Kate Wiggans

Humanitarian communications lead, @SOAS alum, 💙's shakshukah in summer 🍅, proudly imperfect human mum & hopeless optimist that justice will prevail

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

#EidMubarak
"I say: How is this my concern? I’m a spectator

He says: No spectators at chasm’s door ... and no

one is neutral here. And you must choose

your part in the end

So I say: I’m missing the beginning, what’s the beginning?"

Mahmoud Darwish
https://t.co/I6cT12LH8t

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

@7MohammedKhaled .

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

Refreshing & important piece by @masrilena / @Reuters - it's WELL past time to spotlight the outrageous starvation in #Gaza & to be much more clever in how we measure hunger & much more human how we respond. Props to @CARE
& @alex_saieh for speaking up!
https://t.co/EZZGeDxDX6

[Fadi Quran @fadiquran]

At this very moment, there are likely dozens of little kids alive under the rubble in Gaza.

They're screaming or whispering for help as they slowly suffocate, or die from hunger, thirst and unfathomable fear.

With the right tools and international support, they could be saved.

Yet, Israel's siege is preventing access - the local civil services and ambulances lack the technology to reach them. Some have been bombed when they’ve tried.

Read this slowly: Children, who could be saved, are dying a slow, painful death.

They are hostages to Israeli brutality and international inaction, being tortured to death.

Remember how the world responded when children in Thailand were stuck in a cave? Or the Chilean miners' rescue operation? So many other cases of humanity collectively trying to save innocent lives.

The fact that world leaders are blocking humanity from collective action to save these kids, led by the American President and US veto power, when at the very least innocent children could be rescued…what does that say about how these global leaders view our humanity?

And then many of these leaders have the nerve to talk to us about peace?

If they are unwilling to force a ceasefire (or even simply call for it) to save our dying children, when close to 4000 kids have already been sacrificed at the alter of “Israeli deterrence”…how can anyone expect us to trust them and their words about peace?

It becomes evident that when they speak of “peace,” they actually mean a peace that suffocates us, the oppressed, under the guise of their tranquility - a cage that is shiny yet imprisoning and dehumanizing.

True peace requires that human dignity is mutually honored, that the call for justice is heard. If you are failing to hear the cries of our children under the rubble, do not expect us to trust your pronouncements of “peace”.

Our children’s lives are the price of this world's silence. If their existence is negotiable, your talks of peace are nothing but whispers of betrayal.

You want true, sustainable, and lasting peace - ensure that Palestinian children grow up free, dignified, with equal rights, and the opportunity to thrive and flourish in their ancestral homeland.

If you put an end to the systems of oppression stripping Palestinian children of those basic rights, and dismantle the ideologies that declare our kids’ lives less worthy, there will be peace, real beautiful inspiring transformative peace, peace for all.

As long as you defend the systems of oppression, fund them, cooperate with them, then you are complicit in the bloodshed, pain and suffering that’s been ongoing for a century. Then you are the real obstacle to peace. You are war incarnate.

The choice is yours: will you hear and honor the calls for peace whispering from under the rubble in Gaza?

If you turn away from these dying children’s cries for peace, at least have the basic courtesy of never using that word again.

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

@WhateverInGaza Thinking of you and your family nonstop Najla and everyone else too, I don't know how to / who to pray to, but I am doing it anyway. Thank you for posting. Xxxx

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

@OrlaGuerin @wburema @goktay @ahmedbaider1 @alhayagim712245 Thank you/shukran iktir for your continued determination to keep bringing the story of this overlooked tragedy & the strong personality, warmth & generosity of the Yemeni people to a large audience 💔

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

Yesssss @Rasinelly you rockstar!

Proud to work with you 🤩

#BeBrave

[Brave Movement @BeBraveGlobal]

“The Brave Movement is a powerful example of how survivors of childhood sexual violence can use their voices to create positive change.”

https://t.co/Avlt3fB3KU

@Rasinelly @BeBraveGlobal @together4girls

#BeBrave #WD2023

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

@peterjharvey @IronMenCrosby This is lovely and so true. Thank you x

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

Here's to all the amazing Dads 🍻

Newer ones and longer in the tooth ones.

We see you.

But especially, here's to mine.

Xxx

#FathersDay2023

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

@GiselaClaire @aidwkr @Concern @UN @irishmissionun @USUN @USAmbUN @IrelandAmbUN @ICRCPresident @JoyceMsuya Fantastic to hear all speakers & especially you flag the crucial role civil society & humanitarian NGOs at all levels played in advocating for this game changing resolution for such a long time. Perseverance & persistence does pay off! Bravo you & bravo all @Concern 💪🏽💚

[Brave Movement @BeBraveGlobal]

Today on @AJEnglish via @priyankashank17 some of our global team of survivor leaders on:

Being failed by justice systems

Breaking taboos &

Our shared duty to protect children

Feat @MiKohiyama
@McfRhiannon
@MatthewMcVarish
@YlvaJohansson

#EUvsChildSexualAbuse
#BeBrave
✊🏼

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

This is properly illuminating and wonderfully well done. Deserving of that Pulitzer!

Also, the injustice & stratospheric #inequality of it all makes me want to 🤮

9 Ways to Imagine Jeff Bezos’ Wealth by @MonaChalabi https://t.co/AX0MRSsXZm

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

.@joelycett I loved #LateNightLycett so HARD, bravo Digbeth bravo Brum bravo You! Can you help me & my mates embrace our inner queers by lending your outfits for our Eurovison fun plans to reduce our chances of just looking like twats? Going for cheekiest ask ever here. Ta babs x

[Brave Movement @BeBraveGlobal]

📢Calling all allies! 📢

Survivors mobilise🌍today urging #EU to #BeBrave & make the Internet safe for children to thrive 💪

TUNE IN for all the action & live stream from European Parliament at 9.35am CET: https://t.co/z3C3D4MUdO

EU can do this!

#EUvsChildSexualAbuse
#ECLAG

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

Talking about tough things can change lives.

🗣👂

Brave co-founder @DanielaLigiero, proud & powerful survivor advocate & CEO of @together4girls explains why on @AJEnglish today.

Please share this. Start a conversation.

You too can be brave ✊🏽

https://t.co/JIiJeWlbpI

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

This by @aj_iraqi is pure poetry.

And utterly maddening, as ever.

[rachel shabi @rachshabi]

As @aj_iraqi's brilliant piece explains, BDS has been central to Israel's anti-government protests (a hypocrisy not lost on Palestinians) https://t.co/Ty6k6s3kJb

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

@louloun @richardosman So feel you ❤️😏

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

Sous les pavés la plage

@AndyWiggans1

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

@Aman_Soufi @IRWorldwide Enti keman habibti! ❤️ missing you and sending love

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

Ramadan Kareem to all my friends & all Muslims able to take part in this annual global moment of reflection & solidarity.

I miss my former fabulous @IRWorldwide colleagues today more than most :)

A peaceful & loving month to you all ❤️

#Ramadan2023

[Kate Wiggans @k8_wig]

20 yrs since I sat on my bed in Hull, listening to the muezzin echo round Baghdad, helplessly waiting for shock & awe to start, after 18mths organising anti-war protests attended by millions.

Then I was mostly devastated.
Now I'm mostly extremely angry.

There must be justice.