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1. Male Engagement within the Movement to End FGM/C: From Conversation to Connection: Creating a dialogue between men and women on FGM/C
(News & Blog)
By: Bakahn Jamal Talking about FGC with others is not always easy, especially when speaking to men about the subject. Over the month of June, Sahiyo held an awareness campaign in honor of Fathers day, ...
Created on 16 September 2024
2. Starting the Dialogue: Sharing Your Experiences on Initiating Conversations with Men about Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... my master’s thesis on the cultural acceptance or condemnation of female genital cutting in the USA, engaging with fathers turned out to be pivotal in my research success and was central to my learning. ...
Created on 21 June 2024
3. How to have effective conversations about FGC
(News & Blog)
... FGC?  What is the role men can play in educating communities about FGC?  How can brothers/fathers make an impact in these conversations about ending FGC?  What message would you like to give to all ...
Created on 12 June 2024
4. This Father’s Day, join our campaign
(News & Blog)
... be holding a month-long campaign asking community members to share how they have raised the topic of FGC in conversation with the men in their lives – their brothers, fathers, husbands, friends, and more.  ...
Created on 26 April 2024
5. Our Fight to End FGM in The Gambia: Who is Listening?
(News & Blog)
... FGM is considered a sacred passage that women have to go through. Those fathers, like mine, who gave consent to the practice without understanding what we go through. Like in many parts of Africa, FGM ...
Created on 02 April 2024
6. Bhaiyo engages male allies to empower communities to end female genital cutting during June campaign
(News & Blog)
... we will be highlighting the role men play in empowering their communities to end FGC — particularly focused on their roles and experiences as fathers, or future fathers, and brothers. This project is open ...
Created on 01 June 2021
7. Bhaiyo: Male Allies
(Programs)
... in working to involve men in ending FGC. A public awareness campaign on Father’s Day to highlight the role fathers can play in ending FGC and encourage men to come together as allies ...
Created on 21 December 2020
8. An ode to every woman fighting social norms around the world
(News & Blog)
... gowns and suits and curtsying or bowing every time we met an acquaintance. We Indians would be doing what our fathers and grandfathers did, potters trapped in doctors’ bodies or the other way around. We ...
Created on 27 February 2020
9. 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
10. I attended the U.S. Bohra Activist Retreat because I hope to see an end to FGM/C in my lifetime
(News & Blog)
... At the Sahiyo retreat I was able to hear, grasp and digest information on FGC and how to approach and begin a conversation about FGC to the mothers and especially the fathers in the Bohra community who ...
Created on 28 February 2018
11. My daughter is the joy of my life. There was no way I could have her cut.
(News & Blog)
... their collective voice will matter. If they wish to, they can make a difference. Men need to stand up and be counted – primarily as fathers of girls in danger.  This will help men too. Secure, happier ...
Created on 30 January 2017
12. Dear daughter, I am sorry you were circumcised
(News & Blog)
... my eyes filled with tears. For all of these years I was oblivious to the trauma that you underwent. You were an innocent child. I wonder how many other fathers are in the same position as me – finally ...
Created on 07 December 2016
13. Announcing 16 Days of Activism with Sahiyo: Join the campaign!
(News & Blog)
... and violated, or those who didn’t, but still believe that there is no place for FGC in the world. We have also published heartfelt stories by Dawoodi Bohra fathers who don’t want their daughters cut anymore. ...
Created on 24 November 2016
14. Dear daughter, I am sorry you were circumcised
(News & Blog)
... You were an innocent child. I wonder how many other fathers are in the same position as me – finally learning about this heinous practice and unaware of how their daughters have silently struggled with ...
Created on 24 May 2016
15. This Father’s Day, join our campaign
(News & Blog)
... be holding a month-long campaign asking community members to share how they have raised the topic of FGC in conversation with the men in their lives – their brothers, fathers, husbands, friends, and more.  ...
Created on 26 April 2024
16. Announcing 16 Days of Activism with Sahiyo: Join the campaign!
(News & Blog)
... and violated, or those who didn’t, but still believe that there is no place for FGC in the world. We have also published heartfelt stories by Dawoodi Bohra fathers who don’t want their daughters cut anymore. ...
Created on 24 November 2016
17. Male Engagement within the Movement to End FGM/C: From Conversation to Connection: Creating a dialogue between men and women on FGM/C
(News & Blog)
By: Bakahn Jamal Talking about FGC with others is not always easy, especially when speaking to men about the subject. Over the month of June, Sahiyo held an awareness campaign in honor of Fathers day, ...
Created on 16 September 2024
18. Starting the Dialogue: Sharing Your Experiences on Initiating Conversations with Men about Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... my master’s thesis on the cultural acceptance or condemnation of female genital cutting in the USA, engaging with fathers turned out to be pivotal in my research success and was central to my learning. ...
Created on 21 June 2024
19. How to have effective conversations about FGC
(News & Blog)
... FGC?  What is the role men can play in educating communities about FGC?  How can brothers/fathers make an impact in these conversations about ending FGC?  What message would you like to give to all ...
Created on 12 June 2024
20. Our Fight to End FGM in The Gambia: Who is Listening?
(News & Blog)
... FGM is considered a sacred passage that women have to go through. Those fathers, like mine, who gave consent to the practice without understanding what we go through. Like in many parts of Africa, FGM ...
Created on 02 April 2024