Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Transgender women are at risk of female genital mutilation, the College of Policing has claimed. New policing guidelines issued by ...

DETROIT — A Michigan doctor may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn't the only doctor who was cutting children, ...

Dar es Salaam – Efforts to end female genital mutilation are gradually bearing fruit in Tanzania. The prevalence of the ritual that marks a rite of passage among some communities has now fallen to ...

Female genital mutilation is a harmful practice violating female genital organs for non-medical reasons. It is estimated that in Finland, there are approximately 10,000 girls and women who have ...

Thirteen-year-old Salamatu Jalloh had her whole future to look forward to. But in January 2023, her lifeless body was found wrapped in a pink and blue shroud on an earthen floor in a village in ...

At a market in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, a community theater group uses performance to help raise awareness about female genital mutilation (FGM). A day to join a global movement to protect ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. I was fortunate to be part of a recent UNICEF mission to Egypt. The ...

Protesters hold placards outside the National Assembly in Banjul on March 18, 2024, during the debate between lawmakers on a highly controversial bill seeking to lift the ban on FGM. Gambian lawmakers ...

The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been observed on 6 February each year since its establishment by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. The Day is ...

An anti-FGM protest on International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation in February 2019. (Outlook India / Creative Commons) Texas Governor Greg Abbott waded into problematic ...

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 ...