I went to West Africa to report on girls’ education. I left convinced that the Western feminist movement has grown far too ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

Rather, claims of health benefit are already regularly raised by defenders of female ‘circumcision’ in cultures that practise both male and female genital cutting together. 105–114 In Egypt, Muslim ...

The United Nations Children’s Fund said Thursday that childhood malnutrition in the Gaza Strip is “rising at an alarming rate,” with more than 5,000 children under the age of 5 treated for the ...

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.

Eight female athletes filed an appeal Wednesday of a landmark NCAA antitrust settlement, arguing that women would not receive their fair share of $2.7 billion in back pay for athletes who were ...

NCAA Female athletes contest new NCAA ruling, claiming violations of federal anti-discrimination law Legal team argues calculation of damages ignores Title IX requirements in landmark antitrust case ...

Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s first female president, came to power as a renowned defender of human rights. She is clinging to it, critics say, by locking up and torturing those who stand in ...