In one of two articles providing contrasting views on circumcision, Dr Alejandro Sanchez of the National Secular Society ...

During the height of the COVD-19 pandemic, Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) cases skyrocketed to an all-time high in Hargeisa and Somaliland's second-largest city, Burco.

Over the past year, Gambia — a tiny majority-Muslim country — has been engulfed in a nationwide debate about female genital cutting, which is widely known as female genital mutilation (FGM).

The wife of the Jigawa State Governor, Hajiya Hadiza Umar Namadi, has called for an end to the practice of female circumcision, emphasizing its harmful effects on women and girls. Hajiya Hadiza ...

Officials and health workers say ‘cutters’ are visiting girls door-to-door say, as cases of female genital mutilation have increased during the pandemic in parts of Africa. March 16, 2022 ...

When her daughter turned seven, and it was time for the "khatna" - a female genital mutilation (FGM) ritual - a close friend advised Naqiyah to try the butter knife method.

Gambia’s parliament has voted to uphold a landmark law that bans female genital mutilation (FGM) in the largely Muslim nation, after religious groups pushed for the legislation to be repealed.

By Taiwo OkanlawonPopular Nollywood actress, Kate Henshaw, has urged people, particularly women, to stop female circumcision widely known as Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).Female Genital ...

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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, 41, is a ...

The political momentum to end female genital mutilation in the United States comes at the same time that another cultural practice involving the cutting and removal of female genital organs, which ...

Item 1 of 7 Nurses support gynaecological surgeon Dr. Marci Bowers as she performs a clitoral restorative surgery on a woman who previously underwent female genital mutilation (FGM), at a clinic ...