Stay with the difficult questions.

Choose a line of enquiry

• Ambiguity: what is known, inferred, assumed or unknown?
• Autonomy, capacity, coercion and the consequences of refusal
• Law as prevention, protection and accountability
• Research methods, prevalence limits and under-reporting
• Policy design, implementation and unintended consequences
• FGM Types I–IV in an optional non-sensational evidence panel

Evidence discipline

A service statistic does not automatically establish prevalence. A lived experience does not automatically establish population frequency. A legal duty does not automatically prove effective implementation.