My heart aches for the unnecessary pain that girls -- some as young as 3 -- endure. Family members of mine recount being ...

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 ...

The amendment was actually an improvement over a previous version of the bill, which, state Democrats argued, would have allowed teachers to perform the genital examinations. Akers’ amendment ...

The training at a boarding school in Transmara in western Kenya is an incentive for parents to allow their daughters to stay in school instead of undergoing the female genital cutting ritual that is ...

"Other developed nations have taken decisive actions to prohibit or significantly limit these mutilation practices ... and more than 400 undergoing genital surgery, resulting in permanent changes ...

Shamsa, now 32, has grown up to become a campaigner against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). She is in Malta to share her story and campaign. Because this is not “a reality of Africa”.

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 ...

The judge found the states lacked standing on one point: the order’s protections against female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation is already illegal in the four states that are part ...

Niagara police have arrested two teenagers in connection to a jewelry store robbery that occurred on Jan. 16. Police are still trying to locate four more people they believe may have been involved.

has condemned the growing trend of medicalised Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), where healthcare professionals perform the procedure under the "guise of safety." The organisation warned that this ...

“A part of actually having jewelry,” one designer said, “is also what you do with it when you’re not wearing it.” By Jessica Bumpus Introducing a jewelry box had “always been a topic ...