The procedure, which involves total or partial removal of girls' external genitalia, ignites strong passions in the tiny west ...

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 ...

CAIRO, Feb 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Egypt arrested a father and a retired nurse on Tuesday for carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on a 15-year-old girl, after announcing plans to ...

Let us not kid ourselves into thinking of FGM as a neutral or positive cultural practice: girls hemorrhage to death, and endure crippling infections for months or years after the cut. Even when the ...

More African courts are joining the fight against female genital mutilation, playing a bigger role in efforts to challenge a practice.

Siminesh Comollo was 9 years old when she was “cut.” As a child growing up in Ethiopia, female genital mutilation or cutting was accepted as a cultural norm. Comollo had no idea the practice extended ...

Despite being outlawed 15 years ago, female genital mutilation persists in parts of eastern Uganda, now largely among adult women. As Sebei cultural leaders prepare to roll out an alternative rite of ...

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the world marks International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on Saturday, women's rights groups are warning that more girls in Africa are ...

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 6 - More than 95,000 women in Italy are victims of female genital mutilation (FGM), activists trying to ...