It is very likely that if the this law is repealed, other existing laws protecting women and girls’ rights will be threatened ...

Olivia Albert, 19, was subjected to female genital (FGM) mutilation when she was 14. She told the UN sexual and reproductive ...

On February 6, the world will unite to bring attention to a harmful practice that still endangers girls and women across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

The Upper West Regional Director of the Department of Gender, Charity Bature, has disclosed that perpetrators of female ...

Christine Nayor, a 24-year-old from Alapat Village in Lemusui Sub-County, Amudat District, a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM), has turned the scars of her painful past into a ...

The long and contentious struggle over the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in the country has re-emerged at the ...

Courts are emerging as a critical frontline in the fight to end Female Genital Mutilation Over the past two decades, ...

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) have warned that female ...

With The Gambia overturning its law on female genital mutilation, here are countries where it is still practised. According to The World Health Organisation, in countries that practice it, FGM is ...

With global rates of female genital mutilation (FGM) still alarmingly high, EU leaders are renewing calls to end the practice ...

We hope that there will be renewed efforts to make sure that this harmful practice sees the eventual end of its lifeline ...