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61. U.S. Sahiyo Board Member Spotlight: A. Renee Bergstrom, EdD
(News & Blog)
... with leaders involved in the FGM/C issue, including Marie Assaad, Egypt’s gentle warrior, who was then Deputy Secretary General of the World Council of Churches. The timing was not right politically for ...
Created on 17 November 2019
62. Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board Spotlight: Joanne Golden
(News & Blog)
... and I was invited to my friend’s wedding in Egypt, where I spent six weeks as a guest of her family and friends. I could not have been happier!  My career trajectory did not go as planned as I moved towards ...
Created on 10 August 2019
63. The Disturbing Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Mutilation
(News & Blog)
... with the practice. Consequently, in recent years, the medicalisation of FGM has taken place globally, particularly in Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mali, Nigeria, Northern Sudan, and Yemen. In many ...
Created on 05 March 2019
64. Locating female genital cutting through films and documentaries
(News & Blog)
... out of all the countries with reported cases of FGC, African countries especially, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Egypt are highlighted out of proportion. It is largely because of the rampant prevalence ...
Created on 19 February 2019
65. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 6: Effects of FGM/C on the Lower Urinary Tract System
(News & Blog)
... Egypt suggested that FGM/C is associated with long-term urinary retention (sensation that your bladder is not emptying all the way), urinary urgency (the need to rush to the bathroom and feeling that you ...
Created on 26 October 2018
66. Female Genital Cutting (FGC): Is it an Islamic Practice? (Part 2)
(News & Blog)
... of Egypt. Elizabeth Boyle, author of Female Genital Cutting: Cultural Conflict in the Global Community, mentions in the book that before the advent of Islam, Egyptians, who valued FGC (particularly infibulation), ...
Created on 13 October 2018
67. U.S. Advisory Board
(News & Blog)
... World Federation discussing FGM with international organizations in Geneva, Switzerland. Egypt’s gentle warrior Marie Assaad, then deputy secretary-general of the World Council of Churches, consulted with ...
Created on 16 September 2018
68. Tracing the Origins of Female Genital Cutting: How It All started
(News & Blog)
... scholars mentioning its prevalence before the advent of Christianity. Broadly, the practice is believed to have originated in Egypt where circumcised and infibulated mummies were found according to Frank ...
Created on 21 July 2018
69. I Said It Loudly: I am an FGM Survivor. Meeting FGM Survivors for the First Time Was My Cursed Blessing
(News & Blog)
...  By Anonymous Country: Egypt & United States Even now, despite my brain trying to convince me it was a good idea to attend a conference on FGM and Mental Health, I cannot emotionally explain what ...
Created on 03 April 2018
70. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(News & Blog)
... common than assumed: UN ‘Cut with a blade’: Colombia indigenous groups discuss FGM FGC and COVID: Is the Pandemic Causing a Surge in Female Genital Mutilation FGC in Egypt: Egypt: The ...
Created on 04 December 2017
71. Medical organisations in five African nations issue statement against the medicalisation of FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... and Associations from Egypt, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. These medical organisations issued the statement at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, at a meeting on ‘The Role of Health-care Professionals in Combatting ...
Created on 20 November 2017
72. Female Genital Cutting is being practiced in Kerala too: Sahiyo investigation
(News & Blog)
... “some husbands insist on it”. The doctors claimed that this ritual is also practiced in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Africa, but denied that it could be harmful. However, the sunnath ritual described by the ...
Created on 14 August 2017
73. FGM before the Indian Supreme Court
(News & Blog)
... years without ever leading to a single case in court and yet it is well-known that the practice continues there for thousands of girls. Or take the case of Egypt, where despite a law which declares the ...
Created on 07 June 2017
74. Khatna among Suleimanis, from the perspective of an 'outsider
(News & Blog)
...  The tradition of ‘circumcising’ not just boys but also girls, predates Islam and continues to be practiced by adherents to other religions, for example by Christians in Egypt and Ethiopia. Today the ...
Created on 11 March 2017
75. Sahiyo participates in the End Violence Against Girls Summit on FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... to end this human rights violation worldwide by the year 2030. Participants came from over 20 countries including: Canada, Egypt, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Guinea, India, Iran, Ireland, Jordan, ...
Created on 14 December 2016
76. Dec 7: Join our Twitter chat on Type 1 Female Genital Cutting in Asia
(News & Blog)
... Lanka) 9 am EST (US east coast) 4 pm in Egypt 10 pm in Singapore and Malaysia Here is how you can participate: Log into your Twitter account (or make one, if you are not on Twitter yet!) ...
Created on 06 December 2016
77. I will not let my younger daughter be cut, says a Bohra father
(News & Blog)
By: Hozefa Anik  Age: 40 Country: India The first time I heard about khatna was some 15-16 years ago, when I was working in Doha, Qatar. I was told that it is a practice prevalent in parts of Egypt, ...
Created on 17 September 2016
78. #NoMoreKhatna: Highlights from Sahiyo's animated Twitter chat on FG
(News & Blog)
... For the past several months, Dawoodi Bohras on social media have been increasingly vocal about their varied views on female khatna. Then in May, a 17-year-old girl died in Egypt because of excessive bleeding ...
Created on 12 July 2016
79. #NoMoreKhatna - Join Sahiyo on a Twitter Chat about FGC!
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo will be hosting a Twitter Conversation on Female Genital Cutting (FGC) to be held on Thursday, July 7th from 6:00- 8:00 PM IST for India; 2:30-4.30 PM for Egypt; 8:30-10:30 AM EST for the United ...
Created on 06 July 2016
80. 'Everyone’s business': Representing Dawoodi Bohras at the No FGM Australia panel discussion in Sydne
(News & Blog)
... protection. For that reason, this should be made illegal under the same provisions. Australia has a large population from African countries, Malaysia, Indonesia, Egypt, middle eastern countries ...
Created on 08 May 2016