FGM summit: Cameron Calls For End In This Generation

Parents will face prosecution if they fail to stop their daughters
undergoing female genital mutilation, FGM, under new measures announced.

Prime Minister David Cameron is unveiling a one point four million pounds prevention programme aimed at ending the practice at a global summit in London.  

It is estimated that up to 137 thousand women and girls living in England and Wales could have undergone FGM.  

The Girl Summit will also look at ways to end forced marriage. 

Hosted by the UK government and children's charity Unicef, the summit will be attended by international politicians, campaigners including the Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai, and women who have undergone FGM.

BBC