In 2020, surgeons Reham Awwad and Amr Seifeldin became the first to offer the procedure in Egypt through their clinic, Restore FGM — Khaled DESOUKI Intissar was only 10 years old when she was forced ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has approved a law that will increase jail terms for those who perform female circumcisions, raising the maximum sentence to seven years from two, according to the state's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Baby girl with the Zero Tolerance Ribbon, resembling the Arabic word for “no” for the campaign where new parents say “no” to Female Genital Mutilation, Rofayda Health Park, Cairo, Egypt, January 30, ...

A woman who lives in the Cairo Necropolis cleans a tomb, outside her home in Cairo, Egypt, in this 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih DAKAR, May 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The death of a ...

The procedure, common in some parts of the African continent, is practised by both Muslims and Christians in Egypt. Health ministry officials will monitor and oversee clinics and private hospitals to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2020, surgeons Reham Awwad and Amr Seifeldin became the first to offer the procedure in Egypt through their clinic, Restore FGM - Copyright AFP Khaled DESOUKI In ...

Intissar was only 10 years old when she was forced to undergo genital mutilation, but 30 years later, one clinic is offering help for some of the millions of Egyptian women affected by the ...