Because some amorous Frenchman was also a tattletale, Henri Littière, baker & husband, was last week haled before a black-gowned judge of the Paris Correctional Court. A student of medieval life, ...

An estimated 230 million women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), which involves injury to the external genital organs for nonmedical reasons. According to the World Health ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) survivors in the UK have been told they have to wait for "more research into the effectiveness" of reconstruction surgery, forcing many to fund their own travel and ...

In 2020, the United Nations estimated that more than 200 million girls worldwide had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). This figure reflects only documented cases, and the actual prevalence is ...

Female circumcision, is part of many African religious practices, just as some South African customs (eg Xhosas) circumsize their men at 21 years of age. Some are so fanatical about it, there was a ...

Ce 6 février est Journée internationale de la tolérance zéro à l’égard des mutilations génitales féminines. Selon les chiffres de l’ONU, plus de 230 millions de filles et de femmes dans le monde ont ...

These practices have been going on for centuries and are primarily inflicted upon young girls and women. For those unfamiliar with these terms and practices, we'll be shedding light on what they ...

Here are some key facts about an ancient practice which is based on a range of ideas about female sexual purity, social acceptance and male sexual pleasure. Lawmakers in the West African nation of The ...

Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation. Gambia in 2015 banned the ritual forced on millions of ...