NPR : Genital Mutilation Can Be Grounds for Asylum Status, Court Rules - - A US appeals court ruling in favor of a young Somali woman says that a history of genital mutilation makes a woman automatically eligible for asylum in the U.S. [2:48 streaming audio broadcast] (March 11, 2005)

Excision Practiced Where Pre-Islamic Traditions Strongest - - Integrated Regional Information Networks article about the persistence of the practice of female circumcision in Mali. (June 15, 2004)

Irin News: Boost for Anti-FGM Effort - - United Nations humanitarian report from Kenya explains how a series of seminars resulted in the resignation two hundred practitioners of female genital mutilation. Includes outline of the cultural aspects. (May 10, 2004)

NPR : Atlanta Female Circumcision Case Stirs Concern - - The arrest of an Ethiopian citizen in Atlanta, Ga., raises concerns that female circumcision, a form of genital mutilation common in some African nations, is being performed on young women in the United States. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports. 5.5 minutes radio segment via Realplayer. (March 12, 2004)

NPR : Nigerian Woman Challenges Mutilation Ritual - - Reports on a Nigerian woman who is trying to have the practice of female genital mutilation accepted as a violation of the anti-torture convention. She is living illegally in Dallas, Texas, and fighting deportation with the claim that she and her 3-year-old daughter would likely be subjected to the mutilation ritual if repatriated to Nigeria. [4.5 minute Realaudio segment] (January 8, 2003)

NPR : INS Fraud - - Reports about a Ghanaian woman named Adelaide Abankwa who won political asylum in the US, based on her claim that she would be subject to female genital mutilation if she were returned home, but faces an Immigration and Naturalization Service charge that she lied about her identity and her fears of being tortured at home. [5 minute 40 second Realaudio segment] (December 21, 2000)

NPR : Mutilation - Asylum - - Report on the story of Adelaide Abankwah, the second woman in U.S history to be granted political asylum because she feared she would be subjected to female genital mutilation if she returned to her native country. [4.5 minute Realaudio segment] (August 19, 1999)

NPR : Asylum and Genital Mutilation - - About a Nigerian woman fighting deportation from the US, saying she needs to stay because her 10-year-old daughter, who is an American citizen, would be subject to genital mutilation if sent to Nigeria. [4:47 minute Realaudio segment] (May 27, 1998)