Jahanzib Wesa
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Human Rights Defender | Independent journalist for women and human rights violations worldwide. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn #StandUpForHumanRights
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BBC report and documentary, on the plight of poor Afghan fathers forced to sell their children to survive. Except you have to read some way into the article - which is around 2,500 words long - before it becomes clear they are specifically selling their daughters into child marriage and domestic slavery. “If I sell one daughter, I could feed the rest of my children for at least four years,” says one father. Another father, pictured in the article, sold his five-year-old little girl. The framing is extraordinary. Not only because the fact only female children are being sold is presented as unremarkable. But also because the fathers making the decision are presented as the victims - rather than the girls who will actually live with the consequences of it. The fathers’ desperation is real and tragic. But so is the reality that these girls are being treated as commodities.
Jahanzib Wesa2,113,361 次观看 • 2 个月前
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Where are the UN and child protection organizations while Afghan young girls are being sold because of hunger and poverty? This father in Afghanistan was forced to sell his 7 year old daughter after his children went two days without food. This happen today in #Afghanistan.
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Afghan woman is crying in unbearable pain. Her voice carries the pain of millions of women in Afghanistan. She says: “The Taliban fired at my heart and at my head because I demanded my rights, my education, and my freedom. They attacked us Afghan women, harassed us, and tried to silence us for raising our voices.” Her tears are not just tears, they are the cries of a nation’s daughters being abandoned by the world. Every tear she sheds tells a story of suffering, fear, and broken dreams. It is heartbreaking to witness women begging for their basic rights while the world remains silent. How much more pain must Afghan women endure before the world finally listens? Where is the United Nations? Where is the international community? Where is the EU? Why are you silent? The silence is heartbreaking. The silence is painful. The silence is dangerous. This silence is enabling normalization. I call on each of you: raise your voice. Stand for humanity. Stand for Afghan women’s rights. Stand for women’s and girls’ education. Stand against gender apartheid in Afghanistan. Silence in the face of oppression is complicity. The women and girls of Afghanistan must not be abandoned.
Jahanzib Wesa191,373 次观看 • 29 天前
Members of the Women Courage Movement in Afghanistan continue to raise their voices despite threats, writing on walls against child marriage. Child marriage is a violation of human dignity and a threat to the future of children. The world must not stay silent. Where is the UN?
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⚠️ #Warning: This video contains distressing content and may be upsetting to viewers. If you see this and believe in humanity, child rights, young girls, and human rights, silence is not an option. When we stay quiet, these crimes happen again and again. We must stand against abuse and exploitation, no matter who the perpetrators are. Why world is silent about the #Epstein and all criminals!!! The videos revealed in the #EpsteinFiles are deeply disturbing. They expose the horrific exploitation of children and the complete failure of powerful systems to protect the innocent. This is not politics. This is not gossip. This is about justice, accountability, and protecting children. Silence protects criminals. Speaking out protects victims.
Jahanzib Wesa594,237 次观看 • 5 个月前
An 11-year-old Afghan girl, Lina Haidar, has proudly earned her 12th-grade certificate in Germany, breaking national records. In a time when the Taliban bans girls from education in Afghanistan, Afghan girls abroad continue to shine and defy gender apartheid. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
Jahanzib Wesa989,650 次观看 • 1 年前
🚨 New arrests of women and girls in Kabul by the Taliban. Afghanistan has become place of fear for women. New footage shows young women being detained without clear reason. The crackdown is spreading, this is not security, it’s suppression. #Afghanistan #WomenRights #Freedom
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This is the true face of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan، a country that shows no mercy to Afghans. Those who have faced life، threatening danger in Afghanistan and fled the Taliban are denied medical treatment and subjected to abuse by Pakistani military government. Even in government hospitals, they can lose their lives, simply because they are Afghan. In this video, an innocent child cries out: “My father was not treated!” 💔 The grief of this child and their mother speaks volumes. Afghan refugees، women, children, human rights defenders, and journalists، are brutally neglected and mistreated by Pakistani authorities. Government hospitals refuse to provide care. The cruelty and injustice of the Pakistani government directly endanger lives, showing no mercy or humanity whatsoever.
Jahanzib Wesa240,214 次观看 • 4 个月前
Hanifa Girwal, a brave human rights activist, addressed the UN Security Council today, speaking for Afghan women and girls and warning of the deep crises endangering Afghans and global stability. She called on the UN and the international community to act. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
Jahanzib Wesa393,327 次观看 • 10 个月前
The Women’s Courage Movement members protested and urges immediate action from the international community against the Taliban’s systematic oppression of Afghan women. Silence and statements are not enough. Afghan women need real action, accountability, and unwavering support.
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This is not just a violation of international law; it is a direct assault on human dignity. The public flogging of women in sports stadiums highlights the systematic erasure of women's rights in Afghanistan. We must continue to speak out against these degrading punishments.
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This is the so-called “justice” of the Taliban beating women with whips. This is a crime, and the world must not remain silent. Where is the United Nations? Where is UN Women? Afghan women are being denied education, work, and dignity yet the global response is absent.
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Amu reported: Dozens of Afghan women pensioners gathered outside the Taliban pension office demanding their unpaid benefits. Taliban responded with violence. Many can’t afford even one meal a day. This is the situation of Afghan women. #Afghanistan #HumanRights #HRW #UN
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Innconet female Noria is a victim of poverty and gender discrimination under Taliban rule. After her father’s death, she had no male breadwinner. To provide halal income for her family and siblings, Noria worked in a restaurant for three years, forced to dress as a boy just to survive. Instead of protection, Taliban fighters detained her during a search operation. During interrogation, she said she had no choice: poverty left her as the family’s only provider. The Taliban ban girls from education and women from work, impose new restrictions every day, then punish those who struggle to survive. #EndGenderApartheid #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
Jahanzib Wesa117,776 次观看 • 5 个月前
A political analyst stated on TV that while daughters of senior Taliban officials study at universities in Islamabad and Qatar, Afghan girls are banned from education in the name of ‘haram.’ He questioned: if education is forbidden, why are their daughters allowed to study?
Jahanzeb Wesa143,414 次观看 • 6 个月前