LONDON -- Police say they have arrested two men after a newspaper reported that some medical staff in Britain were offering to perform female genital ...
Posted 04.18.2012
Sweden's minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth found herself in a sticky situation after photos of her cutting into a cake depicting a naked bla...
Kelly Cogswell | Posted 05.12.2012
Thursday was International Women's Day, and like always, there was some guy saying, "Why isn't there an International Men's Day? Yuk, yuk." And while the usual response is, "Every day is a men's day, you asshole," maybe it's time to agree.
Posted 09.21.2011
Updated story. Southern California woman Catherine Kieu Becker, accused of severing her husband's penis, was scheduled to appear in court this morn...
Posted 06.19.2011
Two teenage girls in Kenya have attempted an unprecedented rebellion by refusing one of the most controversial rites of local womanhood: genital mutil...
Katharine Quarmby | Posted 11.17.2011
My pledge to my daughter, and to all the other daughters in this world is this: You will see me grow old. You will see my hair turn grey.
Posted 05.25.2011
Like subway posters or highway billboards, wall murals have long been popular as a form of cheap advertising in Tanzania for such products as Coca-Col...
Posted 05.25.2011
Affecting one out of every four girls, the brutal practice of "breast ironing" is on the rise in the African country of Cameroon. The procedure -- whi...
TIME | Sarah Tung | Posted 05.25.2011
For many young girls in the world, a life-changing experience might be reaching puberty or discovering a first crush. For Gola, a 17-year-old student ...
NYCity News Service | Posted 05.25.2011
Sudan has tried to eradicate female genital mutilation since 1946 to little avail. But now women's health groups have taken the crusade in their own hands--or rather, their own painted hands--in an effort to subvert the practice.
Yahoo! News | Fri Jul 3, 7:45 Am ET | Posted 11.17.2011
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AP | LAURENCE JOAN-GRANGE | Posted 05.25.2011
PARIS — France's government launched a campaign Tuesday against forced marriages and genital mutilation, seeking to protect women from practices...
Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011
Across Africa, a war is being waged on women -- but we are refusing to hear the screams. I have traveled into the secretive shadow world that mutilates millions of African women.
The Independent | Katrina Manson | Posted 05.25.2011
The female journalist was snatched by members of a secret society, forcibly stripped and made to parade naked through the streets. It might sound like...
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011
At least 300 girls in south-western Kenya have fled from home and sought refuge in churches in a bid to escape forced female genital mutilation (FGM)....
AP | Posted 05.04.2012