Fatou Sanyang still experiences extreme pain she says feels like "hot water is being poured on me" decades after undergoing ...

It is very likely that if the this law is repealed, other existing laws protecting women and girls’ rights will be threatened ...

Filmmaker and screenwriter Biodun Stephen has spoken about childhood female genital mutilation, saying the trauma still affects her.

All world leaders had promised to end female genital mutilation/cutting by 2030 (SDG target 5.3) and ensure menstrual health “where no one is left behind” by 2030 (SDG-3, 4, 5, 6). But progress is way ...

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 ...

Campaigners fear children could be taken abroad for FGM if a legal challenge to overturn the decade-old ban succeeds.

"My mother was in the know. When I got home, they gave me Phensic. She rubbed my body, and that was it. There was no conversation..." ...

The Ministry of Health highlighted that ending female genital mutilation (FGM) should be seen as an investment in human ...

Sexual aggression displayed by male tortoises is both physically and mentally hampering female tortoises on the island of ...

On a remote island in North Macedonia, male Hermann’s tortoises outnumber females 19 to 1, an imbalance driving the population to extinction.

Around 10 percent of women experience significant pain during sexual intercourse. But few women tell their partners about their pain, so few men know.

A South African High Court has convicted a former nursery teacher of raping and murdering her partner's four-year-old daughter, sparking debate on child protection.