Le mutilazioni genitali femminili tra misure di prevenzione e di contrasto: prospettive per l'eradicazione del fenomeno in Italia

FGM includes practices of total or partial cutting or external genital lesions of women for no therapeutic reason. They are carried aut for socio-cultural or hygienic-prophylactic causes. Moreover, these rituals are also practiced by some religious communities despite the lack of impositive precepts in sacred texts. FGM is also widespread in Italy and it is constitute a violation of women’s human rights and child abuse. The Italian State fights the phenomenon with external and internal actions, through strategic measures of prevention, protection and assistance for victims. FGM does not exclude compensation for damage to the health of the women involved. In Italy a new type of crime has been introduced with the art. 583 bis c.p. However the rule has not been widely applied. This issue needs to faced up on a global level. But above all it is necessary to persuade those who follow the practice to be the main actors of their own change.