On Monday afternoons once a month, a handful of women trickle into a waiting room at Denver Health: Lowry Family Health Center. Other people in the room probably have no idea why. Although all health ...

It is very likely that if the this law is repealed, other existing laws protecting women and girls’ rights will be threatened. Within the next few months, The Gambian Supreme Court will make a ruling ...

Bogota, Colombia – Two women rush onto the floor of Colombia's Senate chamber. The radiating beadwork around their necks and the red and green of their clothing cut through the dark-suited crowd of ...

BOGOTA - Colombia’s Senate approved a law on June 10 to ban female genital mutilation, a practice that persists in some of the country’s Indigenous communities, after two years of debate. The World ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Two men who say they were injured by the procedure as infants want Colorado’s law forbidding female genital mutilation to also prohibit male circumcision.

Nigeria has been ranked third globally, after Egypt and Ethiopia, among countries where female genital mutilation (FGM) is still widely practised. Statistics also indicate that Ekiti and Osun states ...

You've read 5 stories this month. Support the CT Mirror reporting you rely on. A bill that makes female genital mutilation a crime in the state of Connecticut, among other provisions, received final ...

Gov. Wes Moore just signed the first update of Maryland’s law on female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in over two decades. The bill, which passed the House 120 to 0, explicitly includes FGM/C in ...

Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, a French doctor, founded a one-stop shop to treat female victims of violence. Now, her revolutionary template is used across France. By Ségolène Le Stradic We think of human ...

For the third year in a row, Simenesh Comollo, a survivor of female genital mutilation, has appeared before lawmakers to testify in support of a bill that would ban the practice in the state of ...

For the third year in a row, Simenesh Comollo, a survivor of female genital mutilation, has appeared before lawmakers to testify in support of a bill that would ban the practice in the state of ...

Here’s one of the more confusing anomalies in state laws — and in liberal woke-think. Forty-one states have laws prohibiting a practice known as female genital mutilation, or cutting, on minors, ...