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21. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(News & Blog)
... end to female genital mutilation Southeast Asia’s Hidden Female Genital Mutilation Challenge Asia Network to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Consultation Report FGC in Australia: Women ...
Created on 04 December 2017
22. Our Petition
(News & Blog)
... Hope Foundation Dahlia Project Akshara No FGM Australia Chehak Trust (Sahyog) The Council for Democracy and Tolerance Saheli  Bharatiya ...
Created on 12 July 2017
23. FGM before the Indian Supreme Court
(News & Blog)
... Islam’.” FGM has been in the news of late in India as well as the US, the UK and Australia, as a result of legal action taken against practitioners of ‘khatna’ and discussions on how to make existing ...
Created on 07 June 2017
24. Despite backlash, Sahiyo will continue to work with the community
(News & Blog)
... of man or woman, bond or free,” can promote khatna in India. In one part of the world doctors from our community are tried for violating the laws of their country (United States and Australia), and then ...
Created on 02 June 2017
25. #NIMBY Reactions to Detroit
(News & Blog)
... shock and awe from friends and family (knowing my personal interest in this topic) asking if I had seen the news. Just last year, a similar story broke in Sydney, Australia — have we forgotten already? ...
Created on 16 April 2017
26. Detroit arrest: It is time for Bohras to get serious about ending Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... consequences they have faced. For the past one and a half years, particularly after three Bohras in Australia were convicted under the country’s anti-FGM laws, there has been increasing awareness in ...
Created on 14 April 2017
27. What do Australian Bohras feel about Khatna today?
(News & Blog)
By: Anonymous Age: 32 Country: Australia Khatna is not a topic discussed very often amongst Bohras. Maybe because there is no reason to ever bring it up. However, since the case in Sydney, Australia, ...
Created on 11 April 2017
28. Khatna among Suleimanis, from the perspective of an 'outsider
(News & Blog)
... unaware. It was news from Australia that a religious leader of the (Dawoodi) Bohra community had been jailed for FGM, which first made me realise that, if the Bohra community still practiced ‘khatna’, ...
Created on 11 March 2017
29. A conversation on Khatna with Suleimani Bohras
(News & Blog)
... the world, including the Middle East, Pakistan, Europe, South-east Asia, North America and Australia. The community has now dropped the ‘Bohra’ from its name so we just call ourselves Suleimanis. Shaheeda: ...
Created on 10 March 2017
30. Invest in ending FGC in Asia: Why Sahiyo and 33 organisations are petitioning the U.N.
(News & Blog)
...  Men Against Violence and Abuse (MAVA) The Hands of Hope Foundation Dahlia Project Akshara Centre NO FGM Australia Chehak Trust (Sahyog)  ...
Created on 02 January 2017
31. I don't remember my khatna. But it feels like a violatio
(News & Blog)
... and showed me a video.  It was a documentary from Australia featuring my cousin’s wife recounting her experience of being cut at the age of 7 in a dingy apartment in India by an old woman. Her telling ...
Created on 28 November 2016
32. Why this Bohra father is guilty about his daughter's Khatn
(News & Blog)
... It was a clear reference to female genital mutilation (FGM). It is obvious that this was in response to the raging debate on FGM that has occurred in public after three Bohras were convicted in Australia ...
Created on 26 November 2016
33. I will not let my younger daughter be cut, says a Bohra father
(News & Blog)
... the clitoris, which eventually turned into a tradition. I never thought much about this till, a few years ago, I read about a lady opposing khatna in Australia and discovered that this was being practiced ...
Created on 17 September 2016
34. FGC in Dawoodi Bohra Community
(News & Blog)
... community members in Australia After Australia, Bohras in London asked to stop practising female circumcision FGM: India’s Dark Secret Dawoodi Bohras in London Told to Stop Female Circumcision Cafe ...
Created on 09 June 2016
35. Our campaign will continue: Sahiyo's statement in response to Syedna's official stand on khat
(News & Blog)
...    Since February, several Bohra jamaats in countries like Australia, UK, USA and Canada – where female genital cutting is illegal – have issued resolution letters asking Bohras to follow the laws of ...
Created on 07 June 2016
36. Discussing FGC During International Women's Day event in Pun
(News & Blog)
... secret” with the world. It is the strength of their voices along with the recent convictions of three Dawoodi Bohras from Australia that has created a tidal wave of change, which allows me to be here today. ...
Created on 06 June 2016
37. Boston Jammaat Sends Letter Against Khatna/FGC to Members
(News & Blog)
... subjecting them to khatna if your sisters in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States are specifically told not to?   The answer should be no. We are all part of the same Bohra community. Let’s ...
Created on 06 June 2016
38. Cafe Dissensus runs a special issue on female circumcision in the Bohra community
(News & Blog)
... Guest-edited by Australian author Rashida Murphy, the FGC-special issue features fifteen essays and deeply personal stories by survivors of khatna and women who are driving the movement against the practice ...
Created on 25 May 2016
39. Sahiyo infringing copyright privilege of Anjuman-e-Burhani Trust of Sydney or an instance of online harassment and limiting blogging rights- A case of Sahiyo VS the Trust
(News & Blog)
  Just in case you are wondering how the page on the resolutions banning FGC (Khatna) in Australia, United Kingdom and United States vanished from our website – read on Since 2015, Sahiyo ...
Created on 09 May 2016
40. 'Everyone’s business': Representing Dawoodi Bohras at the No FGM Australia panel discussion in Sydne
(News & Blog)
... Australian Human Rights Commission office in Sydney on April 29, 2016. The event, hosted by No FGM Australia, was titled “FGM is Everyone’s Business”, and I had the honour of speaking on the panel on the ...
Created on 08 May 2016