Forty-one states have laws prohibiting female genital mutilation, but only 27 states ban gender-affirming care for minors, with the American Society of Plastic Surgeons recently recommending against ...

Minnesota has zero convictions for female genital mutilation despite hundreds of thousands at risk nationwide and the state's ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 7-year-old girl who underwent a painful genital mutilation procedure told federal investigators that after a doctor completed the process, she was rewarded with a piece of cake for "doing good." ...

We think of human rights abuses as wartime atrocities, but sometimes they involve what family members do to the people they love. By Nicholas Kristof Shamsa Sharawe made her name campaigning against ...

A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the U.S. law banning female genital mutilation was unconstitutional and dismissed charges against several doctors in Michigan who carried out the procedure on ...

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, ...

Aug 20 (Reuters) - Egypt strengthened its ban on female genital cutting in June by eliminating a legal loophole allowing girls to undergo the procedure for health reasons. A U.N women's forum urged ...

There’s a lot of overlap between surgery on intersex infants and female genital mutilation. So why do we view them so differently? By Afshan Jafar Ms. Jafar is an associate professor of sociology at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DETROIT — A Michigan doctor may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls ...