Female Genital Mutilation or Female Khatna or Female Circumcision is a rarely discussed issue, yet one of the most serious threats to the rights and well-being of girls and women. It is carried out in ...

Supreme Court bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and R. Mahadevan issues notice to Centre and Law Ministry on PIL filed by Chetna Welfare Society. Plea seeks nationwide ban on female genital mutilation ...

A three-year-old boy in India had his penis completely amputated during a ritual circumcision performed by a local barber, and surgeons managed to save it using a relatively simple grafting technique ...

LONDON: Lawyers and activists representing a group of Sri Lankan women who were subjected to female genital cutting as children will meet the justice minister on Wednesday to urge a ban on the ritual.

A survivor-led organisation working towards ending Female Genital Mutilation, has released a powerful shortfilm sensitively exploring the centuries-old practice. ‘The Dilemma’ talks about khatna or ...

Ayushmann Khurrana is all set to take on the big screen with Dream Girl 2 releasing this Friday. There were a lot of questions raised as to when will everyone’s beloved Pooja return to the big screen ...

Author and activist Farzana Doctor has been named the winner of the 2023 Freedom to Read Award for her work to shine light on taboo subjects. Doctor, the author of four novels and a poetry collection, ...

A lot has changed since Farzana Doctor and I last met. Back in 2019, there was a lopsided heart latte between us and chatter from neighbouring tables we had to enunciate over. This time, we were ...

You Still Look the Same is the first book of poetry by novelist Farzana Doctor, whose fiction explores queerness and sexuality in the small and insular Dawoodi Bohra sect of Islam. Doctor’s 2020 novel ...

The Emirati star Hussain Al Jassmi’s social Arabic song “Sunnet Al-Hayah” ranked first in the Arab world and the second globally, as the most influential and viewed advertising song on YouTube for the ...