Female genital mutilation (as a matter of health policy, “circumcision” is considered a misnomer) ... traditional FGM practitioners — are still equipped with only the roughest of tools.

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A woman shows the camera the tools and techniques she uses to perform female genital mutilation (FGM), which she learned at the age of 15, in the courtyard of her home in Hargeisa, Somaliland, a ...

Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, 44, of Northville, an emergency room doctor at Henry Ford Hospital, is presumed to be the first to be charged under federal law with a female genital mutilation crime on U.S ...

By a vote of 34 to 19, female genital mutilation would remain illegal in The Gambia. That's a reversal of what happened In March, when assembly members voted to move the repeal bill forward for ...

The percentage of Egyptian girls aged 15 to 17 who have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) dropped to 37 percent in ...

F or Fatou Baldeh, the past year was critical in the fight to end female genital mutilation. A survivor and the founder of the organization Women in Liberation & Leadership (WILL), Baldeh, 41, is ...

Two decades later, the 27-year-old survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM) still bears the scars from that day. ... without any anaesthesia and with unsterilised tools ...

Gambia’s parliament has voted to uphold a landmark law that bans female genital mutilation (FGM) in the largely Muslim nation, after religious groups pushed for the legislation to be repealed.