Learn what life after FGM looks like and why legal bans on the practice alone are not delivering justice for women and girls.

BENAZIR MOHAMMED was born and raised in a community where FGM has bee normalised. She tells JAEL MUSUMBA about her experience under the knife, and her resolve to push for an end to the abhorrent ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly adopted ambitious Sustainable ...

The International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has been observed on 6 February each year since its establishment by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012. The Day is ...

Connecticut is one of only a handful of states without a law banning female genital mutilation and cutting, a human rights violation and one of the most extreme forms of gender-based violence. FGM/C, ...

Lawmakers in the West African nation of The Gambia have rejected a highly controversial push to try overturn a ban on female genital mutilation.

I am a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM). I know that the consequences do not end with the act itself. They live on in the body, in reproductive health challenges, in trauma responses, and ...

Gambia's Supreme Court is considering whether a law protecting women and girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) is constitutional. The practice, common in Gambia, often involves forcibly ...

As more and more countries outlaw the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM), The Gambia could become the first country in the world to overturn such a ban. The country's National Assembly ...