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61. FGM/C in sports: Why some female athletes are being coerced into partial clitoridectomy
(News & Blog)
... believe that higher than average testosterone provides some female athletes with an unfair competitive advantage. One olympian, South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya, has been at the center ...
Created on 26 May 2020
62. Sahiyo Staff Spotlight: Tania Parks
(News & Blog)
... Action from The Paris Institute of Political Studies with concentrations in Middle East Studies and Migration Studies. 1) When and how did you first get involved with Sahiyo? I first got involved with ...
Created on 15 March 2020
63. Survivor: Why labia elongation is female genital mutilation
(News & Blog)
... lips of the vulva, arguably one of the most sensitive parts of female anatomy.  “The men in our culture expect that you have your labia the (length) of your middle finger,” Comfort said. “For the first ...
Created on 06 February 2020
64. Voices Series: Survivors are more than their stories
(News & Blog)
... diplomat with a regional interest in the Middle East. In graduate school, I used to write regularly for the Columbia Spectator and joined an art collective where I exhibited paintings in New York galleries, ...
Created on 05 February 2020
65. Multiple events on female genital cutting hosted at Women Deliver in Vancouver
(News & Blog)
... especially in Asia Pacific, the Middle-East, the Americas, Europe and Eurasia? 2) How can activists, CSOs, intergovernmental bodies, and funders move forward as one to hold States, International and regional ...
Created on 14 June 2019
66. A Nigerian Nurse's Perspective on Female Genital Cuttin
(News & Blog)
... Many African countries and countries in the Middle East have been reported to have a large concentration of practicing communities. However, FGC is not limited to these areas, nor is it practiced by every ...
Created on 29 January 2019
67. Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board Spotlight: Maryum Saifee
(News & Blog)
... I worked in a small village just north of the Dead Sea in Jordan. In my two years there, I became interested in the impact of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. When I came home from Jordan, I served ...
Created on 14 January 2019
68. Female Genital Cutting is an International Issue
(News & Blog)
By Brionna Wiggins Upon hearing about female genital cutting and what it entails, it seems that one of the first facts you hear about it has to do with its prevalence in Africa and the Middle East. While ...
Created on 06 December 2018
69. Looking from the Outside-In: Initial Perceptions of Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... Just as a considerable amount of Americans now do not align themselves to the US government’s values and decisions, women of African, Middle Eastern, and South East Asian origins are just as much, if not ...
Created on 21 September 2018
70. Khatna and the law, Part 1: Legislative Framework on Female Genital Cutting in Egypt
(News & Blog)
By Bhavya Singh Since the recognition of the presence of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East, efforts have been made to eliminate it in these areas. At the international ...
Created on 13 July 2018
71. An appeal to Maneka Gandhi: Stop the flip-flops on Female Genital Cutting in India
(News & Blog)
... for Women and Child Development has flip-flopped on its stand on FGC at least twice. Its latest u-turn came on Wednesday, June 27, when the Ministry mentioned, in the middle of a larger press release, ...
Created on 29 June 2018
72. Sahiyo’s petition to the United Nations needs your help
(News & Blog)
... restricted to countries in sub-Saharan Africa. FGM/C is reported in many Asian, European, and Middle Eastern nations; however, there is a considerable lack of data from these countries, which means the ...
Created on 07 May 2018
73. FGC in Sri Lanka
(News & Blog)
 Sri Lank-Culture: Mothers Watch as Daughters are Circumcised   Stop FGM Middle East: Sri Lank  Harmful Traditional Practices in Three Countries of South Asia: culture, human rights, and violence ...
Created on 04 December 2017
74. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(News & Blog)
FGC in Asia: Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting in Asia Remain a Neglected Problem  FGC in Asia and the Middle East Map Following our report, Facebook removes ‘Islamic Female Circumcision’ page ...
Created on 04 December 2017
75. Furore about Female Genital Cutting in Kerala: Impact of Sahiyo’s investigation
(News & Blog)
...  The doctors at the clinic mentioned the presence of a middleman named Ansari who brings women to them for FGC. Mathrubhumi claims to have communicated with some people online who ...
Created on 01 September 2017
76. A conversation on Khatna with Suleimani Bohras
(News & Blog)
... the world, including the Middle East, Pakistan, Europe, South-east Asia, North America and Australia. The community has now dropped the ‘Bohra’ from its name so we just call ourselves Suleimanis. Shaheeda: ...
Created on 10 March 2017
77. Invest in ending FGC in Asia: Why Sahiyo and 33 organisations are petitioning the U.N.
(News & Blog)
... and certain parts of the Middle East. Yet, in 2015, when Sahiyo pursued a small scale online study to understand the extent of FGC amongst the Dawoodi Bohras, we found that FGC was practiced amongst 80% ...
Created on 02 January 2017
78. FGM/C from an artist’s perspective: Art for cultural change
(News & Blog)
... than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. In the U.S., more than half a million women and girls are estimated to be affected or at ...
Created on 20 September 2016
79. I did not circumcise my daughters, says a Malay Muslim mother
(News & Blog)
... removed like in some parts of Africa and Middle-East. I will require more validity from theological and medical sources before I hand over my child for such a procedure. As a Muslim and a mother, my ...
Created on 08 September 2016
80. Sahiyo welcomes the new WHO guidelines to improve care for millions living with female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... too! The guidelines, while defining the practice of various types of FGC, has finally put Asia and Middle East on the map of areas affected along with Africa. As the guidelines state:  ‘International ...
Created on 18 May 2016