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 ...

Defendant an experienced ‘khatna’ practitioner who was calculated in her approach, crown prosecutor says in closing address The woman who allegedly carried out female genital mutilation on two sisters ...

Woman was in the room when granddaughters allegedly underwent procedure but tells court she was too busy praying to see what happened to them A grandmother who was present when her two granddaughters ...

The Detroit Bohra chapter has forbade the practice of female genital mutilation, even as Indian Bohra women petition for a legal ban. The Detroit Bohra chapter has forbade the practice of female ...

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 ...

Circumcision is commonly known as khatna in India. The guidelines compiled by asteering group set up by WHO, comprising healthcare providers, researchers, healthcare programme managers, human rights, ...

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 ...

Zehra Patwa learned only a few years ago that during a family trip to India at age 7, she was circumcised, which is common for girls in parts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Patwa, 46, doesn't ...

The discussion about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) among Dawoodi Bohras, the only group in India known to practise it, has moved outside the confines of the small community. An online petition to ...

The Hindu contacted the office of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin and asked for the leader’s response to the accusations of the activists and reformers. The Syedna’s spokesperson declined to comment, but ...