Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it is increasingly performed by ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) became less common globally, but when it did occur, it was increasingly carried out by ...

Traditionally carried out by traditional practitioners, FGM is now alarmingly being performed by trained health professionals in several countries.

WHO issues new recommendations to end the rise in “medicalized” female genital mutilation and support survivors: Geneva Tuesday, April 29, 2025, 15:00 Hrs [IST] Urgent measure ...

The World Health Organization said on Monday it wanted a code of conduct to bar medical workers from performing female ...

Healthcare professionals should not perform female genital mutilation (FGM) as this legitimises the practice and hampers efforts to end it, the World Health Organization has said in new guidance.1 ...

Bondi’s directive refers to gender-affirming surgery as “female genital mutilation” but doesn’t supersede current laws on ...

Urgent measures are needed to curtail the rising “medicalization” of female genital mutilation (FGM) and to engage health ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it is increasingly performed by professional healthcare workers, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) ...

Discover the WHO's guidelines on female genital mutilation and how health practitioners can support survivors and promote change ...