In honor of #Afghanwomen and their struggle for equality and dignity and freedom, I’m sharing, with their permission, the work of two amazing female Afghan artists whose work I love, Shamsia Hassani and Rada Akbar.
@shamsiahassani
@radaakbar
#afghanwomenartists
Links to their work in bio
In honor of #Afghanwomen and their struggle for equality and dignity and freedom, I’m sharing, with their permission, the work of two amazing female Afghan artists whose work I love, Shamsia Hassani and Rada Akbar.
@shamsiahassani
@radaakbar
#afghanwomenartists
Links to their work in bio
I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator. She is a leading light in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics for children and young people across the world. Most of all for girls, who are under-represented in the sciences, and particularly in ICT, a growth area for employment in the future.
In late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired. They talked about observation, learning, perseverance, courage, and communication. Gitanjali has engaged with more than 50,000 students around the world.
In the past two years, Covid has done so much damage to the learning and opportunities of children – but students like these in Cambodia are fighting to continue and finish their education. I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other.
@gitanjaliarao #STEM #WomenInScience
@unesco’s “Cracking the Code: Girls’ and Women’s Education in STEM”
MJP Foundation
Links in bio
I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator. She is a leading light in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics for children and young people across the world. Most of all for girls, who are under-represented in the sciences, and particularly in ICT, a growth area for employment in the future.
In late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired. They talked about observation, learning, perseverance, courage, and communication. Gitanjali has engaged with more than 50,000 students around the world.
In the past two years, Covid has done so much damage to the learning and opportunities of children – but students like these in Cambodia are fighting to continue and finish their education. I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other.
@gitanjaliarao #STEM #WomenInScience
@unesco’s “Cracking the Code: Girls’ and Women’s Education in STEM”
MJP Foundation
Links in bio
I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator. She is a leading light in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics for children and young people across the world. Most of all for girls, who are under-represented in the sciences, and particularly in ICT, a growth area for employment in the future.
In late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired. They talked about observation, learning, perseverance, courage, and communication. Gitanjali has engaged with more than 50,000 students around the world.
In the past two years, Covid has done so much damage to the learning and opportunities of children – but students like these in Cambodia are fighting to continue and finish their education. I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other.
@gitanjaliarao #STEM #WomenInScience
@unesco’s “Cracking the Code: Girls’ and Women’s Education in STEM”
MJP Foundation
Links in bio
I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator. She is a leading light in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics for children and young people across the world. Most of all for girls, who are under-represented in the sciences, and particularly in ICT, a growth area for employment in the future.
In late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired. They talked about observation, learning, perseverance, courage, and communication. Gitanjali has engaged with more than 50,000 students around the world.
In the past two years, Covid has done so much damage to the learning and opportunities of children – but students like these in Cambodia are fighting to continue and finish their education. I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other.
@gitanjaliarao #STEM #WomenInScience
@unesco’s “Cracking the Code: Girls’ and Women’s Education in STEM”
MJP Foundation
Links in bio
I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator. She is a leading light in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics for children and young people across the world. Most of all for girls, who are under-represented in the sciences, and particularly in ICT, a growth area for employment in the future.
In late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired. They talked about observation, learning, perseverance, courage, and communication. Gitanjali has engaged with more than 50,000 students around the world.
In the past two years, Covid has done so much damage to the learning and opportunities of children – but students like these in Cambodia are fighting to continue and finish their education. I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other.
@gitanjaliarao #STEM #WomenInScience
@unesco’s “Cracking the Code: Girls’ and Women’s Education in STEM”
MJP Foundation
Links in bio
I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator. She is a leading light in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics for children and young people across the world. Most of all for girls, who are under-represented in the sciences, and particularly in ICT, a growth area for employment in the future.
In late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired. They talked about observation, learning, perseverance, courage, and communication. Gitanjali has engaged with more than 50,000 students around the world.
In the past two years, Covid has done so much damage to the learning and opportunities of children – but students like these in Cambodia are fighting to continue and finish their education. I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other.
@gitanjaliarao #STEM #WomenInScience
@unesco’s “Cracking the Code: Girls’ and Women’s Education in STEM”
MJP Foundation
Links in bio
I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator. She is a leading light in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics for children and young people across the world. Most of all for girls, who are under-represented in the sciences, and particularly in ICT, a growth area for employment in the future.
In late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired. They talked about observation, learning, perseverance, courage, and communication. Gitanjali has engaged with more than 50,000 students around the world.
In the past two years, Covid has done so much damage to the learning and opportunities of children – but students like these in Cambodia are fighting to continue and finish their education. I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other.
@gitanjaliarao #STEM #WomenInScience
@unesco’s “Cracking the Code: Girls’ and Women’s Education in STEM”
MJP Foundation
Links in bio
I have been working with Gitanjali Rao, fifteen-year old problem-solver and innovator. She is a leading light in promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics for children and young people across the world. Most of all for girls, who are under-represented in the sciences, and particularly in ICT, a growth area for employment in the future.
In late December 2021, students from Samlot High School, a school MJP Foundation supports, connected with Gitanjali on the other side of the world, to inspire and be inspired. They talked about observation, learning, perseverance, courage, and communication. Gitanjali has engaged with more than 50,000 students around the world.
In the past two years, Covid has done so much damage to the learning and opportunities of children – but students like these in Cambodia are fighting to continue and finish their education. I love seeing these young people meeting across languages and cultures, to encourage, support and teach each other.
@gitanjaliarao #STEM #WomenInScience
@unesco’s “Cracking the Code: Girls’ and Women’s Education in STEM”
MJP Foundation
Links in bio
A young woman in #Afghanistan sent me this letter. I’m protecting her identity, but she hasn’t been able to go back to school since the Taliban seized power. Now, with women being arrested simply for taking part in peaceful protests, she writes “I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a girl.”
This is an extract from her letter:
“I feel like women don’t have any right to speak or put their word forward. The rights of the woman are taken away from them and they are not allowed to do anything in the country. Few weeks back when the Taliban arrested 2 of the women who raised their voices in order to ask for the rights of woman and freedom, I just thought, that this is the end and I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a Girl.”
Please track what is happening in Afghanistan, where young women are being taken from their homes at night at gunpoint and disappeared, and new restrictions are being imposed on the freedom of women and girls day by day. Please help ensure they’re not forgotten.
A young woman in #Afghanistan sent me this letter. I’m protecting her identity, but she hasn’t been able to go back to school since the Taliban seized power. Now, with women being arrested simply for taking part in peaceful protests, she writes “I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a girl.”
This is an extract from her letter:
“I feel like women don’t have any right to speak or put their word forward. The rights of the woman are taken away from them and they are not allowed to do anything in the country. Few weeks back when the Taliban arrested 2 of the women who raised their voices in order to ask for the rights of woman and freedom, I just thought, that this is the end and I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a Girl.”
Please track what is happening in Afghanistan, where young women are being taken from their homes at night at gunpoint and disappeared, and new restrictions are being imposed on the freedom of women and girls day by day. Please help ensure they’re not forgotten.
A young woman in #Afghanistan sent me this letter. I’m protecting her identity, but she hasn’t been able to go back to school since the Taliban seized power. Now, with women being arrested simply for taking part in peaceful protests, she writes “I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a girl.”
This is an extract from her letter:
“I feel like women don’t have any right to speak or put their word forward. The rights of the woman are taken away from them and they are not allowed to do anything in the country. Few weeks back when the Taliban arrested 2 of the women who raised their voices in order to ask for the rights of woman and freedom, I just thought, that this is the end and I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a Girl.”
Please track what is happening in Afghanistan, where young women are being taken from their homes at night at gunpoint and disappeared, and new restrictions are being imposed on the freedom of women and girls day by day. Please help ensure they’re not forgotten.
A young woman in #Afghanistan sent me this letter. I’m protecting her identity, but she hasn’t been able to go back to school since the Taliban seized power. Now, with women being arrested simply for taking part in peaceful protests, she writes “I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a girl.”
This is an extract from her letter:
“I feel like women don’t have any right to speak or put their word forward. The rights of the woman are taken away from them and they are not allowed to do anything in the country. Few weeks back when the Taliban arrested 2 of the women who raised their voices in order to ask for the rights of woman and freedom, I just thought, that this is the end and I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a Girl.”
Please track what is happening in Afghanistan, where young women are being taken from their homes at night at gunpoint and disappeared, and new restrictions are being imposed on the freedom of women and girls day by day. Please help ensure they’re not forgotten.
A young woman in #Afghanistan sent me this letter. I’m protecting her identity, but she hasn’t been able to go back to school since the Taliban seized power. Now, with women being arrested simply for taking part in peaceful protests, she writes “I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a girl.”
This is an extract from her letter:
“I feel like women don’t have any right to speak or put their word forward. The rights of the woman are taken away from them and they are not allowed to do anything in the country. Few weeks back when the Taliban arrested 2 of the women who raised their voices in order to ask for the rights of woman and freedom, I just thought, that this is the end and I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a Girl.”
Please track what is happening in Afghanistan, where young women are being taken from their homes at night at gunpoint and disappeared, and new restrictions are being imposed on the freedom of women and girls day by day. Please help ensure they’re not forgotten.
A young woman in #Afghanistan sent me this letter. I’m protecting her identity, but she hasn’t been able to go back to school since the Taliban seized power. Now, with women being arrested simply for taking part in peaceful protests, she writes “I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a girl.”
This is an extract from her letter:
“I feel like women don’t have any right to speak or put their word forward. The rights of the woman are taken away from them and they are not allowed to do anything in the country. Few weeks back when the Taliban arrested 2 of the women who raised their voices in order to ask for the rights of woman and freedom, I just thought, that this is the end and I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a Girl.”
Please track what is happening in Afghanistan, where young women are being taken from their homes at night at gunpoint and disappeared, and new restrictions are being imposed on the freedom of women and girls day by day. Please help ensure they’re not forgotten.
A young woman in #Afghanistan sent me this letter. I’m protecting her identity, but she hasn’t been able to go back to school since the Taliban seized power. Now, with women being arrested simply for taking part in peaceful protests, she writes “I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a girl.”
This is an extract from her letter:
“I feel like women don’t have any right to speak or put their word forward. The rights of the woman are taken away from them and they are not allowed to do anything in the country. Few weeks back when the Taliban arrested 2 of the women who raised their voices in order to ask for the rights of woman and freedom, I just thought, that this is the end and I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a Girl.”
Please track what is happening in Afghanistan, where young women are being taken from their homes at night at gunpoint and disappeared, and new restrictions are being imposed on the freedom of women and girls day by day. Please help ensure they’re not forgotten.
A young woman in #Afghanistan sent me this letter. I’m protecting her identity, but she hasn’t been able to go back to school since the Taliban seized power. Now, with women being arrested simply for taking part in peaceful protests, she writes “I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a girl.”
This is an extract from her letter:
“I feel like women don’t have any right to speak or put their word forward. The rights of the woman are taken away from them and they are not allowed to do anything in the country. Few weeks back when the Taliban arrested 2 of the women who raised their voices in order to ask for the rights of woman and freedom, I just thought, that this is the end and I might never be able to go outside again or even be able to speak as I am a Girl.”
Please track what is happening in Afghanistan, where young women are being taken from their homes at night at gunpoint and disappeared, and new restrictions are being imposed on the freedom of women and girls day by day. Please help ensure they’re not forgotten.
Sending love to families at home or displaced, as we come to the end of this year. Conflicts, old and new, along with the impacts of climate change, drove a devastating rise in the number of forcibly displaced people. Many of them faced additional hardships from the pandemic and increasingly restrictive asylum laws and border policies. Hoping for leadership and solutions in 2022.
@refugees #refugee #IDP
Link in bio
Photos credits
Afghanistan: UNHCR / Andrew McConnell
Mediterranean: Espen Rasmussen / VG / VII
South Sudan: MSF / Njiiri Karago
Mauritania: UNHCR / Colin Delfosse
Yemen: UNHCR / YPN / Jihad Al-Nahari
Ethiopia: UNHCR / Petterik Wiggers
Syria: @gettyimages / Anas Alkharboutli
Please join me on January 19 for a Policy Day of Action with sponsoring Senators of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022 and the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence.
VAWA addresses domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking holistically by funding prevention, services, and training.
Since VAWA was passed in 1994, the rate of domestic violence in the U.S. has decreased by 63% and spousal homicides have decreased by 50%.
VAWA is a bipartisan bill that strengthens protections for survivors, invests in abuse prevention and in families and communities, and saves lives.
Virtual Rally (Jan 19 | 12:15pm ET)
Twitter Storm Toolkit (Jan 19 | 1:00pm ET)
Links in bio
#VAWA #VAWA4ALL
Please join me on January 19 for a Policy Day of Action with sponsoring Senators of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022 and the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence.
VAWA addresses domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking holistically by funding prevention, services, and training.
Since VAWA was passed in 1994, the rate of domestic violence in the U.S. has decreased by 63% and spousal homicides have decreased by 50%.
VAWA is a bipartisan bill that strengthens protections for survivors, invests in abuse prevention and in families and communities, and saves lives.
Virtual Rally (Jan 19 | 12:15pm ET)
Twitter Storm Toolkit (Jan 19 | 1:00pm ET)
Links in bio
#VAWA #VAWA4ALL
Please join me on January 19 for a Policy Day of Action with sponsoring Senators of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022 and the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence.
VAWA addresses domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking holistically by funding prevention, services, and training.
Since VAWA was passed in 1994, the rate of domestic violence in the U.S. has decreased by 63% and spousal homicides have decreased by 50%.
VAWA is a bipartisan bill that strengthens protections for survivors, invests in abuse prevention and in families and communities, and saves lives.
Virtual Rally (Jan 19 | 12:15pm ET)
Twitter Storm Toolkit (Jan 19 | 1:00pm ET)
Links in bio
#VAWA #VAWA4ALL
Please join me on January 19 for a Policy Day of Action with sponsoring Senators of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022 and the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence.
VAWA addresses domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking holistically by funding prevention, services, and training.
Since VAWA was passed in 1994, the rate of domestic violence in the U.S. has decreased by 63% and spousal homicides have decreased by 50%.
VAWA is a bipartisan bill that strengthens protections for survivors, invests in abuse prevention and in families and communities, and saves lives.
Virtual Rally (Jan 19 | 12:15pm ET)
Twitter Storm Toolkit (Jan 19 | 1:00pm ET)
Links in bio
#VAWA #VAWA4ALL
Please join me on January 19 for a Policy Day of Action with sponsoring Senators of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2022 and the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence.
VAWA addresses domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking holistically by funding prevention, services, and training.
Since VAWA was passed in 1994, the rate of domestic violence in the U.S. has decreased by 63% and spousal homicides have decreased by 50%.
VAWA is a bipartisan bill that strengthens protections for survivors, invests in abuse prevention and in families and communities, and saves lives.
Virtual Rally (Jan 19 | 12:15pm ET)
Twitter Storm Toolkit (Jan 19 | 1:00pm ET)
Links in bio
#VAWA #VAWA4ALL
