The United States has strengthened a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) by imposing tougher penalties and making prosecutions easier - a step campaigners hope will bolster global efforts to ...

Health chief calls for a roll-out of regional FGM clinics to cope with soaring waiting lists for health services.

Thousands of women and girls who have sought asylum in Europe face long delays for FGM medical care and support.

Kenya's High Court ruling upholding a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) will give a much needed boost to the fight to ...

Transgender women are at risk of female genital mutilation, the College of Policing has claimed. New policing guidelines issued by the taxpayer-funded quango state that trans women could be forced to ...

Pamela Fraher has spent the past year investigating Ireland's first and only prosecution for FGM. Here, she reflects on what she uncovered while examining how the State handles this sensitive and ...

A Lagos-based researcher on female genital mutilation (FGM), Friday Anyebe, has lamented the high rate of circumcision of the ...

“I was thrown a big party before my cutting. I had my hair done and I was even given presents,” recalled Hoda Ali, a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM), who went on to cofound The Vavengers, ...

The number of women and girls at risk of FGM is rising in the U.S. — -- When “Sarah” first told her story, she did not want to show her face or give her real name. The American-born woman ...

Too many Sierra Leonean girls still suffer lifelong health problems, complications in childbirth, infection and trauma ...

Errekunda, Gambia — Lawmakers in Gambia will vote Monday on legislation that seeks to repeal a ban on female genital mutilation, or FGM, which would make the West African nation the first country ...

Glen Ellyn trustees have hired a design firm to draft conceptual renderings for possible renovations of the village’s ...