Learn what life after FGM looks like and why legal bans on the practice alone are not delivering justice for women and girls.

BENAZIR MOHAMMED was born and raised in a community where FGM has bee normalised. She tells JAEL MUSUMBA about her experience under the knife, and her resolve to push for an end to the abhorrent ...

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Connecticut is one of only a handful of states without a law banning female genital mutilation and cutting, a human rights violation and one of the most extreme forms of gender-based violence. FGM/C, ...

Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation.

As more and more countries outlaw the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), The Gambia could become the first country in the world to overturn such a ban. The country's National Assembly ...

Gambia's Supreme Court is considering whether a law protecting women and girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) is constitutional. The practice, common in Gambia, often involves forcibly ...

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 ...