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Own work, map derived from File:BlankMap-World.svg. Unless otherwise stated below, all data are retrieved from Female genital mutilation/cutting: a call for a global response. End FGM European Network, U.S. End FGM/C Network and Equality Now (March 2020). Retrieved on 5 May 2020.
- EU Member States
The 2013 EIGE report claims that all 28 EU Member States (including Croatia and the UK) had at least general criminal law provisions that could potentially be used to prosecute cases of FGM, and in France they have successfully been, which the 2020 Global Response report acknowledges, although the latter's authors maintain that it is imperative for all states to adopt specific criminal law provisions on FGM. The 2013 EIGE report notes that there is a trend amongst EU Member States to do just that, and that by 2013, 10 out of 28 EU Member States (including Croatia and the UK amongst these 10) had specifically criminalised FGM. The 2020 Global Response report shows that EU Member States Estonia, Germany, Malta and Portugal also introduced explicit provisions criminalising FGM in the seven years between the reports.
However, the report is incorrect about the Netherlands, which first explicitly criminalised FGM on 1 February 2006, and as of 25 July 2020 specifically criminalises FGM including cross-border FGM in Articles 7.d and 71.3 combined with Articles 300–303 (additional penalties in Article 304).
- Iceland
Iceland criminalised FGM in 2005 under General Penal Code Article 218 a. Punishment by up to 6 years imprisonment, up to 16 years in aggrevated cases.
- India
Indian Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi said in 2017 that the 1860 Indian Penal Code, the 1973 Criminal Procedure Code and the 2012 Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO Act) can be invoked to prosecute FGM cases and that a specific law to criminalise FGM was not necessary.
- Indonesia
The Indonesian government has been conducting an inconsistent policy on FGM, intermittently legislating against it due to international and human rights activist pressure on the one hand, and in favour of it due to internal pressure from Islamic religious authority figures on the other. FGM was criminalised in 2006, then legalised and medicalised in 2010, then recriminalised in 2014 but without punishments. The present legal status of FGM in Indonesia is unclear.
- Sudan
Sudan criminalised FGM in April 2020 by amending its Criminal Code. Punishable by a fine and 3 years imprisonment.
- United States
On 5 January 2021, President Trump of the United States signed the STOP FGM Act of 2020, which considers FGM 'a form of child abuse, gender discrimination, and violence', empowering federal authorities to prosecute people who 'carry out or conspire to carry out FGM' and increasing the maximum prison sentence from 5 to 10 years. This replaced the 1996 law that was declared unconstitutional in 2018. At the time of signing, 11 out of the 50 U.S. states still had no state ban on FGM.
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