I went to West Africa to report on girls’ education. I left convinced that the Western feminist movement has grown far too ...

Secrets swirl through homes and villages around the world, and in a poor district of Makeni, Sierra Leone, they involve what ...

Female genital mutilation, forced marriage, cousin marriage and honour-based violence are now rife in Britain. But it's not ...

Trailblazer Initiative Nigeria, in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund and the Oyo State Government, on Wednesday, empowered over 3,900 adolescent girls to lead the campaign for the ...

Imo State has the highest prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the Southeast region, with 38% of wome n aged 15-49 years affected. Alarmingly, 9.7% of girls aged 0-14 years have also ...

Despite a growing global push to ban a practice widely seen as abhorrent, the number of victims of female genital mutilation has grown by 15 percent since 2016 to an estimated 230 million ...

Unicef calculates the rate of decline would need to be 27 times faster to eliminate this abuse by 2030. Understanding the trends is the starting point for ending female genital mutilation. Some of ...

The number of female genital mutilation survivors tops 230 million worldwide, Unicef said in a new report on Thursday, an increase of 15% since 2016 despite progress against the practice in some ...

Girls attend school in Nigeria (2017). A report released Thursday by UNICEF found a 15% increase in the number of females worldwide who have undergone female genital mutilation since 2016.

The number of female genital mutilation survivors tops 230 million worldwide, UNICEF said in a new report Thursday, an increase of 15 percent since 2016 despite progress against the practice in ...

Female genital mutilation was long associated with Africa. But the recent “discovery” of FGM in India and other Asian communities has shown that it’s a global problem, Johari said.