These practices have been going on for centuries and are primarily inflicted upon young girls and women. For those unfamiliar with these terms and practices, we'll be shedding light on what they ...

The practice of FGM is painful, harmful and incredibly dangerous in any form, but the most severe and debilitating type – infibulation – is so shocking, it's difficult to even read about. I travelled ...

Because some amorous Frenchman was also a tattletale, Henri Littière, baker & husband, was last week haled before a black-gowned judge of the Paris Correctional Court. A student of medieval life, ...

While FGC is common in Africa, the practice is illegal in many Western countries. Flickr/tlupic Female genital cutting (FGC) – also known as female genital mutilation (FGM) or female circumcision – is ...

The World Health Organization has released new guidelines on care for women who have been subjected to genital mutilation (FGM). This is an effort to bring medical standardization to an extremely ...

«Kimbidalé», d’Emmanuelle Labeau, est un documentaire, très dur par nature, mais traité avec dignité et optimisme, sur l’excision et l’infibulation en Ethiopie. Un combat initié par des femmes Afar ...

THIS work is the first volume of a series which the author is undertaking in connexion with some of the more obscure customs of antiquity and the Middle Ages related to the sexual life of man. The ...