10 Days to People's Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan afghanistantribunal.com #AfghanistanPT #AFGPT #AfghanistanTribunal

Joint Civil Society Statement Marking the One Year Anniversary of the Announcement of a Legal Initiative to Hold Afghanistan Accountable Under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) rawadari.org/s/dn

Four years after the Taliban’s return, Afghan women live under what many call gender apartheid. As the crackdown deepens, SHAHARZAD AKBAR (@shaharzadakbar.bsky.social) argues that international accountability is essential. Our weekly editorial: verfassungsblog.de/editorial-af...

The story of three young women in Afghanistan, who are so different in many ways, but also share the same real challenges, and uncertainties that all women in Afghanistan do! Such a powerful podcast. www.economist.com/podcasts/202...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Today the United Nations commission that I lead is publishing its legal analysis of Israel’s conduct in the Gaza Strip,” Navi Pillay writes in a guest essay. “Our conclusion is stark: Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

What is happening in Gaza has shaken the conscience of the world. Man-made famine can never be a weapon of war. This must stop. EU aid to Gaza far outweighs that of any other partner. But of course, Europe needs to do more. Here are measures for a way forward ↓

The report covers the state of women’s rights, the rights of marginalized and vulnerable ethnic and religious communities as well as major violations of civil and political rights.

A little bit of good news for Afghanistan

Good news for Afghanistan. Rawadari is proud to have been a small part of this effort along with other Afghan and Afghan-American organizations. ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Sign the petition and join this call for holding Taliban accountable for violations of women’s rights. Germany 🇩🇪, Australia 🇦🇺, Canada 🇨🇦, and the Netherlands 🇳🇱 announced an initiative to hold hashtag#Afghanistan 🇦🇫 accountable for violations of CEDAW last year. secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Please sign this and push Germany, Canada, Auatralia and the Netherlands to take concrete action on their commitment to women’s rights and women of Afghansitan: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

Women without a mahram (male chaperone) can’t eat in restaurants, use public transport or travel within or outside the country. Drivers who transport women without mahram are arrested & interrogated. In case you forgot what Afghanistan’s gender apartheid looks like.

Mariam had donated one of her kidneys to her father. She was an exceptionally generous and selfless woman known throughout our community for her deep compassion and steadfastness. She rushed to the scene and to her own slaughter. Criminal and abhorrent.

Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Children and families need urgent access to aid at scale and a permanent ceasefire. In Gaza an average of 28 children - the size of a classroom - have been killed in the last 22 months. #CEASEFIRENOW. @unicef.org

[1/2] Four Years of Taliban Rule: Women of Afghanistan continue the struggle for rights and justice. “We call on Afghan civil society organizations to act with greater unity and coordination to strengthen a broad, civic, people-centred resistance against rawadari.org/s/ch

Important initiative by Afghan civil society. I have followed the work of many of the organisations and individuals involved from my time in Afghanistan. #Afghanistan

What a devastation to live in a world that allows all this to happen

Slovenia bans import, export and transit of weapons to and from Israel "In such circumstances, it is the duty of every responsible state to take action, even if it means taking a step ahead of others" 🇸🇮

Years of dreaming, research & consultation followed by months of collective work with the broader Afghan civic community & here we are: launching the first People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan @rawadari.bsky.social

1. BREAKING British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the UK will recognize Palestine as a state in September unless the Israeli government agrees to a long-term ceasefire and rectifies the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, among other demands. (Second part of clip in next post)

This breaks my heart. edition.cnn.com/2025/07/19/a...

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

"Afghanistan is fading from the public memory around the world while the Taliban are being normalized despite their brutal policies." - Shaharzad Akbar 👉 @shaharzadakbar.bsky.social Read her article on Justice Info 👇 www.justiceinfo.net/en/147963-ke... #Afghanistan #Taliban #GenderApartheid

A list of questions from Palestinian children in Gaza, compiled by the staff of the Palestine Trauma Centre in Gaza:

“We call upon Islamic scholars, academics, and jurists and legal experts to stand with us in challenging the Taliban’s policies as un-Islamic and legally indefensible” Read this statement by scholars & academics in Islamic disciplines supporting women’s rights in AFG docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Times of Israel reports that the main obstacle to a ceasefire and hostage deal is Israel insisting on its criminal plan to concentrate the entire civilian population into a giant camp. All States must act now to prevent this.

Emotional about this news and thinking of all survivors who engaged with the court and the brave women of my country who keep using every venue to seek dignity, rights and justice

“Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid?“ “With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani.” Former NYT Public Editor Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social lays it out:

Read this detailed and nuanced report from @rachelreid.bsky.social on the resilience of Afghanistan’s human rights movement following the Taliban takeover and the new ways of resisting from both inside and outside Afghanistan: www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/themed-re... @aanafgh.bsky.social

I am feeling defeated & exhausted right now.Today Russia recognized Taliban. Everything is connected. When the Western leaders don’t support ICC on Israel, another criminal with an arrest warrant, Putin, gets away with crimes & supporting other criminals like the Taliban. This world is upside down.

Appalling. Russia’s recognition of the Taliban might be the start of gradual recognition of a regime of gender apartheid. Not surprised but deeply infuriated that a regime built on apartheid & enslavement of half its citizens could be officially recognized: english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2...

Historicide in Gaza Israel’s destruction of official and personal archives is changing how Palestine’s story can be told newlinesmag.com/essays/histo...

شب خانه روشن می شود چون یاد نامت می کنم» مولانا. یاد پدر در روزم جاری بود. چون خیلی روزهای دیگر. چون هر روز

Today, 26 June, is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture. For its latest report, #Rawadari spoke to 34 victims of torture from AFG who struggle with physical and psychological impact of torture and majority of them, in AFG or stranded in the regional countries. Link: rawadari.org/s/bf

Today is international day in support of victims of torture. Torture is widespread in places of detention in Afghanistan, particular in places of detention affiliated with the Intelligence. Victims have no recourse to legal protection or support. Read more in @rawadari.bsky.social report

My colleagues spent 2 months interviewing 34 victims of torture including 7 women who had been detained by the Taliban. This detailed & harrowing report is the outcome. We hope it will help us advocate for protection & resettlement for victims & pressure to prevent torture. @rawadari.bsky.social

"The secondary school completion rate for girls will soon collapse to zero, following bans on secondary and tertiary education – including in medical education – for girls and women." unwomen.org/en/news-stor...

“We need new pathways for accountability, pathways built around the survivors. One of these pathways, which I support, is the legalization of the concept of gender apartheid, a concept Afghan women have long advocated for.” menafn.com/1109687013/U...

Finalizing our special report on torture in places of detention in Afghanistan and now, exhausted as I am, how to fall asleep after reading those devastating accounts by survivors? This work doesn’t get easier at all.

My group chats are full of news, questions and rumors about Iran. Afghanistan shares a border with Iran & millions of Afghans were/are refugees there for decades. Women’s groups are asking what could be done & everyone fearing the worst.

Six leaders of JVP Chicago are launching an indefinite hunger strike today. Two of them are academics. No business as usual during genocide.

We continue to center Afghan women and girls and their voices and stories, even as the world looks away. #IQRA

Halima (pseudonym) studied hard for years to get in to the competitive medical university in Kabul, Afghanistan. What does she do now? And what can you do to support the women’s demand for education, rights and dignity in Afghanistan? youtu.be/fj0S12ith2A?...

The kids are in bed & pain & anxiety launch a fresh, overwhelming attack on all my senses. All day long, as I have seen my kids play in the sun, I have been in a parallel universe, the news of war playing on my mind on repeat. How can we allow for this madness and destruction?

Criminals kidnap prominent activist delivering aid to starving children. Or is it something different?

Doctors in the Gaza Strip are donating their own blood to save their patients after scores of Palestinians were gunned down while trying to get food aid, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said. www.reuters.com/world/middle...