Female genital mutilation (FGM) refers to the practice of purposefully cutting, injuring, or altering female genitalia. It involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia. There ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Oct. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Obstetricians, gynecologists, and women's rights advocates are raising concerns over the growing medicalisation of female genital ...

Female genital mutilation, the ritualistic cutting or removal of external female genitalia that is associated with Islamic religious beliefs or cultural practice, is almost universally denounced in ...

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 ...

The couple spent time in jail and are now determined to obtain a miscarriage of justice certificate after the case against ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – For more than a decade, a medical student group at the University at Buffalo has played a critical role documenting medical evidence of torture in immigrants seeking asylum. Knowledge ...

It is widely reported that ‘tens of thousands of girls’ are living in the UK with the risk of experiencing Female Genital Cutting or Mutilation (FGC/M). This paper reviews the data on which such ...

The exact location of the brain area representing genital touch varies among women. The new research in JNeurosci also found the region was thicker the more frequently the participants engaged in ...

“We are losing ground in the fight to end female genital mutilation [FGM]” says Nankali Maksud, UNICEF Senior Advisor, Prevention of Harmful Practices. Despite U.N. agencies working to eradicate FGM ...

Northville Dr. Jumana Nagarwala may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn't the only doctor who was cutting ...

DETROIT — A Michigan doctor may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn't the only doctor who was cutting children, ...