Sahar Halaimzai
@SHalaimzai
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Writer. Senior Director @malalafund | Fellow @civ_engagement @lseideas Trustee @CounterArts Winner LND Writers Award @STWevents
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Joined February 2019
What’s often missing from discussion about Afghanistan is a critical look at how two decades of international presence led to the harsh reality Afghan women & girls face today. None of this was inevitable; it was man-made. https://t.co/8MPtaqfdt8
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Thread 🧵 One of the UK Government’s New Years resolutions must be to recognise Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan. Heartening to see this call backed by @AliceMLabour MP, who secured an adjournment debate in the House on the first day back from recess, on the situation for
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“Afghan women themselves demanded legal recognition to capture the brutality they have been forced to endure.” @SHalaimzai explains the importance of recognizing Taliban’s oppression of women as “gender apartheid.” Read the full piece, link in replies.
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The People’s Tribunal for the Women of Afghanistan named what the Taliban have inflicted on Afghan women and girls for years: a system designed to erase them from public life. The judges called this system #genderapartheid and concluded it should be recognized as a crime against
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Leaders have a chance to make gender apartheid a crime against humanity in international law. Will they meet the moment – for women and girls in Afghanistan, and worldwide?
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The judgement by the Afghanistan People’s Tribunal is clear: the Taliban built a system of gender apartheid that must be named and confronted. Afghan women and girls have been saying this for years, even as the world enabled the Taliban to return to power and impose their abuses
A few months ago, Afghan women came forward to share testimony for the People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan. Their courage helped produce today’s judgment, which finds the Taliban responsible for gender persecution and operating an apartheid-like system of control over
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At the historic People's Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan, Afghan women gathered evidence, prosecuted and testified on the Taliban’s violations of their rights. They demanded accountability. Today, the tribunal will release its judgment — an important moment in securing justice
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Thank you to the Ambassador of Chile in the UK, @Chile_in_the_UK Amb Fuentes for putting together a panel discussion for the diplomatic community on the situation in Afghanistan last night. As always, the formidable and inspiring voice of @SHalaimzai was strong on the need to
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Four years ago today, our co-founder @Malala spoke with clarity and conviction at the UN's commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, as Palestinians were being indiscriminately killed and thousands more injured in a devastating escalation
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What happens when there are no female doctors left — but women and girls are only allowed to receive care from them? Within a decade, Afghanistan could lose all female doctors, nurses, teachers, and midwives. This is gender apartheid. Name it. Condemn it. Full report from
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'Sudan’s war is described as forgotten, but in reality it is tolerated and relegated. Because to reckon with the horror in Sudan is to look into the abyss of regional and global politics.' This week's column https://t.co/mt2D9FIwEw
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The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Incoming! Three months on from THAT Glasto performance Bobby Vylan, frontman of MOBO award-winning duo Bob Vylan, is on TLTP to discuss his politics, his music, his life, Chuck D, UK supermarkets, and what he was thinking when he led the chant that launched a thousand headlines.
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When leaders can systematically erase girls and women from society without consequences, we're all at risk. At Malta's U.N. Mission, activists, artists and advocates came together to call out the Taliban’s system of repression for what it is: gender apartheid as a crime against
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The latest WCRAN report, "A Generation Denied: Case Studies on the Consequences of the Education Ban on School-Girls in Afghanistan," exposes the devastating human, social, and psychological impacts of the Taliban’s education ban on Afghanistan's girls. This cruel policy has
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Day: 1488 🏫 Day: 1028 🎓 🇦🇫 “ ..So Afghan women and girls are holding the line for everyone…”-@SHalaimzai
#RecogniseGenderApartheid
#ACrimeAgainstHumanity
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
What is happening in Afghanistan is a warning to the world. Afghan women hold the line for all of us. At the People’s Tribunal in Madrid, their testimonies became legal evidence as proof of Taliban’s state-led campaign of gender persecution. The final verdict is expected in two
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A reflection on People's Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan @AfgPpt after two days of hearings by Azada Raz Mohammad and I, moderated by @rachelreid6. Why the tribunal? What it meant for survivors & people of Afghanistan and what next? Thanks to @CasaAsia for hosting.
🎥 Ya puedes ver el vídeo completo de la mesa redonda sobre el Tribunal del Pueblo para las Mujeres de #Afganistán que coorganizamos junto con @Casaarabe Con la participación de Azadah Raz Mohammad y @ShaharzadAkbar, dos referentes internacionales en la defensa de los #DDHH y
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What is happening in Afghanistan is a warning to the world. Afghan women hold the line for all of us. At the People’s Tribunal in Madrid, their testimonies became legal evidence as proof of Taliban’s state-led campaign of gender persecution. The final verdict is expected in two
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سپاس از شهرزاد اکبر، مدیر اجرایی نهاد @rawadari_org، قاضیان و همهی زنانی که با حضور و شهادتشان، نخستین دادگاه مردمیِ زنان افغانستان را ممکن کردند.
افتخار می کنم که در دادگاه مردمی برای زنان افغانستان چهار تن از بهترین های وطن را به عنوان دادستان/سارنوال داریم: داکتر بنفشه یعقوبی، داکتر اورزلا نعمت، آزاده راز محمد،داکتر محب مدثر. تعهد، تخصص و تجربه شان مثال زدنی است و در چند ماه گذشته تلاش خستگی ناپذیر شان مایه الهامما بود
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The People’s Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan held in Madrid from October 8–10, 2025, issued a preliminary statement by a panel of judges.
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Also surprised that the male journalists did not choose to walk out of this press meet that banned women. That solidarity with their women colleagues would have been a powerful message to both the Taliban regime and our government
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After two days, let us applaud the prosecutors for their courage and commitment to justice and carrying the voices and testimonies of the witnesses with strength and integrity. @AfgPpt @MalalaFund
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I had the pleasure of organising a special UK Parliamentary screening of the powerful new feature film Rule Breakers, hosted by @AliceMLabour last week. We were delighted to be joined by the Minister for Faith and Communities, @LordWajidKhan , who delivered welcoming remarks
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