We need to end FGM all over the place, not just in the Uk | @guardianletters

Tanya Barron: ‘Over years, not overnight, we can end this practice.’ Photograph: James Drew Turner for the Guardian

We welcome any new political target on the issue of female genital mutilation – and the media coverage that comes with it (Failure to defend girls from FGM is ‘ongoing national scandal’, MPs say, July 3).

But whilst it is of program essential to get our own residence in purchase and make certain that everything attainable is being carried out to stop FGM in Britain, the straightforward fact is that we will not end the practice right here till it is ended about the globe.

FGM is really a lot a international difficulty it doesn’t exist in a vacuum in the United kingdom. The beliefs and customs that lead to it, as well as the women who are subjected to it, cross borders.

So, as we heard in our latest roundtable discussion at the Guardian, to concentrate efforts exclusively on British legislation and British policy is to practically admit defeat in ending a practice that throughout the world has affected an estimated 125 million ladies and girls.

It’s by means of grassroots operate with communities in the countries across Africa and the Middle East in which FGM is prevalent that, above years, not overnight, we can end this practice.
Tanya Barron
Chief executive, Program United kingdom

• The police are proud of the reality fairly rightly, that they have been ready to prosecute celebrities for past crimes involving sexual abuse. Some of these have gone back almost 40 many years and the police have emphasised that they are inclined to investigate historical crimes what ever the situations or the longevity.

If these concepts are now to be applied to the prosecution of perpetrators of FGM, we can expect a veritable flood of situations involving 1000′s of women of all ages. This will inevitably be observed as the persecution of a cultural minority and possibly disturb race relations for a generation or a lot more. Whither then the goal of multiculturalism, with the state and the police witnessed to be coming down heavily on a broadly accepted cultural practice, even so horrific that practice is considered to be by the great bulk?
Ted Wilson
Stockport

We need to end FGM all over the place, not just in the Uk | @guardianletters