Female genital mutilation violates child rights act – consultant

Lead Consultant with Save Visions Africa, Dr Peter Okereke, has said that the continued practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Nigeria violates the Child Rights Act signed into law in 2011.

#WomensMonth: Violence against women has become a ‘pandemic’

CAPE TOWN - Violence against women has reached pandemic proportions and Women’s Day or Sixteen Days of Activism are doing nothing to curb it.

Gender activists and researchers are deploring violence against women ahead of Women’s Day on Wednesday, partly blaming a lack of political will and leadership for the increase in the scourge.

Lawmakers Avoid Ban on Female Genital Mutilation, Disappointing Activists

MONROVIA, Montserrado – The National Working Group Against Female Genital Mutilation says it is disappointed in members of the legislature for passing the Domestic Violence Bill without including any provision banning FGM.

Schoolgirls to fly to Google HQ after inventing app to end Female Genital Mutilation

Animated chatter spills out from a corner of tech giant Google's Nairobi offices as five Kenyan schoolgirls discuss their upcoming trip to California where they hope to win $15,000 for I-cut, an app to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Stop female genital mutilation Twenty-six U.S. states still do not prohibit it, including Pennsylvania

When immigrants from around the world come to the shores of America, they bring with them wonderful culinary and artistic traditions. But some also bring traditions that are barbaric and inhumane. One such practice, prevalent in Africa and parts of the Middle East and Asia, is female genital mutilation. It is now being practiced clandestinely in this country.

Mutilation probe widens as deportation fears mount: Robert Snell, The Detroit News

Detroit — The grand jury investigation of female genital mutilation has spread to at least three more states as federal agents have identified new targets, according to federal court records.

The targets live in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, according to federal court records and interviews with people close to a criminal case that, until now, was focused solely on conduct involving girls from Michigan and Minnesota.