Some 4.5 million girls worldwide — many under the age of five — risk undergoing female genital mutilation this year, United Nations leaders warned Friday, urging more action to halt the harmful ...

As a young child Aïssa could not understand how she could conjure up such horrific images. No one had ever explained to Aïssa what her parents had allowed to take place. “All I could remember was ...

Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder, and health care advocate who for decades has combated female circumcision and strived to improve women’s health care in East Africa, was named ...

Two men in Kenya are rallying against the myths that perpetuate the violation of women’s and girls’ human rights through the centuries-old cultural tradition of female circumcision, more commonly ...

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 ...