Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) is a deeply entrenched cultural practice that affects around 200 million women and ...

It's estimated that 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM, according to the United Nations (UN). Although primarily concentrated in 30 countries in Africa and the ...

According to The World Health Organisation, in countries that practice it, FGM is considered a necessary part of raising a girl and preparing her for adulthood and marriage, as it prevents her from ...

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) warned on Friday that global efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) are undermined by the cross-border movements of girls to ...

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 ...

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.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on Thursday urging countries to ban female genital mutilation, calling it an "irreparable, irreversible abuse" that ...

Protesters hold placards outside the National Assembly in Banjul on March 18, 2024, during the debate between lawmakers on a highly controversial bill seeking to lift the ban on FGM. Gambian lawmakers ...

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly adopted ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to tackle gender inequality by 2030 as part of the Sustainable Development agenda. This effort ...

An upcoming vote will put The Gambia's ban on female genital mutilation to the test. The results could have far-reaching consequences. A girl holds a sign protesting against female genital mutilation ...

Jan 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United States has strengthened a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) by imposing tougher penalties and making prosecutions easier - a step campaigners hope ...

More than a decade ago, when Masooma Ranalvi first spoke publicly about being subjected to khatna (the local term for female ...