female genital mutilation
SC refers female genital mutilation plea to 5-judge constitution bench
SC was hearing a PIL filed by Delhi-based lawyer challenging female genital mutilation of minor girls of Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community.
FGM essential part of Islam, can’t be subjected to judicial scrutiny, SC told
Dawoodi Bohra community justified the female genital mutilation (FGM) in SC and called it an integral aspect of religious practice.
Supreme Court questions female genital mutilations
FMG or “khatna” is a practice prevalent among the Dawoodi Bohra religious community of Shia sect.
Centre seeks ban on female genital mutilation, SC gives nod
FMG is practice prevalent among Dawoodi Bohra religious community of Shia sect, as it is crime and punishable offence.
Man recruits person to perform genital mutilation on daughter to punish her
A prosecutor told the court that it wasn’t done due to cultural reasons but was meant as a punishment instead.
Leave vaginas alone: 68 mn women face genital mutilation by 2030, UN warns
Over 200 million women and girls in 30 countries across three continents have experienced genital mutilation.
Female genital mutilation a painful, gory reality, world unites to end it
‘Later when my menstruation began, because the opening was too tiny, the pain worsened even more.’
Act against female genital mutilation, NGO urges Modi
Gandhi had assured us, that there would be a law for abolishing such practises and the government would bring in a new law to ban ‘khatna’.
Female genital mutilation stops Egyptian women from climaxing
The government is leading campaigns against the practice with harsher punishment, but it continues illegally.
US: Another Indian-origin doctor accused in FGM case
2 Indian-origin doctors were charged with helping another doctor, Jumana Nagarwala perform FGM on minor girls.