Report: Female genital mutilation remains “almost universal” in some countries According to a United Nations report, 30 million girls remain at risk of genital cutting in the next decade ...

In a Victory for Women in Sudan, Female Genital Mutilation Is Outlawed A new law criminalizes genital cutting, a harmful practice that nine in 10 Sudanese women are said to have endured.

Secrets swirl through homes and villages around the world, and in a poor district of Makeni, Sierra Leone, they involve what ...

Trailblazer Initiative Nigeria, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Oyo State Government, on Wednesday, empowered over 3,900 adolescent girls to lead the campaign for the ...

Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against female genital cutting. Then she heard about surgery to rebuild what had been taken from her. By Ruth Maclean and Nariman El-Mofty Yassin Fatty, a ...

Female genital mutilation is widely thought of as something affecting women in countries halfway around the world. But advocates in the U.S. say many women who have immigrated here may have been ...

Female genital mutilation, forced marriage, cousin marriage and honour-based violence are now rife in Britain. But it's not ...

Female genital cutting affects over 140 million women worldwide. Prevalent in certain countries of Africa and the Middle East, the practice continues among immigrants to industrialized countries.

Traditional warriors — morans — have joined the fight against a practice that typically marks a girl's passage into womanhood.

It’s little known and discussed but more than 500,000 women and girls are survivors or at risk of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the United States. I am one of them. This problem, so ...

Puberty is not a disease. Doctors shouldn’t chop the healthy breasts off 14-year-olds. Boys are not girls. These didn’t use to be controversial statements.