FGM is practiced deeply among the Somalis, believing it is a religious obligation for Muslims. Paying $300 each, the practice is now considered a violation of the human rights of girls and women. Also ...

Read on to find out how FGM complicated Amani's pregnancy YOUNG and innocent, Amani Abby thought she was the luckiest girl in the world when, aged six, friends and family began handing her money and ...

MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Men in India and Pakistan are joining a campaign to end female genital mutilation (FGM), adding greater heft to the movement in the deeply patriarchal Dawoodi ...

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

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Britain's first specialist clinic for child victims of female genital mutilation (FGM) opened in London on Monday as part of a push to eradicate the illegal ...

It's a brutal practice that's inflicted on thousands of girls and women every year. Female genital mutilation, or female ritual cutting, involves altering or injuring female genital organs. It's often ...