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1. Sustainable Development Goals: How the UNs Benchmarks Align with Sahiyo’s Mission to End Female Gential Cutting
(News & Blog)
... focus on African and Middle Eastern countries in order to meet the 2030 goal of ending the practice. So, while the UN's efforts have reached millions, leveraging their resources to expand this movement ...
Created on 12 December 2024
2. The Washington Coalition to End FGM/C Interview Series: Dr. Muna Osman
(News & Blog)
... understand it at the time. It wasn't until she was in graduate school that she decided to make FGC the focus of her studies. "I came from a country that practices. I was in the Middle East, and it happened ...
Created on 24 October 2024
3. The forgotten history of female genital cutting in the United States
(News & Blog)
... FGC is a form of gender-based violence that is often mistakenly understood to only occur in certain cultural traditions in Africa and the Middle East, the occurrence of FGC has a history in the U.S. that ...
Created on 24 October 2024
4. Male Engagement within the Movement to End FGM/C: From Conversation to Connection: Creating a dialogue between men and women on FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... self-help programs in the Middle East. A large part of her work is going to rural communities and creating dialogues with local leaders about the dangers of FGC.  Below, Bakahn shared her experiences ...
Created on 16 September 2024
5. Sahiyo is thrilled The Gambia decided to keep the FGC ban in place!
(News & Blog)
... The Gambia vulnerable. According to UNICEF, around 230 million women worldwide have undergone female genital cutting in the past eight years, with the majority in Africa and others in the Middle East ...
Created on 23 July 2024
6. 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
7. Secrecy leads to the continuation of FGC in families and communities
(News & Blog)
... an organization promoting self-help programs in the Middle East such as monitoring and lobbying for citizen rights: rehabilitation projects for long-term prisoners, literacy programs, education and training ...
Created on 02 January 2024
8. Cohosting Catalyzing Global Action to End FGM/C - A Pre-Conference at Women Deliver 2023
(News & Blog)
... Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and America. It promoted knowledge exchange, interregional collaboration, and global cooperation with the aim of catalyzing collective action and movement building, designing ...
Created on 17 July 2023
9. Announcing the Women Deliver 2023 Conference
(News & Blog)
... be a space of shared solidarity, bringing together activists and organizations working to end FGM/C across Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and America. It will promote knowledge exchange, interregional ...
Created on 03 July 2023
10. SAHIYO JOINS OVER 40 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS SERVING SEXUAL ASSAULT AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVORS IN $13.2 MILLION AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN INITIATIVE
(News & Blog)
... U.S. to provide services for survivors of gender-based violence in Asian/Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander (AANHPI), and Middle Eastern (ME) communities in the United States and U.S. territories. ...
Created on 15 May 2023
11. The overturning of Roe v. Wade and its implications for survivors of FGC
(News & Blog)
... within the experience of having undergone FGC and seeking an abortion, particularly around stigma. While FGC is a practice impacting those AFAB in over 90 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, ...
Created on 02 May 2023
12. Sahiyo’s International Women’s Day Celebration & Silent Auction Donor Spotlight: Dr. Akil Taherbhai
(News & Blog)
... with my cousin, who was familiar with Sahiyo’s work, about FGM/C and he told me about all the great work that Sahiyo is doing. Back in the 70s, I was practicing medicine in The Middle East, and it was ...
Created on 02 March 2023
13. Mutilation or enhancement: A researcher’s argument for respectful terminology on genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... of their constituents, or were these leaders self-appointed? At the very least, they cannot have been authorized to speak on behalf of countless Southeast Asian or Middle Eastern women who have been affected ...
Created on 14 September 2021
14. Sahiyo in the Media
(News & Blog)
... Priya Goswami Pictures The Story of Khatna In Bohris In Conversation With Film-Maker Priya Goswami – A Pinch of Skin In parts of Asia and Middle East, female genital mutilation a hidden ritual Breaking ...
Created on 02 March 2021
15. Farzana Esmail hosts fireside chat on FGC with co-founder of Sahiyo
(News & Blog)
... FGC only applied to 29 or 30 relevant countries, which were mostly within Africa and the Middle East. The issue here is that FGC is a global issue. It is prevalent in South Asia and is practiced in at ...
Created on 26 June 2020
16. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... have a target to decrease FGC globally, but it was only amongst what they considered relevant countries, so countries that had prevalence rates, which was mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. ...
Created on 25 June 2020
17. FGM/C in sports: Why some female athletes are being coerced into partial clitoridectomy
(News & Blog)
... believe that higher than average testosterone provides some female athletes with an unfair competitive advantage. One olympian, South African middle-distance runner Caster Semenya, has been at the center ...
Created on 26 May 2020
18. Sahiyo Staff Spotlight: Tania Parks
(News & Blog)
... Action from The Paris Institute of Political Studies with concentrations in Middle East Studies and Migration Studies. 1) When and how did you first get involved with Sahiyo? I first got involved with ...
Created on 15 March 2020
19. Survivor: Why labia elongation is female genital mutilation
(News & Blog)
... lips of the vulva, arguably one of the most sensitive parts of female anatomy.  “The men in our culture expect that you have your labia the (length) of your middle finger,” Comfort said. “For the first ...
Created on 06 February 2020
20. Voices Series: Survivors are more than their stories
(News & Blog)
... diplomat with a regional interest in the Middle East. In graduate school, I used to write regularly for the Columbia Spectator and joined an art collective where I exhibited paintings in New York galleries, ...
Created on 05 February 2020