A selection of some of our top photography from around the world this week.

Kenya missed its male circumcision target for the year ending June 2024 by more than 31,000 procedures, jeopardising its strategic goals of reducing new HIV infections, sexually transmitted infections ...

Editor's note: This story is part of Global Sisters Report's yearlong series, "Out of the Shadows: Confronting Violence Against Women," which will focus on the ways Catholic sisters are responding to ...

In the dry, rugged landscape of northern Kenya, under a wide sky streaked with late afternoon sun, a group of young men gather in a circle. They wear red and ochre shukas, the traditional dress of the ...

The Obama administration’s anti-Semitism monitor has added an issue to his office’s portfolio: defending circumcision in Europe. Circumcision has become a top focus for Ira Forman, the State ...

More than 50 prominent Jewish leaders and rabbis from across Europe have signed a letter to the president of the European Commission defending the Jewish rite of circumcision as part of a new campaign ...

After seven years of waiting, thousands of boys from the Maragoli community are expected to undergo circumcision starting August 1, 2023. Elders have announced that the circumcision rites that will ...

Two men in Kenya are rallying against the myths that perpetuate the violation of women’s and girls’ human rights through the centuries-old cultural tradition of female circumcision, more commonly ...

For long, male circumcision has been practiced religiously and with pride. However, numerous cases of death after circumcision have been recorded. In most cultures in Kenya, boys undergo the cut while ...

Indonesian toddler Salsa Djafar was wearing a glittering golden crown decorated with ribbons and a shiny purple dress to mark a special occasion -- her circumcision day. At the celebrations attended ...