Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DETROIT — A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the nation's first female genital mutilation case, delivering a major blow to the ...

Female genital mutilation doesn’t just plague millions of women in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia where it’s still practiced. Long-term medical and emotional problems caused by the ...

Female genital mutilation or cutting is largely hidden in Australia and other high-income countries. Most people don’t consider it a major issue. But our research shows it should be. Our research ...

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 ...

The United Nations disclosed a stunning figure this month: The number of females whose genitals have been scraped, pricked, or sliced off their young bodies has been underestimated—by seventy million.

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.

Sudan has criminalized the act of female genital mutilation, a historic move in a country where the United Nations says 9 out of 10 women between the ages of 15 to 49 have been subjected to the ...

World Pulse is a social networking platform connecting women worldwide for change. When I was young, I always admired the older girls. I grew up in a village in Njoro, Kenya and I waited eagerly all ...