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81. Male Engagement within the Movement to End FGM/C: From Conversation to Connection: Creating a dialogue between men and women on FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... of family. When men understand that FGM  endangers their daughters, wives, and close female relatives and friends, they start to understand how their indifference toward the practice only makes the matter ...
Created on 16 September 2024
82. Interview with Joanne Golden of the Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... allows impacted communities to say no to having their daughters cut.” Thank you to Joanne Golden for taking the time to sit down with our policy intern, Juliet Shires, and for her continued work with ...
Created on 04 September 2024
83. Starting the Dialogue: Sharing Your Experiences on Initiating Conversations with Men about Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... religious perspectives, and whether they would consider FGC for their daughters. I emphasized that my aim was not to make them oppose FGC but to understand their perspectives. Insights and Reflections ...
Created on 21 June 2024
84. The practice of khatna on girls must stop / છોકરીઓ પર ખત્નાની પ્રથા બંધ થવી જોઈએ
(News & Blog)
By Hakim Rangwala Even in today's modern age, when Mukesh Ambani entrusted his daughter Isha with the management of a multi-crore retail business, there exists a very repulsive and harmful practice among ...
Created on 20 June 2024
85. Our Fight to End FGM in The Gambia: Who is Listening?
(News & Blog)
... progress that has been made in protecting our daughters, our sisters, and future generations of women and girls. I speak up for myself, for my generation, and for the millions of girls who will hear ...
Created on 02 April 2024
86. A Space to Belong: My Reflection on the 2023 Activist Retreat
(News & Blog)
... and pleased to see – that we had moms and grandmothers in the space talking about how they prevented their daughters from being cut, or they themselves were saved from it. Learning that this work had been ...
Created on 01 April 2024
87. Sahiyo's Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Zehra Patw
(News & Blog)
... generations-old practice.  It was really refreshing to be with a group of Bohra women who were not going to take it any longer and were like, “we're not going to let this happen to our daughters. We'r ...
Created on 29 February 2024
88. Zehra Patwa on Sahiyo and the Coalition to End FGM/C’s recent panel discussion with Connecticut legislators – and why it was a positive step forward
(News & Blog)
... to black and brown bodies that may have come from communities that cut their daughters. I applaud Connecticut for this sensitivity but in the end, FGC needs to stop and girls need to be protected. Why ...
Created on 22 February 2024
89. Breaking the Cycle: A Journey in Women's Health and FGM/C Awarenes
(News & Blog)
... to be both an invitation to engage in an open dialogue about women's health and an encouragement for conversations across generations — from grandmothers to mothers to daughters.  By weaving these elements ...
Created on 11 January 2024
90. Bearing Tradition: Navigating the Pressure of Khatna
(News & Blog)
... that she understood my perspective and is willing to support me in my mission to educate women of her generation and those younger so that the burden of this practice is not passed down to their daughters ...
Created on 11 January 2024
91. Grief to promoting education: Jacqueline’s inspiration to end FGM/C
(News & Blog)
By Megan Seaver Jacqueline’s story with female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is one of both survival and advocacy. She works tirelessly to prevent other families from pressuring their daughters ...
Created on 02 January 2024
92. Secrecy leads to the continuation of FGC in families and communities
(News & Blog)
...  “I sit and talk with people and they still totally believe in the practice and they are proud of it and they are thinking of mutilating their daughters.” “My last experience with a field visit was ...
Created on 02 January 2024
93. Volunteer Spotlight: Events & Programs Intern Derrick Simiyu
(News & Blog)
... movement against FGC? FGC has an impact on men as well as women in society. Men are indirectly affected when their daughters, spouses, or girlfriends have had FGC even though they are not directly afflicted ...
Created on 30 May 2023
94. Sahiyo spotlight: Incoming U.S. Advisory Board Chair Zehra Patwa
(News & Blog)
... As an advocate for an anti-FGM/C law in Connecticut, I have had to explain the nuances surrounding cutting and the motivations of parents who have their daughters cut. People outside cutting communities ...
Created on 24 April 2023
95. Sahiyo releases seven new Voices to End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting videos created by survivors and advocates 
(News & Blog)
... and activist; I can continue contributing to a growing body of voices that will put an end to this practice in my daughter’s lifetime.” ~Farrah Dalal, Voices Storyteller   Farrah is one of seven storytellers ...
Created on 17 April 2023
96. My story doesn’t end here
(News & Blog)
... will put an end to this practice in my daughter’s lifetime.   Farrah Dalal M.Ed has worked in various university settings all over the country. After receiving a BA in Sociology from the University ...
Created on 11 April 2023
97. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration & Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Dr. Akil Taherbhai
(News & Blog)
... a great shock to me that my co-workers and colleagues, all doctors, were circumcising their own daughters. I think that’s when I first began feeling passionate about this issue. I only actively got involved ...
Created on 02 March 2023
98. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration & Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Tahir Taherbhai
(News & Blog)
... to Sahiyo by Arefa Casshobhoy, who is the daughter of one of my closest friends. Before that, I knew of the organisation’s existence through my daughter, who had interacted with Sahiyo in California about ...
Created on 27 February 2023
99. CWCSEO issues press release on International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... their daughters from the pressure to cut and be cut." Zehra Patwa, FGM/C Activist/Survivor and Co-founder of WeSpeakOut and member of the Coalition. About the CWCSEO: The Commission on Women, Children, ...
Created on 06 February 2023
100. The urgency of climate change: Reflecting on my conversation with activist Domtila Chesang
(News & Blog)
by Urvashi Sharma On a foggy day in October, I had the pleasure of speaking with Domtila Chesang, an inspired activist against female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Kenya, and more recently a ...
Created on 15 December 2022