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1. FAQs
Created on 30 November -0001
2. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... women gave to expectant mothers about giving birth to a son. I had heard of secret abortions of girl children that took place in India and Pakistan, but a women and gender studies course that looked at ...
Created on 24 December 2024
3. Starting the Dialogue: Sharing Your Experiences on Initiating Conversations with Men about Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... or younger sisters, overriding the influence of grandmothers and wives who might support the tradition. Additionally, men can freely discuss with other men why FGC is a harmful practice without fear of ...
Created on 21 June 2024
4. A Space to Belong: My Reflection on the 2023 Activist Retreat
(News & Blog)
... and pleased to see – that we had moms and grandmothers in the space talking about how they prevented their daughters from being cut, or they themselves were saved from it. Learning that this work had been ...
Created on 01 April 2024
5. Breaking the Cycle: A Journey in Women's Health and FGM/C Awarenes
(News & Blog)
... to be both an invitation to engage in an open dialogue about women's health and an encouragement for conversations across generations — from grandmothers to mothers to daughters.  By weaving these elements ...
Created on 11 January 2024
6. Webinar reflection: Centring Community in FGM/C Behaviour Change Theory
(News & Blog)
... beliefs about FGM/C and behaviour: we must not only work towards diminishing support for the practice, but also the act itself. Dr. Shell-Duncan explained the importance of this distinction, as mothers ...
Created on 03 June 2022
7. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: My experience with different Bhaiyos 
(News & Blog)
... as unscientific and unnecessary, my sister and I did not go through it while we were young. My mother and grandmothers, who had all gone through Khatna themselves, were initially hesitant to not follow ...
Created on 22 March 2022
8. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: Turning my Dad into a Bhaiyo
(News & Blog)
... atheist, he had some trouble understanding at first why mothers would continue to subject their daughters to FGM/C if they themselves disagreed with it because he has never followed a religious practice. ...
Created on 09 March 2022
9. Reflecting on Moving Towards Sexual Pleasure and Emotional Healing After Female Genital Cutting Part 2
(News & Blog)
... When speaking to mothers, Haddi found that their concerns about sex stemmed from a fear of potential complications they would face having more children, based upon their previous difficult childbirths. ...
Created on 15 December 2021
10. Saved by a lie: A story of female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... to do. That is how Bohri women still continue to be cut in this day and age by their mothers and aunts and grandmothers.  My mother still remembers the day she was cut as a child very vividly. She wasn’t ...
Created on 18 April 2021
11. Sahiyo Resources
(Resources)
... four Female Genital Cutting survivors. The stories highlighted the different ways in which FGC affects women who are cut and the difficult decisions that mothers often have to make when they are caught ...
Created on 04 December 2020
12. Sahiyo staff spoke in a symposia entitled Mothers and daughters: continuity, love, fear and belonging
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo Communications Coordinator Lara Kingstone and co-founder Mariya Taher were honored to speak on behalf of Sahiyo in a symposia entitled, Patriarchal Inscriptions: Female Bodies Contested, Invaded, ...
Created on 18 November 2020
13. Crying out our mothers’ grief: How we allowed female genital mutilation to flourish in our communities
(News & Blog)
By Tamanna Taher When I began writing an article on female genital mutilation (FGM), I was adamant that my research be thorough, and my opinions be carefully articulated. However, I did not realise the ...
Created on 10 November 2020
14. Population Council hosts webinar to discuss ending female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... intriguing findings. One discovery that I found especially important was that conflicted mothers have been turning to doctors to decide on their behalf whether or not their daughter should be cut. This ...
Created on 25 August 2020
15. Protecting the girl child: The need for an anti-FGM law in India 
(News & Blog)
... by systematic enforcement of laws and policies.  However, one needs to be mindful that while a law may serve as adeterrent, the perpetrators are almost always mothers, grandmothers and other family members. ...
Created on 06 August 2020
16. Population Council hosts second webinar on FGM/C research
(News & Blog)
... Egypt. Hers was a qualitative study with multiple intriguing findings. One discovery that I found especially important was that conflicted mothers have been turning to doctors to decide on their behalf ...
Created on 02 July 2020
17. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... to talk about that, to share your stories, and to recognize that there a multitude of stories out there. So, we have heard the stories of girls who are taken by their mothers or aunts under false ...
Created on 25 June 2020
18. Part II–Medicalising khatna within the Bohra community: A Struggle of Tradition and Modernity
(News & Blog)
... has led to people taking increasingly different positions, and making more conscious decisions about continuing the practice. While mothers and women of the family used to be primary decision-makers of ...
Created on 23 June 2020
19. Voices Series: We should all speak up against female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... a source of trauma that affects our daughters and sisters and mothers, and this is enough for men to stand up and speak out against it. Around the globe, females are robbed of their innocence in the form ...
Created on 04 March 2020
20. An ode to every woman fighting social norms around the world
(News & Blog)
... concept. We should look at what we are subjecting our living mothers, sisters, and daughters to in the name of a God who never even said all menstruating women should be shunned.  Norms and rules are ...
Created on 27 February 2020