Five women from different parts of the world but bound by a common cause, to eliminate khatna or female genital cutting or mutilation, known as FGC or FGM met at SoBo’s Press Club yesterday. The women, Mumbai’s Aarefa Johri, Shaheeda Tavawalla-Kirtane, Priya Goswami from Hong Kong, Mariya Taher from New York and Insiya Dariwala from Mumbai are founders of Sahiyo, a non-profit dedicated to end the practice of Female Genital Cutting among Dawoodi Bohras and other Asian communities.

Mumbai’s Shaheeda Tavawalla-Kirtane, and Mariya Taher from New York were among the five speakers at the conference on Female Genital Mutilation yesterday at the Press Club near Azad Maidan. Pic/Suresh Karkera