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41. Is the United Kingdom backing out of its commitment to end female genital cutting amid the COVID-19 pandemic?
(News & Blog)
... to end FGC, setting a deadline to prevent it from occurring for good by 2030, in line with many other countries.  Progress has been commendable. FGC has been outlawed in several Western countries including ...
Created on 22 December 2020
42. How female genital cutting is portrayed in television series
(News & Blog)
... (OITNB), Call the Midwife, and The Good Doctor have incorporated FGC into their storylines. Warning: spoilers ahead! Orange is the New Black Season 7, Episodes 9 and 10 OITNB’s most compelling season ...
Created on 13 October 2020
43. Let’s Talk FGC: A fireside chat with Mariya Taher and Farzana Esmail
(News & Blog)
... Then why is it that we still see the prevalence of this practice? Mariya: That’s a good question. Sahiyo, one of the first things we did when we came together, was we realized that we needed to do a ...
Created on 25 June 2020
44. An ode to every woman fighting social norms around the world
(News & Blog)
... our daughters in spite of the physical and psychological pain it caused us, ourselves. Girls and women who have undergone the procedure tell us that it does more harm than good. At an age when biology ...
Created on 27 February 2020
45. Survivor: Why labia elongation is female genital mutilation
(News & Blog)
... she said. “You need to alter something and there’s something deep about telling a young lady that age that you need to make yourself this way for a man. You’re not good enough. There’s even stories about ...
Created on 06 February 2020
46. On the path to healing: My journey after experiencing female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... arriving in Cairo, my auntie took me to a medical office where a doctor performed the surgery. She remained in the room while I underwent FGC, while my other auntie waited by the phone to hear the “good ...
Created on 31 December 2019
47. Cofounders
(Uncategorised)
SAHIYO COFOUNDERS: Mariya Taher  pursued a study titled, “Understanding Female Genital Cutting in the United States“, in graduate school for her Master of Social Work from San Francisco State University. ...
Created on 02 July 2019
48. My experience at the Sahiyo U.S. Activist Retreat made me reflect on my khatna
(News & Blog)
... are touched, it is unforgiving. There is so much silence around khatna that there is not a good understanding of the harm to women. I do not know if I am the only one, or if there are others who feel ...
Created on 06 April 2019
49. Experiencing Sahiyo’s Activist Retreat in Mumbai
(News & Blog)
... people all driven by the same cause. It is honestly inexplicable. In today’s times, do you know what good, honest peer support feeling is like? Let me tell you: it was out of this world amazing! Did a ...
Created on 07 March 2019
50. Female Genital Cutting is an International Issue
(News & Blog)
... midwest America” (The Guardian). People with good intentions may harm others irreparably, even the ones who trust them the most.   While the practitioners may mean well, it still doesn’t excuse the continual ...
Created on 06 December 2018
51. I Said It Loudly: I am an FGM Survivor. Meeting FGM Survivors for the First Time Was My Cursed Blessing
(News & Blog)
...  By Anonymous Country: Egypt & United States Even now, despite my brain trying to convince me it was a good idea to attend a conference on FGM and Mental Health, I cannot emotionally explain what ...
Created on 03 April 2018
52. Sahiyo Volunteer Spotlight: Shabana Feroze
(News & Blog)
... FGC. It makes me feel so good that I’m able to be a voice of Sahiyo and to help spread the word that FGC is harmful, unnecessary, and traumatizing. Ever since I realized I’m a survivor of FGC (my memory ...
Created on 19 August 2017
53. Female Genital Cutting is being practiced in Kerala too: Sahiyo investigation
(News & Blog)
...  The doctors said that in the female circumcision ritual, they cut the prepuce of the clitoris, also known as the clitoral hood, because it is allegedly “good for married life”. They also mentioned that ...
Created on 14 August 2017
54. FGM before the Indian Supreme Court
(News & Blog)
... to first understand why something should be done and then – only if there is a good reason – to commit to doing it. I was also told that there is no compulsion for this practice. I had already found ...
Created on 07 June 2017
55. Despite backlash, Sahiyo will continue to work with the community
(News & Blog)
... is likely to confer a sense of legitimacy on the practice and could give the impression that the procedure is good for women’s health, or at least that it is harmless.” Unfortunately, this is exactly what ...
Created on 02 June 2017
56. A letter to Syedna, by a Bohra woman
(News & Blog)
... sermons. We prayed to you and for you. We did all of this in the name of the community, in the name of feeling supported by the ballast of history. We trusted your goodness, your wisdom. We believed that ...
Created on 12 May 2017
57. FGM and the myth of modernity among Dawoodi Bohras
(News & Blog)
... us been a girl, there would have been overwhelming pressure to do it. The community would feed their boilerplate lies: “it is to ensure a good marriage”, “it is to make you a better wife”. I later found ...
Created on 11 May 2017
58. Let us not vilify the Detroit doctor as we work to end Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... and I had to have something “important done”.  “All girls have to have it done when they turn seven,” I was told, just as my older sisters had it done before me.  My mother said it was to ensure a “good ...
Created on 24 April 2017
59. Detroit arrest: It is time for Bohras to get serious about ending Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... as Types II and III of FGM/C). However, the Bohra form of khatna very definitively falls under Type I FGM/C, for a good reason. However “mild”, khatna still involves the cutting and altering of female ...
Created on 14 April 2017
60. I underwent Khatna but did not let it happen to my daughters
(News & Blog)
... I grew older and I went into my teen years I realized that for no good reason something had been done to my private part. Something that was not very much required. After speaking to my mother about it, ...
Created on 04 April 2017