DETROIT — A Michigan doctor may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn't the only doctor who was cutting children, ...

BANJUL, Gambia — Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. The attempt to become the first country in the ...

Campaigns in some countries have reduced the practice, but it remains widespread in those with high rates of population growth. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen, who covers global health, has ...

Ten years back at the United Nations General Assembly, all world leaders promised to eliminate harmful practice of female genital mutilation/ cutting (SDG-5 target 5.3) by 2030. But instead of ...

SOMA, Gambia (AP) — When Metta, a mother of six from rural Gambia, heard that lawmakers were considering reversing the country’s ban on female genital cutting, a centuries-old practice she underwent ...

Nearly five years after it emerged, the nation's first female genital mutilation case has taken yet another turn in a heated feud between a government that says children were unlawfully cut and a ...

Lawmakers in Gambia referred an attempted repeal of the 2015 ban on female genital cutting for further committee discussions on Monday. Gambian activists fear a repeal would overturn years of work to ...

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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Clinics in Singapore are performing female genital cutting on babies, activists say, despite global pledges to end the internationally condemned practice. A U.N.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SOMA, Gambia (AP) — When Metta, a mother of ...

DETROIT – Detroit area physician Dr. Jumana Nagarwala may be the only physician on trial for allegedly performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn't the only doctor ...