FGM

Women matter. Their autonomy matters. Their futures matter.

FGM is notoriously difficult to prosecute, with a culture of fear and secrecy protecting perpetrators and failing their victims.

Figures indicate that around 38 cases of child abuse associated with faith or belief are reported every week.

"We're sending a clear message that every girl, no matter where she's born, has a right to live free of violence," said Representative Lois Frankel, speaking of female genital mutilation.

To put it bluntly, the goal seems to be to create a buffer of protection around male circumcision by throwing female children under the bus.

Recent estimates show that more than 200 million women and children around the world have undergone FGM.

"I do not divide people because of their genital organs," said the 86-year-old feminist icon.

It's estimated more than 500,000 women and girls in the U.S. are either victims of female genital mutilation or are at risk of being subjected to it—up threefold since 1990, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Women's rights group Terre des Femmes said there are now more than 13,000 girls in Germany whose families plan to have them circumcised.

Many such abhorrent operations are performed each year. And law enforcement turns a blind eye.

"Nobody voted for multiculturalism and yet we are now living with the results of it," the party's deputy leader said.

The doctor is accused of performing FGM on two 7-year-old girls.

An estimated 513,000 women and girls in the U.S. have undergone or are at risk of being subjected to FGM.

More than 200 million women and girls have undergone the practice around the world.

Twelve women suspected to have carried out the ritual, which involves the partial or total removal of the external genitalia, have been arrested as the police investigate the case.

Painful and psychologically traumatic, breast ironing is impossible to forget, as one victim tells Newsweek.

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"Every time it's done to a girl their lives are changed forever," the Senate minority leader said.

FGM has been a criminal offense in the U.K. since 1985 but nobody has been convicted.

Russia's prosecutor calls for investigation into reports of female genital mutilation in the region.

Elhamy Agina says female genital mutilation should continue because many Egyptian men "are impotent."

The church's former spokesman backed a cleric, supporting FGM but with some conditions.

The report, published earlier this week, found widespread evidence of FGM in the southern Russian republic.

Raslan Fadl turned himself in last week, more than 18 months after his conviction.

Sky News is under pressure to pull footage of a young Somali girl undergoing FGM.

Mayar Mohamed Mousa's twin sister underwent the procedure before her and survived.

More than 1,000 girls as young as ten are being put through the "brutal" practice in the U.K.

Allowing minimally invasive FGA is "a compromise that respects culture and religion but protects against child abuse."

Around 150,000 women and girls in the U.S. are at-risk of undergoing genital mutilation.

Around half a million women and girls in the U.S. are at risk from undergoing FGM.