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

A U.K.-funded program is helping to end female genital mutilation (FGM), starting in Kenya, according to Positive.News. This independent news site focuses on positive stories and recently interviewed ...

Connsider this: Nashiru, a practitioner of female genital mutilation (FGM) in a Maasai community in Kenya, says, "Cutting girls is something our people have done for hundreds of years. No one can ...

A British woman has been found guilty of handing over a three-year-old who was subjected to female genital mutilation in a legal first. Jurors were told Amina Noor, 39, took the toddler, who cannot be ...

There are two rainy seasons in Kenya: The long rains in March, April and May and the short rains in October, November and December. The past three seasons have failed, and the next one is forecast to ...

• Kenya is a party to, and has ratified, the convention on female genital mutilation, alongside others that focus on the rights of women and children. • The country has enacted the Prohibition of ...

NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somali families living in Britain and the United States are bringing their daughters to Kenya to secretly undergo female genital mutiliation (FGM) as their home ...

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NAIROBI, March 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Somali families living in Britain and the United States are bringing their daughters to Kenya to secretly undergo female genital mutiliation (FGM) as ...