The women know that mutilating young girls by removing their clitoris and inner labia -- framed as a rite of passage -- is ...

"I was a little slave girl but now I can say I'm an MBE." From the age of 11, she became a slave and was passed around to ...

An estimated 100 million girls and women of reproductive age across 30 countries have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), according to a new meta-analysis publishing September 1 st ...

I went and packed my luggage thinking I was going back to the village I grew up in. But on the way, she said we needed to ...

Ten years back at the United Nations General Assembly, all world leaders promised to eliminate harmful practice of female genital mutilation/ cutting (SDG-5 target 5.3) by 2030. But instead of ...

In 2016, a collaboration between York University and the think tank King’s Fund published a report into the estimated costs ...

February 6 marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI, and the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section ...

The number of women and girls at risk of FGM is rising in the U.S. — -- When “Sarah” first told her story, she did not want to show her face or give her real name. The American-born woman ...

“My best friend is a Bohra woman. We’ve known each other for decades, but we’ve never spoken about this. Should I ask her if she was a victim of khatna?” While most of my book interviews and ...

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 ...

World map showing % of girls/women aged 15-49 years who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). Grey areas indicate minimal levels of FGM, although it is practiced in parts of the Middle East ...