Gambian women fleeing female genital mutilation threat

Name: Gambian women fleeing female genital mutilation threat
Uploaded: 2013-09-04T09:16:13.000Z
Duration: 11 min 30 s
Description: Newsnight's Sue Lloyd-Roberts speaks to two women from The Gambia who have sought asylum in the UK because of the threat of female genital mutilation and travels to their home country to test their claims.

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Fear of female genital mutilation (FGM) is grounds for seeking asylum in the UK, but campaigners say that hundreds of women have had such applications rejected. Newsnight's Sue Lloyd-Roberts spoke to two women from The Gambia whose applications failed, and travelled to their home country to test their cases on the ground.

4 September 2013