Mara. Human rights activists and gender stakeholders have urged the government to adopt a well-resourced, solution-driven ...

Updated guidelines in Italy call for active screening and multidisciplinary care for women with female genital mutilation ...

Traditional leaders and FGM practitioners, locally known as ngaribas, are accused of supplying the parts to fishing boat ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I was thrown a big party before my cutting. I had my hair done and I was even given presents,” recalled Hoda Ali, a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM), who went on to cofound The Vavengers, ...

GENDER rights activists in Migori county have begun efforts to reintegrate girls who fled female genital mutilation back into ...

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 ...

Mara. When Joyce (not real name) reflects on the choice she made at 15, she describes it as the hardest and bravest decision ...

Valerie Lolomari, who was recently awarded an MBE for her work helping survivors of FGM, writes about why language around it ...

For Fatou Baldeh, the past year was critical in the fight to end female genital mutilation. A survivor and the founder of the organization Women in Liberation & Leadership (WILL), Baldeh, 41, is a ...