ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANEABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis called female genital mutilation a “crime” on Sunday and said the fight for women’s rights, equality and opportunity must continue for the ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Subhead: A 9-year-old girl in New York had her clitoris cut off with a razor without any anesthesia ...

It's a brutal practice that's inflicted on thousands of girls and women every year. Female genital mutilation, or female ritual cutting, involves altering or injuring female genital organs. It's often ...

In a new policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics says a "ritual nick" to the genitals of newborn females might "save some girls from undergoing disfiguring and life-threatening procedures ...

Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation. Gambia in 2015 banned the ritual forced on millions of ...

Pope Francis on Sunday decried the genital mutilation of millions of girls and the trafficking of women for sex, including openly on city streets, so others can make money off of them. In remarks to ...

Acts of self-mutilation, burns, and other extreme rituals are less accepted in Western culture, but are a common culture trait for many societies D'Or Institute for Research and Education Published in ...

A senior Muslim cleric in Russia has prompted controversy by urging universal female genital mutilation after a rights group released a report on the practice in the country's North Caucasus region.

It is unfathomable how some in medicine have so little regard for the welfare of people and their human rights. Here we thought that female genital mutilation, or female circumcision, in America had ...

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 ...