Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay looks on after her address to the 26th session of the Human Rights Council at ...

Female mutilation virtually eliminates sexual pleasure. More pressingly, the procedure often causes hemorrhages, infection and trauma. An agronomist turned activist, Fifi's goal is to put an end to ...

“As a pre-established tradition … female circumcision was not introduced by the Prophet to the early Muslim community. Several sayings (hadith) of the Prophet indicate that it may have been the norm ...

With the recent arrest of Michigan emergency room doctor Jumana Nagarwala, it’s time to have "the talk." I’m not talking about that awkward discussion you had with your kids about the birds and the ...

Female genital mutilation, the excision of the clitoris practiced widely in African and many Muslim countries, is a means for men to maintain control of women and must be eradicated, according to UN ...

June 11, 2011 — Reconstructive surgery appears to reduce pain and increase sexual pleasure in women who had undergone genital mutilation, according to results from the first large prospective cohort ...

HOUSTON – A Houston woman is the subject of a federal grand jury indictment, the first-ever indictment regarding female genital mutilation, the Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Zahra Badri, 39 ...

In Guinea, female genital mutilation is still performed on a daily basis.Statistics show about 97 percent of the female population have been excised, making Guinea among the top countries in the world ...

In this edition, we have a special report from Egypt on efforts to eliminate female genital mutilation. Also, we meet a volleyball star campaigning for female players to get better pay and more ...

Prisca Korein, a 62-year-old traditional surgeon, holds razor blades before carrying out female genital mutilation on teenage girls from the Sebei tribe in Bukwa district, about 357 kms (214 miles) ...