For Kurdish Girls, a Painful Ancient Ritual

" rySheelan's CircumcisionA seven-year-old girl is taken by her mother to be circumcised in Kurdish Iraq, where more than 60 percent of women have undergone the traditional and controversial procedure.»Sheelan...

Saving Girls From a Deadly Tradition: Uganda's Mission

By Miriam Mannak A huge breakthrough for girls and women in Uganda seems to be on the horizon with the drafting of a national bill that will send practitioners of female genital mutilation to jail for up to seven...

Vulnerable Beauty: Finding My Voice

Fatima Siad shocked everyone when she shared a very personal secret on America's Next Top Model. She says that finally revealing that she was circumcised as a child in Somalia was incredibly therapeutic and has...

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