Ten years ago today Efua Dorkenoo, the figurehead of the movement to end female genital mutilation (FGM), passed away. The Ghanaian-born activist was affectionately known as Mama Efua because she ...

Kakenya Ntaiya is the Founder and President of Kakenya’s Dream, a nonprofit that provides life-changing education, health, and leadership initiatives to empower girls, end harmful traditional ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Supermodel turned campaigner against female genital mutilation Waris Dirie said on Thursday she was optimistic that FGM could be eradicated in her lifetime, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Jaha Dukureh, the founder of Safe Hands for Girls, a Gambian group that aims to end female genital mutilation. Lawmakers there advanced a bill that would end its FGM ban.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Female genital mutilation could be eradicated as quickly as footbinding was in the last century, Britain's crime prevention minister Lynne Featherstone said on ...

African Youth has called for the end of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) through a one million conversations. The campaign which is being supported by The Girl Generation, an Africa-led global ...

A work from the photographic exhibition "My struggle, our struggle," during an event to commemorate the International Day of Zero Tolerance Against Female Genital Mutilation, at the Plaza del Museo ...