The grim reality of gender-based atrocities pervades every corner of our world, evincing in abhorrent forms such as sexual violence, dowry deaths, domestic violence, female foeticide and infanticide, ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Kano State has arrested popular TikTok star, Murja Ibrahim Kunya on charges of Naira mutilation and abuse, specifically for spraying money ...

The memo is effective immediately. "Other developed nations have taken decisive actions to prohibit or significantly limit these mutilation practices to ensure that children are protected from ...

Archaic, outdated and inefficient were just some of the words used to describe the current letters of authority process. Speaking to FT Adviser, Julia Sage-Bell, senior policy adviser at Pimfa ...

For Fatou Baldeh, the past year was critical in the fight to end female genital mutilation. A survivor and the founder of the organization Women in Liberation & Leadership (WILL), Baldeh ...

A leading women's rights campaigner has spoken to FRANCE 24 about how she was subjected to female genital mutilation at the age of just seven in her home country of The Gambia. Fatou Baldeh ...

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) remains a significant issue in The Gambia, where, according to UNICEF, approximately 76 percent of women and girls aged 15–49 have undergone the practice. FGM refers to ...

President Donald Trump is planning to use a 200-year-old wartime law to authorize the deportation of some migrants, including sending them to Guantanamo Bay. Trump will invoke the Alien Enemies ...

A condemned South Carolina murderer has chosen to become the first US inmate in 15 years to be executed by firing squad next month. Brad Sigmon, 67, is scheduled to die on March 7 for the brutal ...

I have a financial literacy confession to make: I'm not good at writing checks. In Finland, where I was born, paying with credit and debit cards became common in the early 1980s. When I was ...