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 ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, a Gambian group that aims to end female genital mutilation. Lawmakers there advanced a bill that would end its FGM ban.

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 ...

A work from the photographic exhibition "My struggle, our struggle," during an event to commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance Against Female Genital Mutilation, at the Plaza del Museo ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a market in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, a community theater group uses performance to help raise awareness about female genital mutilation (FGM). A day to join a global movement to protect ...

I don’t know what it is about Connecticut that we just can’t get this done to protect young women from having their bodies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than half a million women and girls in the United States are living with the physical and psychological scars of female ...

Detroit — A judge Tuesday dismissed what remained of a landmark criminal case that started with allegations members of a Muslim sect abused young girls, saying prosecutors vindictively pursued new ...

On Aug.19, the Kentucky Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare and Family Services heard testimony on female genital mutilation. No one likes talking about genitals, especially the genitals of ...