female genital mutilation

Activists are worried that a federal judge's decision to dismiss mutilation charges against Michigan doctor Jumana Nagarwala will send the wrong message.
After a doctor's arrest in Michigan for FGM, activists from the Dawoodi Bohra sect are determined to educate their community.
One of the young girls involved believed she was going on a "special girls' trip."
Kenya's clan elders profit from the practice of female genital mutilation, complicating activist efforts to eradicate the practice in the west of the country, where "cutting" season has just begun.
The new law raises the maximum sentence from two years to seven.
In the U.S., 513,000 women and girls live at risk of FGM.
This comes three months after a teenager died during an FGM procedure.