CAIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights activists hailed the Egyptian government on Monday for advocating increased prison sentences for perpetrators of female genital mutilation (FGM) but ...

CAIRO -- An Egyptian court Thursday acquitted a doctor charged with performing female genital mutilation that led to a 13-year-old girl's death in a Nile Delta village, the country's first trial on ...

Dr. Raslan Fadl was sentenced to two years in prison after a girl died in his care. NPR found him working at a government hospital. Egyptian Doctor Found Guilty Of Female Genital Mutilation Isn't In ...

LONDON, Nov 20 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A doctor being tried on charges of female genital mutilation (FGM) was acquitted on Thursday, ending Egypt's first trial of its kind, a rights group said.

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Female Genital Mutilation is a leading cause of death in the nations where it is carried out, according to a damning new study. Researchers found a 50 per cent surge in the number of girls undergoing ...

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a leading cause of death in the countries where it is practised, with over 44,000 additional women and young girls dying each year, a new study reveals. FGM accounts ...

Dr. Raslan Fadl performed the procedure on 13-year-old Soheir al-Batea, who died from an allergic reaction to penicillin afterwards. The trial should call attention to the dangerous procedure, which ...