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

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

Ten years back at the United Nations General Assembly, all world leaders promised to eliminate harmful practice of female ...

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 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 ...

An upcoming vote will put The Gambia's ban on female genital mutilation to the test. The results could have far-reaching consequences. A girl holds a sign protesting against female genital mutilation ...

…14mn Girls Still at Risk of Experiencing FGM by 2030 ABUJA – Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has decried the practice of female genital mutilation, saying it is violence against women ...

STORY: For Mariama Jarjou, taking her two daughters to be circumcised when they were four and five years old was an act of love. She believes it's an important ritual that gives her daughters status ...

Efforts to tackle female genital mutilation have been hit, but the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office claims it is ‘steadfast’ in tackling the ‘scourge’ of FGM ...

Jan 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United States has strengthened a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) by imposing tougher penalties and making prosecutions easier - a step campaigners hope ...

In a significant shift from tradition, Maasai elders in Loitoktok, in Kenya’s Kajiado County, girls are choosingto forgo traditional FGM as a rite of initiation into womanhood. Photo Credit: Amref ...