The truest expression of its people is in its dances and its music” (American Choreographer, Agness De Mille, niece of Cecille B. DeMille) ..
Understanding female genital mutilation’s contested origins is critical to dismantling its persistence across parts of Africa today.
Former Irish President Mary McAleese argues that infant baptism violates children’s human rights by imposing church membership without consent. Critics respond that parents possess religious freedom ...
Minnesota has zero convictions for female genital mutilation despite hundreds of thousands at risk nationwide and the state's ...
The UN Population Fund estimates that no fewer than 4.5 million girls are at risk of being subjected to female genital mutilation in 2026 According to it, an estimated 230 million girls and women ...
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Ending female genital mutilation: A global call to action

Joint statement by the UNFPA Executive Director, UNICEF Executive Director, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Women Executive Director, WHO Director-General, and UNESCO Director-General on the ...
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.
Some 4.5 million girls worldwide — many under the age of five — risk undergoing female genital mutilation this year, United Nations leaders warned Friday, urging more action to halt the harmful ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A young woman points to the figures for the unrecorded statistics on "Female Genital Mutilation in Germany" presented by the human ...