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1. Engaging the Next Generation: A Conversation on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
(News & Blog)
... important role that cultural sensitivity plays in advocacy efforts, and they asked additional questions like: “Is there any correlation on the state level between FGM/C and abortion laws?”,  “Are Latin ...
Created on 10 April 2025
2. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... women gave to expectant mothers about giving birth to a son. I had heard of secret abortions of girl children that took place in India and Pakistan, but a women and gender studies course that looked at ...
Created on 24 December 2024
3. Sahiyo Discusses book club to hold next event in September
(News & Blog)
... are the co-playwright of the wish: a manual for a last-ditch effort to save abortion in the united states through theater, created with the support of New Georges and made possible by the Clubbed Thumb ...
Created on 06 September 2023
4. The overturning of Roe v. Wade and its implications for survivors of FGC
(News & Blog)
By Trisha Kini On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court made the devastating decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus denying women and those assigned female at birth (AFAB) the right to safe abortions ...
Created on 02 May 2023
5. FGC in the United States: How Americans can help end this practice 
(News & Blog)
... now, with the fight for abortion rights in America, many may feel locked in an endless battle. When we feel this way, community and support are more important than ever. It reminds us we are not alone, ...
Created on 11 August 2022
6. Introducing the Speakers for ‘How to Stop the Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia’
(News & Blog)
... Sheriar: Dr. Nozer Sheriar is an obstetrician and gynecologist with a longstanding commitment to advocacy for and the promotion of women's rights and access to safe abortion. He practices at the Breach ...
Created on 14 January 2022
7. 'A Pinch of Skin' to Screen in Berli
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo co-founder’s documentary ‘A Pinch of Skin’ will be screening at NaturFreudeJungend in Berlin on the 25th May. 25th May is also the one-year anniversary of the historic repealing of the ban on abortion ...
Created on 12 June 2019
8. Topple the system- question the microaggressions
(News & Blog)
... woman’s sexuality, like honor killings, acid attacks, and forced abortions, among others. However, considering that these are drastic measures, I wonder: how did we get to this level? Where in the system ...
Created on 04 October 2018
9. To each his own! A perspective on Female Genital Cutting by a Kuwaiti Bohra
(News & Blog)
... but unfortunately since Kuwait is such a strict Muslim country wherein even an abortion is prohibited, she had to take me to India. The mid wife convinced me that she was trying to remove a (non-existent) ...
Created on 02 February 2018
10. Announcing Each One Reach One 2: Let's discuss Khatna this Ramza
(News & Blog)
... a word coined by the founders of abortion-rights group Exhale. Being Pro-Voice is about listening to one another’s stories with empathy, without an agenda or judgement. Learn more about Pro-Voice through ...
Created on 30 May 2017
11. Sahiyo Discusses: Cut Woman by Dena Igusti (27 September 2023 19:00)
(Events / Sahiyo Book Club )
... a Entropy Mag’s Best Of 2020-2021, and I NEED THIS TO NOT SWALLOW ME ALIVE (Gingerbug Press, 2021). They are the co-playwright of the wish: a manual for a last-ditch effort to save abortion in the united ...
Created on 22 September 2023
12. Engaging the Next Generation: A Conversation on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
(News & Blog)
... important role that cultural sensitivity plays in advocacy efforts, and they asked additional questions like: “Is there any correlation on the state level between FGM/C and abortion laws?”,  “Are Latin ...
Created on 10 April 2025
13. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... women gave to expectant mothers about giving birth to a son. I had heard of secret abortions of girl children that took place in India and Pakistan, but a women and gender studies course that looked at ...
Created on 24 December 2024
14. Sahiyo Discusses book club to hold next event in September
(News & Blog)
... are the co-playwright of the wish: a manual for a last-ditch effort to save abortion in the united states through theater, created with the support of New Georges and made possible by the Clubbed Thumb ...
Created on 06 September 2023
15. The overturning of Roe v. Wade and its implications for survivors of FGC
(News & Blog)
By Trisha Kini On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court made the devastating decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, thus denying women and those assigned female at birth (AFAB) the right to safe abortions ...
Created on 02 May 2023
16. FGC in the United States: How Americans can help end this practice 
(News & Blog)
... now, with the fight for abortion rights in America, many may feel locked in an endless battle. When we feel this way, community and support are more important than ever. It reminds us we are not alone, ...
Created on 11 August 2022
17. Introducing the Speakers for ‘How to Stop the Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia’
(News & Blog)
... Sheriar: Dr. Nozer Sheriar is an obstetrician and gynecologist with a longstanding commitment to advocacy for and the promotion of women's rights and access to safe abortion. He practices at the Breach ...
Created on 14 January 2022
18. 'A Pinch of Skin' to Screen in Berli
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo co-founder’s documentary ‘A Pinch of Skin’ will be screening at NaturFreudeJungend in Berlin on the 25th May. 25th May is also the one-year anniversary of the historic repealing of the ban on abortion ...
Created on 12 June 2019
19. Topple the system- question the microaggressions
(News & Blog)
... woman’s sexuality, like honor killings, acid attacks, and forced abortions, among others. However, considering that these are drastic measures, I wonder: how did we get to this level? Where in the system ...
Created on 04 October 2018
20. To each his own! A perspective on Female Genital Cutting by a Kuwaiti Bohra
(News & Blog)
... but unfortunately since Kuwait is such a strict Muslim country wherein even an abortion is prohibited, she had to take me to India. The mid wife convinced me that she was trying to remove a (non-existent) ...
Created on 02 February 2018
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