Atlanta, GA -- The defense attorneys for a Gwinnett County man accused of performing a female circumcision on his daughter presented the jury with testimony that the child may have had a false memory ...

More than 230 million women and girls around the world have now undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations ...

She hasn’t been in front of the lens for 20 years, but Somali model Waris Dirie has once again taken her place at the center of a major fashion campaign to bring attention to the cause of ending ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s parliament on Wednesday toughened penalties for female genital mutilation, adopting amendments that punish perpetrators with up to 15 years in prison if a child dies and up to ...

KILGORIS, Kenya (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Kenya attacked the practice of female circumcision on Saturday, saying local communities must denounce it. Sign up here. Female genital mutilation ...

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 ...

Two men in Kenya are rallying against the myths that perpetuate the violation of women’s and girls’ human rights through the centuries-old cultural tradition of female circumcision, more commonly ...

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Government seeks lengthier jail terms for those who perform banned practice of genital mutilation. Egypt’s government said on Sunday it would ask parliament to approve a draft law that would increase ...