Updated guidelines in Italy call for active screening and multidisciplinary care for women with female genital mutilation ...

The recent news that a grand jury in Michigan has indicted three people, including two doctors, for female genital mutilation is a welcome development. As the first ever prosecutions of this crime in ...

Federal surveillance cameras were rolling in a Michigan medical clinic’s parking lot earlier this year as two little girls were brought, separately, in for alleged genital mutilation procedures, ...

A new report out from Casey Family Programs casts doubt on whether that is the case. Now, apparently, there is something ...

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The story of a female genital mutilation case in Detroit has prompted lots of questions from our viewers on what this procedure actually is and how it compares to circumcision in males. So, we set out ...

The most comprehensive survey on female genital mutilation and cutting finds the practice has decreased in more than half of the countries where... More than 125 million women and girls in Africa and ...

A coalition of nonprofit and state organizations, formed under a Washington law creating criminal and civil penalties for female genital mutilation, has set out to educate and support victims and ...

Jumana Nagarwala, MD, an emergency medical physician at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System, was charged with mutilating the genitals of two 7-year-old girls from Minneapolis, according to a Twin ...

Pope Francis reacts as he conducts his Sunday Angelus prayer in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican, February 1 2015. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday ...

Even more than two decades later, Harry Reid is haunted by the video an activist told him to watch. Men grabbed a little girl in a white dress at a celebration in Egypt, then spread her legs and ...

It happened to three sisters under 18 in Egypt. And 7-year-olds in Michigan. For "Real Housewives of Dubai" star Chanel Ayan, it happened in Kenya. "I was tricked when I was 5 years old," Ayan tells ...