On 13 July 2020, Sudan's transitional government made a major announcement about female circumcision. Not only will the government ban the practice, but it will mandate prison terms for those who ...

Edna Adan Ismail, a nurse-midwife, hospital founder and healthcare advocate who for decades has combated female circum- cision and strived to improve women’s healthcare in East Africa, was named ...

Female circumcision, which is practiced in more than 30 countries and affects 2 million girls each year, could cause infertility. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free ...

The American Academy of Pediatrics hasn’t taken a definitive stance on male circumcision, saying parents should weigh risks, ...

It’s no wonder activists have failed to eradicate female circumcision in Africa, said the Lagos newspaper This Day in an editorial. They’ve gone about it the wrong way, using a condescending tone of ...

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KILGORIS, Kenya (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Kenya attacked the practice of female circumcision on Saturday, saying local communities must denounce it. Sign up here. Female genital mutilation ...

Male circumcision, the focus of my previous post (Rites of Circumcision, posted October 10, 2018), although not universal, occurs widely. Female genital mutilation (FGM)— also called genital cutting ...

Female circumcision is a cultural practice that is still in existence in some of the communities though practitioners have gone underground offering their service in secrecy, it is believed. The ...

An interesting issue of the journal Global Discourse, on Gender Equality in Abrahamic Circumcision: Why or Why Not?, edited by Ingvild Bergom Lunde and Matthew Thomas Johnson; here's the Introduction, ...