Women's rights associate director, Human Rights Watch. Alaskan in Cape Town. Queen of typos.
Heather Barr
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When do we do something about the billionaire death cult.
Women in the United States already face real health consequences, includingpreventable deaths, due to abortion care being denied or delayed. Ending telehealth provision would greatly worsen this crisis. www.hrw.org/news/2026/05...
On April 23, it was 1,677 days. It will be more when you read this.
That’s the number of days girls in Afghanistan have been banned, by Taliban, from study beyond 6th grade. There is an opportunity right now for every country to do something about this. www.moretoherstory.com/stories/a-de...
Gender stereotypes pervade every society, and cause enormous harm to everyone--women and girls, men and boys, and anyone who does not neatly fit into binary gender identities. A new UN effort is pushing government to do more to dismantle stereotypes.
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Neljä ja puoli vuotta.
Se on aika, jolloin tytöt Afganistanissa eivät ole saaneet käydä koulua kuudennen luokan jälkeen. 💔
At least 37 attorneys general for US states and territories are taking action against xAI after Grok generated a flood of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors.
"But former staffers, many of whom are independently continuing the institute’s international work, said they planned to protest what they called the theft of the building on Thursday, during the signing ceremony that will be hosted by Mr. Trump." #USIP via @heatherbarr.bsky.social (over there...)
Nepal has a proud history of protecting the rights of LGBT people. Now access to legal gender recognition has stalled.
The new government should put procedures in place to ensure that all people can have identity documents that correspond to their gender identity.
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Women in Argentina Face Rising Violence
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Saw The Running Man tonight. It’s based on a 1982 book that envisions reality TV producers taking over the US and sending their masked goons to terrorize American cities—which probably sounded implausible at the time.
Gender stereotypes are such a pervasive part of everyday life that it can be hard to even recognize them—but they do extraordinary damage and are at the root of many forms of inequality and violence.
