Fodo Higginson
@fodohpf
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Singer, musician, music facilitator, passionate about women in music, women's rights and equality. All views and opinions expressed are my own
Joined May 2011
At the United Nations, I confronted a disturbing reality: the Islamic Republic has been granted an advisory role at the UN Human Rights Council. Yes, the same regime that massacres protesters and shoots them in the eyes is now positioned to lecture the world on human rights.
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BREAKING: Sex realist women take legal action after Green-led Bristol council ban them for expressing their lawfully held beliefs.... Green Councillors bring party into disrepute? You might say that, we couldn't possibly comment. https://t.co/ShngmQOnat
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The women's challenges on gender and trans rights prompted a councillor walk out last year that made national headlines
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A woman cuts her hair at her sister’s funeral in #Iran, because the regime shot her sister in the head. Let me be clear with Western female politicians, especially those in leadership positions in Europe: Do not cut your hair in symbolic solidarity with Iranian women. Cut your
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Correction: latest figures in The Times cite 16,500 civilians murdered and 330,000 injured “in two days of utter slaughter”. A regime that maintains its power by shooting and killing its own people has lost all international legitimacy. Is it time for governments around the
Correction: it’s not 12,000 “protesters”. It is normal “unarmed civilians”. Majority of whom were not even protesting. #IranianRevolution2026 #IranMassacre
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My dear compatriots, An invaluable opportunity arose for me to attend the emergency session of the United Nations Security Council and deliver your message the voice and outcry of the brave and noble people of Iran directly to the world’s leaders and regional powers. My purpose
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Clear now that as no one is there to stop it the regime have fled and the security forces not willing to risk their lives for them anymore ⬇️
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"This is the Berlin Wall moment for Iran" Exiled Iranian human rights activist Masih Alinejad says the Islamic Republic is at its weakest-ever moment. #Newsnight
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🔴Brave Iranian patriot sets banner of Khamenei on fire in Hamedan, Iran. This act alone will get you executed in Iran. Date: Thursday night, Jan 1, 2026
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The recent academic article defending FGM in the British Medical Journal is shocking. Their labelling of the call to end this practice as "Western sensationalism" speaks to how much further there is to go in the fight to end this form of severe, violent harm to women and girls
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Message from Afghan woman Please read and share:- Life for a woman in Afghanistan is beyond belief. Many people may not know what happens outside the home — but what happens inside, behind closed doors, is even worse. We are forced to endure abuse from both husbands and
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It has officially been 4 years since the Australian Human Rights Commission complaint was filed against me & the woman only online platform I created, alleging gender identity discrimination, because a man claims to be a woman. In that time: • I was told by the AHRC/sex
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Afghan women are being completely erased from the society and they are ignored by UN!
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STOP comparing Afghan women in burqas with Christian nuns. 1- Nuns do not get beaten, jailed, or killed if they remove their veil. 2-Their commitment applies only to themselves not to every woman in the country. 3-In Iran and Afghanistan, it doesn’t matter if you’re Muslim or
In the first image, you see an Australian MP wearing a burqa in Parliament to debate banning the burqa for women. In the second image, it’s me and my friend, two women who have actually lived under the reality of forced burqas and hijabs imposed by the Taliban and the Islamic
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Standing room only for my emergency meeting on the Puberty Blockers Trial - not one person or organisation in the room thinks we should be experimenting on children #StopthePBTrial Most parties/Ind MPs were v well represented with experts such as @sueevansprotect giving evidence.
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‘Gender’, ie regressive sexist stereotypes, was spun around the two sexes. For example: men (se x) have to be strong, shouldn’t cry, should lead, be decisive (stereotypes), women (se x), should be kind, nurturing, submissive (stereotypes) So ‘gender’ is the fake stuff spun
@helenhairnets @NeilMerriman You've got it the opposite round. You are tying gender to sex when it's not the case
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Today’s @thetimes column is about the brilliant @CUSocOfWomen who, if we’re all very lucky, will be in charge one day, instead of the cowards we currently have in government https://t.co/qYEGK8uuqA
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For Women Scotland wins Public Campaign or Campaigner of the Year at The Herald Scottish Politician of the Year Awards 2025, in association with ScottishPower https://t.co/cy9kuG4huY
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