Ruth Rendell speaks out against female circumcision /Guardian.co.uk, July 28 2008

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"Ministers are failing to act to prevent young girls being circumcised, the crime writer and Labour peer Ruth Rendell said today.Lady Rendell, a long-term campaigner against the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), spoke out as the police prepared to announce a new initiative against it later this week. She said that it would be classified "not as a quaint custom but as child cruelty, as child abuse, because that's what it is"."