Siddharth Lutha, appearing for the petitioners opposing female genital mutilation, told the bench that the practice is done ...

During the hearing of the Sabarimala reference, the Supreme Court on Thursday orally voiced concerns about the practice of ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, a Gambian group that aims to end female genital mutilation.... Female genital mutilation is illegal in The Gambia. But ...

(FGM/C) affects more than 230 million females of all ages worldwide, including an estimated 58 000 in Canada1 The World ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DETROIT — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the nation's first female genital mutilation case, delivering a major blow to the ...

The Connecticut Senate unanimously passed legislation to ban female genital mutilation making it a Class D felony to perform ...

A work from the photographic exhibition "My struggle, our struggle," during an event to commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance Against Female Genital Mutilation, at the Plaza del Museo ...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday raised concerns over the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) among sections ...

At least 200 million girls and women are living with the pain and trauma caused by FGM. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice now. At Kalas Girls Primary School in Uganda's Amudat district in ...

DETROIT — A Michigan doctor may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn't the only doctor who was cutting children, ...