Gaisu Yari
@GaisuY
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Storyteller. Advocacy & Policy Manager @Malalafund /frm fellow @TheWilsonCenter /Frm WPS HD Lead @Saferworld /frm Commissioner @IARCSC/ @Columbia & @UVA Alumni.
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Joined August 2019
Four years ago, Afghanistan collapsed, and so did we. For years, I sought spaces 2 listen, grieve, and stand together. Today, Migration Stories is out, and my chapter is part of it. Stories matter. Voices create resistance. Migration Stories: https://t.co/qbGd2uQUi8
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We are closely following the devastating aftermath of the earthquake in eastern Afghanistan, which has taken hundreds of lives and displaced many more. This disaster comes on top of already immense challenges for people across the country, destroying homes, schools, and
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My heart breaks for the victims of the earthquake in Eastern Afghanistan which has claimed so many lives and left many more injured and displaced. I call on the international community to support humanitarian efforts and help survivors with urgently needed shelter, medical
I stand in full solidarity with the people of Afghanistan after the devastating earthquake that hit the country earlier today. I extend my deepest condolences to the families of the victims and wish a speedy recovery to those injured. The @UN team in Afghanistan is mobilized
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Four years since the Taliban took back control of Afghanistan, @IsobelYeung reports on how Afghans who worked with the U.S. during the war there are being left behind.
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Four years have passed since the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021, an event that not only altered Afghanistan’s trajectory but also left profound implications for regional and global politics, human rights, and migration. This webinar provides an opportunity to reflect
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در این گفتگو با ما باشید. سخنرانان: @SadiqAminiAFG @LinaRozbih @HAMDARD_JH @sumaiafrotan @GaisuY زمان: روز یکشنبه ۲۴ آگست ۲۰۲۵ ۰۶:۰۰ عصر وقت اروپایی مرکزی ۰۵:۰۰ عصر وقت لندن ۱۲:۰۰ ظهر وقت کانادا/ امریکا ۰۸:۳۰ شب وقت کابل ۰۷:۰۰ شام وقت ترکیه برای معلومات بیشتر لطفا به لینک
به سومین رویداد مجمع دموکراسی برین تحت عنوان«سقوط دموکراسی: بازخوانی یک فاجعه، درس‌هایی برای آینده» بپیوندید! سخنرانان این رویداد مهم هر یک: @SadiqAminiAFG @LinaRozbih @HAMDARD_JH @sumaiafrotan @GaisuY سخنرانان به بررسی مسایل اساسی سقوط کابل و دموکراسی، بازخوانی فاجعه سقوط
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"Our partners are building power in the face of unimaginable repression. This is a movement for liberation and we are standing with it every step of the way." — Sahar Halaimzai, Senior Director of Malala Fund's Afghanistan Initiative. Learn more:
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New and expanded grants are funding Afghan-led efforts to provide alternative learning for girls and dismantle gender apartheid.
For four years, Afghan girls and women have led a liberation movement — fighting to end gender apartheid through classrooms, courtrooms and coalitions. @MalalaFund is continuing to back this fight with $3 million in grants to keep girls learning and defend their rights. Learn
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Today, we launch the Afghanistan Accountability Archive: a record of Taliban atrocities and women's resistance. A legacy of brave work by my colleagues inside Afghanistan. May it serve justice and uphold our promise of accountability. https://t.co/yzQem3wgB8
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Learn about the Afghanistan Justice archive and its role in documenting justice efforts in Afghanistan.
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‘A gender apartheid is taking place’ Four years on from the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, Christiane and Jamie ask - what is the current situation in Afghanistan like for the people still living there? @amanpour @JamesP_Rubin @globalplayer
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On behalf of the women and girls of Afghanistan, I thank @Malala and the @MalalaFund for standing with us and amplifying our voices in the fight for education, freedom, and justice. History will not forget those who stood with Afghan women in this critical moment.
Across Afghanistan and around the world, Afghans are leading a liberation movement for girls & women. @AryanaSayeed is a world-renowned singer and activist. She founded Defenders of Equality, Freedom and Advancement for Women (DEFAW) to fight for education, freedom and justice in
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Across Afghanistan and around the world, Afghans are leading a liberation movement for girls & women. @AryanaSayeed is a world-renowned singer and activist. She founded Defenders of Equality, Freedom and Advancement for Women (DEFAW) to fight for education, freedom and justice in
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Aug 15 will mark 4 years since the Taliban’s return to power. Headlines are focusing on the humanitarian tragedy — but that’s only part of the story. Read more here: https://t.co/W5ZaCIW8cN 🇦🇫
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As the Taliban cements its system of gender apartheid in Afghanistan, Malala Fund’s Gaisu Yari shares how girls and women have transformed their grief into a liberation movement.
For 4 years, Afghan girls & women have fearlessly fought to hold the Taliban accountable — protesting, organising and advocating at great personal risk. Their resistance is reshaping international law, influencing world leaders & building momentum to codify gender apartheid as a
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4 years of gender apartheid in Afghanistan. In this piece, I share why I believe our stories are acts of resistance — and why they matter in dismantling it. @MalalaFund @EGACampaign
“From grief, we have built resistance. As we tell our stories, we grow the movement to end gender apartheid in Afghanistan — and prevent it from taking root anywhere else.” -@GaisuY @MalalaFund
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For 4 years, Afghan girls & women have fearlessly fought to hold the Taliban accountable — protesting, organising and advocating at great personal risk. Their resistance is reshaping international law, influencing world leaders & building momentum to codify gender apartheid as a
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Day: 1424 🏫 Day: 964 🎓 🇦🇫 We must keep shouting until the world listens: Girls’ education is not negotiable. It is a right. #RecogniseGenderApartheid
#AsACrimeAgainstHumanity
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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"We have no protection for women and girls — their rights to education, work, and participation can be taken away tomorrow, as Afghan women witness right now." — @Malala. Watch the full panel here: https://t.co/4IDD0r1rRF
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Launch of a People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan before the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal
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We are tired of the world's inaction on Taliban's gender apartheid. We are tired of the silence, compliance & normalisation of Taliban's crimes against women.Thus,a People's Tribunal 4 Women of Afghanistan.We are taking action. @rawadari_org @AhrdoAfg @drops_afg @HRDPlusNetwork
An initiative for justice by Afghan civil society for women and girls of Afghanistan: launch of the first People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan. Read more here:
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I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.' Below are some brief highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry. Here's the full eye-opening 'debate': https://t.co/VG2vnik1J0
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