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61. Empowering Voices: The Launch of the Sharing Your Experience with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) Guide
(News & Blog)
Sahiyo is excited to unveil our new guide, Sharing Your Experience with Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C), in partnership with the Voices to End FGM/C project. This project is a dynamic collaboration ...
Created on 12 September 2024
62. Calling on the CT legislature to protect girls from FGM/C
(News & Blog)
A bill to protect children from female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in Connecticut (CT) has not been raised by the Connecticut Judiciary Committee in the 2024 legislative session. This news comes ...
Created on 21 March 2024
63. FGM/C Sexual Education & Prevention: An Interview with Dr. Reham Awwad
(News & Blog)
... are going to start a campaign with new messaging and test it in an area to see how people respond to it.  It is for the men and it will be based around sexual health, because that’s what men will ...
Created on 13 November 2023
64. Volunteer Spotlight: Social Media and Communications Intern Xinge Lei
(News & Blog)
... me for an interview and that was the most comfortable and relaxed interview I’ve ever had. I knew then that Sahiyo was a good place for me. What does your work with Sahiyo involve? My main responsibility ...
Created on 09 November 2023
65. Volunteer spotlight: Policy intern Delia Donovan
(News & Blog)
... seemed like a perfect fit for me! What does your work with Sahiyo involve? The policy internship is relatively new, so I’ve been helping my supervisors build up the internship program. I’ve been working ...
Created on 11 September 2023
66. Sahiyo releases July 2021-June 2022 Annual Report
(News & Blog)
... Sahiyo, we expanded our programs with the support of our staff, interns, volunteers, and Advisory Board.  Our survivor-story-centered blog has grown and we launched a new column called Scenarios ...
Created on 07 December 2022
67. Sahiyo begins seventh Voices to End FGM/C Workshop 
(News & Blog)
In collaboration with StoryCenter and Asian Women’s Shelter (AWS), Sahiyo began the seventh Voices to End FGM/C workshop on October 24th. This first meeting was held with participants from across the United ...
Created on 10 November 2022
68. Volunteer spotlight: Editorial intern Urvashi Sharma
(News & Blog)
... all around the world and ask them for their input on our blog! Other than that, I also help with editing our website, publishing new stories and Sahiyo updates, and managing the newsletter. Recently, I ...
Created on 25 August 2022
69. Volunteer spotlight: Programs intern Trisha Kini
(News & Blog)
... knew I wanted to apply for a position with this organization. I aimed to learn more about the practice through active involvement, and do my part to show up for South Asian and other individuals that are ...
Created on 22 August 2022
70. Including non-cis-women as FGM/C survivors
(News & Blog)
... is a queer non binary Indonesian Muslim poet, playwright, filmmaker, producer, and FGC survivor & activist born and raised in Queens, New York. They are the author of CUT WOMAN (Game Over Books, 2020) ...
Created on 31 May 2022
71. How I took part in the Each One, Reach Bhaiyo Campaign: Turning my father and law colleagues into Bhaiyos
(News & Blog)
... of this practice in a 12-year-old me. It was much later when news regarding this practice reached me again. It was in the form of a video by a popular Indian think tank, 'Scroll.' In the video, the survivors ...
Created on 14 March 2022
72. Sahiyo volunteer spotlight: Editorial intern Kristin Grady
(News & Blog)
... proofreading the new website and expanded on Sahiyo’s existing Style Guide, a cool editing tool that we use to make our usage and spelling consistent–in the same way a baker might rely on a recipe. Overall, ...
Created on 05 January 2022
73. Sahiyo in the Media
(News & Blog)
... in India: A Memoir of a Movement ‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGM Implementing Survivor-Led FGM Law In Washington State Activists See India as New Front ...
Created on 02 March 2021
74. How COVID-19 impacts programs devoted to ending gender-based violence, including female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... healthcare professionals and community leaders on air and playing jingles to remind listeners not to cut their girls. Upon hearing the devastating news of the closed rescue houses, I was relieved to hear ...
Created on 21 July 2020
75. U.S. may deny asylum for females fleeing gender-based violence
(News & Blog)
By Hunter Kessous (Follow this link to take action immediately and stand with survivors before July 15th.) At the age of 17, Fauziya Kassindja narrowly escaped undergoing female genital cutting (FGC) ...
Created on 06 July 2020
76. Sahiyo Intern Spotlight: Development Intern Maria Elena Rivera-Beckstrom
(News & Blog)
... the new development interns. I basically found the call for application and looked up Sahiyo. It was actually the first time I learned about the organization, and although I have known about FGC, I did ...
Created on 30 June 2020
77. Digital advocacy on female genital cutting in the time of COVID-19
(News & Blog)
... “We’re able to still connect with community members in that way, and we held our first ever digital activist retreat in April, which was supposed to be in New York in person. “It was an experiment and ...
Created on 18 June 2020
78. Voices Series: Why silence is our enemy
(News & Blog)
... I almost turned the car around. But I knew I needed to say something, not just for me, but for a sister that would never get to.  Some of my fears came from the knowledge that I am probably the last ...
Created on 26 February 2020
79. For survivors and their doctors: An online tool about female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... female genital cutting (FGC), and it caused complications during the delivery. No one knew how to properly care for her at the hospital while she delivered, and she nearly bled out. In short, those caring ...
Created on 02 May 2019
80. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 6: Effects of FGM/C on the Lower Urinary Tract System
(News & Blog)
...  Julia is a Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgeon in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern. During her residency at New York Presbyterian – Weill Cornell, she founded ...
Created on 26 October 2018