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81. Sahiyo wins grant from Peace Development Fund
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo U.S. would like to thank our friends at the Peace Development Fund for a core support grant award of $5,000.00. The Peace Development Fund supports organizations who are working to shift power, ...
Created on 09 July 2022
82. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: Turning neighbors, friends, and community members into Bhaiyos
(News & Blog)
... in today's age. I feel all my brothers from my community are silent in spite of knowing everything in their minds about female Khatna and pretend to be strangers to people of other religions! I am trying ...
Created on 08 March 2022
83. Being a researcher: Finding balance
(News & Blog)
... thorough understanding of the practice and its contextual continuation. In turn, what I found could help explain the way that communities function and whether culture or religion play a role in practices ...
Created on 02 March 2022
84. Consent and gender imbalance: their role in female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... of religion for why FGC is done hold more of my attention. The fact that it is a female-specific reason holds more of my attention. By female-specific I mean that it is an attribute of being female itself- ...
Created on 10 February 2022
85. Reflecting on the 'How to Stop The Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia' webina
(News & Blog)
... of female genital cutting (FGC), citing motivating factors for the practice such as social acceptance, marriageability, community belonging, proof of virginity, curbing promiscuity, hygiene, and religion. ...
Created on 09 February 2022
86. Sahiyo staff spotlight: Editorial coordinator Rachel Wine
(News & Blog)
... to call out this form of gender violence that affects women around the world; ending violence that is ingrained in cultural or religious norms, especially in cultures and religions that are not mine, is ...
Created on 04 November 2021
87. End FGM - Save our daughters
(News & Blog)
... religion but also do not support any religion in that way. What I mean is, I'm not against any religion but also I don't have blind faith in it. I think there's a major difference between beliefs and faith ...
Created on 30 September 2021
88. Absence of female genital cutting laws in India: An issue that requires immediate action
(News & Blog)
... the other. The proposed ban on khatna raises a similar obstacle. The Indian Constitution confers upon its citizens the right to equality, as well as the right to practice and profess any religion. There ...
Created on 22 September 2021
89. My experience of learning about female genital cutting: An outsider’s perspective
(News & Blog)
... and the religion or culture I grew up in never condoned it. Interestingly, those who have questioned me have been peers at my university, who also did not come from FGC-practicing communities. But, each ...
Created on 27 July 2021
90. Female genital cutting: A poem
(News & Blog)
... in the name of religion,” they said. And it is this ideology I dread. It is done to curb a woman’s desires, To subdue her voice and her fire. My grandmother said “It’s all right, all girls must ...
Created on 18 June 2021
91. Saved by a lie: A story of female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
By Zainab Khambata Age: 17 Place of residence: Mumbai, India My maternal grandmother prides herself on being the perfect blend of modernity and religion. But when it came to her own daughter who ...
Created on 18 April 2021
92. 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
93. In the Name of Your Daughter: A film for change
(News & Blog)
... I do wish that she touched more on the relationship between FGC, traditions, and religion, as well as the growing medicalization trend of FGC being performed by healthcare providers. However, in the 1 ...
Created on 28 February 2021
94. Sahiyo Resources
(Resources)
... (With English Subtitles) Deen and Duniya (Religion and the World) a 2004 film by Alisha Bhagat highlights the role of women in the Bohra community. A Small Nick or ...
Created on 04 December 2020
95. Saathi: Peer Support Program1
(Uncategorised)
... a healthcare market research consultancy in partnership with Sahiyo, found that the most significant challenges activists face when speaking out stems from the high degree of overlap between religion and ...
Created on 03 December 2020
96. Community Outreach
(Programs)
... including conferences on women’s rights, gender, and religion, college guest lectures, and local community events. We engage in public presentations, webinars, and media outreach to raise awareness and ...
Created on 03 December 2020
97. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Aisha
(News & Blog)
... exposed me to the complexity of humanity. And how we can coexist with all the differences in culture, religion, language and ethnic/nationalities. What are some of your passions? I have vast passions ...
Created on 25 November 2020
98. How female genital cutting is portrayed in television series
(News & Blog)
... the launch of Farzana Doctor’s newest novel, Seven, about women’s relationships, marriage, infidelity, religion, tradition, and sensitively exposes the practice of khatna or FGC among the Dawoodi Bohra ...
Created on 13 October 2020
99. SEVEN, the first novel of its kind to address female genital cutting in the Bohra community, releases this month
(News & Blog)
SEVEN is being released in North America this September (Sept 5 Canada/Sept 29 U.S.). The novel sensitively addresses women’s relationships, sexuality, infidelity, intergenerational violence, religion ...
Created on 13 September 2020
100. To my surprise, my friend defended khatna
(News & Blog)
... female sexuality and religion. The reason that men/boys in the Bohra community did not talk about it or oppose it was that they thought it’s a girl’s issue; whereas the girls who went through it might ...
Created on 20 August 2020