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1. About - Our Story
Created on 30 November -0001
2. FAQs
Created on 30 November -0001
3. Reflecting on “Storytelling as a Tool for Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/C) Survivor-Centered Change” at CSW 69
(News & Blog)
... setting. This moment reminded us how powerful and vulnerable storytelling can be—even long after the initial release of the stories. As members of the Dawoodi Bohra community, both Zehra and Leena spoke ...
Created on 21 March 2025
4. Interview with Zehra Patwa of the Connecticut Coalition to End FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... U.S.’s Advisory Board Chair and co-founder of WeSpeakOut.  When she was in her 40s, Patwa discovered that FGM/C was taking place in the Dawoodi Bohra community she belongs to. “I was shown an interview ...
Created on 20 October 2024
5. The practice of khatna on girls must stop / છોકરીઓ પર ખત્નાની પ્રથા બંધ થવી જોઈએ
(News & Blog)
... the Dawoodi Bohra, a Shia sub-sect that generally looks modern and reformist on the surface. When a girl is young, the Bohras cut her clitoris. They believe this to be a religious rite, and even today, ...
Created on 20 June 2024
6. Sahiyo's Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Kaneez Madraswall
(News & Blog)
... represents a commitment to ending a harmful practice, supporting survivors, empowering women and girls, and advocating for positive change in communities affected by FGC – especially the Dawoodi Bohra ...
Created on 02 March 2024
7. Bearing Tradition: Navigating the Pressure of Khatna
(News & Blog)
By Faizneen Bharmal Growing up in a progressive and well-educated Dawoodi Bohra family, the topic of Khatna, commonly known as female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) around the world, was always shrouded ...
Created on 11 January 2024
8. Session on FGM at the workshop Nayi Dishayein- Rethinking Development
(News & Blog)
... fact that male members of my community are either unaware of FGM/C, or choose to stay away from the cutting of their loved ones, to be deeply unsettling. My community is the Dawoodi Bohra community, where ...
Created on 06 February 2023
9. Volunteer spotlight: Umme Kulsoom Arif
(News & Blog)
... Law in University Park. Despite having been born and raised as a part of the Dawoodi Bohra community, they did not become familiar with FGC until they were nineteen, when they learned that they had a much ...
Created on 16 December 2022
10. Reflecting on ‘Moving Connecticut Ahead: Protecting Girls from FGM/C’, a webinar
(News & Blog)
... and girls. FGC reflects and perpetuates a broader trend of gender inequality.  Zehra Patwa, a survivor of FGC and member of the Dawoodi Bohra community, spoke to the social norm piece of FGC through ...
Created on 09 November 2022
11. Sahiyo Discusses book club holds next event in September
(News & Blog)
... volunteers with WeSpeakOut, a global group that is working to ban female genital cutting (FGC) in her Dawoodi Bohra community, and is a co-founder of the End FGM Canada Network. Farzana is also behind ...
Created on 04 August 2022
12. Activists Retreat Reflection: Umme's experienc
(News & Blog)
... perceived by others to be a woman, as opposed to actually feeling like one myself? What did gender and sexuality even mean in the context of being a survivor, an activist, a Dawoodi Bohra, both in the ...
Created on 29 July 2022
13. Research
(Programs)
... Original Research Understanding Female Genital Cutting in the Dawoodi Bohra Community: An Exploratory Survey First-ever global study on FGC in the Dawoodi Bohra community  ...
Created on 29 June 2022
14. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: My experience with different Bhaiyos 
(News & Blog)
... of modern education that the Dawoodi Bohra community strives for. I would urge others to speak with men about FGM/C, and open up conversations to share experiences, facts, and outcome of research studies ...
Created on 22 March 2022
15. Sahiyo partners with FAWCO to lead an educational webinar on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States
(News & Blog)
... ‘khatna’ and the Dawoodi Bohras, a community that partakes in the  harmful practice of FGM/C. Through her own journey of speaking out as a survivor, she recognised the need for an organised forum within ...
Created on 01 November 2021
16. End FGM - Save our daughters
(News & Blog)
... my society are talking about it even a little bit. It's also called 'Khafz' in Islamic terms, and it's a ritual in the Dawoodi Bohra community. Khatna usually takes place at the age of seven with girls. ...
Created on 30 September 2021
17. Four women who were pivotal to the movement to end female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
By Megan Maxwell The movement to end female genital cutting (FGC) has been in effect starting as far back as the latter half of the 19th century through the voices, writing, and research of women who ...
Created on 25 March 2021
18. Sahiyo in the Media
(News & Blog)
... of “female genital cutting”: Sahiyo report Sahiyo is India’s first collective against type of FGM called Khatna in the Dawoodi Bohra comunity. 2016  Fighting Female Genital Mutilation among ...
Created on 02 March 2021
19. Why one Bohra woman shared her experience with female genital cutting publicly
(News & Blog)
... of having been cut as a member of the Dawoodi Bohra sect in Pakistan. “Being part of the Bohra community is feeling like a part of something,” Khozema said. “Though we are scattered around the world, ...
Created on 15 January 2021
20. Dear Maasi: Where do I begin with psychotherapy after undergoing khatna?
(News & Blog)
... the Dawoodi Bohra Community The Clitoral Hood A Contested Site Khafd or Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in India  Resolving the trauma of khatna can help us live happier, more fulfilling ...
Created on 14 January 2021