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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Sep 17

"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...

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.

www.amnestyusa.org

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Aug 29

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 · Aug 22

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 · Aug 4

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 · Jul 20

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 · Jul 18

Lessons the U.S. Can Learn From Mexico

Feminist activism plays a long game; gains are sown not over years, but decades. "You have to stay in the fight, even when it seems hard." Women in Mexico found a way to work across political party lines. Can we? #genderequality
msmagazine.com/2025/07/16/j...

'Feminist Activism Plays a Long Game': Jennifer M. Piscopo on the Lessons the U.S. Can Learn from Mexico

The professor and researcher has watched gender quotas transform the political landscape in Mexico over the last two decades. Here's what she thinks feminists in the U.S. can learn from their example....

msmagazine.com

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Jun 2

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.

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#womensrightsarehumanrights #genderequality #bipocvoices #intersectionalfeminism

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · May 23

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

The United States, Autocracy and the World

Where do we go from here – as a race?

thewire.in

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · May 13

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 · May 6

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

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...

www.hrw.org

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Apr 21

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

Dr. Sophia Yen on Teenage Pregnancy

YouTube video by HerRights Global

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Apr 17

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

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...

msmagazine.com

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Apr 11

HerRights Founder Tanu Ghosh sits in with Angela Ghayour, Afghan educator and advocate for women's rights, who shares her passion for girls' education at a risk to her life.
#WomansRightsareHumanRights
#GenderEquality

youtu.be/kh4_kVyK_1Y

On women and education: Angela Ghayour speaks with HerRights founder Tanu Ghosh March 2025

YouTube video by HerRights Global

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Mar 16

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

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

t2m.io

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Mar 15

Thousands attend women’s rights march in Brussels this month

youtu.be/AVKSb7swd0Q

#womensrights #genderequity #womensrightsarehumanrights #womenshealth #resist

Thousands attend women's rights march in Brussels

YouTube video by AP Archive

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Mar 6

Blocked: 15-week abortion ban; #AbortionRights permanently enshrined into Arizona's state constitution. reproductiverights.org/arizona-15-w...
#womenshealth #womensrights #womensrightsarehumanrights

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.

reproductiverights.org

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Jan 29

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 · Jan 23

“Loss of a giant in the fight for reproductive freedom”

#ReproRights #WomensHealth

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/...

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...

amp.cnn.com

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Jan 22

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...

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.

www.usatoday.com

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Jan 20

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 · Jan 20

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

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.

msmagazine.com

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Jan 18

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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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Jan 17

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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Reposted by HerRights Global

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jan 17

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.

Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit From a TikTok Ban

www.nytimes.com

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HerRights Global @herrights.org · Dec 1

Texas teen suffering miscarriage dies days after baby shower due to abortion ban #WomensHealth #reprorights #WomensRightsAreHumanRights #sepsis #CouldHaveBeenPrevented

people.com/texas-teen-s...

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...

people.com

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