2025
- 19th News, Anti-trans policies aren’t preventing genital mutilation — they’re disrupting efforts to stop it
- Women’s eNews, No Safe Place for Women: Violence on Hospital Beds
- Baptist News, I was sworn to silence after female genital mutilation
2024
- LA Times, Dozens of patients file suit against former OB-GYN and Cedars-Sinai, alleging misconduct
- AOL, Upgraded charges in child torture case
- Equality Now, Implementing Survivor-Led FGM Law In Washington State
- KUOW, Coalition against female genital mutilation supports victims in Washington state
2023
- Hartford Courant, Connecticut is 1 of 9 states without a ban on female genital mutilation. Thousands are at risk, activists say
- End FGM Network, Infographic: Women’s Health Needs Study (WHNS)
2022
2021
- Equality Now, Equality Now Fact Sheet: Female Genital Mutilation in the United States
- Reuters, U.S. toughens ban on ‘abhorrent’ female genital mutilation
- Religion News Service, Houston woman faces historic indictment over female genital cutting
- Ms. Magazine, Keeping Girls at the Center: Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation
2020
- American Academy of Pediatrics, Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting in Girls
2019
- Global Citizen, Activists Launch the First Anti-FGM Network in the US
- Reuters, U.S. woman says strict Christian parents subjected her to FGM
- Springer Nature, Female Genital Cutting in Immigrant Children — Considerations in Treatment and Prevention in the United States
- Global Citizen, US House Votes to Recognize FGC as a Human Rights Violation
- The New York Times, 4 women with lives scarred by genital cutting: Could a surgeon heal them?
- Philanthropy Women, It’s All About Health for Women and Girls: Ghada Khan on Ending FGM
- Vice, We Know Female Genital Mutilation Has Been Happening in the US. How Do We Stop It?
- The Detroit News, Court declines House Democrats’ motion to intervene in Michigan genital mutilation case
2018
- FiveThirtyEight, To Combat Female Genital Cutting in the U.S., We Need More Information
- Global Citizen, FGM in the US: The Hidden Crime Next Door
- FGM Legislation by State
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE leads efforts to prevent female genital mutilation at Newark Airport
- Detroit Free Press, Judge dismisses female genital mutilation charges in historic case
- The Detroit News, Letters: Other views on FGM
- U.S. Department of Justice, Historical Overview of U.S. Policy and Legislative Responses to Honor-Based Violence, Forced Marriage, and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
2017
- Daily Beast, New York Cracks down on Female Genital Mutilation
- Medium, The Tipping Point: Can the World End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- Fox News, Genital Mutilation also occurs in the US, activists call on states to make it illegal
- Click On Detroit, Metro Detroit doctor charged with performing female genital mutilation on young girls
- VOA, US Doctor Arrested in Michigan on FGM Charges
- The Hill, Michigan case shows more needs to be done to confront female genital mutilation
- United States Attorney’s Office, Detroit Doctor and Wife Arrested and Charged with Conspiring to Perform Female Genital Mutilation
- Detroit Free Press, Genital Mutilation victims break their silence: ‘This is demonic’
- Mother Jones, I Underwent Genital Mutilation as a Child -Right Here in the United States
- Slate, Female Genital Mutilation Isn’t a Muslim Issue. It’s a Medical Issue
- Vice, The Female Genital Mutilation Scandal Tearing a Community Apart
- The New York Times, Michigan Case Adds U.S. Dimension to Debate on Genital Mutilation
- Detroit Free Press, Genital Cutting Victims Get Backlash for Condemning Taboo Ritual
- Cracked, It Happens Here: The Reality of Female Genital Mutilation
- PBS News, First-ever federal charges of female genital mutilation seen as landmark
- Wall Street Journal, Cutting Young Girls Isn’t Religious Freedom
- The Detroit News, House Increases penalty for female genital mutilation
2016
- The Guardian, Genital mutilation risk triples for girls and women in US, CDC study finds
- ABC News, Underground: American Who Underwent Female Genital Mutilation Comes Forward to Help Others
- The Washington Post, With 500,000 female genital mutilation survivors at risk in the U.S., it’s not just someone’s else’s problem
- Equality Now, 2016 Violence Against Girls Summit on FGM/C
2015
2014