The American Academy of Pediatrics hasn’t taken a definitive stance on male circumcision, saying parents should weigh risks, ...

An estimated 230 million women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), which involves injury to the external genital organs for nonmedical reasons. According to the World Health ...

Colombia has passed the first legislation in Latin America to outlaw female genital mutilation. But barriers remain.

A decade ago, a Denver Health doctor noticed that a number of patients to the human rights clinic were survivors of female ...

Attorney Cheryl Nunez, who represents two children, a girl 11 and a boy 5, who are the kids of Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and her husband told a Juvenile Court Judge that the Mosque they all attend paid for ...

Some 4.5 million girls worldwide — many under the age of five — risk undergoing female genital mutilation this year, United Nations leaders warned Friday, urging more action to halt the harmful ...

A Detroit area physician has been charged with performing genital mutilation on multiple 6- to 8-year-old girls as part of a religious and cultural practice at a medical clinic in Livonia, in what is ...

“For a month I was bed bound, I couldn’t move and I was losing a lot of blood,” the now 27-year-old who has been in Luxembourg for three months said. She had lived in Somalia, but left the ...

Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) remains a threat to the rights of women in Southeast Asia, often religiously and culturally justified. Yet, despite lasting physical and psychological ...

The National Committee for the Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation renewed its commitment to protecting girls and ...