At least 200 million girls and women are living with the pain and trauma caused by FGM. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice now. At Kalas Girls Primary School in Uganda's Amudat district in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DETROIT — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the nation's first female genital mutilation case, delivering a major blow to the ...
Female genital mutilation or cutting is largely hidden in Australia and other high-income countries. Most people don’t consider it a major issue. But our research shows it should be. Our research ...
The United Nations disclosed a stunning figure this month: The number of females whose genitals have been scraped, pricked, or sliced off their young bodies has been underestimated—by seventy million.
As a young child Aïssa could not understand how she could conjure up such horrific images. No one had ever explained to Aïssa what her parents had allowed to take place. “All I could remember was ...
Sudan has criminalized the act of female genital mutilation, a historic move in a country where the United Nations says 9 out of 10 women between the ages of 15 to 49 have been subjected to the ...
Despite a worldwide campaign to stop the brutal practice of female genital cutting, it persists in communities across the globe, and especially in Africa and some Asian and Middle Eastern countries.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 200 million females alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM). Aliens from the 30 countries where this practice is ...
In 2019, millions of girls will be forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), a violent act that irreparably damages their bodies, inflicting excruciating pain, life-threatening health risks ...
The practice of female genital mutilation appears to be on the decline in a number of countries, according to recent surveys, a sign that years of advocacy work may be paying off. But while the ...
Netsanet Mengistu visited the Minnesota Capitol Monday, April 9, 2018, to share her story of female genital mutilation and support a bill that would create a felony against Minnesota parents who allow ...