NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, a Gambian group that aims to end female genital mutilation. Lawmakers there advanced a bill that would end its FGM ban.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Transgender women are at risk of female genital mutilation, the College of Policing has claimed. New policing guidelines issued by ...

Errekunda, Gambia — Lawmakers in Gambia will vote Monday on legislation that seeks to repeal a ban on female genital mutilation, or FGM, which would make the West African nation the first country ...

At a market in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, a community theater group uses performance to help raise awareness about female genital mutilation (FGM). A day to join a global movement to protect ...

I don’t know what it is about Connecticut that we just can’t get this done to protect young women from having their bodies ...

LONDON, Feb 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female genital mutilation (FGM) will take centuries to eradicate despite world leaders promising to end the practice by 2030, according to United Nations ...

Protesters hold placards outside the National Assembly in Banjul on March 18, 2024, during the debate between lawmakers on a highly controversial bill seeking to lift the ban on FGM. Gambian lawmakers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than half a million women and girls in the United States are living with the physical and psychological scars of female ...

TANZANIA has intensified efforts to combat gender-based violence and female genital mutilation (FGM), with new national ...

You might be shocked to learn one of the most brutal practices imaginable, the female genital mutilation (FGM) of little girls, is an Alaska problem. I was born into a world where FGM was not an ...

Monrovia - The United Nations Women Country Representative to Liberia, Comfort Lamptey, has issued a strong call to action for Liberian lawmakers to pass the proposed Women and Girls Protection Bill, ...

The Gambia may become the first country in the world to reverse a ban on female genital mutilation. The small West African country banned the practice in 2015. But yesterday, Gambian lawmakers voted ...