Barnardo’s under fire for using photo of a white girl in campaign against female genital mutilation
by Paddy Dinham, Mailonline:
Children’s charity Barnado’s has come under fire for using a photo of a white girl to publicise a campaign against female genital mutilation (FGM).
An estimated 20,000 girls suffer in the UK a year at the hands of FGM, but a disproportionate amount of these are from African or Middle Eastern families.
However, the group was forced into backtrack into an apology after it chose to use a picture of a causasian girl to accompany it.
One Twitter user replied: ;might as well of used a picture of a boy instead of a white european girl. he would be just as likely to be a victim of fgm than pic used’.
Another said: ‘Hardly a representative photo is it. Political correctness obviously more important to Barnardo’s than being honest about FGM issue.’
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