Ten years back at the United Nations General Assembly, all world leaders promised to eliminate harmful practice of female genital mutilation/ cutting (SDG-5 target 5 .

A coalition of nonprofit and state organizations, formed under a Washington law creating criminal and civil penalties for female genital mutilation, has set out to educate and support victims and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jumana Nagarwala, MD, an emergency medical physician at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System, was charged with mutilating the genitals of two 7-year-old girls from Minneapolis, according to a Twin ...

The Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) exists – according to its own mission statement – to print rigorous academic work that promotes “ethical reflection and conduct in scientific research and medical ...

It happened to three sisters under 18 in Egypt. And 7-year-olds in Michigan. For "Real Housewives of Dubai" star Chanel Ayan, it happened in Kenya. "I was tricked when I was 5 years old," Ayan tells ...

When she was a child, Mali native Alima Traore had her genitals completely excised and later sought refuge in the United States. Though she said she felt unsafe returning to her Mali, U.S. officials ...

Protesters hold placards outside the National Assembly in Banjul on March 18, 2024, during the debate between lawmakers on a highly controversial bill seeking to lift the ban on FGM. Gambian lawmakers ...

On last night's episode of "The Real Housewives of Dubai," star Chanel Ayan opened up about a painful chapter in her past. Part of the show’s inaugural cast, Ayan has spoken about her childhood in a ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday condemned female mutilation and domestic violence against women, calling them degradations that had to be combated. "The many forms of slavery, the ...