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1. FAQs
Created on 30 November -0001
2. What Not to Say
(News & Blog)
... needed conversation and intervention within the Pakistani and South Asian community at large, where misogyny and patriarchal norms are alive and well.  In this film I discuss the discomfort I felt when ...
Created on 24 December 2024
3. 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
4. How to have a dialogue: Storytelling & Conversations
(News & Blog)
... Pakistan, where there is very little data and no public record of FGC, thus creating a huge research gap yet to be explored. I think storytelling and conversations could be the start of creating more awareness ...
Created on 23 August 2022
5. Being a researcher: Finding balance
(News & Blog)
... feelings and thoughts when I embarked on learning more about female genital cutting (FGC) in Pakistan. A few questions that ran through my mind were: Is it ok for me to pursue this research as an outsider ...
Created on 02 March 2022
6. Understanding female genital mutilation/cutting: An ally’s call for action
(News & Blog)
... help of Sahiyo, and for that I am eternally grateful. The Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai said, “There’s a moment when you have to choose whether to be silent or to stand up.”  I say stand up. Raise ...
Created on 08 September 2021
7. Addressing Critical Intersections: Anti-Racism and Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... Type I) by age of 8 in Pakistan while visiting her grandparents on vacation. She moved to Spain to study medicine by the age of 19 and finished her Family Medicine residency in Madrid. She has been politically ...
Created on 05 July 2021
8. Why one Bohra woman shared her experience with female genital cutting publicly
(News & Blog)
... of having been cut as a member of the Dawoodi Bohra sect in Pakistan. “Being part of the Bohra community is feeling like a part of something,” Khozema said. “Though we are scattered around the world, ...
Created on 15 January 2021
9. Art, Activism, and Healing webinar: In Conversation Around Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... only members in Portugal/Iberic Peninsula. She underwent female genital cutting, or khatna, at the age of 8 in Pakistan, while visiting her grandparents on vacation. She moved to Spain to study medicine ...
Created on 08 January 2021
10. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Aarefa
(News & Blog)
... I had the opportunity to visit Islamabad, Pakistan. It was a lovely, emotional experience because of the long history between our two countries that are really just like sisters who have been separated ...
Created on 08 December 2020
11. Sleeping researchers and lack of data on female genital cutting in Pakistan
(News & Blog)
 By Huda Syyed Two decades ago, I flipped through Reader’s Digest to distract my mind from schoolwork and the sweltering summer heat of Pakistan. My eyes glanced at the brief excerpt displayed mid-page ...
Created on 17 September 2020
12. Digital advocacy on female genital cutting in the time of COVID-19
(News & Blog)
... community, which is largely concentrated in India and Pakistan, but also dispersed globally across Europe, North America and Oceania. Sahiyo focuses on ending female genital cutting (FGC), often known ...
Created on 18 June 2020
13. Survivor of Mumbai: Plight to End Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... Fatima knows another woman, a lawyer in Houston, who went to Pakistan at age seven in order to be cut. It’s believed by some to be the ideal age because the girl is young and submissive, but old enough ...
Created on 21 March 2019
14. Female Genital Cutting is an International Issue
(News & Blog)
... to do volunteer work with Sahiyo. They work specifically with the Dawoodi Bohra community, whose members mainly reside in India, Pakistan, Yemen and East Africa. FGC is also prevalent in countries such ...
Created on 06 December 2018
15. Sharing My Story of Female Genital Cutting with Other Survivors Comforted Me
(News & Blog)
By Leena Khandwala I chose to tell my story of FGC to highlight how after more than three decades, my experience of being cut is still traumatizing and vivid. Everything about it — from the deception leading ...
Created on 11 September 2018
16. The undecided: Conversations with survivors of Female Genital Cutting in Pakistan
(News & Blog)
By Hina Javed (This is the fourth part in a series of essays by Hina Javed on her experience of reporting on FGC in Pakistan. Read the whole series here: Pakistan Journal.) My conversations with survivors ...
Created on 19 March 2018
17. A tale of deception: My conversation with an FGC survivor in Pakistan
(News & Blog)
By Hina Javed (This is the third part in a series of essays by Hina Javed on her experience of reporting on FGC in Pakistan. Read the whole series here: Pakistan Journal.) The time had come to pick ...
Created on 16 February 2018
18. The unsolved riddle: conversations with survivors (Part 2)
(News & Blog)
By Hina Javed (This is the second part in a series of essays by Hina Javed on her experience of reporting on FGC in Pakistan. Read the whole series here: Pakistan Journal.) That night, after witnessing ...
Created on 06 January 2018
19. Violated hopes: My struggle to report on Female Genital Cutting in Pakistan
(News & Blog)
By Hina Javed Country: Pakistan When sporting my journalistic hat, I tend to sniff out stories from unlikely sources, wherever they are hidden. I look out for news, dropping into places to see what ...
Created on 23 December 2017
20. FGC Articles & Research in Other Countries
(News & Blog)
... Study in Oman Shows High Prevalence All Over The Country FGC in Pakistan: ‘Something has been taken away’: Pakistan’s well-kept FGM secret Lack of Data and Dialogue on Female Genital Mutilation ...
Created on 04 December 2017