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21. Sahiyo takes part in a variety of virtual NGO CSW 65 Forum events in March
(News & Blog)
... the event here.  March 19th The Power of Digital Media and Achieving Gender Equality Sponsored by Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA) Digital media has been a powerful resource toward ...
Created on 20 April 2021
22. The End FGM European Network hosts webinar: “Addressing female genital mutilation while leaving no one behind”
(News & Blog)
... woman, Muslim, Sudanese, young, and of the first generation to be living in United Kingdom, as well as how her multiple identities have shaped her everyday experiences. She shared her experiences of forming ...
Created on 29 March 2021
23. Sahiyo in the Media
(News & Blog)
... you need to know about ‘We The Women’ festival Muslim Women and the Challenge of Religion in Contemporary Mumbai We the Women: Horror on Female Genital Cutting Bohra women want an end to the practice ...
Created on 02 March 2021
24. Sahiyo Awards and Distinctions
(News & Blog)
... 2018 for their investigation revealing the prevalence of FGC in Kerala. The Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA) honored Mariya Taher with the inaugural Human Rights Storyteller Award in recognition ...
Created on 02 March 2021
25. Dear Maasi: How do you navigate being a public advocate on female genital cutting while dating?
(News & Blog)
... we surface and work through our internalized shame about being racialized, or women, or Muslim or fat or poor or disabled or queer or older or depressed or chronically ill, we liberate ourselves. The ...
Created on 16 November 2020
26. Crave Foundation recognizes Sahiyo co-founder Mariya Taher as 2020 grantee
(News & Blog)
... the steering committee for the U.S. End FGM/C Network. In 2018, Taher received the Human Rights Storytellers Award from the Muslim American Leadership Alliance. The Manhattan Young Democrats honored her ...
Created on 06 August 2020
27. Protecting the girl child: The need for an anti-FGM law in India 
(News & Blog)
... Muslim community, where FGM is widely practiced, have justified FGM to be their religious and cultural right. However, a practice that demands such standards of purity from girls and women so as to remove ...
Created on 06 August 2020
28. Voices Series: We remember stories we're told as childre
(News & Blog)
... mutilation (FGM). It is a practice prevalent in my community, the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community. FGM is a practice that has been handed down as a tradition to be followed without being questioned. When ...
Created on 29 April 2020
29. Sri Lanka’s first survey on FGM/C: Survivors need space to talk and access to medical care
(News & Blog)
... 2016 onwards – that the practice of female genital cutting has surfaced in public dialogue in Sri Lanka, including in the media. A few women, primarily from the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim community, came forward ...
Created on 14 April 2020
30. Khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
By Fatema Kakal (This is Part I in a series about female genital cutting within the Bohra community. Read Part II here) The Bohra Muslims, who have the reputation of being modern and progressive, secretly ...
Created on 25 February 2020
31. How Melinda Gates’ Moment of Lift addresses female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... parents want the very best education for girls and boys alike. Most of our members had not realized girls, both Christian and Muslim living in the US, were being cut, much less in our own town. We were ...
Created on 12 January 2020
32. When Thaal Pe Charcha participants met Mumbai's Veteran Activist
(News & Blog)
... with legal support in their fight for justice.  Other guest speakers included Noorjehan Safia Niaz, the co-founder of the Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan (BMMA), a prominent Muslim women’s organisation, ...
Created on 12 January 2020
33. Understanding the Supreme Court’s latest judgement mentioning female genital cutting in India
(News & Blog)
... Muslim women’s entry into mosques, and the entry of Parsi women married to non-Parsis into fire temples.      Previously, in its September 2018 order, the Court had referred the FGC case to a five-judge ...
Created on 17 November 2019
34. Op-Ed: A Global Platform to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... that 200 million women alive today are survivors of FGM/C.  It is practiced on every continent except Antarctica. There’s no religious requirement for it, and it is practised in Muslim, Christian, Pagan, ...
Created on 11 November 2019
35. Looking Back: Sahiyo at CSW/MALA's March 2019 Even
(News & Blog)
On  March 18th 2019, the Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA) hosted a parallel event on “Addressing FGM in the USA: Safeguarding Survivors and Protecting Victims“ at the UN Commission on the Status ...
Created on 03 September 2019
36. The complexities of female genital cutting in Singapore: Part IV
(News & Blog)
... religiously, the Muslim community can be assured of the ruling for FGC. The Ministry of Health (MOH) and Muslim Healthcare Professionals Association (MHPA) also have a responsibility to the larger Singapore ...
Created on 18 July 2019
37. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore: Part III
(News & Blog)
... generation after generation as an ordinary act of Malay Muslim identity. It can be considered an integral part of Malay Muslim birth rituals and is linked to a specific Malay Muslim identity. Malay Muslims ...
Created on 02 July 2019
38. Cofounders
(Uncategorised)
... Engendering Progress honoree and she was named 1 of the 6 FGC experts to watch by NewsDeeply.com. In 2018, Mariya received the Human Rights Storytellers Award from the Muslim American Leadership Alliance. ...
Created on 02 July 2019
39. PRESS RELEASE: A pioneering Roundtable to Address Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Massachusetts
(News & Blog)
... survivors of FGM/C, with support from co-sponsors Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA), Tostan, MassNOW, Lesley University, the US End FGM/C Network, and the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts. ...
Created on 15 June 2019
40. Here’s what a new study says about female genital cutting in Malaysia
(News & Blog)
By Zahra Qaiyumi Female genital cutting (FGC) is prevalent among Muslim women in rural Malaysia, and many of them believe the practice is a religious obligation. Ironically, several religious leaders ...
Created on 30 May 2019