The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to outlaw "genital or bodily mutilation of a minor," which would effectively ban...

In Asia, health professionals are increasingly performing female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice with no medical benefits. While paren...

Two United Nations rights experts called Monday for justice for a multitude of alleged crimes, including sexual torture, during Hamas's unp...

A woman from the UK is on trial for allegedly assisting in the genital mutilation of a three-year-old girl during a trip to Kenya 17 years ...

The State of World Population 2020 report released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said that the number of “missing women” in...

The Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice S A Bobde, on Thursday said it will hear pleas challenging the Citizenship (Amendment) Act ...

The Constitution Bench said that it would focus on the common ground raised in many petitions such as women into mosques, practice of femal...

The observations came when Solicitor General Tushar Mehta mentioned the case before the bench, saying that in pursuance of the court's earl...

The apex court had on November 14 asked a larger bench to re-examine various religious issues, including the entry of women into the Sabari...

A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court will examine a host of petitions challenging the validity of several practices across religions whi...

The court said a seven-judge bench will re-examine various religious issues, including the entry of women into the Sabarimala temple and mo...

Outgoing CJI Dipak Misra on Monday decided to send the issue of whether the pernicious practice of female genital mutilation prevalent amon...

The Supreme Court Monday referred to a five-judge constitution bench the plea challenging practice of female genital mutilation among Dawoo...

The men also have to go through a similar practice, in his bid to point out that there was no discrimination against the women as such in t...

“Women have their own obligations and cannot be expected to submit to wishes of the males,” CJI Dipak Misra said in his observations.

The CJI demanded to know if the practice could be imposed on women if they did not accept it. “If they are opposed to it can you force it o...

While entertaining a PIL filed by advocate and social activist Sunita Tiwari, the bench said, "The petition has highlighted an extremely im...