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1. About - Our Story
Created on 30 November -0001
2. FAQs
Created on 30 November -0001
3. Advocacy & Travel Award
(Programs)
... presented an autoethnographic account of FGM/C in Kerala, India. Her insights highlighted the cultural and social dynamics of FGM within her community. Research Presentation Title: Mute Memories of Mutilation: ...
Created on 14 August 2024
4. Stories of survival, strength, solidarity and sisterhood
(News & Blog)
... I believe with time and effort these conversations will bring a stronger impact and change. Nevin Sulthan is from the state of Kerala, India. She is currently pursuing her PhD from Delhi School of Social ...
Created on 22 July 2022
5. Research
(Programs)
... on how to better support them.  In 2017, Sahiyo also investigated and revealed that FGC is being practiced in parts of southern India’s Kerala state. This countered the previous assumption that in India, ...
Created on 29 June 2022
6. Sahiyo’s Book Club Holds Second Event In February 
(News & Blog)
... living along with creativity and wellness following Ayurveda principles, with yoga, meditation and writing workshops. Shabnam is studying to be an Ayurveda practitioner at the Kerala Ayurveda Academy ...
Created on 05 January 2022
7. Sahiyo’s Book Club to hold second event in February
(News & Blog)
... at the Kerala Ayurveda Academy in Kerala, India  Shabnam hosts a local TV show called Dew Drops and Words that broadcasts to 6.1 million viewers on the WJAL LATV network in the Washington DC area. You ...
Created on 04 January 2022
8. FGC in India
(News & Blog)
... (FGM/C) in India Bodily Integrity of a Woman Cannot be Infringed, SC Observes in PIL Seeking Ban on Female Genital Mutilation 2017 FGM carried out in Kerala too, Sahiyo study Female genital ...
Created on 26 September 2021
9. Sahiyo Awards and Distinctions
(News & Blog)
... 2018 for their investigation revealing the prevalence of FGC in Kerala. The Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA) honored Mariya Taher with the inaugural Human Rights Storyteller Award in recognition ...
Created on 02 March 2021
10. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Nevin
(News & Blog)
... up of all the moments in our lives, not just one. Interview: Where do you live? I am a Keralite (native of Kerala State in India) currently working in Maliya Miyana, Morbi district of Gujarat.  ...
Created on 10 December 2020
11. Taking the anti-FGC movement forward, with Thaal Pe Charcha participants
(News & Blog)
... two participants travelled specially from Pune and Kerala respectively. During this TPC, participants were divided into two groups that drew up plans for taking the movement against FGC forward through ...
Created on 12 January 2020
12. The movement to end FGM/C: Looking back at the 2010s and looking forward in 2020
(News & Blog)
... respondents did not want FGC to continue in the community.  In 2017, a Sahiyo investigation also revealed that FGC is being practiced by some communities in the South Indian state of Kerala, leading ...
Created on 11 January 2020
13. Understanding the Supreme Court’s latest judgement mentioning female genital cutting in India
(News & Blog)
... Constitution bench. Since then, the case had been pending.  On November 14, however, the Supreme Court brought up the FGC case while hearing a batch of review petitions in the case about Kerala’s Sabarimala ...
Created on 17 November 2019
14. Sahiyo co-founders win Laadli and ShoorVeer Awards in India
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo’s investigative report on the previously unknown prevalence of Female Genital Cutting in the Indian state of Kerala won the prestigious Laadli Media and Advertising Award for Gender Sensitivity ...
Created on 19 September 2018
15. An appeal to Maneka Gandhi: Stop the flip-flops on Female Genital Cutting in India
(News & Blog)
... FGC, which is called Khatna or Khafz by the Bohra community and female Sunnath by FGC-practicing communities in Kerala. Such flip-flops leave FGC survivors in the lurch, unsure of whether their government ...
Created on 29 June 2018
16. Medical organisations in five African nations issue statement against the medicalisation of FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... found FGC being practiced by some Sunni Muslim sects of Kerala, the state’s health minister ordered a probe into the matter and promised to take action against those found practicing FGC. The Kerala chapter ...
Created on 20 November 2017
17. Sahiyo Volunteer Spotlight: Roshan Kokane
(News & Blog)
... policies around Female Genital Cutting in Kerala and they work the organisation does is truly inspiring for me. Through my involvement, there has been a lot of learnings on human rights, violation of human ...
Created on 14 September 2017
18. Furore about Female Genital Cutting in Kerala: Impact of Sahiyo’s investigation
(News & Blog)
... India – is also being practiced in Kozhikode, Kerala. The report was published in both English (here) and Malayalam (here) and it was followed by a furore within the media and social media circles of Kerala. ...
Created on 01 September 2017
19. Female Genital Cutting is being practiced in Kerala too: Sahiyo investigation
(News & Blog)
... at least one part of Kerala. During an investigation in February, Sahiyo found a medical clinic in Kozhikode (Calicut) where two doctors admitted that they perform the procedure of “sunnath”, or circumcision, ...
Created on 14 August 2017
20. Our History
(Uncategorised)
... an investigative report that brought to light that FGC was occurring in Kerala.  Joined Alliance for Inclusive Muslims, a global coalition that works against radicalism within Islam, violence against ...
Created on 15 June 2016