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Women's rights associate director, Human Rights Watch. Cape Town via Islamabad, London, Kabul, Bujumbura, NYC, Alaska.

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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.

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.

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This clip of South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor is well worth watching to understand how the SA govt sees the ICJ case.

This clip of South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor is well worth watching to understand how the SA govt sees the ICJ case.

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Afghan women are still protesting

Afghan women are still protesting

323,837 views • 2 years ago

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.

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.

204,762 views • 2 years ago

As the Taliban burn musical instruments, ban music, and further restrict girls’ access to education, here’s a memory from early 2021.

As the Taliban burn musical instruments, ban music, and further restrict girls’ access to education, here’s a memory from early 2021.

186,455 views • 3 years ago

Afghan women are still protesting.

Afghan women are still protesting.

172,017 views • 3 years ago

Afghan women are still protesting.

Afghan women are still protesting.

146,267 views • 3 years ago

Just when you think the Taliban can’t get worse they always do.

Just when you think the Taliban can’t get worse they always do.

110,133 views • 3 years ago

Afghan women are still protesting.

Afghan women are still protesting.

102,933 views • 3 years ago

Afghan women are still protesting.

Afghan women are still protesting.

78,427 views • 3 years ago

On June 18, UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett will present to UN Human Rights Council a hard-hitting report on shocking and escalating Taliban abuses against Afghan women and girls. The problem? The United Nations itself—desperate to placate the Taliban—doesn’t seem to listening to anything its own Special Rapporteur says.

On June 18, UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett will present to UN Human Rights Council a hard-hitting report on shocking and escalating Taliban abuses against Afghan women and girls. The problem? The United Nations itself—desperate to placate the Taliban—doesn’t seem to listening to anything its own Special Rapporteur says.

34,901 views • 2 years ago

.Human Rights Watch and ten other human rights organizations have written to ⁦António Guterres⁩ and member states raising serious concerns about how women’s rights, and Afghan women, are being sidelined in the upcoming Doha 3 meeting. Read our letter here:

.Human Rights Watch and ten other human rights organizations have written to ⁦António Guterres⁩ and member states raising serious concerns about how women’s rights, and Afghan women, are being sidelined in the upcoming Doha 3 meeting. Read our letter here:

32,428 views • 2 years ago

“A thousand days. That is how long it has been since teenage girls have been banned from going to high school by the Taliban.”

“A thousand days. That is how long it has been since teenage girls have been banned from going to high school by the Taliban.”

17,878 views • 2 years ago

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