Though the practice was outlawed 30 years ago, this is Britain's first conviction for female genital mutilation A London mother was found guilty of subjecting her 3-year-old daughter to female genital mutilation on Friday in Britain's first conviction for FGM - more than 30 years after the practice was outlawed.

Young girls in south India continue to be “dedicated” to village temples and then forced into prostitution despite laws banning the ancient ritual, researchers said. The devadasi system, which involves putting a beaded necklace around girls and often leads to a life of sex work and slavery, goes unchecked in Karnataka state, according to two reports released this month.

Everyone did well from Nary's marriage to a Chinese man, except the young Cambodian bride herself, who returned home from the six-year ordeal destitute, humiliated and with little prospect of seeing her son again.