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 ...

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 ...

Samina, a survivor, read about female genital mutilation, commonly understood as khatna, prevelant in the Bohra community through an article. It was only then that she realized an ordeal of the past ...

Pakistan's former federal minister for human rights Ansar Burney is now going to begin agitation against female circumcision (khatna) practiced by certain communities and tribes both in India and ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Farzana Doctor is a Canadian novelist, activist and psychotherapist of Indian ancestry. Her novels include All Inclusive and Six Metres of Pavement. Her latest is Seven, a novel that explores the ...

The discourse on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) gets shriller, thanks to two Dawoodi Bohra Muslim non-profit organisations called Sahiyo and We Speak Out, fighting to abolish khatna or female ...

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 ...