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81. #MenToEndFGC: Sahiyo’s Male Ally Campaign Launches
(News & Blog)
... that share one thing in common: taking a stand against the practice of FGC and denouncing it.  The response we received was amazing. Dozens of men across the globe from Ghana and Kenya to multiple regions ...
Created on 12 August 2019
82. Joint Press Release: ENDING FGM/C BY 2030: Uniting forces to make FGM/C a practice of the past
(News & Blog)
... traditional and religious leaders, health workers, law and policy makers. During the opening plenary of the Women Deliver conference, His Excellency Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya, committed to end ...
Created on 04 June 2019
83. The Disturbing Trend of Medicalising Female Genital Mutilation
(News & Blog)
... girls under 14 in 1995, to 8% in 2016.  Some countries with lower rates – including Kenya and Tanzania, where 3-10% of girls endure FGM – helped drive down the overall figure. Nevertheless, UNICEF’s groundbreaking ...
Created on 05 March 2019
84. Locating female genital cutting through films and documentaries
(News & Blog)
... Be Cut’: Kenyan Girls Fight Back against Genital Mutilation (2011), A Pinch of Skin (2012), The Cruel Cut – Female Genital Mutilation (2013), True Story – Female Genital Mutilation in Afar, Ethiopia (2013), ...
Created on 19 February 2019
85. Why female genital cutting still continues: Exploring the reasons behind its sustenance
(News & Blog)
... of Abundant Life, explains among the Kikiyu people of Kenya, FGC is celebrated as a mark of womanhood. Among the Bambuti and Thonga community, during the procedure girls are shown no mercy and are treated ...
Created on 05 February 2019
86. Female Genital Cutting charges dismissed but our work continues: Global reactions to Michigan case news
(News & Blog)
... the girl child.” ~ Zarina Patel, Kenya “As I was reading, ‘Judge dismisses female genital mutilation charges in historic case.’ My blood was boiling. Where’s the justice for these women? What message ...
Created on 22 November 2018
87. A Tradition That Branded Me
(News & Blog)
... an anti-FGM campaigner, a human rights defender and a gender activist from the Samburu community in Northern Kenya. Severina graduated from Wichita State University, Kansas State with a Master’s Degree ...
Created on 25 September 2018
88. Looking from the Outside-In: Initial Perceptions of Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... the continuation of FGM among adolescent girls in Kenya is only 16%, Niger 3%, Senegal 23%”. It has also been recorded by Sahiyo that 81% of the female Bohra community disagreed with the continuation of ...
Created on 21 September 2018
89. WeSpeakOut spearheads two-day workshop on ending FGC in India
(News & Blog)
... Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative, an NGO working to end FGC in Kenya. Over two days, the workshop nurtured stimulating and productive discussions on various aspects of FGC and discussed strategies to advocate ...
Created on 13 September 2018
90. Tracing the Origins of Female Genital Cutting: How It All started
(News & Blog)
... is rife among the Kuria, Kikiyu, Masai and Pokot people in Kenya, Zaramos in Tanzania, Dogon and Bambara people in Mali to name a few. Scholars have also indicated the income-generating facet of the practice ...
Created on 21 July 2018
91. Sahiyo participates in Canadian webinar on FGC
(News & Blog)
... that has anti-FGC programmes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda; Jenna Richards from Orchid Project, a UK-based organisation that supports anti-FGC partners in Senegal, Kenya and India, among others; Aarefa ...
Created on 25 June 2018
92. Sahiyo to be a part of a new global movement for progressive Muslims
(News & Blog)
... of other liberal Muslim organisations from Malaysia, Tunisia, Pakistan, USA, Canada, Argentina, Burundi, Somalia, Kenya, Netherlands, Germany and more. Sahiyo co-founder Aarefa Johari also attended the ...
Created on 21 October 2017
93. Sahiyo participates in the End Violence Against Girls Summit on FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, United Kingdom, and the United States. Participants also included girls and women who have lived through the ordeal ...
Created on 14 December 2016
94. Mariya Taher to represent Sahiyo at Women Deliver Conference
(News & Blog)
... Include: Dr Linah Jebill Kilimo, Chair of Anti-FGM Board, Kenya Mariya Taher, Sahiyo, India and United States Kelechukwu Nwachukwu, Nigerian youth activists Filzah ...
Created on 13 May 2016
95. New U.S. CDC Study Still Under Reports FGC in this Country
(News & Blog)
... women and girls living in the United States who were born in that country or who lived with a parent born in that country. These countries included: Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, ...
Created on 06 March 2016
96. FAQs
(Uncategorised)
... come in through the media and our study show that Dawoodi Bohras practice khatna in the following locations: Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, India, Kenya, Kuwait, Malaysia, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, ...
Created on 11 January 2016
97. Kenya
(Tags)
Kenya
Created on 23 June 2021
98. A Kenyan Woman's Take on FGM/FGC in the Bohra Communit
(Article tagged with: Kenya)
By: Zarina Patel   Country of Residence: Kenya       Age: 81 years   I only very recently heard a fleeting mention of FGM being practiced in the Bohra Community in my country, Kenya. It was ...
Created on 18 October 2016
99. A Tradition That Branded Me
(Article tagged with: Kenya)
Created on 25 September 2018
100. My experience learning about Kukeketwa (FGC)
(Article tagged with: Kenya)
By Cecilia Mwakenya Trigger warning: this article contains graphic descriptions of female genital cutting (FGC). I was born and raised in Chachewa, a small village in Taita Taveta County, Kenya. Taita ...
Created on 29 March 2023