🎙️
@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
.
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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.
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.
Vaginal speculum for applying leeches, made between 1801-1830 in France. Applying leeches to the cervix was a popular treatment for gynaecological problems.
“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.”
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)
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
Busy week for the Taliban.
Weds: extend girls secondary school ban
Fri: ban women flying without chaperone
Sun: segregate parks, ban foreign media
Mon: mandatory beards
#HumanRightsCrisisInAfghanistan
“Today is the day that a generation of Afghans have buried our dreams and aspirations and our lives.” Journalist
@bsarwary
says goodbye to Afghanistan.
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
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
.
#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.
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
.
@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.
“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.”
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
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.
“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”
“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
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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:
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
“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.
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)
“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."
'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
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.