As Colombia considers a historic ban on female genital mutilation, stories from Indigenous communities shed light on a ...

Female genital mutilation, the ritualistic cutting or removal of external female genitalia that is associated with Islamic religious beliefs or cultural practice, is almost universally denounced in ...

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 ...

The Centre for Health, Ethics, Law and Development (CHELD) has expressed concern and explicit condemnation of a recent public ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 20 million women between the ages of 15 and 49 have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria, Chief of Child Protection with United Nations ...

A new law in Maryland strengthening a ban on female genital mutilation is good progress, but the real test is implementation, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...