Pro-FGM Cultish Indian Cleric Controls 40 US Mosques
Ryan Mauro and Alex VanNess over at Clarion have a great graphic and article posted about the Dawoodi Bohra connection to FGM…
Category: Dawoodi Bohra
NCC talk: Ending genital mutilation and child marriage
Originally posted at : http://cccnews.info/2017/10/16/ncc-talk-ending-genital-mutilation-and-child-marriage/ Jaha Dukureh, a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced child marriage, will speak at Nassau Community College about Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage in This Country and Around the World on Wednesday, November 1 at 9:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m.…
Cairo named riskiest megacity for women, worse since Arab spring
Originally posted at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-4983416/Cairo-named-riskiest-megacity-women-worse-Arab-spring.html Cairo was named on Monday as the most dangerous megacity for women by an international poll with women’s rights experts saying the treatment of women in the Egyptian capital has worsened since a 2011 uprising seeking social change. Cairo came out worst when the Thomson…
Women activists seek ban on Female Genital Mutilation
After the Supreme Court declared triple talaq as unconstitutional, women activists have come forward to demand a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) or khatna. Young girls belonging to Bohra community have to undergo severe pain when they are subjected to genital cutting. Earlier it was considered as a taboo…
Female genital mutilation is not a sex act, attorney says
DETROIT, MI — Federal prosecutors charged two Detroit-area doctors, who are also accused of female genital mutilation, with an additional crime usually reserved for pimps who prostitute young girls. Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, 44, of Northville, a former physician at Henry Ford Hospital, is accused of performing religious-based female circumcisions on…
No advisory against FGM disappoints activists
The group which has been fighting for a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) or female genital cutting (FGC) has said that it is disappointed with the central government not issuing any advisory on the issue. A section of women belonging to the Dawoodi Bohra community had approached the central…
NCC talk: Ending genital mutilation and child marriage
Originally posted at : http://cccnews.info/2017/10/16/ncc-talk-ending-genital-mutilation-and-child-marriage/ Jaha Dukureh, a survivor of female genital mutilation (FGM) and forced child marriage, will speak at Nassau Community College about Ending Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage in This Country and Around the World on Wednesday, November 1 at 9:30 a.m. and again at 12:30 p.m.…
Cairo named riskiest megacity for women, worse since Arab spring
Originally posted at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-4983416/Cairo-named-riskiest-megacity-women-worse-Arab-spring.html Cairo was named on Monday as the most dangerous megacity for women by an international poll with women’s rights experts saying the treatment of women in the Egyptian capital has worsened since a 2011 uprising seeking social change. Cairo came out worst when the Thomson…
Women activists seek ban on Female Genital Mutilation
After the Supreme Court declared triple talaq as unconstitutional, women activists have come forward to demand a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) or khatna. Young girls belonging to Bohra community have to undergo severe pain when they are subjected to genital cutting. Earlier it was considered as a taboo…
Female genital mutilation is not a sex act, attorney says
DETROIT, MI — Federal prosecutors charged two Detroit-area doctors, who are also accused of female genital mutilation, with an additional crime usually reserved for pimps who prostitute young girls. Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, 44, of Northville, a former physician at Henry Ford Hospital, is accused of performing religious-based female circumcisions on…
No advisory against FGM disappoints activists
The group which has been fighting for a ban on female genital mutilation (FGM) or female genital cutting (FGC) has said that it is disappointed with the central government not issuing any advisory on the issue. A section of women belonging to the Dawoodi Bohra community had approached the central…