Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder and healthcare advocate who for decades has combated female circum- cision and strived to improve women’s healthcare in East Africa, was named ...
An interesting issue of the journal Global Discourse, on Gender Equality in Abrahamic Circumcision: Why or Why Not?, edited by Ingvild Bergom Lunde and Matthew Thomas Johnson; here's the Introduction, ...
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 ...
Female genital mutilation is excruciatingly painful and medically unnecessary. UNICEF is working to end this cruel practice. Here's how to help. On Feb. 6, 2023, just months before the outbreak of ...
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, a Gambian group that aims to end female genital mutilation. Lawmakers there advanced a bill that would end its FGM ban.
Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder, and health care advocate who for decades has combated female circumcision and strived to improve women’s health care in East Africa, was named ...
As a young child Aïssa could not understand how she could conjure up such horrific images. No one had ever explained to Aïssa what her parents had allowed to take place. “All I could remember was ...
TUTAKAL, Iraq (Reuters) - Amena practiced female genital mutilation in her remote village in Iraqi Kurdistan for so many years that she struggles to recall how many girls passed through her hands. "I ...
In 2020, the United Nations estimated that more than 200 million girls worldwide had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). This figure reflects only documented cases, and the actual prevalence is ...
Siddharth Lutha, appearing for the petitioners opposing female genital mutilation, told the bench that the practice is done ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Obviously, men shouldn’t bank on circumcision to keep them safe either.
Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder, and health care advocate who for decades has combated female circumcision and strived to improve women’s health care in East Africa, was named ...
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