Around 4. 5 million girls worldwide are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) this year, UN agencies have warned.

On February 6, the world will unite to bring attention to a harmful practice that still endangers girls and women across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Attorney Cheryl Nunez, who represents two children, a girl 11 and a boy 5, who are the kids of Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and her husband told a Juvenile Court Judge that the Mosque they all attend paid for ...

A Detroit area physician has been charged with performing genital mutilation on multiple 6- to 8-year-old girls as part of a religious and cultural practice at a medical clinic in Livonia, in what is ...

DETROIT – Three people accused of performing and aiding with female genital mutilation procedures on young girls in Metro Detroit have been indicted by a federal grand jury. "Female Genital Mutilation ...

Olivia Albert, 19, was subjected to female genital (FGM) mutilation when she was 14. She told the UN sexual and reproductive ...

Gambia's Supreme Court is considering whether a law protecting women and girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) is constitutional. The practice, common in Gambia, often involves forcibly ...

Rights activists in The Gambia are calling for justice after a one-month-old baby's death was linked to female genital mutilation, a widely practiced but illegal procedure up for review before the ...

Christine Nayor, a 24-year-old from Alapat Village in Lemusui Sub-County, Amudat District, a survivor of female genital ...

We hope that there will be renewed efforts to make sure that this harmful practice sees the eventual end of its lifeline ...

Around 230 million women and girls around the world are survivors of the practice.An estimated 4.5 million girls worldwide are at risk of undergoing female genital mutilation this year, the United ...