The police may refuse to issue passports to families who are suspected of planning sexual mutilation of their young girls. This is one of the Government's urgent measures against this illegal practice.
A list of immediate mesures against female circumcision was issued by the Department of Justice on Friday.
Among the new measures is also an information campaign at the Oslo International Airport Gardermoen, and establishing an emergency phone service.
In the fall, the Government will also consider introducing compulsory medical examnation of young girls from countries where the practice of female circumsition is commonly practised.
The head of social services in Oslo, Sylvia Listhaug, has already announced that medical examination of young girls will be mandatory in Oslo from the fall.
She warns parents who had planned to have their girls circumsised while on vacation in their homeland this summer, will be found out and reported.
In Norway, sexual mutilation of children has been a crime since January 1996, also if the operation is performed abroad. However, so far no one has been sentenced for such a crime.
Source: Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation(NRK), 15.00 Central European Time.
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