April
@mynameisapes.bsky.social
Feminist working to dismantle the patriarchy.
Disrupter wannabe.
Love is my religion and red wine is my language.
Disrupter wannabe.
Love is my religion and red wine is my language.
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
youtu.be/u75Dzaf2-pU @norwaymfa.government.no @unocha.org @denmarkun.bsky.social
youtu.be/u75Dzaf2-pU @norwaymfa.government.no @unocha.org @denmarkun.bsky.social
Call to Action on Protection from Gender0Based Violence in Emergencies
YouTube video by UN Humanitarian
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December 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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
youtu.be/u75Dzaf2-pU @norwaymfa.government.no @unocha.org @denmarkun.bsky.social
youtu.be/u75Dzaf2-pU @norwaymfa.government.no @unocha.org @denmarkun.bsky.social
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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.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
In Darfur, Sudan’s lost children wander through a landscape of death
Around 200 unaccompanied children have arrived in the Sudanese town of Tewila after escaping El Fashir, where RSF fighters have carried out mass killings.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
A Sudanese massacre foretold: the grim familiarity of the RSF’s rampage through El Fasher
A Sudanese massacre foretold: the grim familiarity of the RSF’s rampage through El Fasher
Atrocities unfolding in El Fasher since it fell to paramilitary forces follow a bleak pattern seen in Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan itself, including lack of international action
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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
October 24, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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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October 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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
September 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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
September 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...
- cuts to midwives & health services
- more children born out of rape
#KeepEyesOnSudan #UNGA @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...
In the Shadow of Sudan’s War, a Maternity Ward Fights to Survive
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...
- cuts to midwives & health services
- more children born out of rape
#KeepEyesOnSudan #UNGA @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/w...
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
This is a ten minute video broken up into parts for Bluesky from two australian doctors who made it into Gaza. The video starts with them saying the baby formula they brought with them was taken away and that Israel bombing the hospital in front of them and lying about giving warnings
September 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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
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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
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
September 11, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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
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 #Haiti, I met incredible young people once trapped in violence, now determined to learn new skills.
Resilience. Courage. Hope.
#ProtectEducationFromAttack
Resilience. Courage. Hope.
#ProtectEducationFromAttack
September 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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
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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.
The suffering is immense. #Haiti needs urgent support.
September 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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.
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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Mariam Abu Dagga: Gaza journalist killed in Israeli strike ‘carried her camera into the heart of the field’
The 33-year-old photojournalist committed to conveying suffering of civilians with ‘rare honesty and courage’
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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.
Enough. Ceasefire. Open all crossings, north and south. Let us get food in, unimpeded and at massive scale.
August 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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.
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.
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.
Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza
Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.
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August 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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.
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.
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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.
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.
August 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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.
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
NEW: 90,000 people protesting against the genocide in Gaza have shut down Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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August 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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
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‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones
‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones
Parents watch children waste away as deliberate aid restrictions from Israel mean hunger is becoming a killer, as experts confirm famine is currently playing out
The people of Gaza did not need this week’s official confirmation from UN-backed hunger experts that the “worst-case scenario of famine” was unfolding there. For months they have watched as their children waste away.
“All my children have lost nearly half of their body weight,” said Jamil Mughari, a 38-year-old from Maghazi in central Gaza. “My daughter, who is five years old, now weighs only 11kg. My son Mohammad has become just skin and bones. All my children are like this. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:02 AM
‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones
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
July 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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
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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.
Tanks advanced, while airstrikes and drones fired into an area full of displaced civilians with no prior warning.
July 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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.
Tanks advanced, while airstrikes and drones fired into an area full of displaced civilians with no prior warning.
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.
May 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Just briefed the UN Security Council again on the situation in Gaza.
Watch my full remarks here:
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Watch my full remarks here:
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May 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Just briefed the UN Security Council again on the situation in Gaza.
Watch my full remarks here:
t.co/OYSdN1n60b
Watch my full remarks here:
t.co/OYSdN1n60b
An hour into a briefing on UN reforms for effectiveness & efficiencies, yet no mention of #genderequality or #womensrights by anyone
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Informal meeting of the plenary to hear a briefing by the Secretary-General on the UN80 Initiative - General Assembly, 79th session
On 11 March 2025, the UN Secretary General launched the UN80 Initiative to ensure the UN remains effective, cost-efficient and responsive to the People it serves. He undertook to consult closely and r...
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May 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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
#keepeyesonsudan
May 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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
#keepeyesonsudan