U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers
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 ...
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 ...
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.30.2009 | World
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?
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...
Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 10.10.2009 | World
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.
Venkat Srinivasan | Posted 09.24.2009 | New York
At a community center in the Bronx, African immigrants help young students deal with the pressures of life in the United States.
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...
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...
Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
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.
NYCity News Service | Posted 08.28.2009 | World
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.
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...
Johann Hari | Posted 04.11.2009 | World
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 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...
Frankie Martin | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
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.
Karin Badt | Posted 08.21.2009 | Home
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.
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)....
William Fisher | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics
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...
Amy Coen | Posted 07.03.2008 | Living
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.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York