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21. Finally in the spotlight: Female Genital Cutting is getting national attention in Sri Lanka
(News & Blog)
... Bohras (who call the practice Khatna or Khafz) and among the Sunni Moor and Malay communities (who call it Sunnath). While the Bohras cut the clitoral hoods of girls at the age of seven, the Moors and ...
Created on 14 December 2017
22. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(News & Blog)
... Changing Paradigms of FGM/C Russian clinic in row over female genital cutting FGC in Iraq: Changing Perceptions to End a Harmful Tradition in Northern Iraq FGC in Malaysia: Review fatwa ...
Created on 04 December 2017
23. 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
24. 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
25. Female Genital Cutting is being practiced in Kerala too: Sahiyo investigation
(News & Blog)
by Aarefa Johari and Aysha Mahmood (Read the Malayalam version of this report here.)  The practice of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in India has so far been associated only with the Dawoodi Bohra community ...
Created on 14 August 2017
26. Our Petition
(News & Blog)
... has also been reported in India, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Maldives, Brunei, Russia (Dagestan), Bangladesh, and Iran and amongst diaspora populations around the world ...
Created on 12 July 2017
27. ‘Girls must be circumcised or they will grow up loose’: Three Sri Lankan women talk about Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... Moors and Malays (ethnic Muslim communities in Sri Lanka) are of the Shafi school of Islam which regards female circumcision, or “sunnat”, as compulsory. They account for 98% of the local Muslim population. ...
Created on 23 June 2017
28. From birth to motherhood, a Singaporean Malay’s experience of Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
By: Anonymous Country: Singapore Community: Malay Muslim Growing up: I was told as a child, that every girl had to go through it. There is basically NOBODY that you know who hasn’t gone through ...
Created on 13 February 2017
29. Speak Out on FGM petition to the UN collects more than 500 signatures
(News & Blog)
... in “certain ethnic groups in Asian countries…in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan and Sri Lanka”, Indonesia is the only one of these countries that is included in the UN’s official FGC-prevalence statistic ...
Created on 17 January 2017
30. Invest in ending FGC in Asia: Why Sahiyo and 33 organisations are petitioning the U.N.
(News & Blog)
... Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Maldives, Brunei, Russia (Dagestan), Bangladesh, and Iran. Yet, Asian countries fall outside the scope of the UNFPA-UNICEF Joint Programme to Accelerate the Abandonment ...
Created on 02 January 2017
31. Dec 7: Join our Twitter chat on Type 1 Female Genital Cutting in Asia
(News & Blog)
... Lanka) 9 am EST (US east coast) 4 pm in Egypt 10 pm in Singapore and Malaysia Here is how you can participate: Log into your Twitter account (or make one, if you are not on Twitter yet!) ...
Created on 06 December 2016
32. The sacred self: Reflections on female circumcision by a Singaporean Malay
(News & Blog)
(Originally posted by BEYONDHIJABSG on 6 FEBRUARY, 2016. Republished here with permission.) Country: Singapore Community: Malay By: Nurul Fadiah Johari I have a memory of my little sister going ...
Created on 03 November 2016
33. Let’s Talk About “Sunat Perempuan”
(News & Blog)
  (Originally Posted by BEYONDHIJABSG on 2 FEBRUARY, 2016. Republished here with permission).    Country: Singapore   Community: Malay   By: Afiqa Ab Rahman   Recently I attended ...
Created on 27 October 2016
34. What can Bohras learn from a new report on the global status of female genital cutting?
(News & Blog)
... also acknowledges the prevalence of the practice in other countries like India, Pakistan, Oman, Malaysia, Iran and Colombia, where no national surveys have been done yet. Indonesia, where the widespread ...
Created on 16 October 2016
35. Female circumcision is no different from other forms of violence against women
(News & Blog)
(Originally posted by BEYONDHIJABSG on 5 FEBRUARY, 2016. Republished here with permission.)   Country: Singapore   Community: Malay   By: Filzah Sumartono   So I was talking to my friend ...
Created on 29 September 2016
36. 'I am relieved more parents are saying no to female circumcision'
(News & Blog)
(Originally posted by BEYONDHIJABSG on 5 FEBRUARY, 2016. Republished here with permission.)   Country: Singapore   Community: Malay   By: Zuby Eusofe    I was six years old when I was forced ...
Created on 22 September 2016
37. My Body Is Not Mine – A Muslim woman’s commentary on body autonomy
(News & Blog)
(Originally posted by BEYONDHIJABSG on 4 FEBRUARY, 2016. Republished here with permission.)   By: Zarifah Anuar   Country: Singapore   Community: Malay     When I was two weeks old, my ...
Created on 15 September 2016
38. I did not circumcise my daughters, says a Malay Muslim mother
(News & Blog)
(Originally posted by BEYONDHIJABSG on 3 FEBRUARY, 2016. Republished here with permission.) Country: Singapore Community: Malay By Zubaida Ali When my daughters were born, I made the decision not ...
Created on 08 September 2016
39. Speaking out about Female Genital Cutting among Malays in Singapore
(News & Blog)
... still practiced in Singapore within the ethnic Malay community who are predominantly Muslim.   Whenever I bring up the topic of female genital cutting with my non-Malay friends, they respond with shock ...
Created on 12 August 2016
40. Mariya's experience at the Women Deliver 2016 Conferenc
(News & Blog)
... a Singaporean youth activist from AWARE, spoke about the continuation of FGC amongst Malay populations in her county of Singapore, as well as the research attempts being made to learn more about how widespread ...
Created on 03 June 2016