Egypt arrested a father and a retired nurse on Tuesday for carrying out female genital mutilation (FGM) on a 15-year-old girl, after announcing plans to toughen the penalty to 20 years.

As part of a female genital mutilation awareness-raising campaign around Egypt, Hara TV 3 is putting on interactive theatre events around the country. Ahram Online caught up with them in Qalioubiya in ...

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As the world marks the International Day of the Girl on the October 11, 2024, the Anti-FGM Board will launch a campaign dubbed "Dear Daughter" in Kajiado county to sensitise mothers to stop passing on ...

The government has tasked chiefs in Kuria to intensify efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as the season for the practice nears. The development comes at a time stakeholders have ...

Writers, politicians and feminists united on Monday to pay tribute to pioneering Egyptian activist Nawal El Saadawi following ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Subhead: A new nationwide media blitz in Sudan calls for the end of the practice of cutting girls' ...

(Bloomberg) -- Gambian lawmakers have defeated an attempt to overturn a historic ban on female genital mutilation in a boost for the global century-old campaign against the practice. The West African ...

The United Nations International Children’s Fund has called on stakeholders across Nigeria to intensify efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation, urging men in particular to support the fight ...