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21. Webinar reflection: Centring Community in FGM/C Behaviour Change Theory
(News & Blog)
... beliefs about FGM/C and behaviour: we must not only work towards diminishing support for the practice, but also the act itself. Dr. Shell-Duncan explained the importance of this distinction, as mothers ...
Created on 03 June 2022
22. Sahiyo staff spotlight: Programs assistant Meg Sinnott
(News & Blog)
... was not something that my mother sat down and told me about; instead, it trickled into my subconscious through microaggressions, news stories, and personal experiences. Secondly, as a White Atheist living ...
Created on 06 April 2022
23. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: Turning my Dad into a Bhaiyo
(News & Blog)
... atheist, he had some trouble understanding at first why mothers would continue to subject their daughters to FGM/C if they themselves disagreed with it because he has never followed a religious practice. ...
Created on 09 March 2022
24. Addressing Critical Intersections: Anti-Racism and Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... active since the birth of her second child in 2012 in women’s issues, decolonial feminism, anti-racism and healthcare activism. Sunera is constantly trying to reconcile and find a balance between motherhood, ...
Created on 05 July 2021
25. Is the United Kingdom backing out of its commitment to end female genital cutting amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
(News & Blog)
By Olivia Bridge In the midst of a global pandemic set to the backdrop of Brexit, ending violence against women and girls (VAWG) appears to have slipped down the United Kingdom (U.K.) Government’s priority ...
Created on 22 December 2020
26. How female genital cutting is portrayed in television series
(News & Blog)
... underwent at 11 years old. Her mother said she needed to get rid of a bug, a common justification for FGC that girls hear around the world. There are many aspects of Niky’s story that real-life survivors ...
Created on 13 October 2020
27. Farzana Esmail hosts fireside chat on FGC with co-founder of Sahiyo
(News & Blog)
By Hunter Kessous Mariya Taher, U.S. Executive Director and co-founder of Sahiyo, and Farzana Esmail, survivor, mother and advocate, sat down together to have a virtual fireside chat on female genital ...
Created on 26 June 2020
28. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
Mariya Taher, U.S. Executive Director and co-founder of Sahiyo, and Farzana Esmail, FGC survivor, mother and advocate, sat down together for a virtual fireside chat on female genital cutting (FGC): part ...
Created on 25 June 2020
29. 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
30. How doctors responded to my genital mutilation: An American woman's 70-year journe
(News & Blog)
... she became an advocate against female genital mutilation. She also shared her story during the Sahiyo Stories Workshop to encourage other women to speak out.  1947—age 3—My mother took me to a doctor ...
Created on 26 February 2019
31. Locating female genital cutting through films and documentaries
(News & Blog)
... FGM, The Cruel Cut- Female Genital Mutilation, and The Cutting Tradition are produced respectively by Al-Jazeera, Channel4 and SafeHands for Mothers in collaboration with the International Federation of ...
Created on 19 February 2019
32. 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
33. Female Genital Cutting Diaries: My first encounter with the tradition of female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... case for why many Shia Muslim Dawoodi Bohra mothers and fathers perpetuate the practice 5,000 miles away in India and among diaspora communities such as the one in Detroit, Michigan. I am struck by ...
Created on 18 December 2018
34. Female Genital Cutting is an International Issue
(News & Blog)
By Brionna Wiggins Upon hearing about female genital cutting and what it entails, it seems that one of the first facts you hear about it has to do with its prevalence in Africa and the Middle East. While ...
Created on 06 December 2018
35. White House Press Release Falsely links Gender Violence (and FGC) to Foreign Nationals
(News & Blog)
... foreign-born women and girls and their children in the United States had the same rates of FGM/C as the countries in which the girls or their mothers had been born.” To put it in perspective, the statement ...
Created on 21 February 2018
36. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(News & Blog)
... The women fighting against Singapore’s hidden human rights violation Ultra-modern Singapore's dark secret: female genital mutilation FGC in Sri Lanka: Sri Lank-Culture: Mothers Watch as Daughters ...
Created on 04 December 2017
37. My parents would not have cut me if they had the right information, says a Sri Lankan Bohra
(News & Blog)
... every waking minute of one particular day. I woke up, I guess like any other ordinary day, had breakfast, and then was told by my mother to get in the car and that she was taking me somewhere.  Whilst ...
Created on 15 November 2017
38. Furore about Female Genital Cutting in Kerala: Impact of Sahiyo’s investigation
(News & Blog)
... of being cut. Her story was published in Mathrubhumi, and mentioned not only her own FGC but also that of her mother, several years ago. Responses on social media Malayalam social media has been buzzing ...
Created on 01 September 2017
39. Female Genital Cutting is being practiced in Kerala too: Sahiyo investigation
(News & Blog)
... who needed to make inquiries about female sunnath because her fiancé’s mother wanted her to be circumcised before marriage. When asked if she performs female sunnath, the lady doctor at the clinic said, ...
Created on 14 August 2017
40. Our Petition
(News & Blog)
(To sign petition, click here) End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting by 2030: Invest in Research, and Support in Asia According to the United Nations, at least 200 million women in 30 countries have ...
Created on 12 July 2017