Mumbai: The arrest of Detroit-based emergency room physician Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and two others in connection with female genital mutilation (FGM) of two minor girls in the United States has once ...

Pakistan's former federal minister for human rights Ansar Burney is now going to begin agitation against female circumcision (khatna) practiced by certain communities and tribes both in India and ...

Mumbai: At a time when two doctors are in the dock in Detroit for genital mutilation of minor girls, a Mumbai-based gynaecologist and a homeopath from the Dawoodi Bohra community have come out in ...

On the one hand are those who claim it’s an integral part of their faith; on the other are survivors who argue that the practice is damaging, violates the rights of the girl child. A petition seeking ...

The Central government's warning -- a first -- to the Dawoodi Bohra community last week over the practice of khatna or female genital mutilation (FGM) has been hailed as a "landmark breakthrough" in ...

This post was originally published on ImaginingEquality.com and is republished with permission. In this deeply personal story, Brown Girl contributor Mariya Taher wrestles with and speaks out against ...