At least 200 million girls and women are living with the pain and trauma caused by FGM. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice now. At Kalas Girls Primary School in Uganda's Amudat district in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An event of the GFLJD Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Legal Working Group. Interested in events and publications from the Working Group? Sign up for our newsletter. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) ...

Transgender women are at risk of female genital mutilation, the College of Policing has claimed. New policing guidelines issued by the taxpayer-funded quango state that trans women could be forced to ...

Most Americans are shocked to hear that more than 200 million young women and girls around the world have been subjected to the barbaric practice of female genital mutilation. FGM is the cutting or ...

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 ...

GENEVA, June 14 (Reuters) - The United Nations human rights office on Friday warned that the global fight against female genital mutilation was being undermined by families crossing borders to have ...

“While its extremely likely female genital mutilation would have received disciplinary action before the passage of SB 5453, the Washington Medical Commission was still supportive of the law as ...

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 ...