Female Genital Mutilation

U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers

Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York

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Jim Luce

Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...

Can Arab/Muslim Countries Criticize Israel Under the UN Anti-Blasphemy Resolution?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World


Ali A. Rizvi

How do the Arab/Muslim countries of the OIC plan to continue their criticism of the Israeli occupation and settlement expansion without, in a way, violating their own proposed resolution?

Surgery Offers New Hope For Victims of Female Genital Mutilation

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact


Sila Folow was an 8-year-old girl living in Mali when four elderly women used a sharp blade to cut out her clitoris and most of her labia. Luckily fo...

WISE Muslim Women Standing Up

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 10.10.2009 | World


Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Along with over 200 other Muslim women from 55 countries, I attended panels and seminars, all focused on educating and empowering Muslim women and promoting their rights from an Islamic perspective.

A Voice in Diversity

Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York


Venkat Srinivasan

At a community center in the Bronx, African immigrants help young students deal with the pressures of life in the United States.

Scandinavia Fights Female Genital Mutilation

globalpost.com | Posted 11.20.2009 | World


STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- When she was 11, a Swedish-born girl was taken on vacation to her mother's native Somalia. The mother wanted to "make her daughte...

Egypt: Female Genital Mutilation Arrest Made

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.13.2009 | World


Egypt has arrested the first person under its ban on female genital mutilation, Al Arabiya reports. Ahmed Gad al-Karim, 69, was arrested on charges o...

Male Circumcision and the HIV/AIDS Myth

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living


Ali A. Rizvi

The best way to prevent HIV and other STIs -- whether you're circumcised, uncircumcised, gay, straight, male or female -- is through education and condom use.

Sudan's Female Genital Mutilation Countered By Henna-Dyed Hands

NYCity News Service | Posted 08.28.2009 | World


NYCity News Service

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.

France Seeks To Prohibit Forced Marriage, Genital Mutilation

AP | LAURENCE JOAN-GRANGE | Posted 05.15.2009 | World


PARIS — France's government launched a campaign Tuesday against forced marriages and genital mutilation, seeking to protect women from practices...

Witch-Hunt: The Hidden War on African Women

Johann Hari | Posted 04.11.2009 | World


Johann Hari

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.

Genital Mutilation: African Women Risk Lives To Fight For Others

The Independent | Katrina Manson | Posted 03.30.2009 | World


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...

Sons of the Mau Mau

Frankie Martin | Posted 03.22.2009 | World


Frankie Martin

Kenya must tackle the roots of its election chaos. These include poverty, tribalism, and the failure of the country to live up to the vision of its first president, Jomo Kenyatta.

Sex With Egyptian Women (According to "Mike")

Karin Badt | Posted 08.21.2009 | Home


Karin Badt

Official Egyptian statistics say 97 percent of women aged 15 to 49, Christians and Muslims alike, have undergone what the UN calls female genital mutilation, or FGM.

Kenyan Girls As Young As 9 Fleeing Forced Circumcision

BBC NEWS | Posted 01.05.2009 | World


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)....

Finally, A Good News Story, Sort Of

William Fisher | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics


William Fisher

A woman who was denied asylum in the U.S. despite her fears that she would suffer additional female genital mutilation if she was deported to her nati...

Gender Apartheid

Amy Coen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living


Amy Coen

Boge explained her biggest challenge decades earlier was to convince the first mother that her 'uncut' daughter would have a good life; she would be an acceptable wife, bear children and be healthy.