It is not entirely true to say nothing is done to stop it. In this country there are dedicated teams of people in local authorities working day in and day out to stop it before it happens. I cannot speak for success rates but whatever they are they are it is not through lack of trying.
Thanks for making that important point Rachel. And you are right to do so. I was thinking more about the politicians, the police, the criminal prosecution service and the judiciary etc.. Yesterday was the International Day to draw attention to the problem. I only know that because it was on Italian News this morning, and that's where I got the figure from. I scoured the BBC but couldn't find anything. Certainly it's not making their headlines.
Check out Edna Adan Ismail, a midwife and Somalian and passionate woman fighting for these young girls. She was on Desert Island Discs recently where you can hear a precis of her life's work.
I just tuned in and heard her on DID talking about her hospital project and her childhood which entailed painful mutilation and suffering - butchered with her grandmother's knife and bound with thorns - a so-called purification at age 8. 'One never recovers from it. The emotional pain never goes'. ' There comes a time in life when one has to call a spade a spade.'
If was very moving, and also brings it home that it is happening to anyone, in that her father was a doctor and she was from a well to do family. She works with it now from the bottom of her heart.
The world is a strange place. On the one hand hundreds of millions of people engaging in Stone Age behavior and on the other side a tesla car on its way to Mars.
I do think about it Gwil. It is part of mens attempt to continue domination of women. I watched a programme on TV where a captured Isis fighter was confronted by a girl who had been their prisoner but had escaped. She asked him how he felt about all the women and children he had raped. He didn't look at all contrite, merely said that men had their needs and he was no different to any other man. I despair.
It is not entirely true to say nothing is done to stop it. In this country there are dedicated teams of people in local authorities working day in and day out to stop it before it happens. I cannot speak for success rates but whatever they are they are it is not through lack of trying.
ReplyDeleteThanks for making that important point Rachel. And you are right to do so. I was thinking more about the politicians, the police, the criminal prosecution service and the judiciary etc.. Yesterday was the International Day to draw attention to the problem. I only know that because it was on Italian News this morning, and that's where I got the figure from. I scoured the BBC but couldn't find anything. Certainly it's not making their headlines.
DeleteCheck out Edna Adan Ismail, a midwife and Somalian and passionate woman fighting for these young girls. She was on Desert Island Discs recently where you can hear a precis of her life's work.
DeleteI just tuned in and heard her on DID talking about her hospital project and her childhood which entailed painful mutilation and suffering - butchered with her grandmother's knife and bound with thorns - a so-called purification at age 8. 'One never recovers from it. The emotional pain never goes'.
Delete' There comes a time in life when one has to call a spade a spade.'
If was very moving, and also brings it home that it is happening to anyone, in that her father was a doctor and she was from a well to do family. She works with it now from the bottom of her heart.
DeleteThe world is a strange place. On the one hand hundreds of millions of people engaging in Stone Age behavior and on the other side a tesla car on its way to Mars.
DeleteI do think about it Gwil. It is part of mens attempt to continue domination of women. I watched a programme on TV where a captured Isis fighter was confronted by a girl who had been their prisoner but had escaped. She asked him how he felt about all the women and children he had raped. He didn't look at all contrite, merely said that men had their needs and he was no different to any other man. I despair.
ReplyDeleteThe three monkeys and their friend the ostrich are alive and well.
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