Some 4.5 million girls worldwide — many under the age of five — risk undergoing female genital mutilation this year, United Nations leaders warned Friday, urging more action to halt the harmful ...

When a U.S. federal judge ruled recently that a 1996 law prohibiting "female genital mutilation" (FGM) was unconstitutional, it prompted shock and dismay across the political spectrum: How could it be ...

A recent story in The New York Times looked at the rise of American girls who are being sent abroad to undergo female circumcision, which has been banned in the United States since 1996. As Julie ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Here’s one of the more confusing anomalies in state laws — and in liberal woke-think. Forty-one states have laws prohibiting a ...

Syahiera Atika, a 19-year-old Malaysian girl has happily embraced western-style capitalism but in contrast strictly follows the local interpretation of Islam as she informed the Vice of her ...

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 ...

When American cosmetic surgeon Ivona Percec encountered her first patient to have been subjected to female genital mutilation, a widely scorned but enduring cultural practice in parts of Africa, the ...

An interesting issue of the journal Global Discourse, on Gender Equality in Abrahamic Circumcision: Why or Why Not?, edited by Ingvild Bergom Lunde and Matthew Thomas Johnson; here's the Introduction, ...

Causing grievous bodily harm, including mutilation, has been outlawed in the UK since time immemorial and has been a statutory offence for over 160 years. Despite this, a law banning female genital ...

There’s a lot of overlap between surgery on intersex infants and female genital mutilation. So why do we view them so differently? By Afshan Jafar Ms. Jafar is an associate professor of sociology at ...