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. Lawmakers there advanced a bill that would end its FGM ban.

TANZANIA has intensified efforts to combat gender-based violence and female genital mutilation (FGM), with new national ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Transgender women are at risk of female genital mutilation, the College of Policing has claimed. New policing guidelines issued by ...

I don’t know what it is about Connecticut that we just can’t get this done to protect young women from having their bodies ...

LONDON, Feb 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female genital mutilation (FGM) will take centuries to eradicate despite world leaders promising to end the practice by 2030, according to United Nations ...

Errekunda, Gambia — Lawmakers in Gambia will vote Monday on legislation that seeks to repeal a ban on female genital mutilation, or FGM, which would make the West African nation the first country ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than half a million women and girls in the United States are living with the physical and psychological scars of female ...

FGM is a procedure where the female genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, with no medical reason for this to be done. Often inflicted on girls under 15, it is considered child abuse and ...

I helped pass the most progressive anti-female genital mutilation (FGM) law in the United States, where I now live. But I was born and raised in Gambia, where the government passed an anti-FGM law in ...

You might be shocked to learn one of the most brutal practices imaginable, the female genital mutilation (FGM) of little girls, is an Alaska problem. I was born into a world where FGM was not an ...

TUTAKAL, Iraq (Reuters) - Amena practiced female genital mutilation in her remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan for so many years that she struggles to recall how many girls passed through her hands. "I ...

The Gambia may become the first country in the world to reverse a ban on female genital mutilation. The small West African country banned the practice in 2015. But yesterday, Gambian lawmakers voted ...