Urging female genital mutilation should be against the law: MPs

The right-wing VVD and the Socialist Party have drawn up draft legislation that would make it a criminal offence to call for or support female genital mutilation, following claims this has been happening in the Netherlands. Some 4,200 girls in the Netherlands are at risk of having their genitals mutilated in the coming years, according to experts at the Pharos institute. The practice is illegal in the Netherlands but often takes place in secret or in the victim’s parents’ country...