“I cannot leave women left there to suffer alone w/ their stories going untold. They deserve to be heard.” - Zahra Joya
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The entire Rukhshana Media team = courage personified
#mustread #StandWithAfghanWomen #genderapartheid

Prosecutors in #Iran filed criminal charges on Wednesday targeting activists and journalists following a BBC report that alleged security forces had “sexually assaulted and killed” #NikaShakarami .

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The Islamic Republic has sentenced rapper #ToomajSalehi to death for participating in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement.

Read analysis done by Strategic Litigation Project's Khosro K Isfahani & Human Rights Center’s Andrea Alice Richardson using our coalition’s Iranian Archive ⬇️
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Women narratives are matte! 🙌

One very happy #billsmafia household over here🇺🇸 🇬🇧

Idk man.

If Kansas City calls, you hang up.

Guessing the Buffalo Bills social media team could use a lot of good vibes right now 🫣

#billsmafia

Months before Mursal Nabizada, a former MP was killed in her house in Kabul, she called Taliban a 'puppet' regime.
'We cannot say the Islamic Emirate is independent or the Republic was independent,” she said in an interview with Arezo TV. (1/3)

I congratulate Zan Times for this essential initiative. We need to document and archive Taliban atrocities to ensure historical accuracy, aid legal processes, support policy making, and uphold justice for victims. This is crucial for learning, prevention, and accountability.

Hope for girls education ends as Taliban force education centers to sign commitments against teaching high school girls ⁦Rukhshana Media⁩ rukhshana.com/en/hope-for-gi…

Amazing event at George W. Bush Presidential Center - 'The Call of Freedom'. It is the most powerful idea in history, now more than ever #Iran #Afghanistan #Nicaragua #Venezuela

“I have not only studied different forms of governance, but I have also grown up in a dictatorship and a democracy. And I believe that it is impossible to achieve credible and sustainable national security without respect for its citizens human rights and dignity.” – Joseph Kim,…

“Support, share, and uplift organizations that are working on educating girls in Afghanistan. That is the first issue that anyone should be tackling from a security point of view but also from a human rights point of view.” – Pashtana Durrani (Pashtana Zalmai Khan Durrani پښتنه درانی), Founder and…

'I hope a lesson from [today's] conversations is that if the United States withdraws, the world gets worse. And if we expect to be secure at home, we better worry about the lives of others abroad.' — President George W. Bush

#ForumOnLeadership

Watch the recorded conversation:…

Moderating today’s Voices of Freedom panel for George W. Bush Presidential Center’s 2024 #ForumonLeadership was an honor

Joseph Kim, Pashtana Zalmai Khan Durrani پښتنه درانی, Alice Zhuravel, each of you is an absolute force and represents the very best of humanity

Thank you for your courage, creativity, & collaboration!

#ForumOnLeadership begins with voices of freedom — powerful personal testimonies from those on the frontline of the struggle for dignity: Alice Zhuravel of Ukraine, Pashtana Zalmai Khan Durrani پښتنه درانی of Afghanistan, Joseph Kim of North Korea moderated by Natalie Gonnella-Platts of George W. Bush Presidential Center

Part 3 of George W. Bush Presidential Center excellent report on #Afghanistan further backs up my reporting on #Taliban aid theft, saying they 'wasted no time in infiltrating & exploiting humanitarian resources. Multinational institutions have enabling this with a lack of accountability mechanisms'.

My uncle beat my 10-year-old sister with the cable of the mobile charger. She suffered a lot. I could not go to work as I wanted to protect her from my uncle. My uncle also used to beat me before I started working. Now, I am safe because I bring home money.
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Autocracy is built on patriarchy

Make no mistake, the systematic exploitation and dehumanization of women, children, & other minority populations are fundamental to the entrenchment of and pursuit of profit by authoritarian regimes

This is gender apartheid #standwithafghanwomen

Yesterday in Tehran, Dina Ghalibaf, a courageous 30-year-old journalist, bravely spoke out against sexual harassment by the morality police. Today, they raided her home and arrested her. She was stopped in Tehran’s subway for not wearing a hijab and was violently dragged into a…