Exclusive: health professionals, survivors and politicians voice concerns in open letter over comments by Fatima Maadi Bio, who denies supporting the practice
The first lady of Sierra Leone has denied…
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'I thought it was normal day - then I was mutilated while my community watched': Peninah was 12 when she became a victim of FGM - now she reveals how it's still destroying women like her ○
Peninah, an anti-FGM campaigner living in Kenya, reveals how she was woken up and taken to a secluded place to undergo the horrific procedure.
10 months ago
One-month-old baby girl bleeds to death after being 'circumcised' as part of female genital mutilation procedure ○
The Gambia has one of the highest rates of FGM in the world, with 73 percent of women and girls aged 15 to 49 having undergone the procedure, according to 2024 figures from UNICEF.
‘The matter is in his hands alone’: president of Sierra Leone urged to ban FGM as court rules it tantamount to torture ○
The Ecowas court of justice has ordered the West African country to criminalise female genital mutilation after hearing the case of a woman brutally forced to undergo the practice
As Kadijatu Balaima…
14 months ago
It is time Liberia enacts legislation banning FGM ○
Years of symbolic bans by traditional chiefs have done nothing to curb the harmful practice.
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