It is very likely that if the this law is repealed, other existing laws protecting women and girls’ rights will be threatened ...

What works to prevent female genital mutilation? UNICEF Innocenti – Global Office of Research and Foresight examines the evidence to identify successful strategies. Young girls meet for a girls' ...

When I spoke to Santana Simiyu, a human rights lawyer at Equality Now, working with partners on The Gambia’s FGM Supreme Court case, she told me something I have not forgotten. Children’s rights are ...

On February 6, the world will unite to bring attention to a harmful practice that still endangers girls and women across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Olivia Albert, 19, was subjected to female genital (FGM) mutilation when she was 14. She told the UN sexual and reproductive ...

This year, the focus for the International Day of Zero Tolerance Against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on 6 February is on sustaining the investment needed to eliminate this serious violation of ...

It’s little known and discussed but more than 500,000 women and girls are survivors or at risk of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the United States. I am one of them. This problem, so ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain's first specialist clinic for child victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) opened in London on Monday as part of a push to eradicate the illegal ...

The High Court’s ruling upholding the ban on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) will give a much-needed boost to the fight against the vice. Kenya outlawed FGM a decade ago. FGM-related offences attract ...

Christine Nayor, a 24-year-old from Alapat Village in Lemusui Sub-County, Amudat District, a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM), has turned the scars of her painful past into a ...

A work from the photographic exhibition "My struggle, our struggle," during an event to commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance Against Female Genital Mutilation, at the Plaza del Museo ...