It is very likely that if the this law is repealed, other existing laws protecting women and girls’ rights will be threatened.

The procedure, which involves total or partial removal of girls' external genitalia, ignites strong passions in the tiny west ...

Proposed new law increases likelihood of both female genital mutilation and suicides among trans youth, experts warn ...

In a renewed push to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Liberia, Medica Liberia, Community Healthcare Initiatives (CHI), ...

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.

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 ...

Female genital mutilation remains one of the most challenging human rights violations to eliminate because it is hidden, normalised and reinforced by deep social expectations. Over the years, ...

MORE than 8.2 per cent of Tanzanian women aged 15 to 49 have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), according to the 2022 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey (TDHS), with prevalence reaching as ...

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 ...

In a significant shift from tradition, Maasai elders in Loitoktok, in Kenya’s Kajiado County, girls are choosingto forgo traditional FGM as a rite of initiation into womanhood. Photo Credit: Amref ...

When Ifrah Ahmed arrived in Ireland as a teenager after fleeing Somalia, it would have been natural if she had focused on building a new life for herself. Instead, she decided to try to save others ...