Science news articles about 'female genital mutilation'

... light of science being shone on the practice of female genital mutilation this week at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine's annual meeting in San Francisco ...

... has determined that the once prevalent custom of female genital mutilation (FGM) among Israel's Bedouin ... Health Organization has made the eradication of female genital mutilation a major goal in Africa, Asia ...

Women who have undergone female genital mutilation have a significantly lower sexual quality of life, a new study finds.

... ago, she had few qualms about female genital mutilation, the practice of cutting a girl's clitoris and sometimes other genitalia. She herself was cut ...

... issues: rape and sexual violence; female genital mutilation; selling and buying sex; provision and use of modern contraception and induced abortion; homosexuality ...

... genitalia are exactly the same as those employed in female genital mutilation (FGM). Whereas there is legislation in both ... and Africa against FGM, there is none against female genital cosmetic surgery. This edition also describes ...

... and those that do not circumcise, as well as those practicing female genital mutilation. The majority of teams conducted their research ... male circumcision, traditional circumcision and female genital mutilation. "Some women report the concern that the promotion ...

In Bristol, a city in southwest England with a sizeable immigrant community, it is believed that some 2,000 girls are at risk of "FGM parties." According to the BBC, "They cut them all together, as a ...