female genital mutilation

Shuttered schools, lockdowns and disruption to services that protect girls, have put millions worldwide at increased risk of being subjected to FGM. This means an additional two million girls could be affected by 2030, according to the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, resulting...

Like 95 per cent of women in her Ugandan community, Margaret Chepoteltel underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) as a child, subjecting her to lifelong health problems. Today, she is raising awareness of the dangers of FGM, as part of a...

It will be imperative to have multilateral cooperation between countries in which FGM is performed in order to have “efficient intervention” against this phenomenon that “ the physical integrity of women in general and girls in particular,” says Burkina Faso’s...

In observation of The International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, women who have survived the practice were invited to speak at the United Nations. FGM is now internationally recognized as a violation of ​human rights and collaborative efforts around the world are showing great results. Still, too many countries consider it as a part of their...

The UN campaign against the centuries-old use of Female Genital Mutilation goes on while more and more people refuse the weak argument of tradition. A girl’s in-tact hymen increases her value when she is offered to a prospective husband and...