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FGM and Healthcare: Working together to improve interventions

FGM and Healthcare: Working together to improve interventions

On Wednesday 5th February 2025, Savera UK hosted its second Healthcare & FGM event, this time focusing on improving interventions ...
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Student Spotlight: Beth, Social Work Student

Social work student, Beth, recently completed a 70-day student placement with our Direct Intervention team, where she gained invaluable practical ...
Iraq passes laws that could legalise child marriage

Iraq passes laws that could legalise child marriage

Iraq has passed amendments to a law that would in effect legalise child marriage. Currently the legal age for marriage ...

HBA & Harmful Practice Media Guidelines

We have launched media guidelines for reporting on HBA and harmful practices and interviewing survivors.

The guidelines were created collaboratively by HBA survivors and frontline professionals and came following the charity’s Setting the Story Straight project, funded by Lloyds Bank Foundation for England & Wales. The project examined how HBA and harmful practices, its survivors and affected communities were represented in the media.

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