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Welcome to WRN Afghanistan! We are speaking out for the women in Afghanistan who are being denied basic and essential human rights. Please join by following us here! Thanks to.@WomensRightsNet – together we're building a global movement to support women everywhere.
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Iraq is legalising old men raping nine year old girls. Libya is imposing Taliban-style rules on women’s clothing and movement. Afghanistan won’t let women speak to each other. Iran is kidnapping women who protest their treatment by the morality police. Where does it end?.
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Women of WRN Afghanistan stand with all women being disadvantaged by males in their sports. We are XX not XY. Men will use their strength to try to keep us down but women will always fight on @WomensRightsNet . #XX.#SaveWomensSport
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It’s great to see England standing up for Afghan women alongside Australia. The more organisations and individuals who raise their voices against the Taliban and the more pressure we can apply, the more chance we have of reinstating women’s rights.
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The Taliban have made it illegal for women to speak to each other. It didn’t even get this far in the Handmaid’s Tale. @WomensRightsNet will keep listening to Afghan women and amplifying their voices. #NoToTaliban .#SaveAfghanWomen
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Dear @peterboghossian . Although we understand that we are invisible and inaudible to men like you (unlike the Taliban, you won’t admit it outright), please know that we are busily protesting away about the disgraceful treatment of women in Afghanistan. 1/2
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The reports that Taliban have banned women from midwifery training appear to be true. That they would prevent the safe delivery of their own children is inexplicable. The world cannot ever recognise such a regime; it is ridiculous to contemplate. #NoToTaliban.#FreeAfghanWomen.
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Unveiled? Glorious nation? . Have you so little regard for the human rights of your sisters, mothers and daughters that you openly troll and mock them? . New Zealand should refuse to play a nation whose principal characteristic is persecuting and enslaving women. 1/2.
Jersey Unveiled 👌. Headshots: .Here is the AfghanAtalan playing jersey for the only test against New Zealand. #AfgvsNZ | #AfghanAtalan.#GloriousNationVictoriousTeam
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1/5. I can’t go outside alone without a male relative from my home. I can’t go to school over the age of 12. I can’t go to university or the gym or park. I can’t be an engineer or pilot or singer or athlete. I can’t go to work, except as doctors or nurses in some hospitals.
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Hello boys, nice to see you’ve joined the fray. Now bring this energy to protest the treatment of Afghan women and girls. You know, the torture, slavery and murder?.
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Today’s women want to be heard. They want you to know that under the Taliban, women do not have freedom of movement; . women cannot participate in public life or politics; . women are not able to be active in civil society; . indeed, women are totally removed from society.
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Afghan women enter the new year #2025, with heavy hearts and no hope as the Taliban increase restrictions and world leaders stay silent with no actions. May 2025 be the last year of oppression and darkness for Afghan women!. Please stand up with Afghan women! .@Yalbano12345.
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We are asked a lot whether any men are protesting or fighting the Taliban on behalf of their wives and daughters? . The answer is no. Very few. Why? It’s a long story. But people are afraid for their lives. 1/2.
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Thread of locations for the first silent vigils for Afghan women and girls being held in the UK this weekend. All vigils are at 4pm on Saturday 7 December 2024 unless otherwise specified.
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I am here to tell you that there are no HUMAN rights & there are no WOMEN’S rights in Afghanistan under the Taliban’s control. The world must know what is being done to women & girls, and how our freedom has been stolen. Please stand with Afghan women.
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Much of our support is necessarily on the down low, but be assured we are supporting Afghan women, amplifying their voices, and haven’t even blamed you for not doing your part. You aren’t stupid though so are you just engagement farming on the backs of these suffering women? 2/2.
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More rules (for women) . 1/3). They must not perfume themselves. They must not wear adorning clothes. They must not wear thin clothes. They must not wear narrow and tight clothes. They must cover their entire bodies. Their clothes must not resemble men's clothes.
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I am one of the women activists living in Afghanistan under the direct threat of the Taliban. The Taliban actively search for all who work or talk against them. I am in danger, but I can’t stop. #dontforgetafghanwomen
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Massive demos for Palestine but none for women in Afghanistan who have had their human rights obliterated under gender (sex) apartheid. Not to mention the homelessness and destruction from the earthquakes. Where is the march for Afghan women and girls?. #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen
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REMINDER: . In Afghanistan women must be covered from HEAD TO TOE. They are banned from the majority of their education. They must not laugh loudly. Their clothes must not produce sound. They must not walk in the middle of streets. And so on. #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen.
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It is now 3 years since Afghan women and girls were banned from school and university. We have heard of rocketing suicide attempts amid other horrors. Millions of women remain trapped in their homes fearing that no one is ever coming to help them. #SaveAfghanWomen .#NoToTaliban
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This is our first candle for our vigil. Lit by a member in Afghanistan who will be watching us today ❤️❤️. #FreeAfghanWomen.#NoToTaliban
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Taliban aren’t only operating in Afghanistan. They beat women for not covering up sufficiently in the UK also and yet are not sent to prison. Misogyny is a global emergency.
Muhammed Hassan, 26, who violently attacked 3 women for not wearing traditional Asian dress while verbally abusing them as “slags” & “prostitutes”, has walked free from court. The court heard it described as “an outrageous public display of misogyny”.
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“The Taliban just passed a law to stone and execute women in public. There is no recourse to justice. They are denying millions of girls an education, an opportunity to work or to travel outside the house. They are trying to eradicate us completely.”.
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On #GlobalWomensDay we can’t share our Afghan members’ photos as it is too dangerous to even show a photo of the back of their heads. However, we are celebrating and wish women everywhere a wonderful, united celebration. Please keep #afghanwomen in your hearts and minds today.
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The Taliban has made WOMEN’S VOICES ILLEGAL. We are bringing them to you! . Stand by for the story of Noor by @SaarStories in the next post. The Taliban do not want you to hear what she has to say. Please listen. Hear these women, hear their pain. #NoToTaliban.#SaveAfghanWomen.
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Our member writes on the catastrophic implications on the Taliban’s ban on women studying midwifery. If further evidence was needed that this is a death cult targeting women. #EndGenderApartheid .
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Afghan women are miserable. They spend their days crushed by depression and fear. For almost 1000 days, they have been without a future. The Taliban are nothing more than evil men. They are villains. Brainless and bizarrely sex-obsessed. #NoToTaliban .#StandWithAfghanWomen.
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Afghanistan: forced marriage up by 25%; early childbirth in teenaged girls up by 45%; risk of maternal mortality up by 50%.
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For the women we support in Afghanistan, the interaction they have with their western friends is an invaluable source of comfort. It is also how they can get the truth of their suffering out there. This is another mindblowingly cruel edict. #NoToTaliban .@WomensRightsNet.
New Taliban law declares the voices & faces of women are 'forbidden' to men outside their immediate family. Muslim women are now forbidden to interact with non-Muslim women. These are insane human rights violations.Once again, the British press is silent.
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Very true, and I’m sure the Taliban are furious at the amplification of those voices in Afghanistan calling for justified international action against them and an end to their persecution of women and girls. Keep sharing Afghan women’s thoughts and work.
“Taliban bans women from ‘hearing each other’s voices’”. The Telegraph calls this a ‘bizarre rule’, but a fundamental tactic of misogynist authoritarianism is to prevent communication between women. Otherwise they organise and resist.
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If you want an Afghan woman’s opinion, they did a great job banning the burqa. No one wants this. This is not Islam. This is not culture. Women don’t want to wear this.
Switzerland has banned the burqa on its streets by referendum, and refused to make Islam official as a religion.
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The Taliban know Afghan women are not like those of 1996. Today’s women know about their rights and have the power of education to raise their voices worldwide to take action. Today’s women want to be heard.
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Forced into marriage at ten, multiple pregnancies shortly thereafter, this mother now faces losing her daughter to the Taliban and a similar fate at 13. Another little girl’s dreams in tatters. Will you #StandWithAfghanWomen ?.
I received this video from a courageous woman in Afghanistan, standing up to the Taliban despite the risk to her life. Meanwhile, powerful Western female politicians wearing hijab in meetings with the Taliban on Western soil legitimize our oppressors. Join us in Iran and
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Thank you @oliverbrown_tel - this is a way the UK can stand with Afghan women and show that they matter more than cricket.
England cannot be cowards. A cricket boycott of Afghanistan, a country where a woman’s mere existence grows more unbearable by the day, is the only way. Column
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Our members in Afghanistan have seen this song from @GTFGla and @ScotsSurrogacy and sent this message: . On behalf of Afghan women, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to the women in Scotland who have raised their voices in solidarity with us. 1/3.
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Our people have been killed for 40 years and it seems that it was all for nothing. Life under the Taliban without a male family member is horrible for women. There are thousands of war widows and people don’t want to make more. 2/2.
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Reports found, 16 of 90 female prisoners in Jowzjan, Faryab, and Samangan provinces have become pregnant due to repeated sexual assault and have undergone abortions in local clinics. 1/2.
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1/3 Today we will bring you the voices of those women affected by the Taliban’s horrifying regime. First up is Sadia: . “Today is the same day that three years ago, when we woke up in the morning, they said that life is over for you. You no longer have any rights or roles.”.
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This will keep spreading.
Libya is introducing a law similar to the Taliban’s, imposing a dress code on women, banning gender mixing in public, and restricting women’s travel without a male guardian. Libya’s interior minister has said that those seeking personal freedom “should go to Europe.”
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If you’re ever feeling like you can’t be bothered, channel Manizha. Taliban abducted your father? .Breadwinner? .Suicide bomber targeted your club? .Had to flee your country? . Do the Olympics anyway and fly the flag for Afghan women’s freedom. 🖤♥️💚🇦🇫.#FreeAfghanWomen.
A moment of history. “FREE AFGHAN WOMEN”. Manizha Talash of Afghanistan in the first ever Olympic Breaking competition. She loses her qualifier but not before unveiling a cape from underneath her jumper. Representing the refugee team, Talash is Afghanistan’s first female
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In Afghanistan it’s Teachers’ Day. We’d like to say a big HAPPY TEACHERS’ DAY to all our secret online teachers in and outside Afghanistan. Your efforts educating women and girls under these circumstances is incredible!
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5/5. I am banned from listening to music – this applies not only to women, but men as well. There is a ban on male tailors taking women's measurements or sewing women's clothes. #speakupforafghanwomen #afghanwomensrights.
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Thank you @AlexCrawfordSky for this report featuring the voices of women in Afghanistan telling you themselves how horrific their situation is. It’s not their culture. It’s male violence and control. We say #NoToTaliban. Please watch and share. @WomensRightsNet.@LibVoice4Women
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Our founder member who recently fled Afghanistan has passed her electrical engineering exams and interviews and is now a permanent part of the team at an engineering firm in the US. HUGE CONGRATULATIONS @Yalbano12345 🎉🥳👏🏻🍾🙌🎊@WomensRightsNet
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2/5. I can’t go to male doctors for treatment. I can’t deal with male shopkeepers. I should wear a long burqa which covers me from head to toe. I can’t talk or shake hands with non-mahram (close family or spouse) males.
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They are now revoking the divorces of child brides. You could not make it up. The Taliban must go.
Women were also declared unfit to participate in the judicial system. "Women aren't qualified or able to judge because in our Sharia principles the judiciary work requires people with high intelligence,".@c4hra @WRNAfghanistan @GreenPartyWomen @EGACampaign
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Some people apparently haven’t grasped that Afghan women did not vote for the Taliban. They did not choose being banned from public places, education and work. They don’t choose to be the victims of gender apartheid/crimes against humanity. #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen . #LetHerLearn.
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3/5. I can’t laugh loudly. (No stranger should hear a woman's voice). I can’t ride in a taxi without a mahram. I can’t present or speak in radio, television or public gatherings. But if I did I would have to cover my face during any TV program.
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We won’t be surprised if we get a brand new category for Los Angeles 2028: stoning women. The competitors will be mixed sex but the targets female only so ⬆️ female representation!. And the Taliban will get a coveted IOC board spot in return for advice on keeping women in line.
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It is two years since Kabul fell. From inside Afghanistan, my plea is that you don’t forget us. Afghan women need action. Please stand with Afghan women. Please don’t recognize the Taliban. Please let Afghan women learn. #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen.#AfghanWomensRights
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Dear Spain . As the Taliban or similar does not rule your country, you have in fact outlawed these practices and can therefore protect little girls.
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I am in hiding, fighting for my life and the lives of other women. I know the Taliban are searching for me, and it’s easy for the Taliban to kill those groups who work or talk against them. Because of me, my siblings and parents are also under direct threat. We are not safe.
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4/5. I can’t play sports or enter a sports center or club. I can’t ride bicycles or motorcycles, even with a mahram.
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On International Day of the Girl, spare a thought for all the girls in Afghanistan whose future has been destroyed by an oppressive male regime.
On International Day of the Girl, our thoughts as always are with girls across the world being subjected to oppression on the basis of their female sex. - Forced marriage.- Rape.- Female genital mutilation .- Enslavement.- Deprivation of education.- Deprivation of work and.
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“The Taliban… have systematically restricted the human rights of women & girls & suffocated all aspects of their lives, UN experts said… such treatment could amount to ‘gender* apartheid’.". New blog out now .*taken to mean ‘sex’ . #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen.
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Iran has executed a victim of child marriage. Samira Sabzian was married at 15, domestically abused, and now hanged by a regime indulging in a bloody “gender apartheid”. 18 women have been executed in Iran in 2023. We condemn it. #WomanLifeFreedom.
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What the Taliban have taken away.
Maram’s stunning piano performance in Kabul. Under the Taliban, music is now illegal. The Afghanistan National Institute of Music empowered talents like her, but one of the Taliban's first moves was to ban the school.
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A friend wanted to share her song
Let’s create the biggest Women Only playlist ever and campaign against the Taliban, please leave a song sang by a woman here and retweet and tag someone. #DonateASong #FreeWomensVoices
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Kimia Yousofi, part of the six-person Afghan team competing in Paris: “I have a message for Afghan girls. Don’t give up, don’t let others decide for you. Just search for opportunity, and then use that opportunity” .
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I’m launching this hashtag #LetUsExist to protest against the gender apartheid in Afghanistan and im inviting all of you to support Afghanistani women and to fight for gender equality !
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Solidarity with the women of Iran especially the heroic Roya Heshmati who wouldn’t let her tormentors break her. #WomanLifeFreedom.
I am heartbroken and furious at the same time for the women of Iran and Afghanistan. Iranian woman lashed 74 times yesterday for the crime of removing her hijab in public. This is shocking and barbaric. A young woman named Roya Heshmati shared her horrific ordeal of receiving
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We are working on a full list of vigils and will post as soon as we can.
WRN women have arranged vigils in villages, towns and cities across the UK on Saturday 7th December. We want to ensure that the women and girls of Afghanistan are not forgotten and their plight is highlighted. Please join a vigil if you can. All are welcome.
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New decree from the Taliban leader: Women should not be visible from the windows of buildings while sitting, standing, or cooking. @ZahraJoya
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We heard a rumour that the Taliban preventing women who provide mental health support for women from working as this work is “not necessary”. We are also hearing catastrophic stories of Taliban-inflicted sexual violence. We cannot ignore these crimes. #EndGenderApartheidNow.
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The Taliban hates women. The IOC hates women.
Ahead of the Olympics, one of the highlights was that of the female Afghan refugee breakdancer who escaped the Taliban and went on to gain a place at the games… where she was then disqualified for wearing a "Free Afghan Women" cape. Where is the outrage?
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This bizarre article severely underplays the true horrors women in Afghanistan face. Not to mention the danger for tourists if they visited and something went wrong. Why? The only possible reason seems to be to encourage tourism/money for the Taliban.
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Who are not allowed a cricket team. Or a voice. Or an education. We could go on. No principles. No morals. No integrity. No shame. 2/2.
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Thank you @VictoriaPeckham for lending your voice to the apartheid movement. A civilised world would not look away while women and girls are treated like animals in Afghanistan. No education. Kept at home and bred. The Taliban must meet justice.
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Talib are breaking international law. The world must act. #LetUsExist . Women are human too.
Afghan women can now be punished for singing or speaking in public. The Taliban's silencing of women’s voices in Afghanistan is abhorrent. @hrw @WRNAfghanistan.#LetUsExist.End #GenderApartheid
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“The misogyny of the regime doesn't even stop in emergency situations.”. Women who fled their homes during earthquakes without a burqa or a male chaperone have broken the Taliban’s law and been beaten according to some reports. #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen .
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In Afghanistan, divorced women are thought to bring bad luck, and are looked down upon by not only people in their community, but also by their own family. For example, during the pre-wedding henna ceremony, when the groom’s family puts henna on the bride’s hands, (1).
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As if the brave women of Afghanistan who take to the streets to protest the Taliban are going to be scared to protest at the Olympics. Afghan women are defiant and WILL keep fighting for human rights. #FreeAfghanWomen.
Refugee breaker Manizha Talash, or “b-girl Talash,” was disqualified from the first ever Olympic breaking competition after she wore a cape that said “Free Afghan Women” during her pre-qualifier battle against India .@EGACampaign @WRNAfghanistan
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The Taliban’s lunatic policy of effectively sealing women into their homes has caused a mental health crisis, inescapable violence, and is leading to many women seeing suicide as their only way out. Report by WRN member. #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen.
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Women/children live in hiding in fear of being murdered, no job/money/food/safety. How is it acceptable for rich students to wear and perform their suffering like this?. There are Afghan women who would give anything to attend their university. They want to learn, not play.
This is theatre. This is a refugee camp LARP. These are rich upper class idiots who REALLY want to feel like suffering underdogs, so they now pretend like they're "starving" and in need of "aid".
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I suppose you save on emissions when half your country stays in all the time to avoid getting murdered.
Last month the Taliban banned women from speaking in public. This month they will be invited to attend the the UN climate conference. The United Nations is a joke.
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It *is* quite offensively inaccurate. We have heard reports that female babies with disabilities in Afghanistan are sometimes buried alive where male babies would be given medical treatment.
From the Amnesty website. It's just insulting to the women and girls of Afghanistan - and actually everywhere - to even hint at their oppression under the Taliban being due to 'identifying as a girl' rather than being born female. @amnesty
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Another tragedy.
9 years old. Iraq takes first step to lower the legal age of marriage for girls to 9 years old.
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(3/3) . They must not go out of their houses without their husband's permission. They must not talk to strange men. If it is necessary to talk, they must talk in a low voice and without laughter. They must not look at strangers. They must not mix with strangers.
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This generation of young women recently had hopes and dreams for careers and the future and now they just want to be wife no. 2 or 3 to Taliban fighters? . This is a very real and immediate consequence of successful Taliban indoctrination. #NoToTaliban .
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“You’ve been fucked by Americans all these years and now it’s our turn.” . It is unforgivable for the UN to continue to sideline women’s rights in Afghanistan. Evidence of rape and torture just post women’s exclusion from Doha 3. #StandWithAfghanWomen.
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Don’t forget this. Taliban “culture” isn’t really about a strongly held belief that women shouldn’t be educated. It’s just about making them suffer.
It has been 1,110 days since the Taliban banned millions of Afghan girls from attending schools in Afghanistan, yet they continue to send their daughters to schools in Qatar and Pakistan.
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1/3. The Taliban actively search every single home, even searching the phone, laptop and all private things to see and find who is working against them. If yes, then they will arrest, beat or kill them. No one has the right to complain.
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Why isn’t the UK taking them to court? . Tell your MPs to get involved.
The Taliban are to be taken to the International Court of Justice for gender discrimination by Canada, Australia, Germany & the Netherlands. The BBC’s Chief International Correspondent @bbclysedoucet joins @KrupaPadhyBBC to explain why this is significant ⬇️.
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‘Girls as young as 16-years-old have been seized from markets, private classrooms and the streets of Kabul as well as other provinces for “bad hijab”. Several girls have reported being lashed by their Taliban captors.’. #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen.
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(2/3) . Muslim women's clothes must not resemble non-Muslim women's clothes. Their foot ornaments must not produce sound. They must not wear sound-producing garments. They must not walk in the middle of streets.
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The Taliban’s place is behind prison bars, not at negotiating tables… The UN must act according to its fundamental principles and hold the Taliban accountable for their institutionalized crimes against women and girls. By a @WomensRightsNet member .
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She’s had it with this awful regime and who can blame her? . We hope our brave heroine is ok, however unlikely that is. #WomanLifeFreedom.
#BREAKING: This happened in Amir-Kabir university of #Tehran. A brave student refused to cover her hair as a protest to barbaric compulsory Hijab laws of #Iran's Regime. As the security forces attacked her, she removed her dress. Sadly, she was severely beaten by the Intelligence
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This is the Taliban. They claim to be scholars but are garden-variety, aggressive, sex obsessed males who lust after the suffering of women. And they’ve been handed millions of them to torment. The world must stop them. #NoToTaliban .#SpeakUpForAfghanWomen.@WomensRightsNet
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What are the T up to now? Why they’re slashing the salaries of those few women who are still able to work! . What happens when you can’t earn enough to live? . Another day, another crime against humanity. By a member. @WomensRightsNet .#NoToTaliban.
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Amazing to see some vocal support for Afghan women 💚.
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We want to show solidarity with Marguerite. Misogyny, specifically the lust men seem to have for spilling the blood of women, is a global problem. The difference is the excuses they give. Women everywhere share this pain.
Today, during a pro-trans protest in France, somebody had a poster with a drawing of me being beheaded…. 📷 1 : the poster.📷 2 : the painting that inspired it.📷 3 : the picture that inspired the painting. I should start to get used to it, but it always hurts.
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This is how they will try to stop us raising Afghan women’s voices. They want to stop women and girls from telling the world what is happening to them. @SaarStories’ project is so important as it records their stories.
Reports indicate that the Taliban have banned women and girls from using smartphones in Kandahar province, plunging them into a painful and dark situation. This isolation limits their access to information and communication, exacerbating their already dire circumstances.
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Our latest blog post. An Afghan woman describes her attempts to persuade the ICC to investigate and prosecute the Taliban for the crimes against humanity they are committing against women . #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen .
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“Their rules, decrees, and restrictions are not our cultural beliefs - they’re imposing their beliefs and culture on us. We need to be given a voice, and we need to be protected from the Taliban.” . An Afghan WRN member interview. #SaveAfghanWomen .
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CW: violence. Short video showing the reality of life in Afghanistan under the violent Taliban regime. Gunfire, women being dragged off and beaten in the street. Women protest anyway 💜. These women will NOT disappear quietly into the night. #NoToTaliban .#StandWithAfghans
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“Every day he would call and tell me he would rape me, torture me, kill me — that he could do this whenever he wanted”. Another heartbreaking tale of injustice and abuse. By a member. #NoToTaliban .
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In one sentence, what would you say to dissuade a girl or woman in Afghanistan who, erased from public life, was determined to die by suicide? . #SpeakUpForAfghanWomen .#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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