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 ...

In this 2014 file photo, Dawoodi Bohra Muslims wait to take blessings from their new spiritual leader Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin outside a mosque in Mumbai. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui MUMBAI, March 17 ...

Little is known about FGM in India where it is carried out in great secrecy by close-knit Dawoodi Bohra community LONDON, Jan 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A group of Indian women who were ...

The first in-depth report into female genital mutilation (FGM) in Iran has claimed that the practise is prevalent in "secret pockets" of at least four provinces of Iran and "continues to violate ...

It's a brutal practice that's inflicted on thousands of girls and women every year. Female genital mutilation, or female ritual cutting, involves altering or injuring female genital organs. It's often ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The practice of female genital mutilation has fallen dramatically in northern Iraq, campaigners said on Monday as they urged religious leaders to use sermons and ...

Liberia is witnessing a disturbing resurgence in female genital mutilation, with new evidence showing that 502 girls and ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain's first specialist clinic for child victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) opened in London on Monday as part of a push to eradicate the illegal ...

ayoung woman, simply identified as Emeterhire, has died in Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, after being forced to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM) following complications during childbirth. Emeterhire ...

The number of women and girls at risk of FGM is rising in the U.S. — -- When “Sarah” first told her story, she did not want to show her face or give her real name. The American-born woman ...