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

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

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

There will be more victims’ - Efforts to tackle female genital mutilation have been hit, but the Foreign, Commonwealth and ...

A violation of the rights of girls and women, female genital mutilation is a cruel and unnecessary practice. UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund run the largest global program to eliminate ...

Maasai women erupted with mocking heckles as a community elder, wrapped in a traditional red blanket, claimed that female ...

Ending the UK's flagship aid programme to combat female genital mutilation (FGM) presents a 'serious risk to women and girls ...

Two million more girls worldwide are expected to undergo female genital mutilation over the next decade as the pandemic hits global efforts to end the practice Feb 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As ...

In Nigeria, 20 million girls and women have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “female genital mutilation (FGM) involves the partial or total ...

In 1970, when Waris Dirie was a 5-year-old in Somalia, her mother held her down on a rock. She gave her a piece of root from an old tree. "Bite on this," she said. Her mother leaned over and whispered ...

(Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the world marks International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) on Saturday, women's rights groups are warning that more girls in Africa are ...