Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay looks on after her address to the 26th session of the Human Rights Council at ...

It's estimated that 200 million girls and women alive today have undergone some form of FGM, according to the United Nations ...

“As a pre-established tradition … female circumcision was not introduced by the Prophet to the early Muslim community. Several sayings (hadith) of the Prophet indicate that it may have been the norm ...

Female mutilation virtually eliminates sexual pleasure. More pressingly, the procedure often causes hemorrhages, infection and trauma. An agronomist turned activist, Fifi's goal is to put an end to ...

The practice of excision is on the decline in Senegal, thanks to the mobilisation of victims and NGOs In Senegal, the law that penalises excision doesn't hold the weight it could hold, as local ...

HOUSTON – A Houston woman is the subject of a federal grand jury indictment, the first-ever indictment regarding female genital mutilation, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Zahra Badri, 39 ...

A woman from Mali was handed down a five-year suspended jail sentence in a French court today for the genital mutilation of her three French-born daughters. Defence lawyers for Aminata Sall, 42, had ...

June 11, 2011 — Reconstructive surgery appears to reduce pain and increase sexual pleasure in women who had undergone genital mutilation, according to results from the first large prospective cohort ...

In this edition, we have a special report from Egypt on efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation. Also, we meet a volleyball star campaigning for female players to get better pay and more ...