It's World #HumanRightsDay & last day of #16Days to end Violence against Women&Girls. The ERC joined women's organizations to deliver a strong call to action to prioritise response & prevention of #GBV in crisis. Listen
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Unspeakable suffering in Tawila.
Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child.
They're asking the world if help is coming.
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Spending #UNDay listening to #Afghanwomen leaders speak to situation for women, peace & security in #Afghanistan "peace is not the absence of war, it is also freedom, justice and equality. Peace may have come for Afghan men, but not for women" #wps #un80 #UnitedNations #MinasList #womensrights
Read powerful statement by Noura Erakat, taking us through what life is like for women and girls in #Gaza at today's UN SecurityCouncil meeting on women, peace and security, "look to Palestinian women" for courage and fight #WPS #1325 #China #Russia #EU
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A powerful message outside UN. Women's reproductive health rights are under threat. Millions of women around the world still do not have access to contraception to allow them bodily autonomy. We must promote, protect & expand women's access to sexual and #reproductivehealth #UNGA80 #womensrights
Foreign Minister Penny Wong at #UNGA Women Peace Security meeting affirming Australia's commitment to #WPS supporting women mediators and establishing new $1.5 million partnership for survivors of #sexualviolence in conflict. #endgbv @australia.theguardian.com @senatorwong.bsky.social
Sudanese women suffer again & again in #Sudan war. Forced out of their country, enduring #sexualviolence & then to get no help as refugees. Funding cuts means:
- cuts to midwives & health services
- more children born out of rape
#KeepEyesOnSudan #UNGA @nytimes.com
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If you listen to one speech today as United Nations #UNGA80 commences, listen to these two Australian doctors, knowing their lives, and lives of Palestinians are at stake in #Gaza pleading "Can anyone stop this. Anyone" @australia.theguardian.com @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Survivors of sexual violence shared unimaginable pain – scars on body & mind. And quiet courage amid tears.
Centres like La Cay Fanm provide medical care, psychosocial support & a space for dignity. But it’s underfunded & under threat. We must sustain this vital work. #Haiti
Even in crisis, there are opportunities to invest in women, young people, protection, education, livelihoods - all important to amplify people's dignity, rights, agency and decision making. #Haiti #ayiti #humanrights
In Port-au-Prince, I saw last functioning hospital in city pushed to brink, forced to reduce even maternal care. Met families who have lost everything, crammed into makeshift shelters – women & girls bearing heaviest toll.
The suffering is immense. #Haiti needs urgent support.
Blatant disregard for human life. And yet, enabled, permitted, some even profiting. Let it be known that world leaders watched, counted the dead & did nothing #LetGazaLive #ceasefirenow @reuters.com @theguardian.com @nytimes.com @jvp.bsky.social @aljazeera.com
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The Gaza Famine is the world’s famine. A preventable, predictable famine.
Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.
Children are being killed while they line up to get food in #Gaza.
Journalists are targetted and killed for telling the stories.
Meanwhile we keep counting children killed, Journalists killed, women killed, men killed, doctors killed, aid workers killed.
STOP the war. LET aid in. STOP the killings.
In 2022, women in #Afghanistan lost access to secondary and higher education.
Doctors Without Borders Program Manager Sarah Chateau shares how over 200 decrees restrict visibility, limit maternal care and make it difficult for mothers to communicate with medical staff.
Over 100,000 Sydney siders turn out for #Gaza, walking across the iconic bridge in the rain to demand justice: stop the war, let aid in, impose sanctions on Israel. #freepalestine
No fuel in #Gaza also means no support to women giving birth; no water and menstrual hygiene for women and girls; and no access to psychosocial support for survivors of gender-based violence. Let aid in. Stop the war @unfpa.org @careglobal.bsky.social @careintuk.bsky.social @oxfamgb.bsky.social
This morning, Israeli forces expanded their incursion in western Khan Younis, southern #Gaza.
Tanks advanced, while airstrikes and drones fired into an area full of displaced civilians with no prior warning.
Enjoying the United Nations rose garden while we still have it. So far, no talks of cuts to roses #UN80
Today on #Nakba and everyday we stand in solidarity with Palestinians, and call for an end of occupation, war. We call for peace, freedom and justice for Palestinians, #Gaza, #WestBank.
Just briefed the UN Security Council again on the situation in Gaza.
Watch my full remarks here:
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An hour into a briefing on UN reforms for effectiveness & efficiencies, yet no mention of #genderequality or #womensrights by anyone
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Airstrikes in #Sudan continue for 5th day. Port Sudan is under constant bombardment. Escalating. No where is safe. Not for Sudanese people, aid workers, or embassy staff. #ceasefirenow
#keepeyesonsudan
Australia wins! With some thanks to America for reminding us of the kind of leadership and democracy we want, the people we want to be, and the country we want to live in. Hate was voted out. #australiaelection #albowins
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Australia has mandatory voting. I count myself lucky to be a citizen in a country that values my right to political participation. I voted. And I hope extremism, racism, sexism, nationalism do not prevail #humanrights #Australiaelection @albomp.bsky.social
Important exchanges with de facto Ministers in Kabul on urgent challenges ahead: climate shocks, returnees, existing needs, impact of funding cuts.
We are engaging to ensure principled delivery. And resolute that Afghan women humanitarians must be able to do their vital work.
Good luck Canada!
Vote for freedom, #humanrights #diversity #genderequality and all things good and kind.
#CanadaElection2025
I stand in solidarity with Sudanese women calling for protection, peace & political participation as war enters 3rd year #Women4Sudan #KeepEyesOnSudan
