It's a taboo topic and an age-old practice across several countries and religious traditions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. An estimated 230 million women and girls are subjected to genital ...
CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s ruling body ratified a law banning the widespread practice of female genital mutilation, the justice ministry announced Friday, handing the movement for women’s rights in the ...
Tuesday, 6 February, 2024 was this year’s International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In commemoration of the day, the Director-General of the World Health Organization ...
AFA copy gift from WMR Center. In her best-selling 1992 novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy, Alice Walker opened a painful door: she brought the issue of female genital mutilation, a practice that ...
Tamsin Bradley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
How does Spokane have a connection to a Maasai village in Kenya? Via writer and activist Charity Resian. Resian, 33, moved from Sweden to Spokane last year to connect with her brother and cousins who ...
Male circumcision, the focus of my previous post (Rites of Circumcision, posted October 10, 2018), although not universal, occurs widely. Female genital mutilation (FGM)— also called genital cutting ...
Female genital mutilation is on the rise in Africa: disturbing new trends are driving up the numbers
Tamsin Bradley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
There’s a lot of overlap between surgery on intersex infants and female genital mutilation. So why do we view them so differently? By Afshan Jafar Ms. Jafar is an associate professor of sociology at ...
Male circumcision, the focus of my previous post (Rites of Circumcision, posted October 10, 2018), although not universal, occurs widely. Female genital mutilation (FGM)— also called genital cutting ...
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 ...
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