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I am horrified and condemn today’s heinous deadly attack on Jewish families gathered in Sydney to celebrate Hannukah. My heart is with the Jewish community worldwide on this first day of Hannukah, a festival celebrating the miracle of peace and light vanquishing darkness.

It is now 12 dead. 30 wounded. And the heroic and unarmed civilian who attacked and disarmed the terrorist at the Chanukah massacre in Sydney and seized his rifle is Ahmed El Ahmad. Ahmed, 43, is a father of two and a fruit shop owner. He risked his life to save others. He was shot and wounded. Without his heroism, casualties would have been far higher.

#Türkiye: We are very concerned by the detention of at least 92 people over the past week, including Istanbul’s democratically-elected mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu. All those detained for the legitimate exercise of their rights must be released immediately & unconditionally.

This Regional Convening is the first step in a sustained effort to reimagine and reinvigorate women’s political leadership across Europe and Central Asia. @unwomenEU @unwomeneca

Inspiring first day, with powerful interventions focusing on the path towards #Beijing30 and remaining challenges, the importance of legal frameworks & special measures, and also the importance of intergenerational support. #ForAllWomenAndGirls

"Pushback is unfortunately no longer a localized phenomenon. Therefore today, more than ever, we need to bring the voices of women to the table, may it be at the upcoming #CSW69 or in today's #WYDEWomenLeadership dialogue." Belén Sanz Luque, @unwomeneca Regional Director

📣 Today, the #WYDEWomenLeadership is kicking-off a 2 days Expert Group Meeting on Transforming Social Norms for Women’s Political Participation, w/ exceptional high-level experts from around the world to discuss how to transform these discriminatory gender social norms. More🧵👇🏾

Tonight as the King and other world leaders assemble at Auschwitz, we remember the Holocaust, a crime of unprecedented span perpetrated against the Jews in an attempt to destroy their very existence, a plan employing both traditional forms of killing and industrial methods by the Nazi Government of Germany and its allies across Europe and North Africa. It is right to recall its horror as a unique monstrosity that casts a giant shadow over modern history. It is right to use it as a moral lesson and warning against racism, dictatorship, demonic panaceas and ideologies, and the ever-present human and technical potential for mass-murder. It is correct to recognise it as both the greatest atrocity of the 20th century – and as a specifically Jewish tragedy of racist oppression, slaughter - and ultimately defiant and joyous survival. Those are the reasons we commemorate it today and why its denial, minimalization, trivialization or appropriation are signs of moral disgrace and societal degradation. To universalize or homogenize the Shoah is wrong: it inevitably minimizes what happened. To deny it or to strain to play down its scale represents a form of racism almost by definition. In our age when the deployment of victimhood is sometimes an ideological competition of sanctifying virtue, the appropriation of the Jewish Holocaust is heinous. Yet again and again, people who should know better seek to expropriate it from Jewish history, erase Jews from their own history and then, with a brazen amorality and self-righteous arrogance, commandeer it and invert it to use against Jews themselves and indeed lecture them on its meaning - all the while simultaneously deploying ‘Holocaust’ with deliberately careless ubiquity that trivializes its grave significance. It is a wonderful thing that many potentates and countries are today remembering the Shoah and that many are at the services at the worst of the killing camps. It is a great credit and pride for the United Kingdom that our monarch King Charles III, who has done so much to remember the Shoah and its survivors, here visits the Jewish centre in Krakow and is at Auschwitz to attend services now as I write. In terms of the wicked abuse of history, this is one of the tests of our time...

80 years since the Holocaust’s end, antisemitism still exists – fuelled by the same lies and loathing that made the Nazi genocide possible. And it is rising. We must condemn antisemitism and we must renew our resolve to defend the dignity and human rights of all.

It was an honor to serve on the Planned Parenthood NNE Board when Cecile was President. She knew how to advocate and navigate for women like no other. I learned so much from her and am heartbroken that she is gone while our struggle remains. Rest in Power. @PPFA @ppnnehealth

The Center for American Women and Politics (@CAWP_RU) has a tracker for election results dedicated to women running for Congress and statewide executive offices 👇 cawp.rutgers.edu/2024-electi…

Vote. Vote for a woman. Vote for a President. Vote to keep this 248 year old experiment called democracy and make her stronger. Vote so I and we can live again to see another day when our lady parts try to kill us. Vote. Vote for a woman who will win. @VP

📣 #CallforProposals! You are a civil society organization committed to advancing women’s & young women’s political participation and leadership? Join the #WYDEWomenLeadership initiative! 👉 unwomen.org/en/programme-imp… Funded by the 🇪🇺 EU, w/@unwomenEU @Int_IDEA @IPUparliament @UCLG

Yesterday, Iran launched approximately 200 ballistic missiles towards Israel. Millions of people across Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory were forced to seek shelter. As I did in relation to the Iranian attack in April - and as should have been obvious yesterday in the context of the condemnation I expressed - I again strongly condemn yesterday’s massive missile attack by Iran on Israel. These attacks paradoxically do nothing to support the cause of the Palestinian people or reduce their suffering. un.org/sg/en/content/sg/stat…

📢 Webinar: Women in Politics – Is Democracy Delivering? 🗓️ TOMORROW, 10:00-11:00 CET Join us & @osce_odihr for a crucial talk on women’s representation in politics 📌 Speakers: @Bibislav, @fatimdiarra, @RepRachelWeston, Roman Kuhar 🔗 Register: unwo.men/peh750TlNo5

On the occasion of the International Day of Democracy, join @Bibislav, @fatimdiarra, @RepRachelWeston, Roman Kuhar, Yulia Netesova & me for the @osce_odihr & @unwomeneca webinar. Learn more & register ⬇️ osce.org/odihr/575665

📢 Webinar: Women in Politics – Is Democracy Delivering? 🗓️ 18 Sept, 10:00-11:00 CET Join us & @osce_odihr for a crucial talk on women’s representation in politics 📌 Speakers: @Bibislav, @fatimdiarra, @RepRachelWeston, Roman Kuhar 🔗 Register: unwo.men/peh750TlNo5

🎙️Let's listen to our Captain Eda Erdem. The game is changing. For the first time in history, the #Paris2024 Olympics will see an equal number of women and men competing. This 50:50 representation of athletes makes the Summer Games the first to reach gender equality.