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 ...

Female circumcision is so harmful that it is quite clear that society would be better off without this kind of practice, but so far progress has been slow. The economist Eliana La Ferrara is ...

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 ...

Colombia just prohibited female genital mutilation after approving a bill called “Girls Without Ablation.” It is a law born ...

*Pressure is mounting on Sierra Leone First Lady Fatima Maada Bio after a coalition of activists and political figures questioned her position on female genital mutilation (FGM). More than 20 ...

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice. Here's how to help. On Feb. 6, 2023, just months before the outbreak of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...