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Associate women’s rights director, Human Rights Watch. Salty Alaskan. Typo queen.

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Afghans have been waiting for the International Criminal Court to act since 2006.
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🎙️ @HeatherBarr1 on holding the Taliban leaders accountable in the ICC and other international bodies. Heather Barr is associate director of the Women’s Rights Division at @hrw . 🎧 Listen to the full interview: Apple: Spotify: …
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“I’m going to say to the whole world—shame on you.” @SerajMahbouba , Afghan women’s rights leader
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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Afghan girls protest for their right to study.
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This clip of South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor is well worth watching to understand how the SA govt sees the ICJ case.
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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How it feels when the world promised to stand by you forever, but they lied. #FreeHerFace #Afghanistan
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Today is the first time I saw someone list “stay at home parent” as a position on their CV with a description of the tasks they did and skills they gained. Hell yeah.
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The 1950s came by and picked up their headline.
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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Girls in Afghanistan crying after they were promised their schools would reopen only for the Taliban to lock them out again at the last minute.
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Women are still protesting in Afghanistan, demanding that the Taliban stop violating their rights to study and work.
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Tolo: Dozens of Kabul residents, including students, teachers and activists, protested today in response to the closure of girls' schools above the sixth grade. They demanded the reopening of all girls' schools in the country.
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First female VP.
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Afghan women still protesting, demanding their rights. Taliban still attacking protesters, and journalists covering the protest.
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Poor Malala, who has had to deal with stupid men of many nations.
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Quebec education minister says Malala can teach here if she removes headscarf
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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Raise your hand if you would have faked being the %*<&ing tooth fairy if necessary to escape Afghanistan during the Taliban takeover. Wtf @BBCNews .
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Evacuated Afghan women's team included "false" footballers, BBC investigation told
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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Girls protesting after the Taliban locked them out of their schools, again.
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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Men wonder why we’re angry.
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Vaginal speculum for applying leeches, made between 1801-1830 in France. Applying leeches to the cervix was a popular treatment for gynaecological problems.
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“It’s a horrifying and disgusting contrast. The willingness to allow certain people to die while every effort is made to save others ... it’s a, you know, really dark reflection on humanity.”
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Which experts should we be listening to in the increasingly heated debate about whether the Taliban should be recognized? #GenderApartheid (spoiler: how about we listen to the Afghan women who are risking their lives to protest for their rights)
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“You have two daughters—do they go to school?” “Of course.”
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No one is braver than these women.
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Pajhwok Afghan News
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First protest of women in Kabul. #Afghanistan Video of @HameedMohdShah
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Dear @antonioguterres . I worked for the UN in Afghanistan for four years and my inbox is full of Afghans I worked with at the UN desperately pleading for my help in escaping. Kindly advise me who I should refer them to.
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This isn’t about getting your hair and nails done. This is about 60,000 women losing their jobs. This is about women losing one of the only places they could go for community and support.
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“Afghanistan is in the midst of a mental health crisis precipitated by a women’s rights crisis. We are witnessing a moment where growing numbers of women and girls see death as preferable to living under the current circumstances.”
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It also a special kind of cruelty to expel 850,000 women & girls to a country where you know their rights to study, work, move, access healthcare & aid, speak, organize, play sport & even just visit a park will be systematically violated.
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As Afghan women and girls mark two brutal years since the Taliban gained control of Afghanistan and began their full assault on women’s rights, here are just a few of their protests.
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As the Taliban burn musical instruments, ban music, and further restrict girls’ access to education, here’s a memory from early 2021.
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While the world’s eyes are on Gaza, Pakistan quietly expels 1.7 million people back to Afghanistan, a country gripped in a humanitarian crisis, where Taliban are systematically violating the rights to education, employment, and much more for women & girls.
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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Afghan women won’t give up their rights easily. They are asking tor the world’s support; we owe it to them.
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Afghan girls demanding their right to education.
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“Today is the day that a generation of Afghans have buried our dreams and aspirations and our lives.” Journalist @bsarwary says goodbye to Afghanistan.
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Sometimes the human rights struggle is about one brave Afghan women standing alone in the snow outside a Norwegian hotel, disrupting the Taliban’s five star evening. #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
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A woman protests outside of Taliban room in the Taliban residency in Norway.
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Misogynist doesn’t seem like a strong enough term to describe a group who can’t even handle the public presence of inanimate women.
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Zia Shahreyar l ضیا شهریار
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This is Herat where the Taliban authorities have asked clothing shops to behead all “female mannequins” calling them “un-Islamic”. Herat was called “the pearl of Khurasan” by Rumi and has been considered the cultural capital of #Afghanistan .
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This is so wonderful.
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At least 30 girls took part in a cycling race in Kabul on Thursday to say no to violence against women and defend women’s rights for education.
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When you lock students in their dorms to silence them, it shows how scared you are of women's voices.
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#تازه طالبان به‌ دلیل جلوگیری از اعتراض‌ها، دختران دانش‌جو را در خواب‌گاه دانش‌گاه بلخ زندانی کردند منابع به آماج می‌گویند طالبان در بلخ مانع اعتراض‌های دختران شده‌اند و دروازه‌های خواب‌گاه‌ها را بر آنان قفل کرده‌اند. آنان قرار بود در پیوند به حمله به آموزش‌گاه کاج اعتراض کنند.
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Afghan women are not done protesting for their rights, even after Taliban banned unauthorized protests and beat women protesters. Today they spoke out re Ministry of Women’s Affairs being replaced by Ministry of Vice and Virtue. #courage
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What is happening right now in Afghanistan is the most serious women’s rights crisis in the world today.
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. @Sahar_fetrat @hrw interviewed six amazing Afghan women about the human cost of the Taliban’s ban on girls’ secondary education. Here are all the videos. First, one with all six women.
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“Universities could offer more scholarships to Afghan women. National governments could ease visa restrictions. NGOs could make online education more accessible for Afghan women, and develop a standard curriculum that could be recognized internationally.”
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What kind of monsters attack a maternity hospital, ever—let alone during a pandemic? Scenes from Kabul today. #ceasefirenow
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Child marriage--not just a problem in poor countries. Join us in our effort to end child marriage in...Florida.
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It takes a special kind of cruelty to expel over a million people to Afghanistan in the middle of a humanitarian crisis as winter sets in.
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برنامه جهانی خوراک در شبکه اجتماعی اکس از وضعیت خانواده‌ها در زمستان پیش‌رو در افغانستان نگرانی کرده‌است. این نهاد گفته که برای فراهم کردن کمک‌های لازم به خانواده‌های نیازمند در افغانستان به ۴۰۰ میلیون دالر نیاز دارد. #طلوع‌نیوز
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Just when you think the Taliban can’t get worse they always do.
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The humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan is a human rights crisis, particularly a women’s rights crisis: a thread.
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Something absolutely mind blowing about watching lawyers wildly--knowingly--misstate the law because they think it's politically essential for them to come out in favor of war crimes. Not sure how rule of law comes back from this.
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“Do you think cutting off food, water and electricity is within international law?” Labour’s shadow attorney general @EmilyThornberry is asked on #newsnight . Her answer; “I think that Israel has an absolute right to defend itself against terrorists”
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“A self-determined life for women and girls in Afghanistan is not possible under the current regime”. Switzerland becomes fourth country to automatically grant asylum to Afghan women - Tortoise
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Women and children came out of the village, screaming and crying, soldiers said. Mr. Fitzgerald said in an interview that the lieutenant turned to him and said, “If anyone tries to touch the bodies, shoot them.”
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Clint Lorance ordered his men to fire on villagers in Afghanistan he knew were unarmed, then tried to cover it up. He was freed from Leavenworth by presidential pardon last night.
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All respect to women journalists bravely reporting on their country being retaken by the Taliban, a group that at least previously did not tolerate women working outside the home, let alone as TV reporters.
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ویدیو - گزارش حسیبه اتکپال خبرنگار طلوع نیوز از کابل
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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Afghanistan's carpet makers have long made "war rugs." What's the latest? Drone rugs.
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Who gives a fuck?
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Do men find women who swear unattractive?
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Taliban’s apparent goals: 1) Erase women and girls entirely from public life; and 2) Make women and girls wards and property of their male relatives, with no autonomy. How the world responds has implications for women’s rights everywhere on the planet.
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Alarming crackdown against Afghan refugees in Pakistan.
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Well, it’s official—the post August 15 Afghanistan books are starting to come out. Grateful to have had a chance to write about women’s rights for this one.
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Afghan women are still protesting Taliban roll backs of their rights.
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Giving birth without medical care. Feeding your baby without clean water. Having your period running from air strikes or in a shelter. Needing help after sexual violence but there is none. Israel’s unlawful blockade of Gaza is also a women's rights crisis.
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It’s a hell of a drug, being a white American dude.
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It’s amazing how quickly the Taliban presence has become the new normal in Kabul. Many fear their intentions, but on the street they’re approachable. I told them i’m from USA. No hostility. Not even surprise really.
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“Feminism is embedded in the culture and in the struggle of all women all over the world.”
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Families selling daughters to buy food in Afghanistan is a particularly horrific illustration of a common rule—crisis always hits women/girls hardest. Maybe that’s why male leaders—from the Taliban to Biden—seem to lack urgency about stemming this crisis.
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“The most important thing is not [whether] the Taliban has changed, but that Afghanistan has changed. We as women have changed. We are not the same people who were so scared because somebody beat us on the head.”
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Polish border guards are welcoming Ukrainians on one border while pushing back people from Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen on another. Everyone--everyone--has a right to seek asylum when they are forced to flee their country.
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It’s been a disastrous year for human rights in Afghanistan, especially for women and girls. Afghans are wondering what the world will do to defend their rights. So far the answer has been not much.
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Maybe 2022 will make sense.
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The US govt should urgently take these four steps: 1) Charter direct evacuation flights for Afghan women activists most imminently under threat. 2) Use $ appropriated for Afg refugees for livelihood assistance for women activists who manage to relocate.
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Time for every feminist on the planet to stop and think—together—about how we will offer sustained and meaningful solidarity to the Afghan women and girls who are being so thoroughly dismissed as collateral damage by our male leaders.
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Good to see Hollywood recognizing the extraordinary courage of Afghan women’s rights activists, and supporting the wonderful work of Sahra Mani. Thank you, Jennifer Lawrence.
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Wishing strength, and sending love, to Afghan friends on this traumatic day.
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This is a thread about why Afghan women should be invited to a meeting the @UN @antonioguterres will host next week about Afghanistan. The Taliban, after seizing power in Aug 2021, stripped women/girls of most rights. Women fought back. #GenderApartheid
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We're celebrating International Women's Day by highlighting some of the biggest issues, and successes, impacting women's rights today. Here are a few, by the numbers. #IWD2019
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Shame on you, @AlJazeera , for offering up your platform for the Taliban to spout unchallenged lies. #GenderApartheid
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IEA’s FM Amir Khan Muttaqi wrote an op-ed for Al Jazeera news agency titled: “Afghanistan is ready to work with the US, but sanctions must go.” 1/3 #ArianaNews
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“All of you are responsible.” Please listen to this woman calling in from Afghanistan.
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In 2017, @hrw spent a week filming at a girls’ school in Kabul, Afghanistan, for a report on barriers girls faced accessing education. Today attackers targeted the school as classes let out, killing at least 30, mostly students:
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The Taliban have banned unauthorized protests, and harassed, threatened, beaten, pepper sprayed, abducted, illegally detained, and coerced confessions from women’s rights protesters. Afghan women are still protesting. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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“They made us feel as if we had been buried alive. I felt like I am not a human. I feel like I have committed a big crime which is why God made me a woman in Afghanistan,” Mahera told Al Jazeera, choking back tears.
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Take every penny this will cost and use it to buy food for Afghans the US is helping to starve.
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Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy have been cast in an untitled drama about 3 former special forces team members who go back to Afghanistan to rescue families and allies left behind amid the rapid fall of Afghanistan last August. (Source: Deadline)
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“Not content with depriving girls and women of education, employment, and free movement, the Taliban also want to take from them parks and sport and now even nature. Step by step the walls are closing in on women as every home becomes a prison."
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Bomb Kills at Least 30 People Near School in Afghanistan Capital This school.
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“What you are selling us is not peace—it’s a fairy tale to make us feel better about leaving Afghanistan.”
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Afghan women are still protesting.
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There so many unforgivable things Trump has done to women. But this is high on the list.
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'And you had the Nobel Prize? That's incredible. They gave it to you for what reason?' Donald Trump asks Nadia Murad After a pause, the Nobel laureate repeated her story about the deaths of her mother, six brothers, and thousands of the Yazidi community
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When men write about Afghanistan and ignore or minimize the devastating scale of Taliban violations of the rights of women and girls they discredit whatever else they have to say.
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