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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · 6d

UN Rights Council Creates Afghanistan Accountability Body - a victory for human rights defenders who have fought for this. www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

UN Rights Council Creates Afghanistan Accountability Body

The United Nations Human Rights Council on October 6, 2025, adopted a landmark resolution creating an independent mechanism to investigate past and ongoing rights abuses in Afghanistan.

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Aug 6

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem- sexual assaults/misconduct reported EVERY 8 MINUTES www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Jul 31

Important editorial from @theguardian.com on the inhumanity of forced deportations to Afghanistan. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on the other Afghan scandal: countries are forcing refugees back to Taliban rule | Editorial

Editorial: The British government’s secret scheme to bring those at risk to the UK has dominated headlines, but, worldwide, many times more are losing protection

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Jul 8

The International Criminal Court just issued warrants for 2 top Taliban leaders for persecution of women & girls. The warrant is sealed, but I wrote about the details of the prosecutor's requests for @aanafgh.bsky.social in January. www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/r...

Reigniting the Flames of Justice: ICC seeks arrest of the Islamic Emirate's Supreme Leader and Chief Justice

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has requested arrest warrants for two of the most senior leaders of the Islamic Emirate. Khan said that there were “reasonable grounds” ...

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Jun 16

My latest report, on the state of the Afghan human rights movement, which is still finding ways to resist, despite brutal repression: www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/themed-re...

Manoeuvring Through the Cracks: The Afghan human rights movement under the Islamic Emirate

The end of the Islamic Republic was a catastrophe for Afghanistan’s human rights movement, with nearly all human rights defenders thrown into exile, fearing for their lives. The Islamic Emirate of Afg...

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Afghanistan Analysts Network @aanafgh.bsky.social · Jun 15

Despite IEA’s severe restrictions, Afghan human rights defenders persist.Many work from exile and a new wave of women's rights activists has emerged in #Afghanistan. @rachelreid.bsky.social has been speaking to human rights defenders about adaptation and survival in the new era. bit.ly/4kRiSOX

Manoeuvring Through the Cracks: The Afghan human rights movement under the Islamic Emirate

The end of the Islamic Republic was a catastrophe for Afghanistan’s human rights movement, with nearly all human rights defenders thrown into exile, fearing for their lives. The Islamic Emirate of Afg...

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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · Jun 5

NEW: 3 in 5 Brits would support sanctions on Israel, to exert pressure on it to stop its attacks on Gaza

65% would support a COMPLETE arms sales ban to Israel. And 60% would support an end to the trade deal between the UK and Israel.

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Two thirds of Brits want Keir Starmer to end arms sales to Israel, poll shows

Polling by campaign group Global Justice Now found 65% if voters support an arm sales ban until attacks on Gaza end, with just 11% opposing the move

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Jun 3

Out now: the brilliant Candace Rondeaux’s new book on Putin’s Sledgehammer, the Wagner Group. www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Will Putin be toppled by a military coup?

In Putin’s Sledgehammer, Candace Rondeaux gives a detailed account of the 2023 mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin. Could rising discontent in the ranks lead to more trouble for the Kremlin?

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Jun 2

Annoyed by google’s unbidden Ai results? Put -ai at the end of your search.

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · May 23

Microsoft pulled the plug on its tech to the International Criminal Court - a stark lesson to civil society to ween itself off US tech, while it can. www.thedissident.news/internationa...

International Civil Society's Tech Stack is in Extreme Danger

Many in the international community are not ready for the US to abuse its hegemonic power in ways that directly destroy the ability for international NGO's and even liberal democratic governments to f...

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · May 12

More chilling revelations of war crimes by British special forces - now implicating the SBS as well as SAS. A veteran tells the BBC their actions could be "barbaric". Watch Panorama on the BBC iplayer, story here, important journalism: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Children handcuffed and shot' - ex-UK Special Forces break silence on war crime claims

Veterans who served with the SAS and SBS give BBC Panorama eyewitness accounts of alleged executions.

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Apr 28

The infamous Haji Zaher Qadir has finally fallen, caught (or entrapped?) by the exceptionally long arms of the US ‘war on drugs’. www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/p...

Losing His Immunity: Former Afghan MP Haji Zaher extradited to US on drug charges

Kenya is extraditing the Afghan commander and politician, Haji Abdul Zaher Qadir, to the United States, after arresting him at a hotel in Nairobi. The US has charged Haji Zaher with drug and weapons t...

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · Mar 1

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Heather Barr @heatherbarr.bsky.social · Feb 28

“The percentage of Republican men who agree that women should return to their traditional roles increased from 28 percent in May 2022 to 48 percent in November 2024. Among Republican women, there was an increase from 23 percent to 37 percent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...

Opinion | Republican Men and Women Are Changing Their Minds About How Women Should Behave

The men and women of the G.O.P. are changing their minds about how men and women should behave.

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Feb 27

(silent scream)

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Feb 16

Moving tale of one teacher's attempts to keep teaching under the #Taliban #girlseducation #Afghanistan

Afghanistan Analysts Network @aanafgh.bsky.social · Feb 16

The Daily Hustle hears from a young woman who we last heard from in June 2023 when she was running a home school for girls in her village. Now, a year and half later, she has been ordered to close it.#GirlsEducation #Afghanistan bit.ly/433DtcZ

The Daily Hustle: A home school for girls is shut down

Taliban close a local NGO-supported home-based or community-based schools for girls in souther Afghanistan.

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Feb 10

Meanwhile, over in #Gilead, Donald Trump creates a Faith Office.

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Feb 7

I wish this wasn’t quite so good.

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Feb 7

I keep wondering if we need a new word. Perhaps not. By @rubenbolling.bsky.social

Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Feb 7

Ahh I’d love to listen in, wrong time zone, will you share a recording afterwards? Thank you

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Omar Baddar @omarbaddar.bsky.social · Feb 5

While everything Trump says & does is extreme, what he just proposed on Gaza is unquestionably the most deranged and grotesque policy he's unveiled in his entire presidency across both terms.

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Feb 5

It’s the combination of ethnic cleansing with dollar signs in his eyes for those “great beaches”that is so terrifying and dehumanising. #Gaza

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 5

Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit

President’s plan, which is low on detail, would involve the permanent resettlement of Palestinians from Gaza to neighbouring countries * Trump announce plan to take over Gaza - live updates Donald Trump has vowed that US would “take over” war…

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Feb 5

On Trump’s ethnic cleansing-real estate Gaza plan, Palestinian UN envoy: “For those who want to send the Palestinian people to a ‘nice place’, allow them to go back to their original homes in what is now Israel…the Palestinian people want to rebuild Gaza because this is where we belong.”

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · Feb 4

This is ethnic cleansing.

Live Updates: Trump Says Palestinians Have ‘No Alternative’ but to Leave Gaza www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Trump Says Palestinians Have ‘No Alternative’ but to Leave Gaza: Live Updates

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Rachel Reid @rachelreid.bsky.social · Jan 31

Admirable honesty from Labour's Clive Lewis about government u-turns on green priorities. @labourlewis.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic | Clive Lewis

The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people, says Labour MP Clive Lewis

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