Hanifa Girowal
@HanifaGirowal
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Vice President @Women’s Rights First|Non-Resident Fellow @PrincetonSPIA|Advisor on Human Rights and Afghanistan @RWallenbergInst|Former Kabul Deputy Governor
Joined May 2025
I called on #UNSC to adopt a resolution reaffirming the unconditional purpose of humanitarian aid and establishing an independent international monitoring mechanism to track diversions and ensure accountability. You can hear the full version of my speech in this video.
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Afghan women’s message is clear: Peace without women is neither just nor sustainable. They call for real peace grounded in rights, justice & inclusion — not as passive beneficiaries, but as key actors shaping Afghanistan’s future. #AfghanWomenSpeak#ReclaimingPeace #UNSCR1325
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The US, UK, Germany, and other governments that promised to resettle Afghans should extend their support to Afghan journalists at risk and cease all deportations to Afghanistan.
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The Taliban have gutted Afghanistan’s media since taking control of the country in August 2021.
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“For me & for women across #Afghanistan, #PeaceIs being able to walk down the street without fear: not for what we wear, what we say, or for existing. If we don't have that, how can we even begin to talk about the #WPSAgenda?" - @wphfund partner @HanifaGirowal during #WPSMonth.
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به داغ نامرادی سوختم ای اشک، طوفانی! به تنگ آمد دلم زین زندگی ای مرگ، جولانی! ازین آزادگی بهتر بود صد ره به چشم من صدای شیونِ زنجیر و قیدِ کنجِ زندانی به هر وضعی که گردون گشت، کام من نشد حاصل مگر این شام غم را مرگ سازد صبح رخشانی
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Afghan girls and women demand immediate and equal access to education and other socio-economic services and facilities. Many are forced to migrate abroad in search of these basic human rights absent in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. @displacedint
“For me & for women across #Afghanistan, #PeaceIs being able to walk down the street without fear: not for what we wear, what we say, or for existing. If we don't have that, how can we even begin to talk about the #WPSAgenda?" - @wphfund partner @HanifaGirowal during #WPSMonth.
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With powerhouses @HoriaMosadiq, @HabibaSarabi, @HanifaGirowal & Manizha Wafeq — Afghan women who embody #UNSCR1325. Its promise lives only when women’s voices are heard & acted on. #AfghanWomenSpeak #ReclaimingPeace
On Aug 14, 2021, we were teachers, activists, politicians... On Aug 15, we woke up to be no one," said @wphfund partner @Hmosadiq from #Afghanistan @ today's #AfghanWomenSpeak panel discussion during #WPSMonth. "If our rights exist only on paper, then they do not exist at all."
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Report of UNSR on toxics&human rights highlights how toxic munitions in #Afghanistan polluted water sources & soil, posing risks to health. Environmental harm is not collateral damage; it is a human rights issue that demands documentation & accountability https://t.co/PSfgOc46Hq
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Great job always you have been voice of Afghan women. @HanifaGirowal @wphfund
“For me & for women across #Afghanistan, #PeaceIs being able to walk down the street without fear: not for what we wear, what we say, or for existing. If we don't have that, how can we even begin to talk about the #WPSAgenda?" - @wphfund partner @HanifaGirowal during #WPSMonth.
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Last week’s public execution in #Afghanistan was another display of Taliban violence and a deliberate tool used to instill fear and control the population. The use of the death penalty should be condemned unequivocally. My official statement here: https://t.co/UsgIWQQB7e
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GENEVA – A UN expert today condemned the latest public execution in Afghanistan, calling on the de facto authorities to immediately impose a moratorium and abolish the use of the death penalty.“The...
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Join us, @giwps, @UN_Women, @wphfund @GRUN_NY @panamaonuny for #WPS event w/Afghan women leaders @SarabiHabiba @Hmosadiq @HanifaGirowal @WWafeq & @PalwashaHasan. ML will also launch a policy brief with insights on peace from 500 Afghan women. Register: https://t.co/lsqDCe7TGs
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Join us for this timely discussion on how the #WPS agenda can confront the systemic erasure of women and girls in Afghanistan - currently one of the gravest women’s rights crises in the world. @PalwashaHasan
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Honored to meet Secretary @HillaryClinton a steadfast champion of women’s rights and a lifelong voice of courage and conviction. Deeply grateful to Vital Voices Global Partnership , who continue to stand with Afghan women and girls and ensure our voices are never forgotten
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“The Taliban perceives female education as a Western imposition. The Ottoman experience rather shows it was an authentic Islamic development." I talked to @fmtoday on how the Taliban's restrictions on women can be challenged through Islamic arguments: https://t.co/BDFe0vz0FI
freemalaysiatoday.com
Mustafa Akyol says Afghanistan should emulate the Ottoman Empire’s approach to the education of women and girls.
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سیاستمداری که انتظار دارد کشور همسایه بیاید و با زور مردم بیگانه و هموطنانش را بکشد تا او روی خون مردم به کرسی قدرت تکیه زند، سیاستمداری ناتوان، کمظرفیت و بیکفایت است. سرنگونی طالبان باید توسط خود مردم افغانستان رقم بخورد و هیچ کشور همسایهای اجازهی تهاجم به خاک ما را ندارد
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هیچ حکومتی حق بمباران مناطق مسکونی را تحت نام عملیات ( ضد تروریستی) ندارد. کشتار مردم بیگناه باید وجدان انسان ها را تکان دهد. نگذاریم که دولت ها با نفرت پراکنی علیه (بیگانه) برای حفظ قدرت انسانیت مان را از ما بگیرند.
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Aftermath of Pakistan’s Attack on Civilians . Private Elementary school hit, children and women among the casualties.
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مردانی که خیلی دور از افغانستان نشسته اند و از شانه پاکستان به طالب شلیک می کنند، همت کنند و ریشه طالب را با دست خود بکنند، پاکستان شانه من و شما نمی شود. مگر طالب خودش حمایت نکرد، بخواهد از این تروریست ها فراوان دارد...
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Pakistan harbors terrorists on its soil, fueling insecurity in the region; yet plays the victim to justify today’s airstrikes on Kabul & Spin Boldak, killing 15+ civilians & wounding 100+. This breaches UN Charter Art. 2(4) & IHL protections. @UN must intervene and hold Pakistan
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I am deeply concerned by reports of numerous civilian casualties as well as displacement caused by ongoing armed clashes on the #Afghanistan-Pakistan border. I urge all parties to exercise maximum restraint, protect civilians, and abide by international law.
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