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121. Intern Spotlight: Fundraising & Auction Intern Lisa Zhu
(News & Blog)
... deeply troubled by this form of gender-based violence. I was especially shocked to learn that FGM/C affects girls of my age in the U.S. I felt compelled to contribute to the efforts to end this issue, ...
Created on 14 January 2025
122. Critical Intersections Research Shifts Towards Implementation of Findings in Technical Assistance Trainings
(News & Blog)
By: Rachel Wine This month, Sahiyo led two trainings to expand the impact of the findings of our Critical Intersections Research Project within the greater gender-based violence (GBV) sphere. While FGM/C ...
Created on 14 January 2025
123. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... birth to my two wonderful daughters. To some, these experiences would not necessarily qualify as microaggressions, nor are they typical cases of gender-based violence, but these discourses warrant a much ...
Created on 24 December 2024
124. Sustainable Development Goals: How the UNs Benchmarks Align with Sahiyo’s Mission to End Female Gential Cutting
(News & Blog)
... such as poverty, inequality, and environmental degradation. For Sahiyo, the goals that are most closely aligned to our mission of ending FGC are: SGD 3 Good Health and Well-being for All, and SDG 5 Gender ...
Created on 12 December 2024
125. Not Who I Am
(News & Blog)
... in gender based violence my whole life and as a survivor myself it’s important to share my story. I wanted to take my advocacy forward, and while I’ve been vocal about FGC in writing and in closed circles, ...
Created on 21 November 2024
126. Global Collaboration to End FGM/C Conference 2024
(News & Blog)
... speeches that recognized FGM/C as a pressing gender-based violence issue. They also portrayed it as an alarming public health crisis, bringing with it intersecting problems of child-marriage, human trafficking, ...
Created on 18 November 2024
127. Training Recap: An Introduction to Female Genital Cutting with AshaKiran
(News & Blog)
... FGC as a form of gender-based violence (GBV) that remains largely hidden and perpetuated by silence within communities. A key discussion point was Alabama’s unique position as one of the states without ...
Created on 14 November 2024
128. Helping our Sahiyo community process the 2024 election
(News & Blog)
... feelings are valid. We also want to remind you that Sahiyo will continue to work every day to support survivors of female genital cutting (FGC) and promote gender equality, no matter what. We will work ...
Created on 07 November 2024
129. Breaking the Silence
(News & Blog)
Why did you want to attend the workshop and share your story? I wanted to attend the workshop because I recognized it as a unique opportunity to share my journey with FGM/C, a silent struggle I had endured ...
Created on 05 November 2024
130. My Story, My Voice
(News & Blog)
... parts of the workshop for me.  I think the workshop has helped me be more open to sharing my story with others. Before the workshop, I would just speak up against other forms of gender-based violence, ...
Created on 05 November 2024
131. On My Own Terms
(News & Blog)
... be threatened, so can other laws prohibiting gender and sexual violance, such as the anti-child marriage law. We need to ensure that when we talk about FGM, we frame it within the broader context of all ...
Created on 05 November 2024
132. I Am SORRY!
(News & Blog)
... youth development, human rights advocacy, and campaigns in the non-profit sector. She has dedicated her life to ending all forms of gender-based violence and her work contributed to the criminalization ...
Created on 05 November 2024
133. My Journey to Advocacy
(News & Blog)
... against FGM/C within the organization. Her deep interest in gender issues in Africa drives her pursuit of a PhD in International Relations at American University starting this Fall. Fadima is eagerly ...
Created on 05 November 2024
134. Bringing female genital cutting to the forefront: How Sahiyo helped Nevin Sutherland attend the 2024 Asian Studies Conference
(News & Blog)
... gender and sexual politics that keep the practice alive in so many communities. “Our panel was under the category of South Asian studies. We were placing FGM in the context of South Asia and comparing ...
Created on 24 October 2024
135. The forgotten history of female genital cutting in the United States
(News & Blog)
... FGC is a form of gender-based violence that is often mistakenly understood to only occur in certain cultural traditions in Africa and the Middle East, the occurrence of FGC has a history in the U.S. that ...
Created on 24 October 2024
136. Reflecting on the "Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in California - Past, Present, and Future" Webina
(News & Blog)
... the intersections of identities that survivors of FGC (for example, recognizing that an FGM/C survivor can also identify as gender-queer). This helps us recognize the need to push for a holistic approach ...
Created on 17 October 2024
137. Gender Stereotypes
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Gender Stereotypes
Created on 13 August 2024
138. Gender-based violence
(Tags)
Gender-based violence
Created on 18 July 2022
139. Transgender Rights
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Transgender Rights
Created on 22 March 2022
140. Gender
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Gender
Created on 10 February 2022