🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “She can’t return to #Afghanistan. From her bedroom in London, @zahrajoya.bsky.social works to make sure what happens there is known in the wider world.” Alona Ferber, @prospectmagazine.co.uk @rukhshanamedia.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
Zahra Joya: The Taliban will collapse without support
The journalist on Afghanistan’s future—and the cost of exile
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
September 23, 2026 at 2:43 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “She can’t return to #Afghanistan. From her bedroom in London, @zahrajoya.bsky.social works to make sure what happens there is known in the wider world.” Alona Ferber, @prospectmagazine.co.uk @rukhshanamedia.bsky.social www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/people...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: In #Afghanistan, “most female-led businesses have collapsed, due to Taliban control, ineffective aid & a failure to go beyond symbolic actions that provide little genuine support for women’s enterprises.” @rukhshanamedia.bsky.social rukhshana.com/en/a-market-...
July 30, 2025 at 11:40 AM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: In #Afghanistan, “most female-led businesses have collapsed, due to Taliban control, ineffective aid & a failure to go beyond symbolic actions that provide little genuine support for women’s enterprises.” @rukhshanamedia.bsky.social rukhshana.com/en/a-market-...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Gloria Steinem changed the story women were permitted to tell about themselves. Now it is our responsibility to keep telling the truth—& to make certain that no billionaire, advertiser, government or algorithm can silence it.” @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/09/03/r...
Rest in Power: Gloria Steinem, Ms. Cofounder and Feminist Visionary
Gloria Steinem, Ms. cofounder and feminist visionary, transformed journalism and feminism while inspiring generations of women.
msmagazine.com
September 9, 2026 at 11:39 AM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Gloria Steinem changed the story women were permitted to tell about themselves. Now it is our responsibility to keep telling the truth—& to make certain that no billionaire, advertiser, government or algorithm can silence it.” @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/09/03/r...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “As grave human rights violations remain pervasive in #Afghanistan, amid a context of extreme repression, gender persecution, & gender apartheid, continued scrutiny & engagement by the Human Rights Council remains essential.” @hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...
www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...
September 23, 2026 at 2:43 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “As grave human rights violations remain pervasive in #Afghanistan, amid a context of extreme repression, gender persecution, & gender apartheid, continued scrutiny & engagement by the Human Rights Council remains essential.” @hrw.org
www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...
www.hrw.org/news/2026/09...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Al-Amssi hopes to pursue doctoral studies in the future. For now, however, she has placed the manuscripts & damaged books at the center of her work.” @palestinechronicle.bsky.social: www.palestinechronicle.com/saving-gazas...
September 23, 2026 at 2:45 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Al-Amssi hopes to pursue doctoral studies in the future. For now, however, she has placed the manuscripts & damaged books at the center of her work.” @palestinechronicle.bsky.social: www.palestinechronicle.com/saving-gazas...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Time & time again, it is women who speak out in the face of state repression—as journalists speaking truth to power, lawyers fighting for the rights of the oppressed, or everyday women taking to the streets in defiance of regimes.” @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/04/04/i...
In Iran, Iraq and the U.S., Women Speak Out Against State Repression
From Nasrin Sotoudeh to Shelly Kittleson, women who challenge state power are being detained, disappeared and targeted.
msmagazine.com
April 8, 2026 at 12:10 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Time & time again, it is women who speak out in the face of state repression—as journalists speaking truth to power, lawyers fighting for the rights of the oppressed, or everyday women taking to the streets in defiance of regimes.” @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/04/04/i...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: From #Minneapolis to #PuertoRico, survival is collective. Mutual aid, care, & community build the infrastructure to resist occupation & #authoritarianism. @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/02/06/m...
From Minnesota to Puerto Rico: How We Survive Together
militarization and colonial control show how mutual aid and community care—from Minneapolis to Puerto Rico—mean survival and resistance.
msmagazine.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:34 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: From #Minneapolis to #PuertoRico, survival is collective. Mutual aid, care, & community build the infrastructure to resist occupation & #authoritarianism. @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/02/06/m...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “While #Iran's so-called morality police have largely disappeared from public life across major cities, questions remain about whether the relaxation is a tactical retreat rather than a policy shift.”
Hannah Kaviani & Austin Malloy, Radio Free Europe: www.rferl.org/a/four-years...
Hannah Kaviani & Austin Malloy, Radio Free Europe: www.rferl.org/a/four-years...
Four Years After Mahsa Amini's Death, Iranian Women Defy Hijab Law
Four years after Mahsa Amini died following her detention over Iran’s mandatory hijab law, increasing numbers of Iranian women are not wearing head scarves. Amini's death sparked the 2022 Woman, Life,...
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September 23, 2026 at 2:45 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “While #Iran's so-called morality police have largely disappeared from public life across major cities, questions remain about whether the relaxation is a tactical retreat rather than a policy shift.”
Hannah Kaviani & Austin Malloy, Radio Free Europe: www.rferl.org/a/four-years...
Hannah Kaviani & Austin Malloy, Radio Free Europe: www.rferl.org/a/four-years...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: Read the new #WPS publication “Holding the Line” by @genderplatform.bsky.social that explores pushback, conflict, & why women’s leadership is essential for lasting #peace. www.wo-men.nl/bestanden/WO...
www.wo-men.nl
March 11, 2026 at 12:53 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: Read the new #WPS publication “Holding the Line” by @genderplatform.bsky.social that explores pushback, conflict, & why women’s leadership is essential for lasting #peace. www.wo-men.nl/bestanden/WO...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Imperialists, occupiers & invaders weaponise Muslim #women’s bodies & rights to justify their wars. If western leaders really cared so much about female bodily autonomy, perhaps they could look closer to home.” @monaeltahawy.bsky.social,Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy
As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do so, says author Mona Eltahawy
www.theguardian.com
June 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Imperialists, occupiers & invaders weaponise Muslim #women’s bodies & rights to justify their wars. If western leaders really cared so much about female bodily autonomy, perhaps they could look closer to home.” @monaeltahawy.bsky.social,Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “In 2025, nearly 245,000 people, combatants & civilians, were killed in conflict, making it the 3rd deadliest year since the end of the Cold War.” How can we build peace together in our volatile world? Full report: rc-services-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
September 23, 2026 at 2:42 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “In 2025, nearly 245,000 people, combatants & civilians, were killed in conflict, making it the 3rd deadliest year since the end of the Cold War.” How can we build peace together in our volatile world? Full report: rc-services-assets.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: Trump’s new foreign policy sidelines women, withdrawing from key #UN bodies, dismantling #USAID, & weakening bipartisan commitments like #WPS. When women’s rights are undermined, democracy & global security suffer. @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/02/28/t...
Another Casualty of Trump’s New Foreign Policy: Women
From the United Nations to the U.S. military, Trump's policies advancing women’s equality are being systematically undone.
msmagazine.com
March 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: Trump’s new foreign policy sidelines women, withdrawing from key #UN bodies, dismantling #USAID, & weakening bipartisan commitments like #WPS. When women’s rights are undermined, democracy & global security suffer. @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/02/28/t...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “For the first time in its history, the #UNHRC recognized that denying an abortion to a child isn't just a denial of choice but an imposition of pregnancy & forced motherhood.” @passblue.bsky.social www.passblue.com/2025/01/28/u...
UN Rules That Girls Forced Into Motherhood Abuses Their Human Rights
UN Rules That Girls Forced Into Motherhood Abuses Their Human Rights - PassBlue
www.passblue.com
January 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “For the first time in its history, the #UNHRC recognized that denying an abortion to a child isn't just a denial of choice but an imposition of pregnancy & forced motherhood.” @passblue.bsky.social www.passblue.com/2025/01/28/u...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “I want every revolution to topple not just the statues of the tyrant, but what I call the trifecta of patriarchy–the tyrant who lives in the state, the street & the home.” @monaeltahawy.bsky.social writes on the fall of Assad in #Syria. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What comes next for Syria’s women? A revolution that doesn’t free them is no revolution at all | Mona Eltahawy
The women celebrating the destruction of jails and dungeons will now be wondering why their own oppression cannot also be dismantled, says author Mona Eltahawy
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “I want every revolution to topple not just the statues of the tyrant, but what I call the trifecta of patriarchy–the tyrant who lives in the state, the street & the home.” @monaeltahawy.bsky.social writes on the fall of Assad in #Syria. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: For the first time in 70 yrs at the #UN CSW, the agreed conclusions were put to a vote after #US objection. The result: overwhelming support for women’s rights, & the US standing alone. @passblue.bsky.social passblue.com/2026/03/10/h...
How US Tried but Failed to Wipe Out 70 Years of Global Consent on Women's Rights - PassBlue
How US Tried but Failed to Wipe Out 70 Years of Global Consent on Women's Rights - PassBlue
passblue.com
March 18, 2026 at 12:12 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: For the first time in 70 yrs at the #UN CSW, the agreed conclusions were put to a vote after #US objection. The result: overwhelming support for women’s rights, & the US standing alone. @passblue.bsky.social passblue.com/2026/03/10/h...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “But today, as we mark the 30th anniversary [of the Beijing Conference], women’s movements are undernourished—at the time we need their power & effectiveness most.” Annie Hillar, Rachel Jacobson, & Happy Mwende Kinyili. @msmagazine.com. msmagazine.com/2025/09/22/w...
The Beijing Conference Was a Victory for Women’s Movements. It’s Time to Believe in Them Again.
The Beijing United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Was a Victory for Feminism. It’s Time to Believe and Invest in Women's Rights Again.
msmagazine.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “But today, as we mark the 30th anniversary [of the Beijing Conference], women’s movements are undernourished—at the time we need their power & effectiveness most.” Annie Hillar, Rachel Jacobson, & Happy Mwende Kinyili. @msmagazine.com. msmagazine.com/2025/09/22/w...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Since the Taliban takeover, women’s exclusion from education, formal employment, public life, & civil society has intensified reliance on their unpaid & underpaid labour across private & informal spheres.” onedrive.live.com?id=%2Fperson...
September 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Since the Taliban takeover, women’s exclusion from education, formal employment, public life, & civil society has intensified reliance on their unpaid & underpaid labour across private & informal spheres.” onedrive.live.com?id=%2Fperson...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: No women, no peace. 25 years of UN Resolution #1325 remind us: inclusion isn’t charity—it’s strategy. Women at the table = stronger peace agreements. @heatherbarr.bsky.social @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
No Women, No Peace
This month sees the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security. Adopted in October 2000, Resolution 1325 established that women should be ful...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: No women, no peace. 25 years of UN Resolution #1325 remind us: inclusion isn’t charity—it’s strategy. Women at the table = stronger peace agreements. @heatherbarr.bsky.social @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “If the Taliban seek to deny women a seat at the table, as they have so far, the international community must push back. #Afghanistan’s future, & the region’s stability, depends on it.” Palwasha Hassan & Shafiqa Khpalwak for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social. shorturl.at/cQMCQ
Let Afghan Women Lead | by Palwasha Hassan & Shafiqa Khpalwak - Project Syndicate
Palwasha Hassan & Shafiqa Khpalwak urge the international community to support some of the world's most repressed yet tenacious people.
www.project-syndicate.org
March 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “If the Taliban seek to deny women a seat at the table, as they have so far, the international community must push back. #Afghanistan’s future, & the region’s stability, depends on it.” Palwasha Hassan & Shafiqa Khpalwak for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social. shorturl.at/cQMCQ
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “This isn’t about asking everyone to agree politically. Democracies depend on disagreement. But they also depend on recognizing one another’s humanity—& on being willing to say plainly that white nationalism deserves condemnation.” @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/07/07/p...
The Mask Is the Message
Most of us have seen the photograph by now.
I keep coming back to the masks.
Masks have always carried meaning. A surgeon wears one to protect a patient. Someone recovering from an illness wears one...
msmagazine.com
July 8, 2026 at 1:59 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “This isn’t about asking everyone to agree politically. Democracies depend on disagreement. But they also depend on recognizing one another’s humanity—& on being willing to say plainly that white nationalism deserves condemnation.” @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2026/07/07/p...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: The Council of Europe selection panel, including ICAN’s @sanambna.bsky.social, announced the shortlist for the 2025 Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment, including Green Girls Organization, Gisèle Pelicot, & Women of the Sun Palestine. @coe.int. www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
Three candidates shortlisted for the 2025 Vigdís Prize for Women's Empowerment - Portal - www.coe.int
Parliamentary Assembly Strasbourg 2 May 2025
www.coe.int
May 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: The Council of Europe selection panel, including ICAN’s @sanambna.bsky.social, announced the shortlist for the 2025 Vigdís Prize for Women’s Empowerment, including Green Girls Organization, Gisèle Pelicot, & Women of the Sun Palestine. @coe.int. www.coe.int/en/web/porta...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: Hear ICAN’s @sanambna.bsky.social discuss the US & Israel’s war on #Iran & what it means for #peace, security, & global stability on BBC, TRT World News, & Channel 4 News. icanpeacework.org/ican-in-the-...
ICAN in the Media - International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN)
icanpeacework.org
March 25, 2026 at 12:40 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: Hear ICAN’s @sanambna.bsky.social discuss the US & Israel’s war on #Iran & what it means for #peace, security, & global stability on BBC, TRT World News, & Channel 4 News. icanpeacework.org/ican-in-the-...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “One of the most pervasive misconceptions is that female genital mutilation/cutting is limited to African countries. It is not a religious mandate—it's a patriarchal social norm in the guise of ritual & shame.” Arshi Quereshi, @passblue.bsky.social. www.passblue.com/2025/05/05/t...
Taking Female Genital Cutting Out of US Shadows
Taking Female Genital Cutting Out of US Shadows - PassBlue
www.passblue.com
May 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “One of the most pervasive misconceptions is that female genital mutilation/cutting is limited to African countries. It is not a religious mandate—it's a patriarchal social norm in the guise of ritual & shame.” Arshi Quereshi, @passblue.bsky.social. www.passblue.com/2025/05/05/t...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Through art, we resist, survive, & speak out. Despite fear & oppression, #Afghan women artists declare - we are still here.” @omctorg.bsky.social Read their story 👉 www.omct.org/en/resources...
Refused Silence! Four Years Since the Taliban Took Over Afghanistan…
Accompanying the report, a group of Afghan women artists created a series of paintings depicting the pain and suffering of detainees, as well as the…
www.omct.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Through art, we resist, survive, & speak out. Despite fear & oppression, #Afghan women artists declare - we are still here.” @omctorg.bsky.social Read their story 👉 www.omct.org/en/resources...
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Awarding the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Francesca Albanese would not only honour her personal integrity & contribution but also reaffirm the international community’s commitment to the foundational principles of peace through justice.” www.thenational.scot/news/2549413...
Over one million back Nobel Peace Prize for Francesca Albanese and Gaza doctors
A PETITION for the UN Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories to win a Nobel Peace Prize has gained over one million signatures.
www.thenational.scot
October 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Awarding the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize to Francesca Albanese would not only honour her personal integrity & contribution but also reaffirm the international community’s commitment to the foundational principles of peace through justice.” www.thenational.scot/news/2549413...