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

Jan 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United States has strengthened a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) by imposing tougher penalties and making prosecutions easier - a step campaigners hope ...

Campaigners are fighting for labiaplasty to be criminalised in the UK, claiming it is a form of female genital mutilation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The tools used to perform female genital mutilation In 2016, a collaboration between York University and the think tank King’s ...

Ten years ago today Efua Dorkenoo, the figurehead of the movement to end female genital mutilation (FGM), passed away. The Ghanaian-born activist was affectionately known as Mama Efua because she ...

The number of women and girls at risk of FGM is rising in the U.S. — -- When “Sarah” first told her story, she did not want to show her face or give her real name. The American-born woman ...

The Gambia may become the first country in the world to reverse a ban on female genital mutilation. The small West African country banned the practice in 2015. But yesterday, Gambian lawmakers voted ...

A work from the photographic exhibition "My struggle, our struggle," during an event to commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance Against Female Genital Mutilation, at the Plaza del Museo ...

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 ...