Fatou Sanyang still experiences extreme pain she says feels like "hot water is being poured on me" decades after undergoing ...

According to UNICEF, more than 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) worldwide. The African continent is home to the largest proportion of this human rights ...

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 ...

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She wasn’t sick. She wasn’t in danger. She was born a girl, and that was enough. In parts of the world today, being a girl still comes with one of the most brutal rites imaginable: Female genital ...

A vote held by The Gambia’s National Assembly last month blocked recent efforts to repeal the Women’s (Amendment) Act of 2015, which criminalized female genital mutilation (FGM). This vote prevented ...

Female genital mutilation remains one of the most challenging human rights violations to eliminate because it is hidden, normalised and reinforced by deep social expectations. Over the years, ...