female circumcision

The United Nations General Assembly's human rights committee unanimously voted to enact a global ban against female…

Given over a century's worth of pleasure that followed its invention, history may easily forget that development of…

For years human rights organizations have been working to put an end to the tradition of cutting off a girl's…

San Francisco's municipal ballot this year may include a measure to ban the circumcision of baby boys. Considering…

Alice Dreger and Ellen K. Feder from Bioethics Forum have unearthed a 2007 study in which a doctor from Cornell…

Comparing male circumcision to abortion may seem like a stretch, but Freddie at L'Hote actually has a pretty decent…

When Senegalese activist Marietou Diarra began to tell the story of the two daughters she lost to genital…

A tipster calls this piece of junk the "Worst Google Ad Ever". We'll have to agree with her on that.

Report spam, indeed.

Promising news in the campaign against female genital mutilation: 10 villages in Niger have publicly denounced the…

It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the biweekly "advice" column in which we attempt to solve…

Attorney General Michael Mukasey, after getting pressure from Congress, has reversed a decision by the Board of…

A grass-roots movement against female circumcision in Egypt (where 96% of married women are circumcised) is gaining…

So... "female genital mutilation." Sorta hard to type the words without getting weak in the lungs! (Especially with…

There's a whole new dimension added to this upcoming cycle of America's Next Top Model—genital mutilation. According…

"When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to a free circumcision event held each spring in Bandung, Indonesia,…

• The STD of yore, syphilis, is back, baby, and on the rise in New York City! This obviously has nothing to do with…

• Scientists studying over 900 sets of female twins claim that people with moles are "younger biologically" and could…

• Ann Coulter refers to self in third-person, suggests she may own a pair of testicles. [Radar]