🗣️ #WPSWednesday “ The world needs to finally move the conversation to those who are qualified to speak for themselves.” Annie Pforzheimer & Mursal Kabir @ipinst.bsky.social: theglobalobservatory.org/2026/10/desi...
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@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday “ The world needs to finally move the conversation to those who are qualified to speak for themselves.” Annie Pforzheimer & Mursal Kabir @ipinst.bsky.social: theglobalobservatory.org/2026/10/desi...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday “The conversations at the ICAN Forum made that question even more visible to me. Women working in very different contexts described complex strategies for keeping people safe, maintaining relationships & creating room for peace.” www.mensenmeteenmissie.nl/en/ruby-khol...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday “We need a secretary-general who will lead us into the future that this next generation is going to live in.” Damilola Banjo @passblue.bsky.social: passblue.com/2026/10/05/w...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday “The Taliban "specifically targeted girls & women by reason of their gender”, Felix Tamsut: www.dw.com/en/icc-unsea...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday “The loss is both practical & moral. In many conflicts, women have political networks that men do not. They can connect #humanitarian actors with communities & act as bridges & brokers who can link local leaders with national processes.” Cristal Donwing: time.com/article/2026...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: #WASL partner “Allamin Foundation mobilises 200 Borno community leaders to prevent violent extremism, promote peace”, Sadiq Abubakar, National Accord Newspaper: nationalaccordnewspaper.com/allamin-foun...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Women are not victims. On the contrary: all over the world, even in the harshest & most violent environments, women continue to lead, organise, mediate, & document violations.” UN High Commissioner Volker Türk at ICAN’s #SecurityReimagined: news.un.org/en/story/202...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “For 3 years, Nisreen Touman has gone to bed every night in tears, remembering all she has lost since the start of Israel’s war on #Gaza in October 2023”, Maram Humaid @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social: www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Let this anniversary mark not only another year of mourning, but also a renewed determination to build a different future.” Antonio Gutterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations: press.un.org/en/2026/sgsm...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Repeated delays in bringing life-saving medicines, prosthetics & other supplies from Israel into #Gaza risk having devastating consequences for #Palestinians who urgently need them.” @aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #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...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #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...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “I thought we would never be able to choose the way we want to dress, but the movement created massive cultural change & a more progressive identity that can never be taken away now.” Maziar Motamedi, @aljazeera.com Jazeera: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/9/...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Abraham & her family spent the entire night lying on the ground, gripped by fear & enduring mosquito bites. The next morning, she trekked with her children to Kafi Koro in search of safety.” David Arome, More to Her Story: www.moretoherstory.com/stories/life...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #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
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@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #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...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #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/...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “Peacebuilding is not pacifism. It does not deny the existence of aggression or the need for defence.” @sanambna.bsky.social on #PeaceDay, Robert Bosch Stiftung: bosch-stiftung.de/en/story/int...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “I was a child the first time the Taliban told me I did not belong in a classroom. I am an adult now, & they have told me the same thing twice.” Middle East Uncovered: www.themiddleeastuncovered.com/p/five-years...
@whatthewomensay.bsky.social🗣️ #WPSWednesday: “There is a pattern to who bears the greatest burden of a crisis like this. When a household is plunged into extreme poverty, it is usually the women & girls who eat last.” More To Her Story: moretoherstory.substack.com/p/somalias-w...