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1. Addressing Female Genital Cutting Requires Context and Compassion
(News & Blog)
... Goal number 5 aims to end  FGC by the year 2030. Despite all these efforts, there is very limited or close to no data in South  Asia. With the exceptions of Indonesia and Maldives (Bamber & Riches, 2020; ...
Created on 10 June 2025
2. Reflecting on “Storytelling as a Tool for Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/C) Survivor-Centered Change” at CSW 69
(News & Blog)
... her own community in Singapore and the broader diaspora. She expressed hope that her story might resonate with communities in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei, where similar experiences are generally underrepresented, ...
Created on 21 March 2025
3. Supporting Survivors in the LGBTQIA+ Community: How Sahiyo Helped Afiqa Attend the ASEAN Queer Leadership Week
(News & Blog)
... Thailand, Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Cambodia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei Darussalam, and Singapore. They were activists advocating on behalf of the rights of the disabled,  labor rights, ...
Created on 06 February 2025
4. UNICEF releases new data on global prevalence of FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... more relevant data for our work to end FGM/C, it is worth noting that Asian countries like India and Indonesia, and Middle Eastern countries like Pakistan and Iran are missing entirely. With the absence ...
Created on 21 March 2024
5. Upcoming Equality Now media training
(News & Blog)
... practitioners reporting on the prevalence of FGM/C in Asia in an effective way.  The practice of FGM/C has been recorded in Asian countries such as Indonesia, Singapore, Maldives, Malaysia, the Philippines, ...
Created on 08 December 2023
6. Sahiyo Discusses book club to hold next event in September
(News & Blog)
... September 27, 2023 the group will meet virtually for Sahiyo Discusses: Cut Woman by Dena Igusti. Dena Igusti is an Indonesian Muslim writer born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT ...
Created on 06 September 2023
7. PRESS RELEASE: Dozens of Survivors of Female Genital Cutting Share Stories on New ‘Voices To End FGM/C’ Website
(News & Blog)
... countries, including the United States, Canada, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, Tanzania, Chad, and more. The storytellers represent a range of ages, economic statuses, cultural ...
Created on 29 July 2022
8. Including non-cis-women as FGM/C survivors
(News & Blog)
... left out of their own healing because we only associate FGM/C with womanhood.  /p> Dena Igusti is a queer non binary Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, filmmaker, producer, and FGC survivor & activist ...
Created on 31 May 2022
9. A Quiet Violence: Navigating Female Genital Cutting as an LGBTQ+ Survivor
(News & Blog)
...    Dena Igusti (they/them) is a queer non-binary Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, filmmaker, producer, and FGC survivor & activist born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT ...
Created on 25 May 2022
10. Reflecting on the 'How to Stop The Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia' webina
(News & Blog)
... everywhere in the world. Sahiyo co-founder Insia Dariwala raised pressing questions such as how do we hold doctors responsible and who is going to do it? Ibu Atas, long standing activist for FGC in Indonesia ...
Created on 09 February 2022
11. Introducing the Speakers for ‘How to Stop the Rising Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Cutting in Asia’
(News & Blog)
... health and rights. She has been working to end FGM/C in Indonesia since 1994, when, as a lecturer of Women’s Studies at the University of Indonesia, she supported country-level work that influenced the ...
Created on 14 January 2022
12. Research Studies on FGC
(Resources)
... in Indonesia: A Field Study State-Of-The-Art Synthesis Report on FGM/C – What Do We Know Now? Root causes and persistent challenges in accelerating the abandonment of FGM/C 2015 New Study ...
Created on 04 December 2020
13. Voices Series: Finding my voice through storytelling on female genital mutilation/cutting
(News & Blog)
... FGM/C does not happen in Indonesia and if it happens it’s not as severe as in other places. I break my silence to debunk this conception and to get involved in actions to address the issue. One of the ...
Created on 12 February 2020
14. Sahiyo's Second Annual Retreat: A Space for Healing and Reflectio
(News & Blog)
... from non-African communities speak out, we are seeing this is much more pervasive than we previously thought. In Indonesia for example, UNICEF estimated that nearly 50% of girls and women are cut before ...
Created on 16 July 2019
15. The Disturbing Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Mutilation
(News & Blog)
... with the practice. Consequently, in recent years, the medicalisation of FGM has taken place globally, particularly in Egypt, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mali, Nigeria, Northern Sudan, and Yemen. In many ...
Created on 05 March 2019
16. Female Genital Cutting is an International Issue
(News & Blog)
... as Malaysia and Indonesia. There have even been reports in Colombia, South America. This puts FGC on every continent in the world! As previously mentioned, FGC occurs among diaspora communities. When ...
Created on 06 December 2018
17. Female Genital Cutting (FGC): Is it an Islamic Practice? (Part 2)
(News & Blog)
... Indonesia and Malaysia considers FGC an Islamic practice, yet they are culturally influenced by the region where Yemen and Oman are situated, countries that have considerable FGC prevalence. At a time ...
Created on 13 October 2018
18. Tracing the Origins of Female Genital Cutting: How It All started
(News & Blog)
... of Sunni Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia justifies FGC as an Islamic practice and is culturally influenced by the Eastern part of the Arabian peninsula, the region where presently Yemen and Oman are situated. ...
Created on 21 July 2018
19. Finally in the spotlight: Female Genital Cutting is getting national attention in Sri Lanka
(News & Blog)
... by the Sri Lankan Parliament in 1951. According to this website, “The origin of Sri Lankan MMDA stems from a code of law on marriage and divorce exported from Batavia (present day Indonesia) in 1770 during ...
Created on 14 December 2017
20. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(News & Blog)
... FGM and Muslim Women’s Rights FGC in Indonesia: Increasing understanding of FGC in Indonesia: A field study by Islamic Relief Canada A Cutting Tradition Ending Female Genital Mutilation in ...
Created on 04 December 2017