
TEL AVIV – The first doctor in Egypt ever to be convicted for female genital mutilation never went to prison and is still a doctor who practices FGM on girls and women, with the protection of Egypt’s police and justice system, it has emerged.
by Deborah Danan13 Dec 2015, 5:04 AM PST0

Readers of Sunday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times were presented with a front-page story depicting a sympathetic portrait of President Obama’s Syrian refugee resettlement project.
by Julia Hahn1 Dec 2015, 9:20 PM PST0

In a surprising twist in the 2016 election, presidential aspirant Sen. Marco Rubio has proposed a new plan for helping President Obama resettle Syrian refugees in the United States.
by Julia Hahn22 Nov 2015, 4:57 PM PST0

Irish police and health services have issued a warning that children are increasingly being taken from the UK to Ireland to undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), as the UK scrambles to secure it’s first prosecution for the brutal practice. “There
by Liam Deacon27 Oct 2015, 9:15 AM PST0

The practice of “beading,” or “promising girls to their male relatives for sex,” is supposed to be illegal in Kenya, but it still occurs in tribal areas, according to a 13-year-old girl named Younis who was married off to a 78-year-old man when she was only 9 years old.
by John Hayward11 Oct 2015, 2:13 PM PST0

Authorities arrested four girls and their parents in Pokot Central Sub County in Kenya after the children received female genital mutilation (FGM).
by Mary Chastain9 Oct 2015, 5:55 PM PST0

The “shocking” extent of female genital mutilation (FGM) in the UK is beginning to be exposed. In the first year that the NHS has been required to collect such data, it was revealed that there were 1,036 new cases of FGM
by Liam Deacon24 Sep 2015, 8:57 AM PST0

The summer is known as the “cutting season.” This means that infants as young as two or three months old are being taken out of the UK to be genitally mutilated in their countries of origin, such as Malaysia, whose customs, like those of Iran, have become increasingly Arabized.
by Dr. Phyllis Chesler3 Aug 2015, 9:13 AM PST0

A massive influx of immigrants from Muslim-populated countries in Africa and the Middle East may mean that more than half a million girls in the U.S. are in danger of female genital mutilation.
by Julia Hahn2 Aug 2015, 6:59 PM PST0

Female genital mutilation is now a factor in every area of England and Wales, from inner-city London to rural Wales, as an estimated 137,000 women and girls in the UK have already been mutilated according to tribal and religious custom.
by Oliver Lane22 Jul 2015, 7:21 AM PST0

Police are swarming Scottish airports to protect females during the peak of “cutting season,” otherwise known as female genital mutilation (FGM). The airports provide direct flights to countries where the practice still occurs.
by Mary Chastain22 Jul 2015, 6:05 AM PST0

A police force in Britain has secured the country’s first “protection order” against female genital mutilation (FGM). The order, obtained by Bedfordshire Police, prevents two young girls from travelling out of the country after fears they would be taken to
by Nick Hallett18 Jul 2015, 8:38 AM PST0

A three-year-old girl has been made a ward of court after South Yorkshire Police identified the child as a potential victim of female genital mutilation (FGM). A High Court judge banned her family from applying for a UK passport or taking
by Sarkis Zeronian17 Jun 2015, 4:19 AM PST0

Egyptian Minister of Health Adel Adawy announced this week that a report has found 92 percent of married women in Egypt have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM).
by Mary Chastain11 May 2015, 12:32 PM PST0

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is still on the rise in Britain, new statistics have revealed. Despite being banned for thirty years in the UK, not a single successful prosecution for FGM has taken place. Now, campaigners have called for churches
by Donna Rachel Edmunds3 May 2015, 6:10 AM PST0

Almost 500 cases of female genital mutilation (FGM) were identified by hospitals across the UK in just one month in late 2014.
by Dr. Phyllis Chesler27 Jan 2015, 8:15 AM PST0

Twelve years after being made illegal, the UK’s first female genital mutilation (FGM) trial is under way with the suspects appearing in court yesterday. Dr Dhanuson Dharmasena stands accused of carrying out FGM at a London hospital after the delivery
by Donna Rachel Edmunds20 Jan 2015, 8:58 AM PST0