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61. 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
62. Launching Global Voices to End FGM/C — An Online Digital Storytelling Workshop
(News & Blog)
On June 1, Sahiyo and StoryCenter launched a pilot online digital storytelling workshop – Global Voices to End FGM/C, which is supporting ten women impacted by female genital cutting in sharing and audio-recording ...
Created on 29 July 2019
63. My experience of healing by attending the 2019 Sahiyo Activist Retreat in the U.S.
(News & Blog)
... was like she was indirectly speaking to my fears and they quieted somewhat. On the third day, I sat with my Saathi (my partner in the peer support program that Sahiyo is piloting) and I talked to her ...
Created on 18 April 2019
64. Survivor of Mumbai: Plight to End Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... to remember what was done to her and continue the tradition when she has daughters. Fatima is happily married with her husband and has two adult children, both boys. However, if she ever had a daughter, ...
Created on 21 March 2019
65. Reflecting before we move forward: Overview of global FGC news from 2018
(News & Blog)
... FGC prosecution. In September, the Indian Supreme court referred a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) on FGC to a five-judge constitution bench. The PIL had been filed in 2017 by a Delhi-based lawyer ...
Created on 16 January 2019
66. The Legal Side of Khatna or Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... the PIL filed against FGM/C was to be heard by the five-judge bench in the India Supreme Court. The decision initially seemed to swing in favor of banning the practice, as the judges referred to it as ...
Created on 04 December 2018
67. Thaal Pe Charcha Launches in California
(News & Blog)
... setting so that they can bond over food and discuss issues that affect their lives, like Female Genital Cutting or Khatna. The program started in Mumbai, India in 2017 and is being piloted in the United ...
Created on 15 November 2018
68. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 5: The “C” Word… and I Don’t Mean Circumcision
(News & Blog)
... the little pillar. About 500 years later, Galen, an anatomist renowned in Rome, denied its existence. Centuries later, the 1901 edition of Gray’s Anatomy included a drawing of the female pelvis in cross-section, ...
Created on 28 September 2018
69. White House Press Release Falsely links Gender Violence (and FGC) to Foreign Nationals
(News & Blog)
... from the year 2011. Observing the races of the persons arrested by the FBI in 2016 (the latest year of compiled data available at the time of writing), 69.6% of the persons arrested were white, with 26.9% ...
Created on 21 February 2018
70. A tale of deception: My conversation with an FGC survivor in Pakistan
(News & Blog)
... happily married woman with two beautiful children, but I feel a sense of deep remorse when I engage in sexual activity. I feel immoral, sinful and unclean. The trauma is so deep that the act itself becomes ...
Created on 16 February 2018
71. Female Genital Cutting is being practiced in Kerala too: Sahiyo investigation
(News & Blog)
... and four state governments to respond to the PIL. On May 29, women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi issued a statement clarifying that Female Genital Cutting would already be considered illegal ...
Created on 14 August 2017
72. Why doctors need to speak out against female genital cutting in India
(News & Blog)
... many claim they don’t feel easily aroused by clitoral stimulation.  What is a doctor’s responsibility, then, in the face of such a ritual? Two of the most basic pillars of medical ethics are to do no ...
Created on 11 July 2017
73. Despite backlash, Sahiyo will continue to work with the community
(News & Blog)
... social media platforms are blatantly untrue. To clarify a few doubts – Sahiyo has not started a petition addressed to the Syedna and we have not filed the PIL to ban khatna in India, either. We are only ...
Created on 02 June 2017
74. Why do Dawoodi Bohras practice Khatna, or Female Genital Cutting?
(News & Blog)
... the woman and more liked by the husband”, others have translated it as “…it is a source of loveliness of the face and more enjoyable for the husband”. In Volume 1 of The Pillars of Islam (Ismail Poonawala’s ...
Created on 19 May 2017
75. We need a Bohra Revolution
(News & Blog)
... community-linked businesses is linked to economic loss), extort money for officiating religious ceremonies (including permitting travel to the Hajj pilgrimage), and even denying burial in Bohra cemeteries. ...
Created on 17 May 2017
76. Why this Bohra father is guilty about his daughter's Khatn
(News & Blog)
... they don’t say it openly. In my opinion, building support in the larger civil society and legal recourse is the best way to end the practice. Maybe a public interest litigation (PIL) in India will get ...
Created on 26 November 2016
77. Our History
(Uncategorised)
... the Bohra community In 2019, Sahiyo hosted 3 workshops for the Voices to End FGM/C project: The first,  in June, was a pilot online workshop  that allowed for participants from all over the world. The ...
Created on 15 June 2016
78. Art: A Tool for Healing and Dialogue with Communities Affected by FGM
(News & Blog)
... the arts can serve. The purpose of compiling this information through my various interviews is to create a handbook to support organizations, practitioners, and direct-service providers in utilizing ...
Created on 30 May 2016
79. Bohra men must speak up to save their daughters from female circumcision
(News & Blog)
...   In my opinion, building support in the larger civil society and legal recourse is the best way to end the practice. Maybe a public interest litigation (PIL) in India will get positive result. There ...
Created on 05 May 2016
80. Join us at Azad Maidan on March 8 to assert women's equality within religio
(News & Blog)
... Muslim Mahila Andolan has filed a PIL in the Bombay High Court to allow women to enter the sanctum of the Haji Ali Dargah. Bhumata Brigade has made valiant attempts to enter the Shani Shingnapur and Trambakeshwar ...
Created on 07 March 2016