A good cross-party bill

The Herald reports:

of colour and across four are banding together to ensure female genital mutilation is illegal in New Zealand.

A bill to clarify the legal definition of female genital mutilation has been introduced to Parliament and is jointly sponsored by Jo Hayes (National), Priyanca Radhakrishnan (Labour), Jenny Marcroft (New Zealand First) and Golriz Ghahraman (Green Party). …

Ghahraman said that New Zealand did not currently ensure all practices of FGM were illegal.

“We know has been falling outside of New Zealand . No form of mutilation is acceptable. It is an of girls and women.

I couldn't agree more. No child should be mutilated.

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