Some 4.5 million girls worldwide — many under the age of five — risk undergoing female genital mutilation this year, United Nations leaders warned Friday, urging more action to halt the harmful ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thursday marks the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation. Many people may be surprised to know that this is even a practice, but it is. It’s a custom in too many parts of ...

Campaigns in some countries have reduced the practice, but it remains widespread in those with high rates of population growth. By Stephanie Nolen Stephanie Nolen, who covers global health, has ...

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 ...

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a violation of human rights that inflicts severe, lifelong physical and mental health risks on survivors. According to the World Health Organization, physical ...

The "gut microbiome" has become a popular health term in recent years. It's easy to see why, with an abundance of research showing how important the trillions of microbes living in our gut are for ...

In her best selling book, The Vagina Bible, author Dr. Jen Gunter dedicates the book to “every woman who has ever been told—usually by some dude—that she is too wet, too dry, too gross, too loose, too ...