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1. FAQs
Created on 30 November -0001
2. Interview with Zehra Patwa of the Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... that my cousin had done for a TV documentary in Australia, talking about her experience of FGM/C in the Bohra community I thought ‘Oh, that’s terrible that she had to go through this.' And at the ...
Created on 20 October 2024
3. The practice of khatna on girls must stop / છોકરીઓ પર ખત્નાની પ્રથા બંધ થવી જોઈએ
(News & Blog)
... a harm like no other. This is the only one.  A few years ago, a case was filed against three Bohras in Australia for carrying out this practice of khatna on two young girls. This practice is illegal ...
Created on 20 June 2024
4. The African Women’s Clinic: An Interview with Australia’s Only FGM/C Clinic
(News & Blog)
By: Kiah Leone While in Australia, I had the privilege of speaking with Marie Jones and Nigisti Mulholland from The African Women’s Clinic in Victoria, Australia to learn more about their clinic, the ...
Created on 27 February 2024
5. Announcing the Women Deliver 2023 Conference
(News & Blog)
... make FGM/C a practice of the past. This represented the first time that global FGM/C activists from Africa to Europe, from Australia to Asia and to North America came together to unite voices around a ...
Created on 03 July 2023
6. Exploring Canadian physicians’ experiences providing FGC-related care
(News & Blog)
By Kiah Leone As countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, and others become increasingly aware of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC) and its presence in their country, their healthcare ...
Created on 11 May 2023
7. Why one Bohra woman shared her experience with female genital cutting publicly
(News & Blog)
... The Dawoodi Bohra population comprises up to one million people in countries such as India, Pakistan, Yemen, Kenya, Egypt, Tanzania and South Africa. Diaspora communities also live in Europe, Australia ...
Created on 15 January 2021
8. Is legal action against female genital cutting enough to end the practice?
(News & Blog)
... long term change.” A broad evidence base for this is how some Dawoodi Bohra community members in the United States (U.S.) and Australia have hushed the practice, pushing it further underground, as the ...
Created on 20 October 2020
9. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... legislation against FGC, recognizing that it happens in various countries there. Australia does as well. There was a court case that really brought it to light a few years ago. There’s attempts to strengthen ...
Created on 25 June 2020
10. Part II–Medicalising khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... drivers of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), law can play an additional critical role in disincentivizing khatna. The arrests in the U.S. and Australia due to the medicalisation of FGM/C, led ...
Created on 23 June 2020
11. Khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... United States and Australia. Religious leaders also began addressing it through sermons and letters issued to community members. The public interest litigation in the Indian Supreme Court in 2017 and the ...
Created on 25 February 2020
12. The movement to end FGM/C: Looking back at the 2010s and looking forward in 2020
(News & Blog)
... FGC on the legal front, particularly for the Dawoodi Bohra community.  Australia: In 2015, three Bohras — a mother, a nurse and a community leader — were convicted for performing FGC on two minor girls ...
Created on 11 January 2020
13. Op-Ed: A Global Platform to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... rights has no place in the world today. It must stop. Now. Last June at the Women Deliver Conference held in Vancouver, for the first time, global FGM/C activists from Africa to Europe, from Australia ...
Created on 11 November 2019
14. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore
(News & Blog)
... of FGC in Singapore, Gabriele Marranci (an Australian anthropologist) explained why this practice is so hidden. He suggests that this is a form of “religious ethnic resilience within an environment affected ...
Created on 19 March 2019
15. Reflecting before we move forward: Overview of global FGC news from 2018
(News & Blog)
... the country, as hopefully, it can set a precedent for future cases. August brought the overturning of an Australian case from 2015, in which a Dawoodi Bohra mother and a former nurse were found guilty ...
Created on 16 January 2019
16. Female Genital Cutting is an International Issue
(News & Blog)
... in the world where females undergo FGC. Unfortunately, this is not the case. This practice reaches Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Australia. Its presence on multiple continents leads FGC ...
Created on 06 December 2018
17. The Legal Side of Khatna or Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... such as Sahiyo and WeSpeakOut continue to provide crucial support for survivors to rally in solidarity.   Several countries in Africa, as well as the United States and Australia, have made consistent ...
Created on 04 December 2018
18. Examining Female Genital Cutting and Intersectionality
(News & Blog)
... do nothing to enforce the ruling. This violent relationship between the state and vulnerable women is not restricted to the Indian context. I am reminded of the first FGC case to be prosecuted in Australia, ...
Created on 27 November 2018
19. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 5: The “C” Word… and I Don’t Mean Circumcision
(News & Blog)
... an Australian urologist, and her colleagues have corrected that misconception (O’Connell, Sanjeevan, and Hutson, 2005). Using modern imaging techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), O’Connell ...
Created on 28 September 2018
20. Sahiyo and Khatna survivors get attacked online through ‘organized trolling’
(News & Blog)
... any view that counters or challenges the practice. FGC is illegal in many parts of the world including United States and Australia, where people from the Bohra community have faced legal action for ...
Created on 25 May 2018