So great to see the #embassy of one country recognizing #femicide .

Thank you for your efforts to #CallItFemicide and contribution to prevention.

Wonderful news: last yr I wrote about Batoor and his heavily-pregnant wife who had been told their baby wouldn't survive unless they were evacuated. They have now been resettled in the UK with their gorgeous baby. Sometimes journalism is a slog. Not today.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/d…

“We will flog the women…we will stone them to death in public [for moral crimes],” Mr. Akhundzada said. “You may call it a violation of women’s rights when we publicly stone or flog them…[But] I represent Allah, and you represent Satan.” theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

“The world has forgotten me and all Afghan girls like me.”

This is the story of a 14-year-old Afghan girl named Sadia, as shared by Metra Mehra, an Afghan women’s rights activist and a member of the End Gender Apartheid campaign. Metra Mehran

#EndGenderApartheid

#bantaliban
Heather Barr Dr Anarkali Honaryar Dr. Alema TogetherStronger - With Afghan Women Homa Francois Bechieau Geneviève Garrigos Isabelle Gougenheim Hilda Dehghani-Schmit

In the past 10 years, 236 aid workers have been killed in the occupied Palestinian territory, according to HumanitarianOutcomes Aid Worker Security Database. Of those, 203, or 86%, were killed in the #GazaStrip in the past 6 months.

Explore the data on HDX: data.humdata.org/dataset/aid-wo…

#UnitedAgainstGenderApartheid is a rallying cry against the oppressive regimes in Iran and Afghanistan that perpetuate gender apartheid. It's an outrage that girls are denied access to education and women are stripped of their basic rights to work and travel freely. This isn't…

'Many paintings there tell the story of Britain's imperial past, including one - next to the foreign secretary's office - in which Africa is portrayed by a black boy holding up a basket of fruit.' bbc.com/news/uk-687562…

Calida Rawles, US hyper-realist painter who addresses themes of identity and culture #WomensArt

From the series Medicinal Flowers of Lebanon, 2021 by street artist, muralist Faith47 #WomensArt

#KätheKollwitz , The Mothers, 1920, one of the artist's many anti-war artworks #WomensArt

Irish sculptor and glass artist Alison Lowry who challenges the silence about historical abuses of women and children in Ireland with her delicate glass sculptures #WomensArt

Elizabeth Catlett's artwork of Harriet Tubman, 1953, an abolitionist who led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom. During the US Civil War she was a Union army armed scout, liberating 700 slaves in S.Carolina. She continued to serve her people until death in 1913 #WomensArt

When you show up to a deliver a workshop with brilliant people to imagine the Future of Football, after cooking all morning with mum and spending most of #Eid day with family, cousins, and nieces and nephews, you naturally show up wearing your Eid Palestinian dress and keffiyeh.

That this is accurate confirms (yet again) that we live in a parody 🤐

I fought the law and I WON! After being subjected to a humiliating ordeal in court by my rapist’s defence lawyer, I started the arduous process of submitting a complaint. I had to study the law, compile it all myself, facing off against a team of lawyers… and it’s been upheld!

It’s been 78 years of United Nations 🇺🇳 Male Secretaries-General. 78 years.

Enough is enough: the next UN Secretary-General must not be a man!

#Unite4Survival
#UNSG #genderequality #womeninpolitics

The inaugural meeting of the 'United Against Gender Apartheid' campaign successfully convened, bringing together women from Iran and Afghanistan, including activists and participants of the movement along with Masih Alinejad. The campaign aims to share and highlight the egregious…

Heather Barr When Afghan women are under attack The Afghan LGBTs are are impossible to be left alive so please help us we are left behind and under attack please take action we are in bad situations we are also humans and refugees we have rights to live in freedom please take care of us

The Taliban stones women! The international community turns its back on them - appoints Saudi Arabia to head the Commission on the Status of Women.