Minnesota has zero convictions for female genital mutilation despite hundreds of thousands at risk nationwide and the state's ...

A coalition of nonprofit and state organizations, formed under a Washington law creating criminal and civil penalties for female genital mutilation, has set out to educate and support victims and ...

Attorney Cheryl Nunez, who represents two children, a girl 11 and a boy 5, who are the kids of Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and her husband told a Juvenile Court Judge that the Mosque they all attend paid for ...

Nice Nailantei Leng’ete escaped her own planned circumcision at age 8, and she committed to save others, too. Now, at 22, she’s working with her Masai community and others in Kenya to implement ...

On February 6, the world will unite to bring attention to a harmful practice that still endangers girls and women across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Rights activists in The Gambia are calling for justice after a one-month-old baby's death was linked to female genital mutilation, a widely practiced but illegal procedure up for review before the ...

Miss World 2025 candidate Zainab Jama from Somalia broke into tears during the “Head-to-Head” challenge, as she narrated her harrowing experience of being forced to undergo female genital mutilation ...

In a striking blow to women’s rights, federal prosecutors are abandoning criminal cases involving female genital mutilation, saying the federal ban on the cruel procedure is too weak. The Justice ...

Conversations on social media about female genital mutilation (FGM) have not changed dramatically over the five years to 2020, according to an analysis of English Twitter data, though there was a ...