The American Academy of Pediatrics hasn’t taken a definitive stance on male circumcision, saying parents should weigh risks, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - The UNICEF logo is seen at the German UNICEF headquarters in Cologne, Germany, on Feb. 5, 2008. Over 230 million women and ...

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 ...

*Pressure is mounting on Sierra Leone First Lady Fatima Maada Bio after a coalition of activists and political figures ...

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, ...

It’s no wonder activists have failed to eradicate female circumcision in Africa, said the Lagos newspaper This Day in an editorial. They’ve gone about it the wrong way, using a condescending tone of ...

Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder and healthcare advocate who for decades has combated female circum- cision and strived to improve women’s healthcare in East Africa, was named ...

As a young child Aïssa could not understand how she could conjure up such horrific images. No one had ever explained to Aïssa what her parents had allowed to take place. “All I could remember was ...

A couple have had their convictions (FGM) of their one-year-old daughter, which were quashed after they spent two years in ...

Aug 20 (Reuters) - Egypt strengthened its ban on female genital cutting in June by eliminating a legal loophole allowing girls to undergo the procedure for health reasons. A U.N women's forum urged ...

A decade ago, a Denver Health doctor noticed that a number of patients to the human rights clinic were survivors of female genital mutilation.

Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children's agency. In the last ...