Editing Female genital mutilation (section)

====Overview====
{{Further|Prevalence of female genital mutilation}}
Immigration spread the practice to Australia, [[Female genital mutilation in New Zealand|New Zealand]], Europe, and North America, all of which outlawed it entirely or restricted it to consenting adults.<ref>Australia: [http://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Documents/ReviewofAustraliasfemalegenitalmutilationlegalframework/Review%20of%20Australias%20female%20genital%20mutilation%20legal%20framework.pdf "Review of Australia's Female Genital Mutilation Legal Framework"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305202920/https://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Documents/ReviewofAustraliasfemalegenitalmutilationlegalframework/Review%20of%20Australias%20female%20genital%20mutilation%20legal%20framework.pdf |date=5 March 2016 }}, Attorney General's Department, Government of Australia.{{pb}}
New Zealand: [http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM329734.html#DLM329734 "Section 204A&nbsp;– Female genital mutilation&nbsp;– Crimes Act 1961"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123061721/http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM329734.html#DLM329734 |date=23 November 2011 }}, New Zealand Parliamentary Counsel Office.{{pb}}
Europe: [http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/gender-violence/eliminating-female-genital-mutilation/index_en.htm "Eliminating female genital mutilation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808183953/http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/gender-violence/eliminating-female-genital-mutilation/index_en.htm |date=8 August 2014 }}, European Commission.{{pb}}
United States: [http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/116 "18 U.S. Code § 116 – Female genital mutilation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140803012933/http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/116 |date=3 August 2014 }}, Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School.{{pb}}
Canada: [http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/section-268.html Section 268], Criminal Code, Justice Laws website, Government of Canada.</ref> Sweden outlawed FGM in 1982 with the ''Act Prohibiting the Genital Mutilation of Women'', the first Western country to do so.<ref name=EigeSweden>[http://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/current_situation_and_trends_of_female_genital_mutilation_in_sweden_en.pdf "Current situation of female genital mutilation in Sweden"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319112455/http://eige.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/current_situation_and_trends_of_female_genital_mutilation_in_sweden_en.pdf |date=19 March 2017 }}, European Institute for Gender Equality, European Union.</ref> Several former colonial powers, including Belgium, Britain, France, and the Netherlands, introduced new laws or made clear that it was covered by existing legislation.{{sfn|Boyle|2002|loc=97}} {{As of|2013}}, legislation banning FGM had been passed in 33 countries outside Africa and the Middle East.<ref name=UNICEF2013p8/>