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21. Sahiyo heads to Senegal for Tostan Training Centre
(News & Blog)
... rallying point for social change. So far over 7,200 communities from Djibouti, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Somalia, and The Gambia have publicly declared their decision to abandon ...
Created on 09 July 2016
22. New U.S. CDC Study Still Under Reports FGC in this Country
(News & Blog)
...  Liberia,  Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, West Africa, Yemen. However, at the global level recognition that FGC occurs in countries outside of the African continent has ...
Created on 06 March 2016
23. Donor Spotlight: Brad Mazon
(News & Blog)
... Comedy Show. But I’ve been involved with the issue of FGM since 1988 when I was an intern at the U.S. State Department in Somalia. I have come in and out of working on the issue, through various organizations, ...
Created on 24 September 2024
24. Ending FGM – Fight the Mansplaining, Toxic Masculinity, and Patriarchy
(News & Blog)
... the U.S. Department of State in Somalia as a graduate school intern. The #EndFGM movement has experienced many successes over the years in terms of anti-FGM legislation and engaging men and boys in learning ...
Created on 21 June 2024
25. Reflecting on the critical intersections between anti-racism and female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... experience of FGM/C with the goal of protecting girls from this abusive practice. Originally from Somalia, Hussein works as a psychotherapist in the United Kingdom and addresses the prevalence of FGM/C ...
Created on 08 August 2021
26. Addressing Critical Intersections: Anti-Racism and Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
...  Leyla Hussein is an anti-FGM campaigner and a survivor who shares her personal experience of FGM with the goal of protecting girls from this abusive practice. Originally from Somalia, Leyla works ...
Created on 05 July 2021
27. Thaal Pe Charcha: February 2020
(News & Blog)
... by Mary McGuckain.  The film is a true story based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, a Somalian whose suffering acted as catalyst for one of the world’s biggest and most successful movements to end gender-based ...
Created on 21 December 2020
28. Sleeping researchers and lack of data on female genital cutting in Pakistan
(News & Blog)
... with a glossy picture of a famous Somalian model, Waris Dirie. She exuded a sense of resilience, and I knew there was a meaningful story behind this woman. I was immersed in the daunting narrative of how ...
Created on 17 September 2020
29. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... in Somalia. FGC had increased significantly there because people were at home, so they were taking advantage of the fact that girls were not at school, so they would have the time to heal. Cutters were ...
Created on 25 June 2020
30. How I learned female genital mutilation is happening in India
(News & Blog)
... that one day no woman will have to experience this pain. It will become a thing of the past. People will say, “Did you hear, female genital mutilation has been outlawed in Somalia?” Then the next country, ...
Created on 09 June 2020
31. Why are we doing this? A Thaal pe Charcha participant questions female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... of fear and for the approval of society. During the recent February meeting we were shown a movie, A Girl from Mogadishu, based on the life of a Somalian FGM/C survivor and activist, Ifrah Ahmed. Her ...
Created on 12 May 2020
32. When I found out my friend had undergone female genital mutilation
(News & Blog)
... My mind raced back to this book and I was thunderstruck. It was one thing for it to happen to Waris Dirie in the 1960s in Somalia. It is quite another for it to happen in the 1990s, in the country where ...
Created on 07 May 2019
33. Speaking the truth about my experience with female genital mutilation
(News & Blog)
... of FGM in Somalia last July. I stated that I wanted to undo this practice so that innocent lives do not have to suffer like the girls who’ve died because of FGM, and many other girls who will potentially ...
Created on 11 April 2019
34. Locating female genital cutting through films and documentaries
(News & Blog)
... in Somalia and Kenya with substantial subtlety so far as it highlights campaigners against the practice from within these cultures. As a whole, it is not merely about the geographic positioning of the ...
Created on 19 February 2019
35. Reflections on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting & Intergenerational Trauma
(News & Blog)
... from FGM/C, I know loved ones who have undergone the procedure. One of those survivors is my mom. My parents are from Somaliland, which lies on the northwestern part of Somalia, but we now live in the ...
Created on 15 January 2019
36. Looking from the Outside-In: Initial Perceptions of Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... to offend the Somalian community” while saying that she is “ Somalian first” and “Anti-American” goes no farther than being a rash, racist comment made to instill fear in Minnesotan voters. In reality, ...
Created on 21 September 2018
37. ‘Even Though I Was Impacted by Female Genital Cutting, I Knew Little About It’
(News & Blog)
By Anonymous I am a female genital cutting (FGC) survivor. I was born in Somalia, a country with one of the highest FGC rates in the world. Recently, Somalia was named by the Thomson Reuters Foundation ...
Created on 04 September 2018
38. An appeal to Maneka Gandhi: Stop the flip-flops on Female Genital Cutting in India
(News & Blog)
... and culture & religion. It also ranked as most dangerous overall, followed by Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Saudi Arabia and others. It is the parameter of “culture and religion” that specifically concerns ...
Created on 29 June 2018
39. Medical organisations in five African nations issue statement against the medicalisation of FGM/C
(News & Blog)
... and Associations from Egypt, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. These medical organisations issued the statement at Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, at a meeting on ‘The Role of Health-care Professionals in Combatting ...
Created on 20 November 2017
40. 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