O crime de mutilação genital feminina

• Autor(a) principal: Piorro, Alexandra Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/83098
• topic: Mutilação genital feminina; MGF; Direitos Humanos; Criminalização; Autonomização; Incitação à automutilação; Autoria mediata; Cumplicidade; Comparticipação; Atos preparatórios; Direito

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a cultural practice that affects the health and well-being of millions of girls and women, and, for that, has been recognized by Human Rights defenders as a harmful practice that must be stoped. Although female genital mutilation has its origins in several countries of africa, with the constant immigration of this nations to western countries, this practice has also become a reality there. Portugal is included in the destination of immigrants from Africa and, as such, a country of risk regarding to FGM, and has, therefore, adopted specific legislation criminalizing this practice, adding to the Criminal Code article 144.º-A, entitled “Female Genital Mutilation”. However, its addition is far from perfect since the legislator omitted the punishment of instigation to self-mutilation, which leads to the agent’s impunity. He also should have changed n.º 3 of article 6, which also means the impunity of agents that practice FGM outside Portuguese territory. The solution to these omissions is an amendment to the Criminal Code.