Sterilisation of women with disabilities is legal in France after the law changed in 2001. Despite being banned by the Istanbul Convention, it is only criminalised in 9 EU countries.
In France, nearly 125,000 women have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). The fight against this practice has led to the creation of psychological and surgical care over the last 40 years but the…
Many women who have undergone circumcisions consider French gynecologist Ghada Hatem a hero. In her women's shelter in Saint-Denis north of Paris, she performs surgery on women who have undergone genital mutilation.