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21. Six Tips for Stress Reduction: Exercising Your Vagus Nerve to Heal Pelvic Pain
(News & Blog)
... from pelvic pain can benefit from learning how to implement lifestyle strategies that stimulate the vagus nerve and facilitate PNS activity to physiologically quiet the nervous system so the muscles of ...
Created on 29 May 2023
22. Mindful Movement for Pelvic Pain
(News & Blog)
... or have hypermobility disorders or mixed connective tissue disorders such as Elhers Danlos, consult a physical therapist first before engaging in a yoga practice.    Happy Baby Benefits: Stretches ...
Created on 25 May 2023
23. Exploring Canadian physicians’ experiences providing FGC-related care
(News & Blog)
... who participated in my study all recognized the value and importance of education, training, and mentorship in the medical and health care concerning FGC in Canada. Providers explored the benefits of education ...
Created on 11 May 2023
24. Washington State becomes 41st state to pass law against FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... against this practice; our state's children and youth will greatly benefit from the work of this coalition.” ~Dr. Stephan Blanford, Executive Director, Children's Alliance   "It saddens me that it is ...
Created on 19 April 2023
25. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration & Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Zehra Patwa
(News & Blog)
... on the risks of the practice.  I love to support the amazing work Sahiyo does so that others can benefit from their programs as I have. What did you donate? Two of my friends, who are artists, commissioned ...
Created on 25 February 2023
26. The Climate Crisis & Human Rights
(News & Blog)
... to have the benefit of these educational and training opportunities at no cost. You too can do the same for someone else.  Nesha Abiraj is an International Human Rights Lawyer. She is currently serving ...
Created on 20 February 2023
27. Why sex educators need to know about female genital cutting (FGC)
(News & Blog)
... people to the sexual health and wellness decisions that best suit their needs. Survivors of FGC and other forms of violence have experienced a violation of their autonomy, so they stand to benefit the ...
Created on 28 November 2022
28. Research: The impact of integrating FGM/C within domestic violence support services
(News & Blog)
... and funds.  The role of my project is to evaluate this collaboration between Sahiyo and AWS, by trying to answer the question: What are the benefits and challenges of integrating FGM/C and domestic violence ...
Created on 11 October 2022
29. Support Sahiyo in our work to uplift and protect girls on the Tenth Annual International Day of the Girl Child
(News & Blog)
... as to address challenges to gender equity. As outlined by the OECD, investing in women economically and socially benefits everybody. Investing in girls is an investment in the women of the future, and ...
Created on 11 October 2022
30. Training and Technical Assistance
(Programs)
... aims to empower Washington’s strategy against FGC with well-informed, culturally competent practices, potentially setting a benchmark for similar legislative efforts nationwide. For more information, visit ...
Created on 05 October 2022
31. Moving Connecticut ahead: Protecting girls from Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 
(News & Blog)
... Appeals and as a consultant to the Washington law firm Baker & Miller, PLLC. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Bennington College in Vermont in 1995 and a Juris Doctor Degree from the Washington ...
Created on 21 September 2022
32. Reflecting on A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
... limited the amount of care non-binary FGC survivors can benefit from. Dena, Afiqa, and Umme often found they had to create their own language for themselves, as their experiences were not considered in ...
Created on 01 August 2022
33. Reflection on Sahiyo webinar: Understanding Social Norms to end Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... FGC is not beneficial to women, and that these false beliefs were passed on to keep the practice in place, she decided against it for her daughter. Her daughter was shamed, ridiculed, and questioned for ...
Created on 01 August 2022
34. PRESS RELEASE: Dozens of Survivors of Female Genital Cutting Share Stories on New ‘Voices To End FGM/C’ Website
(News & Blog)
... with their own voices, words, and perspectives. Over 50 storytellers have benefitted from Voices over the past five years, and I am grateful to be one of them." ~ Aarefa Johari, co-founder and trustee, ...
Created on 29 July 2022
35. Gender-Affirming Treatments are not Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... similar to FGC in that they are both unnecessary. Yet, gender-affirming care has medical benefits (e.g. improving mental health), while FGC does not. In fact, FGC often leads to harmful psychological outcomes, ...
Created on 22 March 2022
36. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: My experience with different Bhaiyos 
(News & Blog)
... that this was never spoken about in his family or community life. He studied about it in detail and came to the conclusion that Khatna has no medical benefits as is often told. He started being active ...
Created on 22 March 2022
37. Consent and gender imbalance: their role in female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... about whether these practices are medically beneficial or not? Following this logic, the justification for carrying out this practice is the fact that it will have some medical benefits: let’s cut a part ...
Created on 10 February 2022
38. Reflecting on the 'How to Stop The Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia' webina
(News & Blog)
... Though there are no  health benefits to medicalised FGC, there is often a misguided belief that the procedure is safer when medicalised. The medicalisation of FGC refers to situations in which FGC is practised ...
Created on 09 February 2022
39. Reflecting on the launch of the first-ever Research Agenda and Ethical Guidance on Research for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation
(News & Blog)
... serves as its companion. The Guidance sets out how to obtain high quality data whilst respecting key ethical principles such as respect for human dignity, autonomy, truth, justice and beneficence. Ethical ...
Created on 08 February 2022
40. Sahiyo partners with FAWCO to lead an educational webinar on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States
(News & Blog)
... practicing communities, as well as the individual and collective benefits of creating positive social change through empowerment. It was evident that this had informed Sahiyo’s own unique approach to supporting ...
Created on 01 November 2021