BENAZIR MOHAMMED was born and raised in a community where FGM has bee normalised. She tells JAEL MUSUMBA about her experience under the knife, and her resolve to push for an end to the abhorrent ...

Let us not kid ourselves into thinking of FGM as a neutral or positive cultural practice: girls hemorrhage to death, and endure crippling infections for months or years after the cut. Even when the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. But even as she manages her small business, Naomi's mind still preoccupied by athletics ...

Friday, in Sacramento, Calif., a group of detransitioners, parents, and allies gathered at the state capitol building in honor of Detrans Awareness Day. They came together to raise awareness about the ...

As more and more countries outlaw the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), The Gambia could become the first country in the world to overturn such a ban. The country's National Assembly ...

SERREKUNDA, Gambia — When Gambian lawmakers and religious leaders pushed this year to overturn a ban on female genital cutting, they sparked fears globally that this tiny West African nation might be ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female genital mutilation could be eradicated as quickly as footbinding was in the last century, Britain's crime prevention minister Lynne Featherstone said on ...

Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation. Gambia in 2015 banned the ritual forced on millions of ...