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 ...

Mumbai: In the face of a virtual firestorm on the issue of female circumcision or khatna within the Dawoodi Bohra community in the past few months, around 21 Bohra men, spanning Mumbai, Pune, Udaipur, ...

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 ...

The Central government's warning -- a first -- to the Dawoodi Bohra community last week over the practice of khatna or female genital mutilation (FGM) has been hailed as a "landmark breakthrough" in ...

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: At a time when voices of dissent against khatna or female genital mutilation (FGM) performed on little girls in the Dawoodi Bohra community are getting stronger, a group of six Bohra women, ...

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 ...

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 ...