Genital

MPs vote to kill the Women’s (Amendment) Bill 2024, which had sought to decriminalise the practice of female circumcision. Gambian lawmakers have voted to uphold a 2015 ban on female …

Gambian lawmakers have voted to advance a law revoking a ban on female genital cutting by removing legal protections for millions of girls, raising fears that other countries could follow …

More than 230 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital cutting, according to a new analysis by UNICEF, an increase of 30 million since the organization’s …