More than 230 million women and girls around the world have now undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Transgender women are at risk of female genital mutilation, the College of Policing has claimed. New policing guidelines issued by ...

CAIRO — Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children's agency. In the ...

Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, a French doctor, founded a one-stop shop to treat female victims of violence. Now, her revolutionary template is used across France. By Ségolène Le Stradic We think of human ...

Thursday marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. Many people may be surprised to know that this is even a practice, but it is. It’s a custom in too many parts of ...

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice. Here's how to help. On Feb. 6, 2023, just months before the outbreak of ...

The legislation has been raised in CT nearly every year since 2018, but it hasn't passed. Most states already have FGM bans on the books.

An increasing number of women who have undergone genital mutilation (also called female circumcision) are immigrating to the U.S. While we are learning how to address the physical sequelae of female ...

As a young child Aïssa could not understand how she could conjure up such horrific images. No one had ever explained to Aïssa what her parents had allowed to take place. “All I could remember was ...

The wife of the Kwara Governor, Prof. Olufolake AbdulRazaq, has described Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a human rights violation that must be stopped. AbdulRazaq stated this while in Ilorin on ...

Tuesday, 6 February, 2024 was this year’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In commemoration of the day, the Director-General of the World Health Organization ...