A judge ruled that the woman should not be deported there, so the Trump administration sent her to Ghana — which returned her ...

Female genital mutilation or cutting is largely hidden in Australia and other high-income countries. Most people don’t consider it a major issue. But our research shows it should be. Our research ...

The United Nations disclosed a stunning figure this month: The number of females whose genitals have been scraped, pricked, or sliced off their young bodies has been underestimated—by seventy million.

Sudan has criminalized the act of female genital mutilation, a historic move in a country where the United Nations says 9 out of 10 women between the ages of 15 to 49 have been subjected to the ...

For six years survivors of female genital mutilation have been calling on lawmakers to ban the practice, testifying about the painful emotional and physical consequences of the traditional custom ...

As a young child Aïssa could not understand how she could conjure up such horrific images. No one had ever explained to Aïssa what her parents had allowed to take place. “All I could remember was ...