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  • Female Genital Mutilation: A Human Rights Issue?

    Shelby was particularly insightful about the legal implications of overturning the federal constitutional ban on FGM in the Detroit case and the subsequent appeals process. Aissata was passionate about informing the audience that FGM was “not just an...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/female-genital-mutilation-a-human-rights-issue.html

  • Female Genital Cutting Diaries: My first encounter with the tradition of female genital cutting

    mothers and fathers perpetuate the practice 5,000 miles away in India and among diaspora communities such as the one in Detroit, Michigan. I am struck by how the impetus to cut has no bounds; how an impoverished Malian community that runs out of grain...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/fgc-diaries-my-first-encounter-with-the-tradition.html

  • My Reflections on Sahiyo’s Activist Retreat and my advocacy on ending FGM/C in the U.S.

    social change. Already, I have written about my own experience of FGC (Khatna) for Sahiyo. I have given interviews to the Detroit Press during the arrest of Jumana Nagarwala, the doctor in theU.S. who in April 2017 was first charged with performing...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/reflections-retreat-advocacy.html

  • Reflecting before we move forward: Overview of global FGC news from 2018

    but to prohibit the practice would be an infringement on their religious freedom rights. In November, a federal judge in Detroit declared a US federal law banning female genital mutilation unconstitutional. As a result, several charges against two...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/global-fgc-news-from-2018.html

  • StoryCenter-A digital storytelling workshop for Bohra women in the United States

    believe female genital cutting only exists in other parts of the world, not in the United States. But in April 2017, a Detroit doctor was arrested for performing FGC on two seven-year-old girls. This doctor belonged to the same religious sect I grew up...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/storycenter-a-digital-storytelling-workshop-in-the-united-states.html

  • Each One Reach One 2: Read this conversation guide to get started

    respectfully and sensitively engage in discussions with our family, friends and the wider community. Since the arrests in Detroit, many of you have reached out to us asking for advice on how to broach the topic of Khatna with your close friends and...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/each-one-reach-one-2-read-this-conversation-guide-to-get-started.html

  • We must find culturally sensitive methods to end FGC and protect girls from further trauma

    Bohra community came onto the federal radar in the US because of the arrest of a doctor associated with the practice in Detroit, Michigan. This arrest was followed by a few more arrests leading to subsequent intervention by Michigan’s Child Protection...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/we-must-find-culturally-sensitive-methods.html

  • Female Genital Cutting: Religion has nothing to do with it

    precious girls because the highest religious office in the community still preaches that it’s the right thing to do. The Detroit case gives me a glimmer of hope thatmaybe people within our communities living in the United States will think twice about...

    https://sahiyo.org/sahiyo-blog/female-genital-cutting-religion.html

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