Elimination must build on locally driven, grassroots achievements Global efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM) stand at a crossroads, with uneven progress, commitments increasingly ...

On February 6, the world will unite to bring attention to a harmful practice that still endangers girls and women across Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Joint statement by the UNFPA Executive Director, UNICEF Executive Director, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Women Executive Director, WHO Director-General, and UNESCO Director-General on the ...

“We are losing ground in the fight to end female genital mutilation [FGM]” says Nankali Maksud, UNICEF Senior Advisor, Prevention of Harmful Practices. Despite U.N. agencies working to eradicate FGM ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) refers to the practice of purposefully cutting, injuring, or altering female genitalia. It involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia. There ...

Without accelerated efforts, there is no chance of getting anywhere close to eliminating FGM/C by 2030. Women from the Samburu tribe who escaped from gender based violence play with their children ...

The Ministry of Health highlighted that ending female genital mutilation (FGM) should be seen as an investment in human ...

An event of the GFLJD Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Legal Working Group. Interested in events and publications from the Working Group? Sign up for our newsletter. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) ...

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron speaks at the Girl Summit in London, July 22, 2014. The prime minister announced that B…it compulsory for teachers and health workers to report cases of female ...