AFA copy gift from WMR Center. In her best-selling 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker opened a painful door: she brought the issue of female genital mutilation, a practice that ...

Here’s one of the more confusing anomalies in state laws — and in liberal woke-think. Forty-one states have laws prohibiting a practice known as female genital mutilation, or cutting, on minors, ...

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 ...

In 2020, the United Nations estimated that more than 200 million girls worldwide had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). This figure reflects only documented cases, and the actual prevalence is ...

An estimated 230 million women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), which involves injury to the external genital organs for nonmedical reasons. According to the World Health ...

At a market in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, a community theater group uses performance to help raise awareness about female genital mutilation (FGM). A day to join a global movement to protect ...

As more and more countries outlaw the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), The Gambia could become the first country in the world to overturn such a ban. The country's National Assembly ...

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the nation's first female genital mutilation case, delivering a major blow to the prosecution and FGM survivors who had hoped the Detroit case would help end a ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, a Gambian group that aims to end female genital mutilation. Lawmakers there advanced a bill that would end its FGM ban.

Despite female genital mutilation (FGM) being outlawed in May 2015, the advocacy to end female genital cutting in Nigeria appears not to be gaining much attention, ALAO ABIODUN writes Teniola Jacobs ...

The process of reporting abuse cases to Quebec youth protection officials will be changed in the wake of news reports describing a possible case of genital mutilation of a two-year-old girl. According ...