, Health and Consumer Protection, Dietrich Wersich, for improved protection of victims on the subject of female genital mutilation, which he gave on the eve of International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM ".
Experience in dealing Hamburg authorities shows the problem that a remedy is urgently needed: For neither can now acutely vulnerable girls in individual cases to count on the child protection authorities, nor is there in the Hanseatic city, to protect the entire risk group of about 1,000 underage girls.
failed For example, the youth office Hamburg-Nord in late 2007, family law measures to protect a 2-year-old girl in front of female genital mutilation in the Gambia initiated. The Office assessed the risks arising for the girls by residence in a country where 90% of women are affected by this severe violence and no legal prohibition and its enforcement protect them simply as speculative.
The Youth Office of Hamburg-Mitte 2009 would cause no protection for a newborn girl Gambian parents, even though the mother had announced to third parties the mutilation already. Because the child's mother asserted against the youth welfare office that they this act do not plan, you could see no danger to the child.
The activated by the task force family court agreed with this assessment and not saved the baby from the mutilation in the Gambia, by limiting the residence determination.
that authorities reluctant to act or not is based, that is often not a lack of information on female genital mutilation or the legal options, but on a systematic underestimation of the offender and the actual risk situation.
points above, the intention of Senator Wersich in the right direction. The Hamburg Senate has now sought, the girls at risk to provide comprehensive protection while giving the course for strict prosecution of offenders.
should discuss new strategies, such as the introduction of medical reporting requirements combined with an examination requirement. In order to protect all the vulnerable girl before the crime in the countries of origin of the parents, family law action is beneficial, as the decision of the Supreme Court from 2004, XII ZB 166/03) shows.
All documentation on female genital mutilation in Hamburg can be found here: http://www.taskforcefgm.de/2011/02/genitalverstummelung-in-hamburg-rund-1-000-minderjahrige-madchen-bislang-ohne-schutz /
Source: task force for effective prevention of female genital mutilation eV
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