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The Supreme Court is hearing PILs demanding a law against female circumcision on ground that it violates child rights of the community’s girls who undergo this procedure. The Supreme Court is hearing PILs, one filed by an advocate and two… Continue Reading →
By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The head of India‘s National Commission for Women (NCW) on Monday backed a campaign to outlaw “barbaric” female genital mutilation (FGM), the first official support for the banning of the age-old… Continue Reading →
After Australian govt action, Bohra leaders take a U-turn on Female Khatna By Asghar Vasanwala After top Bohra leadership was subjected to jail term for conspiring in Khatna (Female Genital Mutilation) of two 7-year-old Bohra girls, and Australian Government threat to… Continue Reading →
Masooma Ranalvi Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is formally defined as the intentional, non-therapeutic physical modification of female genitalia. In lay terms, it means cutting a part of the clitoris. In real-life terms it means young girl children aged 6-8 are… Continue Reading →
(Why is this young Bohra smiling? Is he happy that this Bohra priest Sheikh Shabbir Vaziri will be behind bars for years?) Mother, nurse and Muslim leader found guilty over the genital mutilation of two girls who were told to… Continue Reading →
One day when I was around seven, my grandmother took me to the Bohra mohalla (at Bhendi Bazaar in Mumbai) with a promise of buying me some chocolate and ice-cream. Gladly I went. Grandmother took me to an old, decrepit… Continue Reading →
Out in the open What is it like to have undergone female genital mutilation, asks NID student’s film Jyoti Punwani [email protected] When a 24-year-old student of film and video communication at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad received… Continue Reading →
By Rupam Jain Nair | AFP – Tue, Apr 24, 2012 AFP A Muslim woman from the Bohra community … Ashgar Ali Engineer, a Bohra Muslim … Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th… Continue Reading →
By Swagata Yadavar, THE WEEK Story Dated: Monday, April 15, 2013 15:8 hrs IST Guddi devi, 27: She had sought treatment for a simple stomach ache. The doctor prescribed hysterectomy. Today, with all her vitality sapped, she feels it was… Continue Reading →