RT @clairehoworth: one of the most important books ive ever read on abortion rights, that really helped me understand even my own ingrained thinking, was PRO, by @KathaPollitt. here is @rtraister on it https://t.co/oq90jc...
RT @RadFemLawyer: For those of you who heard the plug at the Bindel book launch for increasing our support of female Afghan judges and want to know more follow @CrimeGirI @london_counsel @seanjonesqc for updates and the hashtag #EvacuateHer
RT @thariel: The ‘aids or abets’ provisions of this law sound remarkably like those in the Uganda Anti Homosexuality Act. https://t.co/kYVRtx...
RT @SeriousRita: if less than 1 in 3 councils is willing to accommodate refugees, we have a long term problem brewing. Why are #councils not being mandated and funded to do so? Are we storing up long term problems? ‘Operation Warm Welcome’ underway ...
RT @GitaSahgal: Brilliant statement by outstanding actor Naseeruddin Shah, asking Indian Muslims not to rejoice at Taliban victory. We don’t need political religion. Our Islam is different. @Zehra_Zaidi, @PoMoGandhi, @RashVarma, @rashadzali1, ...
RT @feministdissent: @GitaSahgal is one of the speakers at the launch of Feminist Dissent 5, online 9 September https://t.co/vhxPq2... Read her article on Hindutva Past and Present here https://t.co/wsmCQG...
Please join Feminist Dissent for the launch of Issue 5, online on 9 September. With Rohini Hensman, Deniz Kandiyoti, Gita Saghal, Nira Yuval Davis. Chaired by Rashmi Varma and Yasmin Rehman https://t.co/vhxPq2... https://t.co/MvigP8...
RT @GitaSahgal: A Dalit scholar describes the journey into anti-caste, anti-colonial scholarship, drawing on an alternative academic tradition discovered through Dalit networks at university. This is how some students found the great Gail Omvedt and ...
RT @RashVarma: The Taliban’s principal target has always been the Afghan people. https://t.co/POtPch... @feministdissent @GitaSahgal ...
RT @UNSRCulture: Video of interview w @cnni abt Afghan artists after reported killing of singer Fawad Andarabi The killing is a message that intl community& governments need to do everything they can to help @ risk #artists & cultural workers ...
RT @GitaSahgal: Karima Bennoune, wrote"Your Fatwa does Not Apply Here' about the struggles of Muslim women against fundamentalism, gives a clear call for cultural protection as UN expert on culture : musicians are at risk in #Aghanistan. ...
RT @RehmanYasmin: @GitaSahgal @feministdissent Such a sad loss. Unfortunately too many Muslims live lives that can't be imagined as don't fit stereotypes and challenge what is now accepted as 'authentic'.
RT @GitaSahgal: @feministdissent we are capable of fighting for refugees, including men without recycling the whole tired 'white saviour' argument while hiding the role of fundamentalist terror against women. Our arguments are drawn from women ...
RT @Stephenmevans1: Ultra-Orthodox leader says reporting child sex abuse is a sin. Turning a blind eye to insular communities that place religious law above secular law can lead to great harm. Such reporting should be a legal requirement. I hope ...
RT @sianushka: My heart and sisterhood goes out to women and girls in Texas who will no longer be able to access abortion as a result of radicalised, racist & extremist (mostly) men signing away their rights. Terrifying for what this means for ...
RT @WLUML: WLUML stands in solidarity with the people of #Afghanistan & urges the intl community to support and protect women HRDs, civil society actors, journalists, women leaders, & religious, ethnic, sexual and social minorities. ...
RT @GitaSahgal: As @feministdissent argued, even if 'war' stops, there is 'stability' or peace when genocidal policies are being implemented in #Afghanistan. News coming through that Hazaras ( an ethnic and religious minority) are being killed. ...
RT @GitaSahgal: Many with a 'well founded fear of persecution' the words of the Refugee Convention, are not 'allies', but simply #Afghans living their lives. Artists, musicians, journalists and museum curators are at extreme risk and need to be able ...
RT @UNSRCulture: Grateful for @vausecnn @cnni coverage of #Afghan #artists My key messages: -investigate reports of violations against artists -accountability of Taliban leaders -recognize artists & cultural workers as high priority at-risk ...