The Embera, a Colombian indigenous group, have vowed to stop practicing female genital mutilation (FGM), reports El Tiempo. Two years ago the Embera decided to suspend the practice and research its ...

Since the 2007 death of a newborn Embera girl from an infection following FGM, Colombian authorities and the UNFPA have been working with Embera communities in the western Risaralda province to ...

BOGOTA, Columbia – “When I was 9 years old, my mother told me that three of her sisters died because her grandmother practiced female genital mutilation (FGM),” says Patricia Tobon Yagarí, an Emberá ...

In Colombia, there are indigenous communities that still practice female genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision. This makes Colombia the only country in Latin America where this custom ...