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Animal devotee, Twitter refugee, social justice activist, comedy buff, Photoshop savant. Useless banter & shameless commentary, lightly seasoned with unpopular opinion. Delicious! RACISM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS. she/her/ella

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 23/11/2025
40% of all U.S. births are to unmarried women and births to unmarried women aged 30 and up have increased by 140% in the last two decades. The narrative of single motherhood is changing. www.npr.org/2025/11/17/n... #ReproRights #GenderEquality #ReproductiveRights #WomensHealth
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How women over 30 are rewriting the single mom narrative in America
Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 12/11/2025
Why Won’t the U.S. Stop Child Marriage? A majority of Americans assume #childmarriage is illegal in the U.S. but in fact, it's prevalent here and LEGAL IN 34 STATES. Lack of a strong legal framework to prevent it in the U.S. contributes to its prevalence. msmagazine.com/2025/11/11/u...
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Fck Vwls @vwls.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
#womenofafghanistan #GenderApartheid #StoptheMadness
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 17/09/2025
"How do you describe something that feels like the slow suffocation of your people? Perhaps one way is that in Afghanistan, the #Taliban has criminalized womanhood itself. #womensrightsarehumanrights #AfghanWomen www.amnestyusa.org/blog/after-4...
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After 4 Years of Taliban Rule, The U.S. Must Take Steps to Be in Solidarity with the Women of Afghanistan
After four years of Taliban control, the Security Council is meeting on Afghanistan, and there is still no clear U.S. policy.
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 29/08/2025
The data is in. Children of working mothers thrive! A Harvard led study across 24 countries found that daughters of working moms are 29% more likely to hold leadership roles + earn more. #HerRightsareHumanRights #genderequity #WomensRights www.hbs.edu/news/releases/Pages/having-working-mother.aspx
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 22/08/2025
Current access to reproductive health resources across the US as of July 2025: nearly 40% of the population is still without access to fundamental health services. The fight is not over. Sources: Center for Reproductive Rights; Guttmacher Institute; KFF; UCLA Law.
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 04/08/2025
Proud to share that our Founder and Board Chair has been selected as a 2025 @takeleadwomen Power Tool Champion (Power Tool #6 - The Truth Seeker), an acknowledgment of her hard work developing and supporting programs that elevate women and girls. #genderequity #Leadership
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 20/07/2025
Great day yesterday at the TLI Booth at SCC's Spirit of Hope Summer Community Event. We were so excited to socialize The LeaderHerShip Initiative through @HerRightsglobal, meet new partners, and collect applications from future TLI grads! #leadership #girlsarethefuture
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 02/06/2025
More than 500 Black feminists will convene in New Orleans from June 5 through 7 for what organizers are calling the largest Black feminist gathering in the U.S. lnkd.in/gkQBGiPd #womensrightsarehumanrights #genderequality #bipocvoices #intersectionalfeminism
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 23/05/2025
Article from HerRights founder, Dr. Tanushree (Tanu) Ghosh, @thoughtsrightsnimages) encapsulating the state of the union under the current Administration, and explaining why those in other nations should take note. thewire.in/world/the-un... #FarewelltoDemocracy #world #democracy
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The United States, Autocracy and the World
Where do we go from here – as a race?
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 13/05/2025
This month, HerRights held a workshopping & networking event focused on strategic solutions for gender equality. If you’d like to weigh in on the topics we explored, read this UN Report: t2m.io/AZ487bgk - find us at www.herrights.org #GenderEquality #WomansRightsareHumanRights #GiveGirlsaChance
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 06/05/2025
Islamist org rallies in Bangladesh to protest govt reforms that support gender equality and women’s rights. The protesters claim that “men and women can never be equal." www.hrw.org/news/2025/05... #womensrightsarehumanrights #globalfightforgenderequality #genderequality
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Bangladeshi Women’s Rights Opposed by Hardline Religious Groups
On Saturday, nearly 20,000 supporters of the Islamist organization Hefazat-e-Islam rallied in the streets of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, to protest, among other issues, proposed government reforms to...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 21/04/2025
HerRights in conversation on the risk of teenage pregnancy with Sophia Yen, MD, Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer of Pandia Health, and specialist reproductive health. youtu.be/iOPCzidn0J4?... #reprorights #womenshealth #genderrights #womensrights #genderequity
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Dr. Sophia Yen on Teenage Pregnancy
YouTube video by HerRights Global
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 17/04/2025
While other countries sound the alarm on femicide, the U.S. continues to ignore its own deadly epidemic of gender-based violence. msmagazine.com/2025/04/17/u... #genderequality #genderviolence #femicide #womensrightsarehumanrights
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Thousands of U.S. Women Are Killed Each Year. Where’s the Outrage?
A spate of 11 femicides in Italy so far this year is making global headlines and prompting calls for “cultural rebellion.”  Yet femicide is far worse in the U.S., claiming thousands of lives a year, a...
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Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The Trump administration has threatened to block Harvard University from enrolling international students unless the school hands over detailed information about the student body, in yet another escalation of the government’s fight against higher education. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
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Trump Threatens to Block International Students Unless Harvard Shares Student Data
The demand from the Department of Homeland Security is an escalation in President Trump’s fight against Harvard, the country’s oldest and richest university.
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 29/01/2025
Child marriage is a profound manifestation of inequality & gender-based violence. Did you know only 13 U.S. states have banned child marriage? Around the world, millions of girls are impacted. Join us in calling for global action to end this human rights violation. www.herrights.org/projects#:~:...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 16/03/2025
Women Leaders of Excellence It's #WomensHistoryMonth and we are sharing posts that highlight women who have changed the world. t2m.io/T9qOqKVt #womensrights #genderequity #womensrightsarehumanrights #womenleaders
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Celebrating 12 U.S. and Montenegrin Women Leaders Who Demonstrated Excellence
March is Women’s History Month in the USA, a time to recognize the significant contributions of women who have left a lasting impact on society. In honor
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 15/03/2025
Thousands attend women’s rights march in Brussels this month youtu.be/AVKSb7swd0Q #womensrights #genderequity #womensrightsarehumanrights #womenshealth #resist
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Thousands attend women's rights march in Brussels
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 06/03/2025
Blocked: 15-week abortion ban; #AbortionRights permanently enshrined into Arizona's state constitution. reproductiverights.org/arizona-15-w... #womenshealth #womensrights #womensrightsarehumanrights
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Arizona Judge Permanently Blocks State’s 15-Week Abortion Ban, Declaring it Unconstitutional | Center for Reproductive Rights
Ban violates 2024 voter-approved amendment protecting abortion rights. Ban violates 2024 voter-approved amendment protecting abortion rights.
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 23/01/2025
“Loss of a giant in the fight for reproductive freedom” #ReproRights #WomensHealth amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/...
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Cecile Richards, former Planned Parenthood president, has died | CNN
Cecile Richards, a women’s rights crusader who served as president of Planned Parenthood as the nation approached a critical inflection point over reproductive freedom, has died, her family said Monda...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 22/01/2025
The current administration pulled the plug on reproductiverights.gov, removing info on access to care, insurance, birth control, abortion care, breast & cervical cancer screenings, prenatal care, and HIV screenings. #WomensHealth #GenderRights #ReproductiveHealthcare www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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US government website offering resources on abortion, reproductive rights goes offline
Reproductiverights.gov, which was launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2022, was offline Tuesday morning.
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 20/01/2025
Are Women’s Rights the Canary in the Coal Mine of a Democracy in Decline? POV: U.S. democracy has been failing women, as it has been designed to, since the nation’s founding. msmagazine.com/2023/05/15/d... #womensrightsarehumanrights #womenandgirls #GenderEquity #TheFightContinues
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Are Women's Rights the Canary in the Coal Mine of a Democracy in Decline? - Ms. Magazine
Reproductive rights, women's rights, voting rights and abortion access are on the decline—but the are essential to a healthy U.S. democracy.
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 20/01/2025
Unpaid care and domestic work should be a shared responsibility. Yet globally, women spend over 2.5 times more hours per day on unpaid care work than men. Let’s #sharethecare at home. From @UN_Women Learn more: unwo.men/Lhyo50UJxJF
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 18/01/2025
Trends of de-democratization are eroding gender equality & threats to previous policy achievements. This paper discusses backsliding on gender policies, and the emerging political space for response. Where are we and what can we do to help? #genderequity www.unwomen.org/en/digital-l...
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Fck Vwls @vwls.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 17/01/2025
HerRights is ramping up to focus on BlueSky more heavily pending the closure of TikTok. Stay tuned and tell a friend!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17/01/2025
Meta, which owns Instagram, and Google, which owns YouTube, have remained relatively quiet in public on what may happen if TikTok is banished from the U.S., but they have been active behind the scenes.
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Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit From a TikTok Ban
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 01/12/2024
Texas teen suffering miscarriage dies days after baby shower due to abortion ban #WomensHealth #reprorights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #sepsis #CouldHaveBeenPrevented people.com/texas-teen-s...
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Texas Teen Suffering Miscarriage Dies Days After Baby Shower Due to Abortion Ban as Mom Begs Doctors to 'Do Something'
Nevaeh Crain, 18, died after three emergency room visits without proper medical care during a miscarriage. The teen was six months pregnant and doctors said they couldn’t intervene until confirming “f...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 02/10/2024
Girls’ meaningful involvement in decision-making processes is key to addressing most of our global crises. We urge world leaders to #LetGirlsLead the world to a more equitable and sustainable future. #EmpowerinGirls
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 01/10/2024
In a ruling issued on Monday, Judge Robert McBurney said Georgia’s Living Infants Fairness and Equality Act, or LIFE Act, infringes on a woman’s state constitutional rights. #reprorights #womenshealth #genderequity #abortion www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
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Georgia Judge strikes down state ban on abortions past 6 weeks into pregnancy
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney wrote in his order that the law violates Georgia's Constitution, finding that “liberty in Georgia includes in its meaning, in its protections, and in...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 15/09/2024
Why does the oppression of #AfghanWomen not receive more attention and condemnation globally? Why is there a lack of serious global interest in recognizing the #GenderApartheid unfolding in #Afghanistan? #genderoppression #womensrights Read more: rukhshana.com/en/three-yea...
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Three years of gender apartheid and the pathology of the disappearance of human rights for women – Rukhshana Media
Women in Afghanistan are enduring a situation unlike anything seen in countries around the world.
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 14/09/2024
A North Dakota judge struck down a near-total ban on #abortion Thursday, saying the state constitution gives women a “fundamental right to choose” before fetal viability and that restrictions are “a violation on #medicalfreedom.” #womenshealth www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
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Judge overturns North Dakota’s near-total abortion ban
The ban was the state’s second attempt to block the procedure. But the judge ruled the state constitution gives women a “fundamental right to choose abortion.”
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 18/08/2024
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 06/08/2024
A new report shares stories from individuals across the country who have been harmed by restrictive laws and practices in their states, putting a human face on the multitude of problems that occur when we are denied the right to #abortion. #womensrights www.amnesty.org.au/abortion-ban...
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USA: Abortion bans and restrictions cause extensive harm, violate human rights
By denying and restricting access to abortion to millions of people since the overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 with
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 30/07/2024
The law in Iowa and other restrictions across the country will be a focus of the 2024 election as the attack on women’s rights continues. #reproductiverights #womenshealth #genderequity Four states have now banned abortion after about 6 weeks of pregnancy. www.azfamily.com/2024/07/29/i...
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Iowa bans most abortions after about 6 weeks, before many women know they’re pregnant
Iowa’s strict abortion law went into effect Monday, immediately prohibiting most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant.
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 16/07/2024
A good read: This article explores the critical need for federal and state Equal Rights Amendments (#ERAs). These amendments would strengthen #reproductiverights protections by grounding them in #equality rather than privacy. Check it out: t2m.io/AMARsbwa
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Defending Women's Rights: The Urgent Need for Equal Rights Amendments
The Dobbs decision and recent legal actions in Arizona, such as the temporary reinstatement and subsequent reversal of a pre-1901 restrictive abortion law, have severely disrupted women's access to re...
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Fck Vwls @vwls.bsky.social · 14/07/2024
🤷‍♀️ I quit watching the saga of the supposed attempted assassination of tRump after episode 1 😂
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 20/06/2024
We're facing a #healthcare #crisis since #Roe was overturned. Social platforms are removing posts, making it harder to find accurate info online and increasing #stigma & fear. Yet the fact remains: #abortion is a safe and normal part of healthcare. #reprorights www.amnestyusa.org/press-releas...
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Two Years Post-Roe, U.S. Continues Backsliding on Abortion, Depriving Millions of Human Rights
Abortion is a human right and a vital part of health care. All pregnant people, no matter who they are or where they live, must have the freedom to make their own healthcare decisions, including wheth...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 05/04/2024
Join @herrights.org partner, Worldly Women Collective & Global Ties Arizona for a dialogue and networking event focused on the protection of women & children in the judicial system: Apr 16th, 5:30 pm Learn more & register here: www.globaltiesarizona.org/gtaz-events/... #WomensRightsAreHumanRights
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 19/03/2024
This #WomensHistoryMonth, let's think about the ways women can continue to lead and take charge in our communities. Join @herrights.org and When We All Vote: - Register to vote at whenweallvote.org/register - Text or DM 3 friends and ask them to check their voter registration!
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 08/03/2024
It’s Mar 8, #InternationalWomensDay, and @herrights.org invites you to imagine a #genderequal world free of bias, stereotypes & discrimination. A world that's diverse, equitable & #inclusive. A world where difference is valued and celebrated. Together we CAN get there! www.internationalwomensday.com
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 02/03/2024
March is #WomensHistoryMonth! No more silence. No more impunity. No more oppression. No more harassment. No more discrimination. No more marginalization. We owe it to the women who fought for #GenderEquality to carry on the torch and work for an equal future.
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 09/02/2024
In #Afghanistan, #womensrights are blatantly violated; their overall development is hindered by violence against them, a cause for deep concern and action. #afghanwomen #endviolenceagainstwomen www.eurasiareview.com/08022024-sys...
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Systemic Oppression: The Taliban’s Assault On Afghan Women’s Rights – OpEd
Afghanistan’s current state of affairs poses many complications for women, especially in the areas of politics and society. Women’s rights are blatantly violated, and their overall development is...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 26/01/2024
Further evidence that #reprorights impact ALL of us. This research suggests that policies restricting #abortionaccess are impacting #mentalhealth at a population level. #womenshealth #reproductivehealth #reproductiverights #genderequity #mentalhealthmatters www.forbesafrica.com/current-affa...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 06/01/2024
New York Governor Kathy Hochul proposed offering pregnant women 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments, which would make NY the first state in the U.S. to offer such benefits. #womenshealth #diversityequityinclusion #genderequality in-cyprus.philenews.com/internationa...
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New York could be first state to offer prenatal paid leave to mothers
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Thursday proposed offering pregnant women 40 hours of paid leave to attend prenatal medical appointments, which she said would make New York the first state in the U....
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No Context Cats @nocontextcats.bsky.social · 17/12/2023
Airplane mode
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Fck Vwls @vwls.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
Zeus the Pug watching Fiddler on the Roof with his human (he was very interested in the movie!)
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 10/12/2023
Read the ERA Coalition’s letter to Biden, urging his administration to take immediate action to put an end to #sexdiscrimination by enshrining the Equal Rights Amendment into the US Constitution. #genderequality www.equalitynow.org/news_and_ins...
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84 Organizations Urge Immediate US Government Action to End Sex Discrimination   - Equality Now
Following the favorable adoption of our recommendations by the United Nations Human Rights Committee in November of 2023, during the fifth periodic review of the United States, the ERA Coalition and i...
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HerRights Global @herrights.org · 06/12/2023
Achieving #GenderEquality is not possible without addressing #GenderBasedViolence, a human rights abuse that keeps women and girls from fully and safely participating in social, economic, and political life. #genderequality #genderbasedviolence #womenandgirls mn.usembassy.gov/120623-amb-o...
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