It was banned in Kenya in 2001, and laws were tightened 10 years later to make it illegal to provide premises for FGM to take place, and to be aware of the crime and not report it.
As the government plans to make squatting illegal in residential premises in England and Wales, former squatter Robert Elms considers the practice's long history, and the issues it raises about the need for shelter versus the rights of property owners.
There is nothing illegal about the premise, but if the idea of Bacchanalia and hedonism rubs your values the wrong way, are you obligated to work on the show simply because your company has the assignment?
In 2012 squatting in a residential building became illegal: squatting in commercial premises remains a civil offence.
By the early 1960s journalists broke into premises, made illegal recordings, paid bribes, used squalid subterfuges and published brazen lies in order to swell their proprietors' profits.
It added that covert police operations suggested people were openly buying and taking illegal drugs on the premises and that staff should have been aware of it.
German officials pointed out that it was illegal to use embassy premises to wiretap a host government, and the new report has deepened Berlin's sense of exclusion from the tight eavesdropping alliance known as Five Eyes, consisting of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Their Wardens were given the power to enter any printing premises, destroy illegal works and imprison anyone found manufacturing them.
Central to this challenge is combatting the use of business models premised upon illegal working arrangements.
"Orphan Black" makes its central premise about illegal cloning not just realistic but emotionally satisfying: Sarah had gone through life assuming she was alone and combatively keeping most people at a distance, but in the course of this zig-zagging tale, the former orphan begins to form bonds that tie her more closely to life -- a life that is in more danger every day.
