"I was a little slave girl but now I can say I'm an MBE." From the age of 11, she became a slave and was passed around to ...

The number of women and girls at risk of FGM is rising in the U.S. — -- When “Sarah” first told her story, she did not want to show her face or give her real name. The American-born woman ...

A violation of the rights of girls and women, female genital mutilation is a cruel and unnecessary practice. UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund run the largest global program to eliminate ...

The women know that mutilating young girls by removing their clitoris and inner labia -- framed as a rite of passage -- is ...

Sudan has criminalized the act of female genital mutilation, a historic move in a country where the United Nations says 9 out of 10 women between the ages of 15 to 49 have been subjected to the ...

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Errekunda, Gambia — Lawmakers in Gambia will vote Monday on legislation that seeks to repeal a ban on female genital mutilation, or FGM, which would make the West African nation the first country ...

The Gambia’s Supreme Court began hearing a case this week brought by religious traditionalists who are hoping to topple the ...

TUTAKAL, Iraq (Reuters) - Amena practiced female genital mutilation in her remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan for so many years that she struggles to recall how many girls passed through her hands. "I ...

The rate of girls under the age of 14 who undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa has seen a “huge and significant decline” over nearly three decades, according to a new analysis. The study, ...

Two million more girls worldwide are expected to undergo female genital mutilation over the next decade as the pandemic hits global efforts to end the practice Feb 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As ...

By Peter BakareAN ancient tradition under fireFemale Genital Mutilation (FGM) is the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia for non-medical reasons. It has been practised for ...