On February 6, the world will unite to bring attention to a harmful practice that still endangers girls and women across ...

Some 4.5 million girls worldwide — many under the age of five — risk undergoing female genital mutilation this year, United Nations leaders warned Friday, urging more action to halt the harmful ...

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

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 ...

Lawmakers in Gambia referred an attempted repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions on Monday. Gambian activists fear a repeal would overturn years of work to ...

BANJUL, Gambia — Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. The attempt to become the first country in the ...

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 ...

Campaigns in some countries have reduced the practice, but it remains widespread in those with high rates of population growth. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen, who covers global health, has ...

In her best selling book, The Vagina Bible, author Dr. Jen Gunter dedicates the book to “every woman who has ever been told—usually by some dude—that she is too wet, too dry, too gross, too loose, too ...

Global Challenges and Opportunities in Litigating Cases of Female Genital Mutilation ( ), outlines lessons from strategic ...