"I was a little slave girl but now I can say I'm an MBE." From the age of 11, she became a slave and was passed around to ...

Ten years back at the United Nations General Assembly, all world leaders promised to eliminate harmful practice of female ...

The women know that mutilating young girls by removing their clitoris and inner labia -- framed as a rite of passage -- is ...

The Journal of Medical Ethics (JME) exists – according to its own mission statement – to print rigorous academic work that ...

An estimated 100 million girls and women of reproductive age across 30 countries have experienced female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), according to a new meta-analysis publishing September 1 st ...

MARA: IN villages across Tarime District in the Mara region of Tanzania, a quiet but powerful transformation is taking ...

I did not escape FGM, nor did anyone else in my community. I cannot keep quiet as girls in Alaska suffer the same fate.

Male circumcision, the focus of my previous post (Rites of Circumcision, posted October 10, 2018), although not universal, occurs widely. Female genital mutilation (FGM)— also called genital cutting ...

“My best friend is a Bohra woman. We’ve known each other for decades, but we’ve never spoken about this. Should I ask her if she was a victim of khatna?” While most of my book interviews and ...

In 2016, a collaboration between York University and the think tank King’s Fund published a report into the estimated costs ...

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 ...