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  • Grief to promoting education: Jacqueline’s inspiration to end FGM/C

    received a grant from Equality Now to support their educational efforts to visit villages to educate young girls and their parents about FGM/C. “So we were a team of seven persons… but four of my other teammates did not go through the practice, so they...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/grief-to-promoting-education-jacqueline’s-inspiration-to-end-female-genital-cutting.html

  • Female Genital Cutting charges dismissed but our work continues: Global reactions to Michigan case news

    girls.” ~ Farzana Doctor, Canada “By declaring the federal ban on FGM/C unconstitutional, Judge Friedman opens the door for parents to do exactly what was done in this case — take their daughters from states that ban FGM/C to states that don’t so they...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/fgc-charges-dismissed-but-our-work-continues.html

  • FGC in the United States

    Mutilation or Cutting in Girls 2019 Activists Launch the First Anti-FGM Network in the US U.S. woman says strict Christian parents subjected her to FGM Female Genital Cutting in Immigrant Children — Considerations in Treatment and Prevention in the...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/resources/fgc-in-the-united-states.html

  • Interview with Zehra Patwa of the Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C

    emphasized the importance of empathy and understanding when creating legislation and advocating against the practice: “The parents who take their girls to be cut are not monsters…they’re being pressured into doing it because they’re told it’s the right...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/interview-with-zehra-patwa-of-the-connecticut-coalition-to-end-fgm-c.html

  • The Washington Coalition to End FGM/C Interview Series: Dr. Muna Osman

    it bigger and give the respect theydeserve, [even if] you're a kid. You have the knowledge that we didn't have. Like the parents. Most of the parents came to start a new life. We came to start a new life for our kids. We didn't come here to become evil...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/the-washington-coalition-to-end-fgm-c-interview-series-dr-muna-osman.html

  • The Impact of Laws and Use of Multi-Sectoral Approach (MSA) to eliminate FGM

    practices such as the rise of labiaplasty, cross-border FGM including the return of children from the diaspora to their parents’ countries of origin which practice FGM, and medicalisation of FGM. Therefore interventions to eliminate FGM need to be...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/component/jevents/event/24/-.html?Itemid=0

  • I deeply resented what was done to my most intimate parts without my permission

    it), it wasn’t right when I went through it and it wasn’t right when I put my daughter through it (under pressure from my parents). I have a hazy recollection of the day the FGM was performed on me back in India. I was approximately six or seven years...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/i-deeply-resented.html

  • Crying out our mothers’ grief: How we allowed female genital mutilation to flourish in our communities

    I was a sophomore in college when I began, and I sit here as a senior, writing to pledge my solidarity to end FGM. My parents had managed to shield me from the hushed conversations that I always knew were happening. I was 14 years old when I was finally...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/crying-out-our-mothers-grief.html

  • Why one Bohra woman shared her experience with female genital cutting publicly

    small and vulnerable, and even petty for not sharing it with the people who needed to see it the most — Bohra people my parents’ age.” Khozema does not encourage women to share their stories if they arenot ready. Instead, she encourages women and men to...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/bohra-woman-shared-her-experience-pakistan.html

  • Gender-Affirming Treatments are not Female Genital Cutting

    necessary, as many Idaho physicians are unwilling to provide gender-affirming care anyway, and fear the bill undermines the parents’ authority to make decisions for their children. Texas’s and Idaho’s legislators justify their actions with claims that...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/gender-affirming-treatments-are-not-female-genital-cutting.html

  • Sahiyo Discusses: A Fractured Life by Shabnam Samuel

    of Panchgani, India. Her memoir, A Fractured Life, explores her life growing up in 1960s India after being abandoned by her parents. Sahiyo Discusses members will have the opportunity to discuss this book with Shabnam and ask pertinent questions....

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/component/jevents/event/21/-.html?Itemid=0

  • Stop female circumcision, Dawoodi Bohra authorities tell community members in Australia

    Australia. Consequently, khafd is illegal, whether it is carried out within any of the states of Australia or overseas. All parents and guardians are hereby directed in the strictest terms not to carry out khafd under any circumstances. You are further...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/stop-female-circumcision.html

  • No, even ‘symbolic’ or ‘mild’ female genital cutting is NOT okay

    is “time to try a new approach”, in which governments could ban the “worst forms” of genital cutting and instead “persuade” parents to choose the “least nasty version”. “However distasteful, it is better to have a symbolic nick from a trained health...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/no-mild-cutting.html

  • #NoMoreKhatna: Highlights from Sahiyo's animated Twitter chat on FGC

    on the Twitter chat. Another controversial aspect of the debate, of course, is the matter of a child’s consent and whether parents have the right to decide whether their daughter should be cut. While these tweets are just excerpts from a much larger...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/animated-twitter-chat.html

  • I did not circumcise my daughters, says a Malay Muslim mother

    usually performed by a traditional midwife but now it is performed by a medical doctor at the clinic for a fee. Typically, parents will have it done on their baby one month after birth and like all surgical procedures, it endangers the infant to the...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/malay-muslim-mother.html

  • "You have no right over your body." Things khatna supporters have told me

    agony. It was managed without harming me and I have no unforgiving memory of it”. She continued, “I also gave consent to my parents to have my ears pierced & it didn’t harm too”. I have heard many arguments comparing khatna to ear or nose piercing....

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/no-right-over-your-body-things-khatna-supporters-told-me.html

  • My Body Is Not Mine – A Muslim woman’s commentary on body autonomy

    even before that, it was never mine. It belongs to God, the Creator. Or at least, that is what religious leaders and my parents tell me. I, however, call bullshit. My body does not belong to God. My body belongs to their perception of God. My body, and...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/my-body-is-not-mine-muslim-womans-commentary.html

  • A Kenyan Woman's Take on FGM/FGC in the Bohra Community

    procedure in Kenyan law since 2011. It was my first time to hear the word ‘khatna’. Though I am a Bohra thankfully my late parents did not subject me to it. And so hush-hush is this ritual that my subsequent enquiries bore no fruit. But in the process,...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/kenyan-womans-take-fgmfgc-bohra-community.html

  • I was spared from khatna because my Dadi happened to pass away

    but I was not cut. The reason for this is that my dadi (grandmother) passed away before it was my turn to be cut. My parents had got my sisters’ khatna done because of pressure from my dadi – otherwise, they never wanted to perform khatna on any of...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/i-was-spared-from-khatna.html

  • I will not support khatna even if my in-laws pressurise me

    and my husband is pretty cool and modern. I would not want khatna for my daughter, but I don’t know if my in-laws and my parents would agree if I differed with them on this ritual. Even if they insist on having it done, I still don’t support the...

    https://mail.sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/i-will-not-support-khatna.html

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