The Rivers State Government, in partnership with the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) and the ...

Over 200 communities in Oyo State have called for the eradication of Female Genital Mutilation. The Executive Director ...

News about Female Genital Mutilation, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they ...

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 ...

Somali women describe a complex and shifting tradition of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Somalia, according to ...

FBI launches probes against three major children's hospitals for allegedly violating federal statutes banning female genital mutilation.

Intersex genital mutilation refers to medically unnecessary surgeries or procedures performed on children born with ambiguous physical sex characteristics, often without their consent. These ...

Virginia’s General Assembly unanimously passed legislation Wednesday to crack down on female genital mutilation, criminalizing the procedure with up to a year of prison.

I'm 80 years old, white, a lifelong resident of the Midwest, and a regular churchgoer. I am also a survivor of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Does this shock you? I imagine it does ...