At least 66% of recent cases were performed by healthcare professionals, in an attempt to legitimise the practice
Plasma injections allow for the regeneration of damaged tissue without subjecting women to new, invasive procedures
Esther Mwaikambo will be a role model to young female doctors, as she begins writing books on child health and women’s roles in medicine
Jane Kubai ran away from home to avoid FGM. She then worked day and night to obtain a qualification. Now, her father advises other families against child marriage
“Every day, on average, 137 women are killed by a member of their own family,” said Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director, in a statement released in March last year. These appalling figures are just one of the many consequences of gender-based violence and abuse, namely domestic abuse, which is defined as a pattern of behavior in any relationship that is used to gain or maintain power and control over an intimate partner
Having banned female genital cutting, his ousting may have been good for democracy but bad for women’s bodies.
Across the continent, women are helping to reimagine a sacred rite of passage in an effort to honour their cultures and spare their bodies.
Girls in Kenya’s Narok County will also be made to reveal the identities of babies’ fathers.
In rural Kenya, a group of strong-willed women is giving traumatised young runaways a second chance at life.
Female genital mutilation is still practiced in Somaliland. But women’s coalitions are working to change this.
Women chiefs are playing an increasingly important role in the country’s development, advocating for women’s and children’s rights.
An African rights body has called on a Swedish minister to resign over her role in an art event that highlighted female genital mutilation and racism.
Some of the Kenya’s Maasai young women are running away from of the age-old custom of circumcision, now frayed by health risks and new laws.
Violence, dismal healthcare and brutal poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country for women.
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/ 18 November 2010
Abdul Rahman is trying to change 2 000 years of tradition to end the practice of female genital mutilation in Egypt.
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/ 16 October 2008
Female genital mutilation has been banned by leaders of the only Ugandan tribe that carries out the practice.