The report by the World Bank Group and partners highlights persistent gender inequalities in Somalia, focusing on education, ...

The father of a 10-year-old girl who died after undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM) in Somalia has defended the practice. Dahir Nur's daughter died of blood loss on 17 July, two days after ...

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 ...

Circumcision tools Photo: Courtesy/FOW Somali families living in Britain and the United States are bringing their daughters to Kenya to secretly undergo female genital mutiliation (FGM ...

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 ...

The expectant mother, Nadifa, reveals that she underwent a childhood procedure back home in Somali known as female genital mutilation (FGM). Cases of FGM in the UK were rare in 1962, the year in ...

Parliament has outlawed any form of female genital mutilation in very clear terms ... Jurors were told the defendant was born in Somalia and moved to Kenya at the age of eight during the ...

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 ...

The film follows Ifrah from childhood in a refugee camp in Somalia where she was born and subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to Ireland where she is trafficked a teenager and is ...