Suche
Beiträge, die mit freeafghanwomen getaggt sind
Lindsey Hilsum.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵59
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/09/silenced-afghan-women-raise-their-voices-in-hope/
Silenced Afghan women raise their voices in hope - Index on Censorship
Women gather in Albania in defiance of the Taliban's new "vice and virtue" laws which aim to stop them from being heardLindsey Hilsum (Index on Censorship)
The All-Afghan Women’s Summit is in stark contrast to a United Nations meeting in Doha, Qatar at the end of June on the future of Afghanistan which excluded women at the insistence of the Taliban."
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵58
https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2024/09/bread-work-freedom/
Bread, Work, Freedom - Index on Censorship
Afghan women gather in Tirana for global summit to defy the TalibanMartin Bright (Index on Censorship)
Countries must heed this call, and our government must do everything within its sphere of influence to ensure that this happens."
#FreeAfghanWomen
#EndGenderApartheid
🧵57
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/08/the-observer-view-on-afghanistan-britain-and-the-us-are-complicit-in-the-talibans-oppression-of-women
Nobody is predicting the Taliban will fall in the next couple of weeks, so, if I miss the scoop, I'll just have to get over it. I think I'd cope with that.
I'll leave you with this bit of light in the darkness, it's all about the secret undercover beauticians of Kabul.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵56
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2024/8/17/an-island-of-freedom-inside-the-secret-beauty-salons-of-afghanistan
‘An island of freedom’: Inside the secret beauty salons of Afghanistan
In Kabul, an army of clandestine beauticians is keeping morale alive for women under the Taliban-led government.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
Sometimes what the Taliban say is worse than what they do, sometimes what they do is worse than what they say. What they say and what they do also changes day to day depending on their ideological whims.
Am I bringing a complete and accurate picture on women's rights in Afghanistan here on this thread?
Hell No. I'm just trying my bestest.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵55
https://www.rferl.org/amp/afghanistan-taliban-press-freedom-journalists-media/32925395.html
This is something that the leaders of the gender-apartheid regime fear the most."
Fawzia Koofi,
Politician and women’s rights activist who was the first woman vice-president of the Afghan parliament and chair of its women’s affairs and human rights commission.
#FawziaKoofi
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵55
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/27/un-doha-summit-taliban-afghan-women-rights
I always need a minute when I hear that name.
She's described in the article above as an Afghan human rights activist. There's nothing wrong with this description. It is a fair summary of who she is right now.
The part that I can't get my head round is that 3 years ago she was the Vice President of Afghanistan.
#FawziaKoofi
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵54
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stephaniefillion/2022/09/01/one-year-after-leaving-afghanistan-fawzia-koofi-is-determined-to-go-back/
One Year After Leaving Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi Is Determined To Go Back
She gets emotional when talking about it: ‘’I’m not doing really good," she said on a video call, tearing up.Stéphanie Fillion (Forbes)
I have a wild theory about this. Hear me out.
Do you think, maybe, the Taliban might be afraid of being laughed at by women?
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵53
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/26/taliban-bar-on-afghan-women-speaking-in-public-un-afghanistan
They think they can get away with it because they are getting away with it. The international community are letting them get away with it.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵52
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/jun/21/shutting-afghan-women-out-of-key-un-conference-to-appease-taliban-a-betrayal
Azadah Raz Mohammad,
Afghan Legal Advisor,
Atlantic Council.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵51
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/24/nx-s1-5087505/taliban-codifies-law-dictating-how-men-and-women-appear-in-public#:~:text=The%20law%20demands%20women%20must,it%20to%20me%20as%20horrific.
Taliban codifies law dictating how men and women appear in public
Afghanistan's Taliban codified a long set of rules governing morality, including compulsory beards for men and facial covering for women.NPR
They have banned all women in Afghanistan from laughing, either in public, or anywhere a man might be able to hear them.
Don't Laugh.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵50
https://www.gzeromedia.com/news/watching/un-taliban-criminalizes-sights-and-sounds-of-women
UN: Taliban criminalizes sights and sounds of women
On Sunday, the United Nations condemned new laws enacted by Afghanistan’s Ministry of Vice and Virtue that prohibit the display of women’s faces and bodies in public and said that “even the sound of a female voice” outside the home constitutes “a mor…Tasha Kheiriddin (GZERO Media)
Again
The Taliban are getting really busy spouting loads of dangerous nonsense while abandoning their promise to reopen girls schools. They are now even challenging people to prove women's education is compatible with Islam.
They seem to have forgotten that the world's oldest university was founded by a Muslim woman in the 9th century.
Lads, what are you doing? This is not Islam.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵47
https://www.eurasiareview.com/31122017-fatima-al-fihri-the-lady-who-founded-worlds-first-university-oped/
Of course you didn’t.
#AfghanGirlsVoices
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵46
https://qarawiyyinproject.co/2022/01/31/women-and-education-in-the-historical-muslim-world/
Women and Education in the Historical Muslim World
Ayah Aboelela “Seeking knowledge is an obligation upon every Muslim”. This narration from the Prophet ﷺ is one of dozens of hadiths that emphasize the value of education in Islam. It is no wo…The Qarawiyyin Project
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵46
https://www.afintl.com/en/202408253012
Women's Education Questions Off-Limits, Says Taliban Minister
The Taliban's Minister of Higher Education, Neda Mohammad Nadeem, has implied that questions regarding women's education, like the education itself, are "suspended until further notice."Afghanistan International
Underground schools, local home schooling, and remote learning are all playing their part in ensuring schooling can continue. In 2023, Education Cannot Wait’s investments in Afghanistan reached nearly 200,000 girls and boys through community-based education programmes."
Gordon Brown
#AfghanGirlsVoices
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵45
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/columnists/gordon-brown-scottish-initiative-must-be-start-of-a-worldwide-effort-to-end-worst-violation-of-girls-rights-4750561
"It is mandatory for a woman to veil her body at all times in public and that a face covering is essential to avoid temptation and tempting others.
Women should veil themselves in front of all male strangers to avoid being corrupted. A woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public.
It is forbidden for women to look at men they are not related to by blood or marriage and vice versa."
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵44
IT'S NOT A METAPHOR!
It's the new law. Literally. As in literally.
Women's voices are no longer allowed to be heard in public.
"A woman’s voice is deemed intimate and so should not be heard singing, reciting, or reading aloud in public."
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵43
https://apnews.com/article/afghanistan-taliban-vice-virtue-laws-women-9626c24d8d5450d52d36356ebff20c83
Afghanistan: Taliban bans women’s voices, bare faces in public under new law
The Taliban say it's mandatory for Afghan women to conceal their voices and bare faces in public. That's according to newly published laws covering aspects of everyday life from the Ministry of Vice and Virtue.AP News
If I am criticising the Taliban, I am criticising the Taliban.
This has nothing to do with Islam.
There's a zero tolerance policy on Islamophobia here. Don't even think about replying with your tropes and thinly veiled comments. I can spot you all a mile off.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵42
“All countries within the Organization of Islamic Cooperation are unanimous that this has nothing to with Islam, that this is alien to the concept of Islam, and the first word of the Holy Qur’an is ‘Read'.
We continue to press the interim government in Afghanistan to live up to their promises and grant women their right to education."
Bhutto Zardari,
Pakistan Foreign Minister.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵41
The Taliban's treatment of women and girls has even united all 57 varieties of the Muslim countries that make up the Organization of Islamic Cooperation . They say it very clearly. It goes against all Islamic values.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵40
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2265201/world
Islamic world officials denounce Taliban actions, media stereotypes of Muslim women
NEW YORK CITY: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Wednesday reiterated that women’s rights are synonymous with Islamic rights, and called on the Taliban to live up to the promises they made to respect women’s rights and rescind their decision…Ephrem Kossaify (Arabnews)
What, exactly, do you want them to do?
What, exactly, would you do?
I keep telling you. If you want simple answers about Afghanistan, you won't find them here.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵39
I could show you more cases like Ismail Mashal's, but they always go the same way. Men who stand up for women's rights in Afghanistan are dealt with even more harshly than the women as they are seen as even more of a threat to the Taliban's rule.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵38
There were reports that he was hospitalised with physical and mental health problems about a month after he left prison. I'm still searching for any updates.
What did the Taliban do to him?
#IsmailMashal
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵37
https://www.afintl.com/en/202304282992
Afghan University Professor Hospitalised After His Release From Taliban Prison
Ismail Mashal, a university professor, has been hospitalised after being released from a Taliban prison. Relatives of Mashal told Afghanistan International that he is currently "vomiting blood and has mental health issues”.Afghanistan International
He left prison in March 2023. His colleague Farhad Farzli said:
"Ismail is fine and in good health. However, he is not in a condition to talk at the moment."
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵37
https://www.dw.com/en/taliban-detains-afghan-activist-who-ralied-for-womens-education-rights/a-64608445
Taliban detains Afghan women's education rights activist
Ismail Mashalm, the man who tore up his academic records on television to protest the ban on the education of women and girls, was detained for "provocative actions."Deutsche Welle
He went live on Afghan television and ripped up all his educational diplomas, saying they were worthless in Afghanistan if women couldn't get them too.
He closed his university, saying if women can't receive an education, nobody can.
He took to the streets of Kabul with a cart full of his own book collection, handing them out to every woman and girl he could find.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵36
https://amu.tv/34520/
Lecturer makes mobile library to advocate for girls’ education | Amu TV
Mashal says he has a library of 21,000 books and will give them to the women and girls who are affected by the Taliban’s banAmu TV (تلویزیون آمو)
I am that stupid that I will ask this question, but I'm not that stupid that I think I can answer it.
What I will say is that, in the beginning, plenty of them tried.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵35
https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-taliban-ban-women-university-protests-men/32199112.html
'Teach Everyone Or No One': Afghan Men Join In Protests Against Taliban's Ban On Women's Education
Hundreds of Afghan men are publicly voicing their opposition to the Taliban's decision to ban women from universities.RFE/RL's Radio Azadi (RFE/RL)
It will be much less of a surprise to those of you who have seen my long thread on Afghan photographer Shah Marai, Democracy and Women's Rights in Afghanistan.
(Shameless self promotion in link below 👇)
#FreeAfghanWomen
#ShahMarai
#Afghanistan
🧵34
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ProjectFearlessness/110762255453800060
ProjectFearlessness (@ProjectFearlessness@mastodonapp.uk)
Attached: 1 image This is a thread about photographer Shah Marai, democracy and women's rights in Afghanistan.Mastodon App UK
The worst are no worse than the worst ones you find in every country in the world. Take a good look around you.
There are also good men in Afghanistan. Take one of Afghan photographer Shah Marai's last posts on Twitter. In 2018, between the reports of the ever increasing suicide bombs in Kabul that would soon claim his life, he wrote simply:
Happy International Women's Day to all Strong Women.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵34
I know at least some of you are thinking all the men in Afghanistan are loving Taliban rule, cheering on the patriarchy as they delight in watching women go right back to medieval times.
You're wrong. Not completely wrong, but wrong. I'll keep saying it. If you want simple answers about Afghanistan, you won't find them here.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵33
Taliban spokesman.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵30
https://www.afintl.com/en/202408219084
UN Human Rights Rapporteur Banned From Entering Afghanistan, Announces Taliban
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, criticised Richard Bennett, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights for Afghanistan, for his reports on severe human rights violations in the country.Afghanistan International
Afghanistan is losing more than its future health-care workers, with the concomitant risks to women and girls.
The Taliban’s institutionalized gender oppression is depriving Afghanistan of its future women engineers, journalists, lawyers, biologists, politicians and poets.”
Richard Bennett,
UN Special Rapporteur
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵29
Snatch away all hope and some will conclude that there is no way to go on."
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵28
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/20/the-guardian-view-on-afghanistan-gender-apartheid-dont-embolden-the-taliban?CMP=share_btn_url
Info and donation opportunity below.
#FreeAfghanWomen
#26
https://lindanorgrovefoundation.org/what-we-do/where-your-money-goes/
Where your money goes - The Linda Norgrove Foundation
How the Linda Norgrove Foundation spends your money in Afghanistan.The Linda Norgrove Foundation
This is Scottish Refugee Council head Sabir Zazai, who came to the country as a refugee from Afghanistan in 1999.
He's standing in sunny Edinburgh, with some of the 20 refugee women from Afghanistan who have just arrived on visas to study medicine at Scottish universities.
If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.
#FreeAfghanWomen
#RefugeesWelcome
#Scotland
🧵25
Through their forthcoming achievements, the girls will prove the Taliban ban on education very wrong."
Sabir Zazai,
Scottish Refugee Council.
#FreeAfghanWomen
#LetAfghanWomenLearn
#RefugeesWelcome
🧵24
https://www.thetimes.com/article/ae88e9c1-204a-4ac6-bc2d-0cdaecb0a976?shareToken=968c1404ddf0ba13cc93f3bc1d37254d
Who was the 'first lady' of Afghanistan in 1919?
That's easy, that was Queen Soraya. She was everywhere. She was belatedly on the cover of Time magazine woman of the year 1927.
Who is the 'first lady' of Afghanistan in 2024?
Hmm, well it's thought Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada has two wives but nobody's really sure. They haven't made any public announcements and as for names and photos, forget it.
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵22
Here's to 105 years of women in public life in Afghanistan!
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵21
1919 2024
We know the Taliban leaders have wives, but do we see them ? Do we know their names?
Now let's look at Queen Soraya of Afghanistan 1919-1929. She was a pioneer. She brought about change. She wrote the book* on gender equality in Afghanistan.
(*technically a monthly magazine, but you get the idea.)
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵20
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1732666/amp
Queen Soraya of Afghanistan: A woman ahead of her time
Get the latest breaking news and headlines from the largest Arab News website. Get world news, sport news, business news, entertainment, lifestyle, video and photos.Arab News
It led to-
*End of mandatory hijab
*Full female participation in society
*Votes for women
*Female MPs
*Full education for girls.
*University education for women.
*Equal employment for women.
None of these rights for women are now available under Taliban rule in Afghanistan in 2024.
You don't mention this bit though, do you lads?
#FreeAfghanWomen
🧵19
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/womens-rights-afghanistan-history
Women in Afghanistan: The Back Story
Highlighting the history of women's rights in Afghanistan, the impact of the Taliban's takeover in the country & what the current situation looks like, including links to our recent in-depth reports.www.amnesty.org.uk
Let's move on to what is considered, almost, as light relief in Afghanistan. This week the Taliban are celebrating the 105th anniversary of Afghan Independence.
Are they having a laugh? Are they sure they really want us to remember events in 1919?
OK. We will. Next post.
🧵18
#FreeAfghanWomen
https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-yaqoob-anniversary-anglo-afghan-treaty/33083344.html
Taliban-Led Government Celebrates 105th Anniversary Of Afghan Independence
Top officials of the Taliban-led government in Afghanistan marked 105 years of of the country's independence on August 18 by demanding mutual respect from the international community.RFE/RL's Radio Azadi (RFE/RL)