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21. Upcoming webinar: Exploring the connections between religion and female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... and disconnections between religion and FGC, which Sahiyo will be initiating on October 28, in honor of the International Day of the Girl Child. When advocates speak about religion and its relationship ...
Created on 11 October 2021
22. Addressing Critical Intersections: Anti-Racism and Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... experience in non-profit, local government, and international affairs. A social entrepreneur and advocate, she was featured in The Guardian, PBS, RFI, Deutshe Welle and Brut for her advocacy to end female ...
Created on 05 July 2021
23. Why one Bohra woman shared her experience with female genital cutting publicly
(News & Blog)
By Jenny Cordle On February 5th of last year, one day before the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), Zahra Khozema, 24, shared her deeply personal story ...
Created on 15 January 2021
24. Sahiyo participated in key virtual events with global organizations in October
(News & Blog)
... + Panel on FGM/C, Council of the Great City Schools Fall Conference, North America and Europe Caucus for CSW International Day of The Girl Child, and Taboo Conversations with RAHMA. #EndFGM Media Campaigns: ...
Created on 18 November 2020
25. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... been diligently working on the issue of domestic violence within a number of organizations. In 2015, you founded Sahiyo, an internationally recognized, award-winning organization, to empower Asian communities ...
Created on 25 June 2020
26. U.S. Sahiyo Board Member Spotlight: A. Renee Bergstrom, EdD
(News & Blog)
... adult life. I first became involved internationally in 1981 when I applied for a grant from the Women’s Desk of Lutheran World Federation that led to my spending two weeks in Geneva, Switzerland. I spoke ...
Created on 17 November 2019
27. Op-Ed: A Global Platform to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
...  Together, we are asking, no imploring, the international community to prioritize the ending of FGM/C worldwide, in the same way it responded to other urgent global issues such as HIV/AIDS.  It’s estimated ...
Created on 11 November 2019
28. The complexities of female genital cutting in Singapore: Part IV
(News & Blog)
... This fourth installment provides a final analysis and concrete methods of engaging with discourses on FGC at the individual, community, governmental and international levels. Read part one here. Read part ...
Created on 18 July 2019
29. Cofounders
(Uncategorised)
... works with Scroll.in, an online publication. She reports on communities, gender, human rights, urban development and culture. She is an alumnus of the 2013 batch of the International Visitor Leadership ...
Created on 02 July 2019
30. Why female genital cutting still continues: Exploring the reasons behind its sustenance
(News & Blog)
... about Debangana: Debangana is a doctoral scholar at the Centre for International Politics Organisation and  Disarmament (CIPOD), Jawaharlal Nehru University. Through her research, she is trying to locate ...
Created on 05 February 2019
31. A response to the letter written by Tasneem Yunus Burhani, Mubaraka Tambawala, Farida Mustafa Hussain, Fatemah Hussain, and Shakera Bohra published in Detroit News
(News & Blog)
By Umme Kulsoom Arif In response to your letter published in The Detroit News, “Dawoodi Bohra Women of Detroit speak up,” I write to you as a woman who grew up in a part of the Dawoodi Bohra community, ...
Created on 01 January 2019
32. U.S. Advisory Board
(News & Blog)
... as a social norm in the Bohra community. Maryum Saifee is currently an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to CFR, she served as a U.S. diplomat in Lahore, Baghdad, ...
Created on 16 September 2018
33. My fight with a male cousin who thinks Khatna is good
(News & Blog)
By: Shabana Feroze Every year, Feb 6 is International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation by the United Nations. Being a survivor of FGC myself, I’m an active volunteer with Sahiyo, ...
Created on 17 February 2018
34. Finally in the spotlight: Female Genital Cutting is getting national attention in Sri Lanka
(News & Blog)
... Malays cut baby girls when they are 40 days old. (Read more about it here.) FGC is internationally recognised as a violation of the rights of women and children, and is illegal in several countries around ...
Created on 14 December 2017
35. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(News & Blog)
... Indonesia Ending FGM/C through Education and Community Engagement FGC in Iran: Ending FGM in Iran Needs International Support Female Genital Mutilation practiced in Iran, study reveals The ...
Created on 04 December 2017
36. Female Genital Cutting is being practiced in Kerala too: Sahiyo investigation
(News & Blog)
... Kozhikode doctors falls within the World Health Organisation’s definition of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), which is internationally recognised as a violation of human rights and a form of ...
Created on 14 August 2017
37. Why doctors need to speak out against female genital cutting in India
(News & Blog)
... Genital Cutting being practiced in India. Even international campaigns against FGM/C focused mainly on Africa, and only in the last few years has it been acknowledged that FGC is globally prevalent. But ...
Created on 11 July 2017
38. FGM before the Indian Supreme Court
(News & Blog)
... and devout Muslim. But my guess is that if we could, he might have suggested that there is a way to align with modern international norms and to protect the rights of a child, without abandoning the spiritual ...
Created on 07 June 2017
39. FGC in the United States
(Resources)
...  On the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation 2021 Equality Now Fact Sheet: Female Genital Mutilation in the United States U.S. toughens ban on ‘abhorrent’ female ...
Created on 03 May 2017
40. Detroit arrest: It is time for Bohras to get serious about ending Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... people say. Then in June 2016, the Syedna issued a statement to clarify his official stand on khatna. It stated that the resolution letters issued in various international jamaats were still valid for ...
Created on 14 April 2017