Texas has reduced women to subhuman, lacking basic human rights including rights to privacy.
She risked arrest, torture and jail to fight racism in 1980s South Africa, and her story is being made into a film
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The Washington Post is reporting that an all-girl robotics team made up of high-school-age girls just arrived in Doha, Qatar after escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. For security reasons, they are not discussing the details of their journey.
At least a dozen of the girls from the team have fled the nation, the majority arriving in the capital city of Doha on Tuesday, according to Elizabeth Schaeffer Brown, an adviser with the New York-based Digital Citizen Fund, the team’s parent organization. Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed their arrival in a statement.
An Afghan technology entrepreneur named Roya Mahboob founded the sponsoring organization and mentored the team. She began making plans to evacuate the girls over a week ago by working with the Qatari government to plan the escape, expedite visas, and provide transportation. The US government was apparently not involved in the extraction. Read More »
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Sheryl Sandberg, Charlize Theron and Diane von Furstenburg among dozens who signed open letter
Dozens of women’s rights advocates and high-profile figures, including the poet Amanda Gorman, are calling on the Biden administration to protect and support Afghan women and girls.
In an open letter titled “Do Not Abandon Afghan Women and Girls”, Gorman, alongside the Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg, actors Charlize Theron and Kate Winslet, and others urged the administration to honor its commitment.
“Immediate action must be taken to safeguard Afghan women most at risk: women’s rights activists, journalists, educators, civil society leaders, human rights defenders and direct service providers. The very women who have been on the frontlines for decades, risking their safety to realize the promise of equal rights, are being abandoned by those who pledged to protect them,” it said. Read More »
...We are all in shock after hearing about the horrific events in Plymouth, while the grief of the victims’ families is awful to contemplate. But Davison’s murderous rampage demonstrates that our understanding of what constitutes terrorism is too restrictive. Extreme misogyny needs to be recognised as an ideology in its own right – and one that carries an unacceptable risk of radicalising bitter young men.
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Across a sprawling internet community, an ideology of violent misogyny is spreading – with tragic, ‘real-world’ results
Jake Davison shot dead five people and also wounded a 55-year-old woman and her son after police reinstated his gun licence
Analysis: despite action from large platforms and volunteer moderators, communities remain influential online
Social networks struggle to crack down on ‘incel’ movement | Social media | The Guardian
An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’
A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’
What do many terrorists have in common? They abuse women | Joan Smith | The Guardian
ive years ago, I began to notice that the perpetrators of some of the worst terrorist attacks had something in common. A high proportion shared a history of assaulting wives, girlfriends and other female relatives, sometimes involving a whole series of victims, long before they attacked total strangers.In the summer of 2016, for example, when just two terrorist attacks in Florida and the south of France left 135 people dead and hundreds injured, both perpetrators claimed to be Islamists. But I was struck by the fact that each had a horrific record of domestic violence.
A year later, there were four fatal attacks in the UK and all six perpetrators turned out either to have abused women or, in one case, to have witnessed his father abusing his mother and sister. There were striking similarities between the histories of Read More »
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