When we need art and artists most.

🎥: @atriskartists

#protectartists

Impactful session on the vital need to protect artists in emergencies, alongside our partners NorwayUN, Italy UN New York & PEN America.

Let's continue to defend creative voices worldwide 🌍🎵📕🎨 #ProtectArtists InCrisis #ProtectArtists

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Why the crisis in Yemen is getting worse

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Good to see sisters from Southall Black Sisters nia Woman’s Place UK Femicide Census Justice for Women FiLiA Womens Resource Centre Centre for Women's Justice Brighton Sisters Salon Aurora New Dawn Rights of Women Million Women Rise Imkaan and others standing in support of Selma Taha and friends and against racist…

I'm thrilled to share that my short story has been selected as a finalist for the CBC Books short story prize. As someone new to writing fiction, this is a huge honour. It means a lot to me that Afghanistan is represented & I hope I have done her proud 🇦🇫

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“I think our policy has got to be very clear: not another nickel for Netanyahu’s right wing extremist government while hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza face starvation,” argues Bernie Sanders. “That we… are continuing to supply 2000lb bombs… is unacceptable.”

As Miranda Wayland leaves Amazon it is worth rereading ⁦Marcus Ryder⁩
On Why Media Diversity Execs Are Exiting — Guest Column deadline.com/2023/07/marcus…

The Taliban have adopted one abusive policy after another. And they have gotten to this point because the international community has not held them accountable.

Eid can be so triggering.

It's a time meant for celebration and togetherness, but for those of us who aren’t part of our families and communities, it amplify feelings of loneliness, grief, and isolation.

It's a reminder of what's been lost, regardless of what you have found

“We need a new framework for artists and their protection”Julie Trebault, Director of ARC (Artists at Risk Connection) of PEN America. “Artists are at risk in their own countries but also in the countries where they arrive after relocation”Alexandra Xanthaki, SR on Cultural Rights. Now, at the United Nations

Will be speaking at Columbia Law School next Monday alongside Adeena Niazi (Executive Director of afghanwomensorg) and Heather Barr (Associate Director of Human Rights Watch Women’s Rights Division) on the current context of women’s rights in Afghanistan.

If you’re in NYC, registration below:

Please join me in praying for the well-being and swift release of Laylan Nasser, a member of St Peter’s Anglican Church in Birzeit, in the West Bank, snatched from her family by Israeli troops at 4am on Saturday without giving any reason or saying where she is being held

What to know about the Arizona Supreme Court ruling that reinstates an 1864 near-total abortion ban apnews.com/article/arizon…

When we need art and artists most.

🎥: @atriskartists

#protectartists

Miriam Margolyes condemns Israel’s policy in Gaza, calling on Jews to ‘shout, beg, scream for a ceasefire’ dlvr.it/T5H7L8

A poll in 2006 found 78% of Christian residents of Bethlehem cited Israel's occupation as the main reason for their emigration while only 3% exclusively blamed the 'rise of Islamic movements' like Hamas.
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1. 50,000 Palestinian Christians had to flee their homes in 1948, four decades before the creation of Hamas.
2. Bethlehem is cut off from Jerusalem by the Israeli wall.
3. Bethlehem is encircled by 22 Israeli settlements.
4. Settlers have launched attacks around Bethlehem.

Videos show Chicago police fired nearly 100 shots over 41 seconds during fatal traffic stop apnews.com/article/dexter…

BREAKING: Biden administration imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on toxic PFAS apnews.com/article/foreve…

Could the US Government pls note:

“Food convoys that should be going particularly to the north, where 70 percent of people face famine conditions, are... three times more likely to be denied than any other humanitarian convoys with other kinds of material”: