WomenOnTheFrontLine

Women on the Front Line advocates full rights and gender equality of women

[NPR @NPR]

It's been a year since Saudi women's rights activist Loujain Alhathloul was detained and arrested.

Her siblings, Lina and Walid, say the biggest danger is that international interest in her case will drop off. https://t.co/OEFYjRaPrr

[The Whig-Standard @WhigStandard]

Rape a weapon of war and persecution https://t.co/ALL80wY2da

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The meticulous detail of Linda Grant’s observations lends credibility to her dystopian leaps https://t.co/qAKLTcxHKI

[Rep. Dan Crenshaw @RepDanCrenshaw]

We must remember and honor the lives lost in the #ArmenianGenocide. I’m working with my colleagues in Congress to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide in hopes that we continue to educate people and prevent another horrific tragedy like this one.

https://t.co/vysOHEhWAS

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

My year of reading fiction by African women. https://t.co/kkcMp4ya6Y

[sister-hood @sister_hood_mag]

Where a woman or girl is injured, her life-chances change dramatically. https://t.co/z0wGODJLTO

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

The tyrants of all stripes, infernal servants, have deep-seated hatred for the nomads - they persecute the Gypsies and the Jews, and force all free peoples to settle. ― Olga Tokarczuk

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

"Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging." — Jhumpa Lahiri

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

"I don't want to live in a world where my sons and other decent people are held responsible for criminal, immoral or inhumane acts as other people just because they come from the same geographic area."
— Joumana Haddad

[Alireza Nader علیرضا نادر @AlirezaNader]

Vida Movahed, heroic #Iranian woman who dared to challenge the regime’s gender apartheid, has been sentenced to 1 year of prison for defending her freedom. But the regime will get no respite; there are millions of #Iranian women like her.

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

"You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women." — Alaa Salah

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you."
— Arundhati Roy

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

"Despite the current regime’s best laid plans to redirect women into the private domain, the female population in Iran is distinguished by an unprecedented surge in female literacy and a flourishing feminist movement." — Nina Ansary

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

"We know how to turn pain into power. Our mothers and grandmothers taught us how to do that." — Marta Dillon

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

"Justice for women means the right to live in safety." — Lydia Cacho

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

"Women, whether they know it or not, they are name nomads. Their surnames are here today, gone tomorrow. Throughout their lives, women fill out official forms in different ways, apply for new passports and design several signatures."
— Elif Shafak

[WomenOnTheFrontLine @WOTFL]

"Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture." — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie