FGM/C causes immediate and lifelong physical and psychological harm to girls and women, including severe pain, complications during childbirth, infections and trauma. We brought together our ...

FGM/C causes immediate and lifelong physical and psychological harm to girls and women, including severe pain, complications during childbirth, infections and trauma. We brought together our ...

FGM/C causes immediate and lifelong physical and psychological harm to girls and women, including severe pain, complications during childbirth, infections and trauma. We brought together our ...

Often it’s “justified” by cultural beliefs about controlling female sexuality and marriageability. FGM/C causes immediate and lifelong physical and psychological harm to girls and women, including ...

Female Genital Mutilation causes about 44,000 deaths each year in more than a dozen countries. This is the grim revelation from a new report cited in The Conversation Africa by Heather D. Flowe. The ...

About 80% of women aged 15-49 have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) in Sierra Leone, according to the UNFPA.

Joint statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr Natalia Kanem, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell and WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Female genital mutilation (FGM) is ...

FGM is a practice where the genitals of a female are deliberately cut, removed or altered. It is an illegal practice in the UK and can cause many serious complications for victims. In 2017 ...