Up to 132 million women and girls have undergone genital mutilation worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).
At least two million girls worldwide are at risk of genital mutilation each year, WHO says.
A British GP was struck off the professional register late last year after he agreed to carry out genital mutilations at £50 sterling each. Abdul Ahmed was videotaped in 1997 agreeing to cut an eight-year-old girl and "circumcise and stitch" two older girls.
Female genital mutilation was outlawed in the UK in 1985 under the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act, but there have been no prosecutions to date.