The British Medical Journal has published an article defending female genital mutilation (FGM). Researchers from 25 different global institutions claim the widespread condemnation of the practice is ...

Countries like Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, and Ethiopia have seen reductions in FGM prevalence among 15–19-year-olds over the past 30 years—by as much as 50%, 35%, and 30%, respectively—through ...

What works to prevent female genital mutilation? UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight examines the evidence to identify successful strategies. Young girls meet for a girls' ...

You might be shocked to learn one of the most brutal practices imaginable, the female genital mutilation (FGM) of little girls, is an Alaska problem. I was born into a world where FGM was not an ...

It's a brutal practice that's inflicted on thousands of girls and women every year. Female genital mutilation, or female ritual cutting, involves altering or injuring female genital organs. It's often ...

Sir: For the first time in a long, long time, Nigerians well and truly have a mother in Oluremi Tinubu, Nigeria’s First Lady and Wife to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. As First Lady, she has been ...

The Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Legal Working Group is an initiative led by the World Bank under the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development (GFLJD). It addresses FGM as a multisectoral and ...