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81. Research study explores female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... qualitative survey and feminist focus group discussions, both anchored online, to explore the links between the need for privacy and feminist-led advocacy in the existing public conversations and contestations ...
Created on 29 September 2020
82. Sleeping researchers and lack of data on female genital cutting in Pakistan
(News & Blog)
... usually practised in conventional medical environments in Pakistan. Sahiyo surveys revealed this piece of significant information, which I later correlated with my own qualitative data. The interviews ...
Created on 17 September 2020
83. Protecting the girl child: The need for an anti-FGM law in India 
(News & Blog)
... that there is no data in existence of FGM in India. From the surveys conducted on FGM in India, it is apparent that girls and women are willing to raise their voices against FGM, but are prevented many ...
Created on 06 August 2020
84. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... are really recognizing how global it is.  Farzana: It’s interesting you say that, Mariya, because in one of the surveys I was reading on one of your webinars there was mention that there was research ...
Created on 25 June 2020
85. The movement to end FGM/C: Looking back at the 2010s and looking forward in 2020
(News & Blog)
... exploratory survey that found an 80% prevalence rate of FGC among Bohra women respondents. Among those who were cut, 98% women reported feeling pain when they underwent the ritual. Interestingly, 81% of ...
Created on 11 January 2020
86. Asia Network to End FGM/C calls for your participation
(News & Blog)
Malaysian NGO Asian Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) and British charity Orchid Project are jointly developing a new Asia Network to End FGM/C, to strengthen movements to end the ...
Created on 09 December 2019
87. Global Call to Action From “Uniting forces to make female genital mutilation/cutting a practice of the past: A gathering for global civil society actors”
(News & Blog)
... actors” involved more than 100 participants in Vancouver. More than 270 additional participants shared their expertise and experience through an online survey. The event was co-ordinated through a core ...
Created on 04 September 2019
88. Calling survivors of female genital cutting and health providers for a unique storytelling opportunity
(News & Blog)
... of FGM/C through dialogue, education and collaboration. Sahiyo conducted the first-ever international online survey of Dawoodi Bohra women on the subject of FGM/C. Read the full report here. About StoryCenter:  ...
Created on 22 August 2019
89. Here’s what a new study says about female genital cutting in Malaysia
(News & Blog)
... Yufu Iguchi in 2018. The study was conducted in two rural majority Muslim areas of Kedah and Penang in the Northern region of Peninsular Malaysia. The study consisted of survey data collected from 605 ...
Created on 30 May 2019
90. Learning new methods of data analysis to conduct research on female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... issues related to the practice, and the divergence of the project from what I had originally envisioned. The majority of my data and the statistical analyses I ran were from the Demographic Health Surveys ...
Created on 25 April 2019
91. Survivor of Mumbai: Plight to End Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
...  As an adult, Fatima gained the courage to speak up about FGC. Three years ago, when Masooma Ranalvi started to advocate against the practice, Fatima found her voice. A survey by Sahiyo was also done, ...
Created on 21 March 2019
92. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore
(News & Blog)
... Andree Feillard and Lies Marcoes argued that it was only in 1885 that the Dutch ethnographer G. A. Wilken conducted a thorough survey of the practice in the region. He was the first to draw the conclusion ...
Created on 19 March 2019
93. The importance of creating a body of knowledge on female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... of stigma and shame preventing the kind of data collection I had hoped for. The difficulties in data collection lead me to exploring large international databases for information from large scale surveys ...
Created on 28 February 2019
94. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 6: Effects of FGM/C on the Lower Urinary Tract System
(News & Blog)
... in Nigeria is 41%, with some communities reporting rates of 76%. Therefore, it is likely that many of the survey respondents had experienced FGM/C, thereby increasing the prevalence of lower urinary tract ...
Created on 26 October 2018
95. An appeal to Maneka Gandhi: Stop the flip-flops on Female Genital Cutting in India
(News & Blog)
... was a refutation of a new poll by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, which found India to be “the world’s most dangerous country for women”, based on a perception survey of 548 experts on women’s issues from ...
Created on 29 June 2018
96. Sahiyo and Khatna survivors get attacked online through ‘organized trolling’
(News & Blog)
... that is not civil. In 2015, Sahiyo conducted an anonymous survey with 385 respondents out of which 81% people responded that they didn’t want the practice to continue. Since its inception, the number ...
Created on 25 May 2018
97. Trauma and Female Genital Cutting, Part 2: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
(News & Blog)
... dangerous place.” In Sahiyo’s online survey of Dawoodi Bohra women, conducted in 2015-16, 48% of the women who had undergone FGC reported that the experience of FGC (khatna) left an emotional impact ...
Created on 26 March 2018
98. Survey
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Survey
Created on 12 December 2023
99. Research Survey for Study on Clitoral Reconstructive Surgery in Canada
(Article tagged with: Survey)
This survey is part of a study to better understand the interests, motivations, and expectations of survivors of female genital cutting (FGC) in electing to undergo clitoral reconstructive surgery (CRS) ...
Created on 12 December 2023
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