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1. About - Our Story
Created on 30 November -0001
2. Sahiyo Releases Toolkit for Survivor and Community Engagement to Address FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... compiled guidance and strategies from survivors and other thought leaders, so anyone with an interest in addressing FGM/C has an accessible way to do so.” - Hannah Feeney, RTI International The toolkit ...
Created on 11 March 2025
3. Intern Spotlight: Policy Intern Rachel Aguilar
(News & Blog)
... information packets, compile contact information, reach out to partner organizations, track legislation and official statements, and more. How has your involvement with Sahiyo impacted your life? Working ...
Created on 18 February 2025
4. Reflecting on Sahiyo’s 2024 Activists Retreat
(News & Blog)
... a safe and inclusive space. Typically, this program is exclusive to activists and members in the South Asian Bohra community. However, this year’s retreat piloted an inclusive approach, welcoming 14 participants ...
Created on 22 August 2024
5. A Conversation On Intersectionality: Sahiyo and The U.S. Network Launch Pilot Project
(News & Blog)
... Sahiyo U.S.’s ongoing Critical Intersections Research Project, the two entities have joined forces for a pilot project around intersectionality and FGC.  In May, the U.S. Network and Sahiyo began sending ...
Created on 18 July 2024
6. Headline: Understanding the Critical Intersections of FGM/C with other social injustices: Encouraging dialogue on cross-movement collaboration
(News & Blog)
... systemic racism and FGM/C) To compile tools, resources, case studies, and more that illustrate how cross-collaboration can be carried out within the larger social justice field  If you and your organization ...
Created on 14 May 2024
7. Navigating Complexity: Understanding and Addressing Challenges Faced by Kurdish Women with FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... sessions, the educational materials used were compiled into a publication titled “Living with FGM in Kurdish Regions.” This book aims to fill a significant gap in existing literature, and serves as a guide ...
Created on 26 April 2024
8. Critical Intersections
(Programs)
... identities and associated needs of FGM/C survivors Identify components of building successful collaborations across organizations focused on different social oppressions (i.e. systemic racism and FGM/C) Compile ...
Created on 28 August 2023
9. South Asian SOAR launches Zine
(News & Blog)
In May 2023, South Asian SOAR launched a Zine to commemorate and honor the stories of 16 South Asian survivors of gender-based violence who took part in their 2022 pilot storytelling workshop. The program ...
Created on 17 July 2023
10. Who are you, really?
(News & Blog)
... other permitted to grow, change, become. So, I wrote about it. And just like my blood was spilled all those years ago, in that cold metal room, on that cold metal gurney, I spilled ink. Writer’s Blood. ...
Created on 13 April 2023
11. Training and Technical Assistance
(Programs)
... Shelter was able to expand the capacity of the crisis line to include supporting survivors of FGC in August 2022. The goal of this collaborative pilot project between Sahiyo and AWS is to address gaps ...
Created on 05 October 2022
12. FGC in India
(News & Blog)
... (FGM/C) in India Bodily Integrity of a Woman Cannot be Infringed, SC Observes in PIL Seeking Ban on Female Genital Mutilation 2017 FGM carried out in Kerala too, Sahiyo study Female genital ...
Created on 26 September 2021
13. Sahiyo volunteer spotlight: Communications intern Amena Ali
(News & Blog)
... work involves compiling and organizing databases. I'm also working on article mentions, as well as the Dear Maasi video which represents Farzana Doctor’s sex and relationship column.  3) How has your ...
Created on 03 August 2021
14. Webinar: Female genital cutting is an under-recognized form of gender-based violence in the U.S.
(News & Blog)
... Ebola crisis in West Africa that can help us support women and girls during the COVID-19 crisis. Finally, we compiled a list of resources for service providers to further educate themselves on how to both ...
Created on 30 April 2021
15. In the Name of Your Daughter: A film for change
(News & Blog)
... for promiscuity or uncleanliness. In the last scene, we see a montage of young girls, each with a dream. One wants to become a doctor, another an aerospace pilot. As Portenier commented in the panel discussion ...
Created on 28 February 2021
16. Is legal action against female genital cutting enough to end the practice?
(News & Blog)
Understanding the impact of a Sahiyo co-founder’s documentary film, A Pinch of Skin, in India by Priya Goswami In September 2018, the Indian Supreme Court referred a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) ...
Created on 20 October 2020
17. Massachusetts Senate passes FGM/C bill
(News & Blog)
BOSTON, MA – July 30, 2020 – Sahiyo would like to thank the President of the Massachusetts Senate, Karen Spilka, and bill sponsor Senator Joe Boncore (D-First Suffolk and Middlesex) for the passage of ...
Created on 30 July 2020
18. Sahiyo Partner Organization Highlight: StoryCenter
(News & Blog)
... the silence, ending stigma, and building leadership among women for speaking out against FGM/C, would be the perfect collaborating partner. I approached her, and together, we put on a pilot digital storytelling ...
Created on 11 May 2020
19. Voices to End FGM/C
(Uncategorised)
... were held, including a pilot online workshop, to increase participation of storytellers living globally, and to further our reach and capacity to highlight the stories of women affected by female genital ...
Created on 13 December 2019
20. Understanding the Supreme Court’s latest judgement mentioning female genital cutting in India
(News & Blog)
... a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Supreme Court seeking a ban on the practice of female genital cutting (also known as khatna, khafz, sunnath or female circumcision) in India. FGC is practiced ...
Created on 17 November 2019