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61. Exploring Canadian physicians’ experiences providing FGC-related care
(News & Blog)
By Kiah Leone As countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, and others become increasingly aware of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) and its presence in their country, their healthcare ...
Created on 11 May 2023
62. Why one Bohra woman shared her experience with female genital cutting publicly
(News & Blog)
... The Dawoodi Bohra population comprises up to one million people in countries such as India, Pakistan, Yemen, Kenya, Egypt, Tanzania and South Africa. Diaspora communities also live in Europe, Australia ...
Created on 15 January 2021
63. Is legal action against female genital cutting enough to end the practice?
(News & Blog)
... long term change.” A broad evidence base for this is how some Dawoodi Bohra community members in the United States (U.S.) and Australia have hushed the practice, pushing it further underground, as the ...
Created on 20 October 2020
64. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... that have legislation against FGC, recognizing that it happens in various countries there. Australia does as well. There was a court case that really brought it to light a few years ago. There’s attempts ...
Created on 25 June 2020
65. Part II–Medicalising khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... drivers of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), law can play an additional critical role in disincentivizing khatna. The arrests in the U.S. and Australia due to the medicalisation of FGM/C, led ...
Created on 23 June 2020
66. Khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... United States and Australia. Religious leaders also began addressing it through sermons and letters issued to community members. The public interest litigation in the Indian Supreme Court in 2017 and the ...
Created on 25 February 2020
67. The movement to end FGM/C: Looking back at the 2010s and looking forward in 2020
(News & Blog)
... FGC on the legal front, particularly for the Dawoodi Bohra community.  Australia: In 2015, three Bohras — a mother, a nurse and a community leader — were convicted for performing FGC on two minor girls ...
Created on 11 January 2020
68. Op-Ed: A Global Platform to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... rights has no place in the world today. It must stop. Now. Last June at the Women Deliver Conference held in Vancouver, for the first time, global FGM/C activists from Africa to Europe, from Australia ...
Created on 11 November 2019
69. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore
(News & Blog)
... of FGC in Singapore, Gabriele Marranci (an Australian anthropologist) explained why this practice is so hidden. He suggests that this is a form of “religious ethnic resilience within an environment affected ...
Created on 19 March 2019
70. Reflecting before we move forward: Overview of global FGC news from 2018
(News & Blog)
... the country, as hopefully, it can set a precedent for future cases. August brought the overturning of an Australian case from 2015, in which a Dawoodi Bohra mother and a former nurse were found guilty ...
Created on 16 January 2019
71. Female Genital Cutting is an International Issue
(News & Blog)
... in the world where females undergo FGC. Unfortunately, this is not the case. This practice reaches Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Australia. Its presence on multiple continents leads FGC ...
Created on 06 December 2018
72. The Legal Side of Khatna or Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... such as Sahiyo and WeSpeakOut continue to provide crucial support for survivors to rally in solidarity.   Several countries in Africa, as well as the United States and Australia, have made consistent ...
Created on 04 December 2018
73. Examining Female Genital Cutting and Intersectionality
(News & Blog)
... do nothing to enforce the ruling. This violent relationship between the state and vulnerable women is not restricted to the Indian context. I am reminded of the first FGC case to be prosecuted in Australia, ...
Created on 27 November 2018
74. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 5: The “C” Word… and I Don’t Mean Circumcision
(News & Blog)
... an Australian urologist, and her colleagues have corrected that misconception (O’Connell, Sanjeevan, and Hutson, 2005). Using modern imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), O’Connell ...
Created on 28 September 2018
75. Sahiyo and Khatna survivors get attacked online through ‘organized trolling’
(News & Blog)
... any view that counters or challenges the practice. FGC is illegal in many parts of the world including United States and Australia, where people from the Bohra community have faced legal action for ...
Created on 25 May 2018
76. 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
77. 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
78. 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
79. 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
80. #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