“I was thrown a big party before my cutting. I had my hair done and I was even given presents,” recalled Hoda Ali, a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM), who went on to cofound The Vavengers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DETROIT — A Michigan doctor may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls ...

A couple have had their convictions (FGM) of their one-year-old daughter, which were quashed after they spent two years in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women and ...

*Pressure is mounting on Sierra Leone First Lady Fatima Maada Bio after a coalition of activists and political figures ...

An estimated 100 million girls and women of reproductive age across 30 countries have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), according to a new meta-analysis publishing September 1 in ...

Colombia has passed the first legislation in Latin America to outlaw female genital mutilation. But barriers remain.

Male circumcision, the focus of my previous post (Rites of Circumcision, posted October 10, 2018), although not universal, occurs widely. Female genital mutilation (FGM)— also called genital cutting ...

In 2020, the United Nations estimated that more than 200 million girls worldwide had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). This figure reflects only documented cases, and the actual prevalence is ...

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women and girls. It's practiced in at least 25 African countries, as well as parts ...

DETROIT — A Michigan doctor may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn't the only doctor who was cutting children, ...