Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is considered by the UN to be a ‘global concern’. International organisations routinely claim a 98% prevalence rate among the Somali population (UNICEF 2013). As a ...

Somali families feel "stigmatised" by female genital mutilation (FGM) safeguarding practices, a university report has found. Those who took part in the Bristol study cited "intrusive and traumatic ...

An estimated 230 million girls and women alive today are believed to have been subjected to some form of female genital mutilation - yet it rarely ever makes the news ...

Somalia has the highest number of FGM cases in the world. 98% of girls aged 5–11 have undergone Type III infibulation, which is the most brutal form of female genital mutilation. UNICEF reports ...

Somalia, Guinea and Djibouti have the highest levels of FGM in the world, where the 90 per cent of the countries’ adult female population have been mutilated in some form, the Unicef study said.

The progress we have made is undeniable, but so is the urgency. We are just five years away from 2030, the global deadline to end FGM. Every day that passes means more girls are at risk.

Some 230 million girls in more than 90 countries – predominantly in Africa and Asia – have undergone female genital ...

Ifrah was born in Somalia, and fled the outbreak of war in 2006 at the age of 17. She escaped traffickers and was granted asylum in Ireland. Since settling in Ireland, she has devoted her life to ...