Around 4. 5 million girls worldwide are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) this year, UN agencies have warned.

Olivia Albert, 19, was subjected to female genital (FGM) mutilation when she was 14. She told the UN sexual and reproductive ...

India, Feb. 10 -- NEW YORK - "In 2026 alone, an estimated 4.5 million girls-many under the age of five-are at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation. Currently, more than 230 million girls and ...

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 ...

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice. Here's how to help. On Feb. 6, 2023, just months before the outbreak of ...

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 ...

Courts are emerging as a critical frontline in the fight to end Female Genital Mutilation Over the past two decades, ...

KATHMANDU, Feb 6: Today is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Genital Mutilation. In 2012, the United Nations ...

Stakeholders working against Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting (FGM/C) in Oyo State have called for sustained commitment, ...

Many of the girls at risk of FGM are under the age of 5, the UN says. Around 230 million women and girls around the world are ...

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they love. By Nicholas Kristof Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against ...

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 ...