The number of women and girls at risk of FGM is rising in the U.S. — -- When “Sarah” first told her story, she did not want to show her face or give her real name. The American-born woman ...

A coalition of nonprofit and state organizations, formed under a Washington law creating criminal and civil penalties for female genital mutilation, has set out to educate and support victims and ...

Errekunda, Gambia — Lawmakers in Gambia will vote Monday on legislation that seeks to repeal a ban on female genital mutilation, or FGM, which would make the West African nation the first country ...

When a U.S. federal judge ruled recently that a 1996 law prohibiting "female genital mutilation" (FGM) was unconstitutional, it prompted shock and dismay across the political spectrum: How could it be ...

Committee work in the Iowa House and Senate has produced differing views on what should happen to those who engage in female genital mutilation. Legislation to prohibit the heinous practice of 'female ...

From the slums of Cairo to remote villages in rural Egypt, a quiet revolution is taking place. Reversing generations of tradition, growing numbers of parents have decided to spare their daughters the ...

The women know that mutilating young girls by removing their clitoris and inner labia -- framed as a rite of passage -- is ...

The most comprehensive survey on female genital mutilation and cutting finds the practice has decreased in more than half of the countries where... More than 125 million women and girls in Africa and ...

FILE - A Masai girl holds a protest sign during the anti-Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) run in Kilgoris, Kenya, on April 21, 2007. Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday July 15, ...

To the editor: Who knew? Faith-based genital mutilation, a medieval practice embraced by some Christian and Islamic sects, persists throughout the world and even in parts of the United States. This ...

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 ...