Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), gender inequality, poverty and femicide have been cited as some of the major challenges facing women in Kenya today.During the International Women’s Day celebrations ...

Maasai girls are taking up martial arts to protect themselves from sexual abuse and violence stemming from early marriage ...

In his Tuesday address to Congress, President Trump listed U.S.-funded programs that he considers an "appalling waste" — ...

A Jewish man who underwent a circumcision in the city of Netanya today (Thursday) chose to take the Hebrew name Kfir Ariel in honor of the two Bibas children whose bodies were returned to Israel ...

For Fatou Baldeh, the past year was critical in the fight to end female genital mutilation. A survivor and the founder of the organization Women in Liberation & Leadership (WILL), Baldeh ...

It is credited with saving more than 26 million lives and is critical to HIV programs in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease. There, health officials, experts and people with HIV have ...

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A former PhD student who became the first person to be convicted of conspiracy to commit female genital mutilation (FGM) has had his 'unduly lenient' sentence increased. Emad Kady, a former PhD ...

H.E. Amb. Minata SAMATE CESSOUMA is the Commissioner for Health, Humanitarian Affairs and Social Development. She is a native of Burkina Faso with over thirty (30) years of experience in international ...

Medical circumcision has been demonstrated conclusively ... Planning for scale-up is now happening in many sub-Saharan African countries, accompanied by pilot implementation projects.

According to a DOGE list, made official at the weekend and consulted by Lusa on Monday, the “voluntary male medical circumcision in Mozambique” programme is one of 15 “cancelled” by that new ...