In a Victory for Women in Sudan, Female Genital Mutilation Is Outlawed A new law criminalizes genital cutting, a harmful practice that nine in 10 Sudanese women are said to have endured.

Report: Female genital mutilation remains “almost universal” in some countries According to a United Nations report, 30 million girls remain at risk of genital cutting in the next decade ...

In a Victory for Women in Sudan, Female Genital Mutilation Is Outlawed A new law criminalizes genital cutting, a harmful practice that nine in 10 Sudanese women are said to have endured.

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

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 ...

The theme for this year’s event - “Planning and Budgeting for Children’s Rights: Progress Since 2010,’ highlighted the importance of increased investment, accountability, and inclusion in national ...

The Trump administration is targeting three major children's hospitals in FBI investigations looking into whether their ...

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

Fewer female genital mutilation victims were seen by NHS services in Milton Keynes, Bedfordshire and Luton, new figures show. ... FGM is a procedure where the female genitals are deliberately cut, ...

Female genital mutilation is widely thought of as something affecting women in countries halfway around the world. But advocates in the U.S. say many women who have immigrated here may have been ...

Traditional warriors — morans — have joined the fight against a practice that typically marks a girl's passage into womanhood ...