What kind of men support FGM? An illustrated guide

Understanding the types of men who support female genital mutilation can help campaigners to end the practice

Alcohol abuse in pregnancy could become a crime, legal papers claim

Advice groups bid to combat ruling they believe could undermine pregnant women's freedom to make decisions for themselves

FGM: two young women who woke up world and forced politicians to act

Fahma Mohamed in UK and Jaha Dukureh in US have led global debate on female genital mutilation and movement to end it

Isis denies ordering that all girls in Mosul undergo FGM

Doubts grow over UN report, seemingly reliant on year-old document from Syria thought to have been doctored

Kenyan girls taken to remote regions to undergo FGM in secret

Perpetrators of female genital mutilation becoming more difficult to catch as hospitals and clinics carry out procedure covertly

‘Are you really going to eat that?’ Yes, and it’s nobody else’s business

Laura Bates: Strangers passing comment on women's food choices is another sinister way to exert control over female bodies – let us eat what we like in peace

How teachers should start to address FGM in schools

Yvonne Powell: Teachers have a duty to tackle female genital mutilation and keep girls safe. We must transform the way we approach the issue in schools

US to conduct major study into female genital mutilation

Activists hail study, which will assess how many US women are at risk, as 'a great success for everyone who has fought for this'

Doctors, social workers and teachers to be legally obliged to report FGM

David Cameron announces move at Girl Summit as he also says parents will be criminalised if they fail to protect children

FGM unit set up to stop practice in UK

Reforms include holding parents responsible and better police response to honour-based violence such as forced marriage