A U.S. district judge in Michigan has ruled against a federal ban on female genital mutilation, arguing that…
A 10-year-old girl named Deeqa Dahir Nuur died this week after what was supposed to be a standard female genital…
Dr. Jumana Nagarwala has been accused of performing procedures on the genitals of girls between the ages of 6 and 8,…
On Sunday, Mayar Mohamed Mousa, a 17-year-old Egyptian girl, died from complications following an illegal female…
A harrowing new report from UNICEF has found that at least 200 million women and girls in 30 countries have been…
At a rally on Monday evening, president of the Gambia Yahya Jammeh officially banned female genital mutilation (FGM)…
According to new numbers released by the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), the number of women at risk for female…
After being prosecuted for the death of a 12-year-old girl whom he'd performed a female genital mutilation on,…
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The devastating Ebola outbreak in West Africa has one slim silver lining: it's temporarily putting a stop to the…
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Earlier this year, Egypt broke some serious ground by arresting Dr. Raslan Fadl and charging him for manslaughter of…
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According to the United Nations, the radical Sunni Islamist group ISIS currently attempting to take over Iraq and…
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Activists and a few U.S. Representatives are trying to heighten awareness about female genital mutilation,…
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Though the horrific practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) is seeing a global decline, a new report by the…
A new Facebook game inspired by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression…
The United Nations General Assembly's human rights committee unanimously voted to enact a global ban against female…
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…
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Alice Dreger and Ellen K. Feder from Bioethics Forum have unearthed a 2007 study in which a doctor from Cornell…
Several weeks ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with a revised policy on female genital mutilation in…
Mrs. Goundo's Daughter is a documentary created by local filmmaking team Barbara Attie and Janet Goldwater.