Judges 'not persuaded that one can choose to undergo a harmful practice from medical and anecdotal e

COVID-19 lockdowns and school closures make girls particularly vulnerable to Female Genital Mutilati

A new set of laws was passed last week in an apparent reversal of decades of hardline Islamist polic

Country, where the practice was officially outlawed in 2008, has the largest percentage of circumcis

UN is calling for end to practice, saying it has no medical benefits

FGM is practiced in 30 countries throughout Africa, the Middle East and Asia, as well as among migra

Despite Kenya's banning of female genital mutilation in 2011, the tradition has continued in some et