More than 20,000 girls and women living in Switzerland have undergone or are at risk of female genital mutilation. In an ...

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 ...

As the summer vacation period begins and families travel to countries of origin, the risk of female genital mutilation rises ...

The Ebonyi State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to eliminating Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), declaring that the ...

Female circumcision is so harmful that it is quite clear that society would be better off without this kind of practice, but so far progress has been slow. The economist Eliana La Ferrara is ...

Joint statement by the UNFPA Executive Director, UNICEF Executive Director, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Women Executive Director, WHO Director-General, and UNESCO Director-General on the ...

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 ...

It’s no wonder activists have failed to eradicate female circumcision in Africa, said the Lagos newspaper This Day in an editorial. They’ve gone about it the wrong way, using a condescending tone of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...