Alexandra Insinga

International criminal lawyer specializing in investigating and prosecuting SGBV & crimes against children. JRR Rostered Expert. Views my own RT ≠ endorsements

[Valeria Babără @babaravaleria]

The🧵below features just highlights but if you’re looking to learn more about reproductive violence, I highly recommend watching the full conference (for which I had high expectations & they were all exceeded) here:
💡1/2: https://t.co/WpaCasDHPn
💡2/2: https://t.co/GEXrkp7Q7P

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

@heatherbarr1 @salagendra @akila_rad @SLPJustice @GlobalJusticeC @LaurenAarons1 @Veroaubert @SaveUKNews @SavetheChildren @nic_waldman @cecile_aptel @alex_saieh @keyan_salarkia @AshleyJordana1 @GriffithsH_ @Ali_Insinga @BedeOnKidRights @jobeckerhrw @FedeTronchin Link to the report: https://t.co/BqY2LIHwag

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

are likely to have farther-reaching consequences on their ability to access their rights and on their overall development."

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

Para 66: "Like adults, children experienced distinct harms–based on their gender, age, ethnicity, religion, among other identifiers. However, children’s exposure to institutionalized systems of oppression, and the harms committed in service of maintaining such a system..

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

Boys, raised in a governance structure that legitimizes dehumanization of women & girls, + suffering from a deficit of educational & economic opportunities, are left vulnerable to abuse & radicalization, sowing seeds for security concerns extending beyond Afghanistan’s borders."

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

Para 65: "Children risk experiencing human rights abuses throughout childhood w/ profound physical and psychological implications. This is esp true for girls, given that they are being denied equal access to education and are consequently at a heightened risk of other abuses..

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

What conception of the world, and of themselves, do girls have when they have no memories of women thriving independently from men? And what type of men do boys, raised within an institutionalized regime which has systematically disempowered women and girls, grow into?

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

Para. 51 @SR_Afghanistan: "What will be the effect–on all Afghans, but particularly on girls and boys–of the erasure of strong female role models outside of the home?...

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

"The transgenerational impact.. will be immense and enduring. The Taliban’s institutionalized gender oppression is depriving #Afghanistan of its future women engineers, journalists, lawyers, biologists, politicians, and poets... a profound and mounting loss to an entire nation."

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

He warns the denial of access to education increases risks of forced marriages and debt bondage, particularly for families under financial pressure. Coerced conjugal relationships " may also entail other violations, including rape, torture, forced pregnancy and forced labour."

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

Starting with the denial of access to #education, @SR_Afghanistan states, " has a pernicious effect, curtailing the acquisition of earning power, key to women’s personal empowerment, their independence within their families, and their very survival."

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

For those focussed on abuses and crimes against and directly affecting #children, @SR_Afghanistan report's intersectional approach illuminated profound harms, visible and obscured to both Afghan girls and boys - and the transgenerational impacts that will affect us all.

[Sareta Ashraph @SaretaAshraph]

The report of @SR_Afghanistan on "The phenomenon of an institutionalized system of discrimination, segregation, disrespect for human dignity and exclusion of women and girls" is now out!

Available in all UN languages, with Dari & Pashto forthcoming

https://t.co/U7kRNH0abZ

[Alexandra Insinga @Ali_Insinga]

One of the (many) fantastic and thought provoking conversations at yesterday’s @4GenderJustice conference on Reproductive Violence in ICL. @akila_rad and @VOosterveld shared valuable insights on the negotiations for the Crimes Against Humanity Convention.

[Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) @LegalActionWW]

Happening now in the #Hague: Exploring #gender dimensions of international criminal law with more than 100 #HumanRights and #humanitarian law practitioners, survivors, academics, activists. This is how change starts.
#legalreality #genderandICL #genderjustice

[Nushin Sarkarati @NushinSarkarati]

It is the honor of my life to get to work on the #EndGenderApartheid Campaign with Afghan + Iranian Women. Read about the legal brief penned by @SaretaAshraph @SLPJustice + @akilaGJC pushing for recognition of #genderapartheid as a Crime Against Humanity 👇

[Alexandra Insinga @Ali_Insinga]

@natianavrouzov @ColumbiaLaw @Columbia Congratulations!!

[Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice @StateDept_GCJ]

President Biden signed into law the historic “Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act” giving DOJ jurisdiction to prosecute persons present in the U.S. for war crimes committed anywhere, regardless of the nationality of alleged perpetrator or victim. 1/2 https://t.co/eyOF7l1p7I

[US Holocaust Museum @HolocaustMuseum]

Ben Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, will receive the Congressional Gold Medal, its highest honor of appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions. Ben, who secured convictions against 22 Nazis, is now 102. https://t.co/8RKBiujCmT

[Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice @StateDept_GCJ]

Congratulations to @BenFerencz for receiving the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of his service to the U.S. and international community during the post-World War II Nuremberg trials and lifelong advocacy for international criminal justice and rule of law.