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When he was a witch doctor, Moussa Diallo would regularly smear himself in a lotion made from a clitoris cut from a girl subjected...
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Wearing a fading Mickey Mouse T-shirt, her knees hugged to her chest, eight-year-old Musu Kamara sits in a corrugated shack in Sierra Leone’s capital...
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Thirty cows sealed 12-year-old Joyce’s fate. In exchange she became the third wife to a man as elderly as her father who traded her,...
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The widely condemned practice was banned by Gambia’s parliament on Monday and offenders will face stringent penalties. Under the new law, anyone who engages...
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FGM is practiced deeply among the Somalis, believing it is a religious obligation for Muslims. Paying $300 each, the practice is now considered a...
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Defense lawyers say this is Egypt’s first case that went to trial over the practice of female genital mutilation, The New York Post reports....
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Five men and women in Uganda have been jailed for mutilating the genitals of girls, a rare conviction in the country which is trying...
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon launched Thursday a global campaign to end the often deadly practice of female genital mutilation within a generation, as survivors...
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The United Nations said on Thursday that jihadists in Iraq have ordered all women between the ages of 11 and 46 to undergo female...