Minnesota has zero convictions for female genital mutilation despite hundreds of thousands at risk nationwide and the state's ...

Elimination must build on locally driven, grassroots achievements Global efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) stand at a crossroads, with uneven progress, commitments increasingly ...

Female genital mutilation, the ritualistic cutting or removal of external female genitalia that is associated with Islamic religious beliefs or cultural practice, is almost universally denounced in ...

A Minnesota-based survivor says female genital mutilation remains a hidden issue carried in shame and silence, making detection and prosecution difficult.

Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, a French doctor, founded a one-stop shop to treat female victims of violence. Now, her revolutionary template is used across France. By Ségolène Le Stradic We think of human ...

On February 6, the world will unite to bring attention to a harmful practice that still endangers girls and women across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Transgender women are at risk of female genital mutilation, the College of Policing has claimed. New policing guidelines issued by the taxpayer-funded quango state that trans women could be forced to ...

Thursday marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. Many people may be surprised to know that this is even a practice, but it is. It’s a custom in too many parts of ...

Male circumcision, the focus of my previous post (Rites of Circumcision, posted October 10, 2018), although not universal, occurs widely. Female genital mutilation (FGM)— also called genital cutting ...

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 ...