Female genital mutilation or cutting is largely hidden in Australia and other high-income countries. Most people don’t consider it a major issue. But our research shows it should be. Our research ...
Siddharth Lutha, appearing for the petitioners opposing female genital mutilation, told the bench that the practice is done ...
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, ...
Female genital mutilation doesn’t just plague millions of women in Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia where it’s still practiced. Long-term medical and emotional problems caused by the ...
Prosecutors alleged that as many as 100 girls could have undergone genital mutilation procedures at a Detroit-area clinic during a hearing this week where the clinic owner and his wife were granted ...
Under a series of new laws signed Tuesday, Michigan became the 26th state to place a criminal ban on female genital mutilation, or FGM, according to NPR. The new legislation imposes a prison sentence ...
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 ...
In 1996, doctors at the Harborview Medical Center in Seattle decided to offer its Somali patient population what was characterized at the time as a “ritual nick” to adolescent girls, as a way to avoid ...
A judge ruled that the woman should not be deported there, so the Trump administration sent her to Ghana — which returned her ...
Even more than two decades later, Harry Reid is haunted by the video an activist told him to watch. Men grabbed a little girl in a white dress at a celebration in Egypt, then spread her legs and ...
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