2026
2025
- 19th News, Anti-trans policies aren’t preventing genital mutilation — they’re disrupting efforts to stop it
- Root River Current, A Life Lived, A Challenge Faced, A Story Told
- Equality Now, Joint Statement condemning the harmful conflation of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) with gender-affirming care
- Baptist News, Attacks on Zohran Mamdani defy religious liberty
- Equality Now, Connecticut misses clear opportunity to ban FGM/C within its state: We’re still advocating
- Times Leader, Trump puts marginalized people at risk
- Itemlive, Taher: Trump puts marginalized people at risk
- Progressive, Trump Puts Marginalized People at RiskWhat’s happening with the FGM Bill in Connecticut?
- Baptist News, I was sworn to silence after female genital mutilation
- PassBlue, Taking Female Genital Cutting Out of US Shadows
- Borgen Project, The Link Between Poverty and FGM/C: Breaking the Cycle
- Politifact, Five misleading claims from Trump’s executive order on trans youth health care
- Women’s eNews, Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation in the USA
- Equality Now, FGM/C in California: Past, Present & Future – Launching the California Coalition to End FGM/C
- 19th News, Trump directive ‘dangerously’ conflates gender-affirming care with a human rights violation
- 19th News, Domestic violence nonprofits rocked by Trump funding freeze
- Healthcare for Humans, 64 I Trauma-Informed Care for FGM/C (Part 2) — Community Engagement and Survivor-Centered Strategies From (Sahiyo)
- EIN Presswire, Connecticut lawmakers consider new bill to ban female genital mutilation/ cutting
2024
- NH Register, Opinion: CT needs to ban female genital mutilation/cutting
- Ms. Magazine, When Protecting Girls Is Twisted Into Attacking Trans Youth: FGM/C Survivors Fight Back Against Transphobic Right-Wing Narratives
- Crea World, FGM in India: A Memoir of a Movement
- The Guardian, ‘Why didn’t my mother prevent it?’: healing the generational trauma of FGM
- Equality Now, Implementing Survivor-Led FGM Law In Washington State
- VOA News, Activists See India as New Front in Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation
2023
- The GW Hatchet, Milken researchers receive grant for female genital mutilation prevention
- Gujarati Mid-day, The film “The Beginning” laid the foundations of a new beginning in the interests of women
- Courant, Connecticut is 1 of 9 states without a ban on female genital mutilation. Thousands are at risk, activists say
- Wicked Local, Cambridge woman honored for her work against the practice of female genital cutting
- PR Newswire, L’Oréal Paris Inducts Ten Extraordinary Changemakers into Its Signature Philanthropic Initiative, Women of Worth
- The Communication Initiative, Sahiyo Stories/Voices to End FGM/C
- EIN Presswire, Washington State introduces new law to protect women and girls from female genital mutilation or cutting
- Down to Earth, Laws alone won’t end female genital mutilation in India: Mariya Taher
2022
- National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, What Can States Do to Address Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the U.S?
2021
- The New York Times, This Kenyan Activist said No to ‘the Cut’
- Align,Training journalists in gender-sensitive reporting: Sahiyo.
- Mid-day, Sahiyo – a flame burning bright amid adversity
- Religion News Service, Houston woman faces historic indictment over female genital cutting
- Mid-day, ‘So done with patriarchal control’
- Asia Democracy Chronicles, The right to be whole
2020
- Indian Express, International day of zero tolerance against FGM: 27 short films break silence around khatna through personal storytelling
- Global Citizen, These 27 short videos highlight the horrors of female genital mutilation
- Euro News, Female genital mutilation is a chronic global problem. It demands a global response.
2019
- Underestimated: A Podcast, “Don’t Mention It” Episode 2: Breaking The Silence: A Conversation with Mariya Taher
- The Hindu, Activists push for end to female genital mutilation
- Hindustan Times, FGC survivors share their stories to bring about change
- The Wire, Female Genital Cutting: A Thousand Cuts That Start With One
- Thomson Reuters Foundation News, We must accelerate an end to FGM/C
- Brown Girl Magazine, What I Learned from the Screening of Sahiyo Stories: Being Vulnerable and Learning How to Move On
2018
- Global Citizen, The Truth About the Secretive Practise of FGM in Canada
- She the People, Is it a case of women against women in the movement to ban FGM?
- Bold True Life Podcast, A Different Conversation on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- Brown Girl Magazine, Sahiyo Stories: Shattering the Silence on Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting
2017
- News Deeply, The Bohra Women Fighting to End Female Genital Mutilation in India
- Times of India, Mumbai Women’s group rallies support to end female genital mutilation by 2030
- The Tipping Point, Can the World End Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- The Human Lens, In Conversation With Film-Maker Priya Goswami – A Pinch of Skin
- Thomson Reuters Foundation News, In parts of Asia and Middle East, female genital mutilation a hidden ritual
- Feminism in India, Breaking Isolation – Alerting the World About FGC Through Storytelling
- DW, Female Genital Mutilation still a ‘global concern’
- DNA India, 65% ignorant of what has been cut: Khatna Survey
- Buzzfeed, Here’s What You Need To Know About The Global Fight To End Female Genital Mutilation
- Scroll, Bohra doctor in Detroit arrested for alleged female genital mutilation of two seven-year-olds
- The Hindu, FGM among issues under focus at women’s conference
- Mumbai Live, Everything you need to know about ‘We The Women’ festival
- Economic & Political Weekly, Muslim Women and the Challenge of Religion in Contemporary Mumbai
- Mojo Story, We the Women: Horror on Female Genital Cutting
- Sabrang India, Bohra women want an end to the practice of “female genital cutting”: Sahiyo report
- She the People, Sahiyo is India’s first collective against type of FGM called Khatna in the Dawoodi Bohra comunity.
2016
- Al Jazeera, Fighting Female Genital Mutilation among India’s Bohra
- Orchid Project, Sahiyo posted on Orchid Project website
- Stop FGM Middle East, Wadi and Aware organize first ever conference on Female Genital Mutilation/Conference in Singapore
- Times of India, Journalist opens up about ‘khatna’ among Bohras, campaigns against it
- Women’s Web, Break the silence, stop female genital mutilation
- DNA India, Bohra women speak out against Female genital mutilation, launch petition
- Indian Express, Lifting the veil of silence: Speaking out against Female Genital Mutilation
- The Health Site, Shocking! 80% of Bohra women have been subjected to Female Genital Mutilation: Survey
- Governance Now, Dawoodi Bohra women are seeking to end the practice of female genital mutilation
- Girls’ Globe, Building a movement around Khatna
- News 18, Women in Maharashtra unite in fight against female genital mutilation
- India Today, The Changemakers: Women from across India show others what it takes to say no to injustice.
- YouTube, Sahiyo’s Mariya Taher: Empowering Muslim Women through Storytelling panel
- SBS, World’s Dark Secret – Radio Interview
- Pambazuka News, Khatna: FGM in the global Dawoodi Bohra community
- Feminism in India, Sahiyo: Empowering Dawoodi Bohra Communities & Putting An End to Female Genital Cutting
- Times of India, Clarify on circumcision, Bohras appeal to Syedna
- Times of India, Legal notice a big worry for Bohras standing up to ‘khatna’
- The BMJ, Rebecca Coombes: Beware the medicalisation of female genital cutting
- LA Times, A rebellion inside a small Indian sect seeks to end a brutal custom: female genital mutilation
- ABC News, Underground: American Who Underwent Female Genital Mutilation Comes Forward to Help Others
- The Week, End Female Circumcision: Dawoodi Bohra women
- Mid-day, Say Na to Khatna
- Mid-day, Strength in Unity
- Hindustan Times, Only 1 in 10 who underwent FGM want it done on daughters
- Tostan, Interview with Mariya Taher from Sahiyo: Reflections on her Experience at the TTC
- DNA India, Not just a small nick: Priya Goswami’s second film raises an even louder voice against FGM
- The Better India, No More Khatna: Meet the Five Women Standing against the Ritual of Female Circumcision in India
- YouTube, Mariya Taher & Insia Dariwala Interview at the End Violence Against Girls: Summit on FGM/C at the U.S. Institute of Peace on Dec 2n, 2016
- The Wire, Voices of Resistance Against Female Genital Mutilation in India Grow Louder
- The Human Lens, Showcasing Sahiyo – I Am Bohra Anti-FGM photo campaign
- Brown Girl Magazine, Sahiyo: An Organization Dedicated to Ending Female Genital Cutting in Asia and Beyond