In 2004, the French National Health Service began to subsidize surgical reconstruction to treat dyspareunia in women who had undergone genital mutilation. The operation is now also offered to those ...

At least 200 million girls and women are living with the pain and trauma caused by FGM. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice now. At Kalas Girls Primary School in Uganda's Amudat district in ...

Ghada Hatem-Gantzer, a French doctor, founded a one-stop shop to treat female victims of violence. Now, her revolutionary template is used across France. By Ségolène Le Stradic We think of human ...

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 ...

A new series of laws will make penalties for FGM stronger than federal law The laws were inspired by a case in the state that began earlier this year A series of new laws passed in Michigan strengthen ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Women's rights advocates said they were shocked when a federal judge in Michigan ruled this week that a law protecting girls from genital mutilation was unconstitutional. They ...

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.