Medscape: Female Genital Cutting: Confronting Cultural Challenges and Health Complications Across the Lifespan
Female Genital Cutting: Confronting Cultural Challenges and Health Complications Across the Lifespan
The Conversation: Female genital cutting: why Southeast Asia should follow Africa’s lead in challenging religious and cultural justifications
Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) remains a threat to the rights of women in Southeast Asia, often religiously and culturally justified. Yet, despite lasting physical and psychological ...
Female genital cutting: why Southeast Asia should follow Africa’s lead in challenging religious and cultural justifications
Here’s one of the more confusing anomalies in state laws — and in liberal woke-think. Forty-one states have laws prohibiting a practice known as female genital mutilation, or cutting, on minors, ...
An in-depth look at the movement to end Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in India, exploring the unique challenges within specific communities, legal hurdles, and the courageous efforts 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 ...
WSLS 10: Gambia lawmakers refer a repeal of the ban on female genital cutting to more committee discussions
Gambia lawmakers refer a repeal of the ban on female genital cutting to more committee discussions
The Gambia’s ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) since 2015 is under threat. Proposed changes before parliament could permit medicalised female genital cutting and allow it for consenting adults.
The law, which took effect last year, cites more than 500,000 people in the U.S. who have either experienced or are susceptible to female genital mutilation, a cultural practice meant to suppress ...