Activists fighting to end female genital mutilation worldwide are reeling at the latest decision involving Detroit's FGM case, in which a doctor is charged with cutting the genitals of nine 7-year-old ...

A 7-year-old girl who underwent a painful genital mutilation procedure told federal investigators that after a doctor completed the process, she was rewarded with a piece of cake for "doing good." ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) refers to the practice of purposefully cutting, injuring, or altering female genitalia. It involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia. There ...

DETROIT — A Michigan doctor may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn't the only doctor who was cutting children, ...

For more than 20 years Iowa lawmakers have taken refuge behind a federal ban on female cutting. But with the federal law struck down, regulation and punishment now rests on the states. Avoiding an ...

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A 7-year-old girl who underwent a painful genital mutilation procedure told federal investigators that after a doctor completed the process, she was rewarded with a piece of cake for “doing good.” ...