Heather Barr
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Women's rights associate director @hrw. Priors: @UNODC_COAFG @UNDPaf @PNUDBurundi @urbanjustice & https://t.co/7USa1LDego https://t.co/cCEECU5vqI
Cape Town, South Africa
Joined May 2009
Excited to share this new piece on why @hrw is calling for gender apartheid to be recognized as a crime under international law. This comes after long & careful discussion w/many colleagues about if there is need for such a law and any potential downsides.
justsecurity.org
All States should ensure the inclusion of gender apartheid in international law, including in the draft crimes against humanity treaty.
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He was 15 years old. His turban was too large for his small frame. And he was my torturer. In 1998, I was a student activist in a Taliban prison cell. In 2020, I sat across the table from the Taliban leadership as a negotiator for the Republic. This is the story of the distance
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I have spent the last couple of years writing the secret history of those talks. I am announcing my upcoming book, Indecent Deal. It is the historical narrative of the US-Taliban and Afghan Republic negotiations—a look at what actually happened behind doors.
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A group of Afghan women and girls took to the streets today, chanting and burning slogans as a symbol of their frustration and pain. They called on the world to stop ignoring the worsening situation of Afghan women. Their message was clear: silence is no longer acceptable!!!
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“The women I know who have chosen to give birth unassisted, it’s often because they have horrific trauma from that first birth that they feel they barely survived. Things were done to them without their consent, they were injured as a result.”
theguardian.com
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
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Breaking News: President @CyrilRamaphosa declares Gender Based Violence and Femicide a national crisis in 🇿🇦during his keynote address at the #G20SocialSummit currently taking place. #EndGBVF
#G20SouthAfrica
#WomenShutdown
No society can thrive for as long as gender-based violence and femicide continues and the agency of women is denied. The violence perpetrated by men against women erodes the social fabric of nations. https://t.co/aHKp8YkJ27
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“No society can thrive while gender-based violence and femicide continue and the agency of women is denied. Violence perpetrated against women erodes the social fabric of nations.” — H.E. President Cyril Ramaphosa, Republic of South Africa #G20SouthAfrica
#G20Social2025
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As world leaders gather in South Africa for the G20 Summit this weekend, president Cyril Ramaphosa has classified gender-based violence and femicide as a national crisis. #g20 #G20SouthAfrica
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°8:²2 Let's honour the women and children who never made it home alive due to GBV le femicide and stand firmly with survivors. Morena boloka setchaba sa geshu - O fedise dintwa le matshwenyego. Nkosi sikelela iAfrika 💐💜🎉 #G20SouthAfrica #G20
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On December 1, #ASP24 is starting in The Hague! 🚨Check out @hrw recommendations to the ASP and states parties for the upcoming Assembly session: https://t.co/UZ6ZVm4mjg
#JusticeMatters #NGOVoices 🧵👇👇👇 on the main areas of action at the session
hrw.org
The states parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) will meet from December 1-6, 2025, in The Hague, for the annual session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP).
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Friendly reminder that universities have been unceremoniously firing/expelling profs/students for speaking out against a genocide for over 2 years now!
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
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The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
hrw.org
The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said...
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During the past year, over 5 500 women were murdered. A woman is killed every 2.5 hours in South Africa. South Africa’s femicide rate has risen by almost 34% in just a year and is six times the global average. https://t.co/2Rr2QNMhLP
citizen.co.za
Word of the G20 Women's Shutdown spread like wildfire all over social media, sparking support from countless South Africans.
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“There are other names you might not be seeing at all: Courtney Wild, Rachel Benavidez, Michelle Licata, Maria Farmer, Annie Farmer, Liz Stein, Jess Michaels, Marina Lacerda, Danielle Bensky, Anouska De Georgiou, Shawna Rivera.”
nytimes.com
Women’s pain is not entertainment.
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Activists protested, setting burqas on fire: “We burn this not out of hatred, but for freedom. There is no power stronger than a woman’s will for free life.” “A woman’s body is not a site for [playing] politics.” “Your silence helps the Taliban.”
hrw.org
The Taliban in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat have recently banned women doctors, patients, and healthcare workers from entering hospitals without wearing a burqa.
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Forced hijab is part of the Taliban’s policy of controlling women’s bodies to make women invisible. Afghan women and United Nations human rights experts have called this “gender apartheid.” https://t.co/mP61gOVH4F
hrw.org
The Taliban in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat have recently banned women doctors, patients, and healthcare workers from entering hospitals without wearing a burqa.
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Perhaps one of the most seriousunanswered questions is, for someone granted asylum, over 20 years how many extreme right-wing Home Secretaries will they face who might deport them on a reactionary whim? Unanswered questions in Mahmood's asylum reforms https://t.co/X7EGXHChqP
thetimes.com
The unanswered questions about Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms
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With conflict globally reaching a level not seen since the post-WWII era, better responses to the impact of conflict on women’s rights are urgently important. Conflicts and crises harm women and girls in ways far beyond sexual violence.
hrw.org
Conflicts and crises cause harm based on gender. Because women and girls across the globe experience legal, economic, and cultural discrimination, they also experience the impacts of conflict in...
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The most important step to protect women’s rights during conflict—& even reduce conflict—is for diverse women to be full, safe, equal, and meaningful participants in all discussions about the future of their country and their community.
hrw.org
Conflicts and crises cause harm based on gender. Because women and girls across the globe experience legal, economic, and cultural discrimination, they also experience the impacts of conflict in...
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With conflict globally reaching a level not seen since the post-WWII era, better responses to the impact of conflict on women’s rights are urgently important. Conflicts and crises harm women and girls in ways far beyond sexual violence.
hrw.org
Conflicts and crises cause harm based on gender. Because women and girls across the globe experience legal, economic, and cultural discrimination, they also experience the impacts of conflict in...
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I thought this tweet was an exaggeration, but her point really is that people should ignore Israel massacring Palestinians, which she contemptuously calls the "wall of carnage". Another Obama administration psychopath.
Fmr Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz laments to Jewish Federation that people are finding content from "Al Jazeera and Nick Fuentes" on social media and seeing videos of "the carnage in Gaza." Holocaust education has backfired in part as people see Palestinians as Jews' victims,
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