Letter from Ministry of Justice to Tweede Kamer, August 19 2010, Research criminal detection and prosecution of FGM, the French practice
Brief Ministerie van Justitite aan Tweede Kamer, 19 augustus 2010, Onderzoek strafrechtelijke opsporing en vervolging VGV, de Franse Praktijk
The information was last updated in 2013 and may not accurately represent the present situation. It makes a reference to the United Kingdom as a member of the European Union and was published before the UK's withdrawal from the European Union on the 31 January 2020.
This letter presents findings from the research report "Criminal detection and prosecution of FGM, the French Practice (see NL_XXXT/I). The letter also states that from August 1 2009, the Guideline Child Abuse entered in to force, in which FGM is explicitly mentioned as a separate form of child abuse.
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Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Health (VWS)