The women know that mutilating young girls by removing their clitoris and inner labia -- framed as a rite of passage -- is ...

Valerie Lolomari, 54, has received national honours for launching Founded Women of Grace UK, an organisation helping to spread awareness about FGM.

The number of women and girls at risk of FGM is rising in the U.S. — -- When “Sarah” first told her story, she did not want to show her face or give her real name. The American-born woman ...

A violation of the rights of girls and women, female genital mutilation is a cruel and unnecessary practice. UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund run the largest global program to eliminate ...

Council of Traditional rulers, religious leaders, Centre for Comprehensive Promotion and Reproductive Health (CCPHR) supported by the UNFPA and other relevant stakeholders drawn from various ...

The Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) exists – according to its own mission statement – to print rigorous academic work that ...

In 2016, a collaboration between York University and the think tank King’s Fund published a report into the estimated costs ...

I did not escape FGM, nor did anyone else in my community. I cannot keep quiet as girls in Alaska suffer the same fate.

The bodies of African and racialised girls are repeatedly treated as exceptional - available for debate, qualification, and ...

The rate of girls under the age of 14 who undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa has seen a “huge and significant decline” over nearly three decades, according to a new analysis. The study, ...

Similarly, the authors of the new FGM article are apparently looking for the silver lining. Some genital modifications enhance group identity, they say, and a sense of community belonging. And as with ...