Gayatri Patel

Chief of External Affairs @MalalaFund, Feminist, LGBTQ+ ally, world traveler.

[Gayatri Patel @gpatel2021]

Thank you to the @rePROsFightBack team for having me on the podcast. Can’t emphasize enough how funding cuts and anti-gender policy restrictions will deeply undermine humanitarian action and human security, including health and bodily integrity. These actions are not only inefficient, they are dangerous.

[rePROs Fight Back @rePROsFightBack]

@gpatel2021 This week's episode features @rePROsFightBack's brilliant Senior Fellow Gayatri Patel!

Tune into "What Are the On-The-Ground Impacts of the Cuts to Foreign Assistance?" here or on your preferred #podcast platform: https://t.co/vzuwP7aLFr #USAID

[Gayatri Patel @gpatel2021]

Compared to a decade ago, there are more humanitarian crises, impacting the lives of more people around the globe. As conflicts and natural disasters intensify, I am joining @CARE in urging U.S. Congress to stand with people caught in crisis. Act now > https://t.co/tH5cqxP2dE

[Gayatri Patel @gpatel2021]

Excited to hear @MalalaFund Nigeria Chief @NabilaAguele speak today on strengthening Nigeria's education sector to support girls' ed @WorldBank. Our take:
- Invest in gender-responsive planning
- Close the ed financing gap
- Address systemic & social barriers e.g., child marriage

[Malala Fund @MalalaFund]

Every girl deserves the opportunity to learn and choose her own future. Malala Fund will continue to stand with our partners, who are civil society leaders and girls, by funding their critical work and amplifying their voices.

"There are so many organisations on the frontline, who are providing immediate and urgent support to people. [They are now] impacted... and it includes women, children and girls." — @Malala

[Foreign Policy CAN @CanadaFP]

Women foreign ministers’ statement on the ongoing and systematic violations of human rights in Afghanistan
To read the statement:
https://t.co/0S6xhkQ0P8

[Caitlin Horrigan @HorriganCaitlin]

Dismantling @USAID is reckless, heartless, and shameful. Lives hang in the balance, progress will be squandered, and U.S. standing in the world will be diminished.

An agency who has helped so many, needs all of our help now to stop this

[Gayatri Patel @gpatel2021]

Missed posting during #16daysofactivism, but @MalalaFund partners work every day to address GBV so girls can get the education they deserve. Check out their inspiring work - building safe spaces, pushing for gender-sensitive curricula & making the way to/from school safer.

[Malala Fund @MalalaFund]

#16DaysofActivism ends this week, but the prevalence of gender-based violence continues to harm women and girls around the world.

How Malala Fund partners are working to reduce GBV and increase girls’ access to education ⬇️ https://t.co/VnETD2t8S7

[Gayatri Patel @gpatel2021]

The Taliban's cruel system of gender apartheid no longer surprises us, but should never fail to enrage us.

This ban on Afghan women studying midwifery/nursing will undeniably lead to the loss of life and essential health care for countless women & girls. https://t.co/FHlH54uab7

[Rahela Trust @RahelaTrust]

Violence against women is a silent epidemic that shatters lives.Every day,women face discrimination, abuse,and fear,yet they continue to survive.Let’s stand up together and demand a world where no woman or girl has to live in fear.
#raiseyourpenforher
@MalalaFund
@TheCircleNGO

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

I am sorry to see that despite years of talk, gender inequality is on full display at the #UNGA General Debate.

Less than 10% of speakers this week are women.

This is unacceptable – especially when we know gender equality delivers for peace, climate action and much more.

[Malala Fund @MalalaFund]

Yesterday, young women & Malala gathered to take governments to task for failing to prioritise girls in the upcoming Summit of the Future.

Their message was loud & clear: world leaders aren’t the experts on what girls want for their futures — girls are.
https://t.co/eRytw56nZv

[RealStanKachowski 🇺🇸 🏈 🍺 ⚖ @StanKachowski]

@PreetBharara

[Nick Jack Pappas @pappiness]

When you buy a gun, you’re shown pictures of gunshot victims.

If your neighbor suspects you of buying a gun, they can call a hotline.

If you’re from a state where guns are illegal, you can be arrested if you buy a gun out of state.

Oh sorry, these are all abortion laws.

[Malala Fund @MalalaFund]

Listen to Afghan human rights expert @Metra_Mehran speak about why women and girls inside Afghanistan are demanding the global community step up and codify gender apartheid.

[Gayatri Patel @gpatel2021]

As @Malala + countless Afghan women have been saying for > 3 years, rhetoric without accountability does harm. It has emboldened the Taliban & isolated Afghan women/girls. If govts truly care about the fate of ~20m females, hold the Taliban accountable for this #GenderApartheid.

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

For 3 years, the Taliban have showed us exactly who they are: misogynists who oppress girls and women. Their new laws banning Afghan women from speaking in public only further extend their system of gender apartheid. https://t.co/KjSazdGIEd

[Gayatri Patel @gpatel2021]

All of these videos of #AfghanWomen singing in public in defiance of Taliban vice laws represents everything beautiful and courageous in the world, yet also all that is cruel and inhumane.

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

Raise Your Voice for Freedom Of Women!

—This is the answer of brave Afghan women’s on the Taliban's new laws.

—Afghan women are boldly countering Taliban’s New Draconian law by singing out louder than ever.

#MyVoiceIsNotForbiden #WomenRights #UN

[Ziauddin Yousafzai @ZiauddinY]

Day : 1076 🏫
Day : 616 🎓
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Since the Taliban's gender-apartheid regime has banned women's voices, the voice of brave Afghan women is growing louder and louder…..
#AWomansVoiceAndFaceIsNotAwrat
#RecogniseGenderApartheid
#AsACrimeAgainstHumanity
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn

[Jahanzib Wesa @jahanzibwesa]

Afghan female athlete Marzieh Hamidi launched hashtag #LetUsExist to protest against the gender apartheid in Afghanistan and inviting all of you to support Afghan women.

Afghanistan under Taliban rule is a prison for women are deprived of their rights, individual freedoms.

[Gayatri Patel @gpatel2021]

To all the governments who’ve been making noises about recognizing the Taliban, *this* is what you have empowered - normalizing a system of #GenderApartheid so extreme that schools are likely permanently closed to girls.

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

The Taliban's Minister of Education says that girls' schools are likely to remain closed permanently. After the initial ban, there was hope they might reopen, but that hope is now gone. They lied. The Taliban haven’t changed and remain the same fanatics they were.

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

Afghan women are responding to the Taliban's ban on women speaking in public by launching a campaign and singing out loudly.