*Pressure is mounting on Sierra Leone First Lady Fatima Maada Bio after a coalition of activists and political figures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - The UNICEF logo is seen at the German UNICEF headquarters in Cologne, Germany, on Feb. 5, 2008. Over 230 million women and ...

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

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 ...

BOGOT – Colombia’s Senate approved a law Wednesday (Thursday, Manila time) to ban female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice ...

Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder and healthcare advocate who for decades has combated female circum- cision and strived to improve women’s healthcare in East Africa, was named ...

Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice. Here's how to help. On Feb. 6, 2023, just months before the outbreak of ...

Aug 20 (Reuters) - Egypt strengthened its ban on female genital cutting in June by eliminating a legal loophole allowing girls to undergo the procedure for health reasons. A U.N women's forum urged ...

New expert evidence led the Court of Appeal to formally recognise a miscarriage of justice.

TUTAKAL, Iraq (Reuters) - Amena practiced female genital mutilation in her remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan for so many years that she struggles to recall how many girls passed through her hands. "I ...

Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children's agency. In the last ...