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Mumbai: The arrest of Detroit-based emergency room physician Dr. Jumana Nagarwala and two others in connection with female genital mutilation (FGM) of two minor girls in the United States has once ...
Taher Fakhruddin, the Syedna of the breakaway Bohra faction, on Saturday called khatna or female genital mutilation “an un-Islamic and horrific practice”. According to the Times of India, the claimant ...
On March 16, at a storytelling event in Mumbai, four actors narrated the personal stories of four women survivors of a practice called khatna. A form of ritualistic female genital circumcision that ...
“My best friend is a Bohra woman. We’ve known each other for decades, but we’ve never spoken about this. Should I ask her if she was a victim of khatna?” While most of my book interviews and ...
"I am a father and I am against khatna,” reads a sign Yusuf holds over his face in a picture attached to a blog post. Since last year, brave Dawoodi Bohras have been breaking the silence surrounding ...
Mumbai: In an attempt to highlight and bring to life the mental and physical trauma Dawoodi Bohra women are subjected to with khatna, or genital cutting, theatre personalities and actors Dolly Thakore ...
Aarefa Johari was seven when she was taken to a dingy building in Bhendi Bazaar for an appointment with a woman she did not know. Her frock was pulled up. Her mother told her that something would ...
Reporting from Mumbai, India — When she was 7, Saleha Paatwala’s grandmother took her out for what she thought would be a party. “I was told it would be a huge gathering where kids like me would also ...
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