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81. ‘Can I Check Your Khatna?’
(News & Blog)
... needs to be done and how to go about it, the bhai saab told her that the girl should have ‘sunnat’ done to her. Meaning, khatna. How creepy! Being a man and asking that a young girl’s genitals be cut. ...
Created on 05 September 2017
82. Khatna: A mother’s pain and a son's search for retributio
(News & Blog)
... expressed her anger and hostility towards Khatna. Sahiyo has cast a large spotlight on this tribal and destructive practice. Growing up in a household of all boys and in a community that’s kept Khatna ...
Created on 30 June 2017
83. Announcement: A new research project on Khatna in Mumbai
(News & Blog)
by Keire Murphy and Cleo Egli An exciting new research project is being undertaken in Mumbai and its environs this summer which hopes to bring a new perspective to the international discussion of khatna. ...
Created on 20 June 2017
84. 'Far from enhancing my marital bliss, khatna had all but devastated it
(News & Blog)
by: Anonymous Age: 30 Country: United States I first learned that khatna had been performed on me when I was 11 years old. My mother told me, and even then the hair on my neck rose and I had a clear ...
Created on 15 June 2017
85. Announcing Each One Reach One 2: Let's discuss Khatna this Ramza
(News & Blog)
... edition of a global campaign to promote conversations around Khatna among Bohras.   Last year, in February 2016, Sahiyo and Speak Out on FGM (now We Speak Out) launched the first edition of Each One ...
Created on 30 May 2017
86. ‘I want Bohras to wake up and stop practicing Khatna’
(News & Blog)
...  I’m so, SO happy to see FGM get media traction and be publicized for the world to see. I want to see FGM STOP. Let the leader declare that khatna needs to be stopped so the Bohras who follow his every ...
Created on 26 May 2017
87. Why do Dawoodi Bohras practice Khatna, or Female Genital Cutting?
(News & Blog)
by Aarefa Johari  What is the real purpose behind Khatna for girls? The Dawoodi Bohra community has been practicing this hidden ritual of female circumcision, also known as Female Genital Cutting (FGC), ...
Created on 19 May 2017
88. The Detroit doctor arrests are an opportunity to talk about Khatna
(News & Blog)
By: Anonymous Age: 33 Country: Pune, India Even though I clearly remember when ‘khatna’ was performed on me, it wasn’t until I was a teenager that I first started to question this practice within the ...
Created on 14 May 2017
89. What do Australian Bohras feel about Khatna today?
(News & Blog)
By: Anonymous Age: 32 Country: Australia Khatna is not a topic discussed very often amongst Bohras. Maybe because there is no reason to ever bring it up. However, since the case in Sydney, Australia, ...
Created on 11 April 2017
90. I underwent Khatna but did not let it happen to my daughters
(News & Blog)
By: Anonymous Country of Current Residence: United States Country of Birth: India Age: 57 It was a day in June, 1966, in India. I was seven years old and sitting with my mother, listening to a story ...
Created on 04 April 2017
91. Memories of a cry: A Bohra woman’s poem on her Khatna
(News & Blog)
by Sunera Sadicali Country: Portugal / Spain Memories of a cry When I was eight was too young to complain too old to forget. Went on a family trip Karachi was warm, humid, overwhelming, tasty, spicy. ...
Created on 29 March 2017
92. Khatna among Suleimanis, from the perspective of an 'outsider
(News & Blog)
... first became aware that girls were subjected to having their genitals cut – a practice called ‘khatna’ in our community – when my wife told me how she remembered the sharp pain, when an auntie in the community ...
Created on 11 March 2017
93. A conversation on Khatna with Suleimani Bohras
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo co-founder Shaheeda Tavawalla-Kirtane talks to Shabnam Muqbil and her husband, Koen Van den Brande, who give us an introduction to the Suleimanis and throw light on the practice of ‘khatna’ amongst ...
Created on 10 March 2017
94. Telling one’s personal Khatna story can lead to another’s not continuing FGM/C too
(News & Blog)
... our community know that Khatna has happened to women they know; whereas for decades they were not aware. Last year, after the New York Jammat (congregation) issued a letter to the entire community that ...
Created on 21 February 2017
95. 81% want Khatna to end: results of Sahiyo’s online survey of Bohra women
(News & Blog)
On the occasion of International Zero Tolerance Day for Female Genital Cutting, Sahiyo is proud to present the complete findings of the first large-scale, global research study on the subject of Khatna ...
Created on 06 February 2017
96. As a psychotherapist, I would not recommend khatna
(News & Blog)
... since 16 years. I learned about the practice of ‘khatna’ (Type I FGM) by chance, as my family spoke about the ceremony for a cousin of mine. I wanted to know more. I did not realize that I too had undergone ...
Created on 10 December 2016
97. Why the khatna conversation needs men's voices to
(News & Blog)
(First published on June 7, 2016)    by Ammar Karimjee    Age: 24    Country: Pakistan   I found out when I was 19. I’d just heard about the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) ...
Created on 09 December 2016
98. We must realise that there is an alternative to khatna
(News & Blog)
by Insia Jaliwala  Age: 18 Country: India The experience of khatna, not only the actual act but the implications of the practice, was a gradual revelation for me. In the vague haze of childhood memories, ...
Created on 06 December 2016
99. A letter on khatna by a young Bohra man
(News & Blog)
by Anonymous Age: 28 Country: United States Hello All, Firstly, I would like to start by telling you how ashamed I feel of being so ignorant about the issue of female khatna and how honored I am ...
Created on 05 December 2016
100. I will not support khatna even if my in-laws pressurise me
(News & Blog)
... our Bohra Muslim community say that khatna is a mandatory ritual and we have to carry it out for every little girl and boy. They say it’s a dirty part that needs to be cut. I don’t know how far this is ...
Created on 01 December 2016