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 Wesa2,111,296 Aufrufe • vor 15 Tagen
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.
Jahanzib Wesa436,012 Aufrufe • vor 16 Tagen
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?
Jahanzib Wesa360,474 Aufrufe • vor 16 Tagen
Afghan woman rights activist protested against Taliban child marriage: “They are dressing me as a bride. An old bride. They have blindfolded my eyes and silenced my voice. But my heart is still screaming. I am a child, not a wife. Let me live. Let me breathe.”
Jahanzib Wesa89,535 Aufrufe • vor 7 Tagen
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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 Wesa592,252 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
Parwana, 9 year old girl in Afghanistan, reportedly married to 70 year old man in exchange for around $2,000. Her case highlights a persistent reality in which underage girls remain highly vulnerable, often overlooked, and insufficiently protected from early marriage. CNN-2021
Jahanzib Wesa42,399 Aufrufe • vor 11 Tagen
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 Wesa989,522 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten
🚨 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
Jahanzib Wesa930,317 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten
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 Wesa239,700 Aufrufe • vor 2 Monaten
Forcing girls—especially minors—into marriage is crime! Yet in some countries, such atrocities occur daily, where girls are subjected to physical & mental torture by families & coerced into marriages against their will. We need to stand for freedom of women.
Jahanzib Wesa733,002 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr
Alia, an Afghan girl facing forced marriage by her family, says: “Now they say the best way for me is to get married because I can’t go to school, university, or even work.” She added: “Before the bans, her parents encouraged her to follow her dream of becoming a pilot.”
Jahanzib Wesa17,321 Aufrufe • vor 10 Tagen
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 Wesa117,574 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
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
Jahanzib Wesa215,585 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten
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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.
Jahanzib Wesa229,619 Aufrufe • vor 9 Monaten
This is the reality of a women’s in Afghanistan🥹 Damp walls. An empty table. A husband suffering from a heart attack and no money even for medical checkups. She looks at her small children with helpless eyes, unable to provide food, medicine, or warmth. Women denied the right to work and education are forced into begging. Mothers cannot afford medicine. Children sleep hungry beside cold, broken walls. Afghan women don’t need conferences, reports, or promises. They need freedom. They need the right to work. They need education. They need jobs. They need real accountability. The money is raised in the name of Afghan women by organizations like UNICEF, World Food Programme, and the United Nations, So why are women still begging in the streets? Why is there no real accountability and visible support for those who need it most?
Jahanzib Wesa81,089 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten
#Heartbreaking: a mother in Pakistan is crying and pleading, “Please be our voice. I cry every day because I do not know what is happening to my daughter or what she may be going through.” Her 11 year old daughter was abducted days ago and reportedly taken to Sindh Punjab, yet there is silence. Where are the Child Protection organizations? Where are the human rights organizations and UN agencies in Pakistan? Do they not see this suffering and fear? An innocent child’s life is at risk. Immediate action is needed for her safe recovery.
Jahanzib Wesa12,892 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen
The Taliban’s Minister of Higher Education has once again in his speech said, branding those who criticize the group’s new so called “slavery order” targeting women as infidels. This order, now added to the Taliban’s Penal Code, places extreme control over women’s private lives. These restrictions impose the harshest pressure on women: they are not even allowed to visit their father’s home. Universities and schools remain closed to them, and some women, driven by despair, have resorted to suicide. For years, the Taliban have refused to acknowledge this reality, choosing instead to continuously humiliate and suppress women and girls. Over the past four years, the situation in women’s health and education has become catastrophic. From tens of thousands of doctors, fewer than ten remain available. Maternal and infant deaths are rising daily due to the lack of medical services and education for women. The situation of women in Afghanistan is truly painful and inhumane. The world must not forget this crisis and must stand against the Taliban’s ongoing bans and oppression. Elon Musk Murtaza Solangi J.K. Rowling António Costa Heather Barr fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 Núria González López Hannah Neumann Amnesty International Beth W. Bailey Sarah Adams Tim Burchett Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 WRN Afghanistan Gordon Brown manisha singhal United Nations
Jahanzib Wesa87,988 Aufrufe • vor 4 Monaten
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A deeply painful and heartbreaking video circulating on social media shows a young innconet girl in Bannu, Peshawar wearing men’s clothes being arrested and tortured by the Pakistani Taliban (TTP). Her story mirrors the fate of Nooria in Afghanistan, who was harassed just a few days ago for wearing men’s clothes while going to work in a café to earn money for her family and sister. -Vidoe social media. #WomenRights #WomenFreedom #HRW
Jahanzib Wesa67,739 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten