Day 11 of the One-Month #OpenSchoolDoor Campaign Invitation to the World: End the Nightmare of Afghan Women 💔🙏 @WDIAfghanistan1 and thousands of other voices shout this message every single day: “Dear World, For over 1,700 days, girls in Afghanistan have been banned from secondary school and university. Women are forbidden from working, traveling without a male guardian, visiting parks, doing sports, and even raising their voices in public. Child marriage (even for 9-year-olds) has been legalized, and beating women without breaking bones has been declared a “husband’s right.” This is Sex-Apartheid — a crime against humanity. If you remain silent, you become complicit in this nightmare. It’s time for real action. Please Wake up, world, before an entire generation of Afghan girls is silenced forever.” #OpenSchoolDoor @WDIAfghanistan1

The BBC reports children being sold in Afghanistan but does not ask the obvious questions: which children, and what happens to them? This is a sex-based crime so giving the sex of the victims is important. We have heard repeated reports of girls sold into marriage to old men. We have heard reports of disabled newborn girls buried alive while their male counterparts receive medicine. Afghan women and girls continue to endure appalling levels of cruelty and abandonment. It is difficult to see why the BBC seems to sympathise with the human-trafficking fathers.

A woman is someone who, in Afghanistan, has now lived 1,704 days under a ban that denies girls the right to go to school and human rights. Afghanistan is the only country in the world where education has been turned into a crime for teenage girls. And while this continues, organizations like UN Women are watching, and no action 💔 How long must this silence last? Please talk about Afghan women 🙏

Selling their daughters

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Sex-based violence is not only physical. It is the ban on a girl’s education. It is economic strangulation. It is the slow, deliberate erasure of women from public life, carried out not with weapons alone, but with policy, silence, and the world’s willingness to look away.

It is insanely wrong to remove single sex toilets and then expect the girls to state *exactly* what they are doing in the cubicles to make the case for getting them back. Why does a male teacher feel its an appropriate question?

I have said this since my first tweets in 2015 (and of course in the ‘real world’ before & since!): We cannot possibly end sexism or male violence against women & girls if we pretend we believe in ‘gender identity’ and support ‘Self-ID’. It’s a no-brainer. Everyone knows, really

A male UK uni lecturer wears enormous prosthetic breasts, in clothing showing a lot of (plastic) cleavage, to work. This isn’t a hypothesis, it’s actual Is it: A. justifiable ‘identity expression’ B. abusive sexualisation of a power imbalanced context (against female students)

And this is Peter, the Green Party candidate who thinks that it's perfectly acceptable for a male University lecturer at Oxford to swan around in huge prosthetic breasts. Men like Peter trouble me greatly when it comes to their views on women...

Stop the BBC airing Eurovision content that normalises violence against women - Sign the Petition! c.org/YQhtSHbPR9 via @UKChange

Day 1,677 of Afghan girls being barred from getting an education. This cannot go on. Restricting the basic human rights of an entire generation of women poses an existential threat for #Afghanistan. You are not forgotten. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

Editorial meeting for @RestIsPolitics

Idea: Podcast but some of the guests are women.

Ffs. Different eras had different ways of imposing gender stereotypes. The Victorians still knew which posh children would grow up to get the vote and which ones wouldn't

31 out of 31 people in this photo of your campaign team are men. Are there #NoWomenInOldham ?

Day 1,655 of Afghan women being erased from public life. Banning girls from school isn't policy - it's gender apartheid. The world cannot stay silent. You are not forgotten. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

Ok bye 👋🏼 BRILLIANT

Can I plead with the women blithely stating how they’ve never had a problem with a male clinician to stop. Safeguarding isn’t there for the majority who don’t abuse or for the majority of women capable of making informed choices, safeguarding exists for voiceless women & girls.

Never has so much time, energy and emotion been wasted to confirm the absolute eye-watering obvious 💃