Silent vigils for Afghanistan women this weekend

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Thread of locations for the first silent vigils for Afghan women and girls being held in the UK this weekend. All vigils are at 4pm on Saturday 7 December 2024 unless otherwise specified.

Here are some organisations helping women and girls in Afghanistan:

Women for Afghan Women (WAW) is a grassroots civil society organisation dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York. You can answer their urgent appeal by donating here.

Madre is a global women’s rights organisation providing long-term support to women -led groups that are impacted by war and disaster in inaccessible areas. They are calling for funds to facilitate an urgent underground escape and support network in Afghanistan. Donate here.

International Rescue Committee (IRC) helps people whose lives have been upended by war, conflict and natural disasters around the world. They have been responding in Afghanistan since 1988. IRC are appealing for funding to help them continue to deliver aid to support children and families in Afghanistan. You can help them continue their work by donating here.

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) works to promote and protect the rights of children and women in Afghanistan and have a presence in every region. Donate here.

The Women’s Peace & Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is an innovative partnership empowering local women to be a force for crisis response and lasting peace. They galvanise support from across the globe to support the efforts of women working on the frontlines of the world’s most intractable conflicts. WPHF are supporting local women’s organisations in Afghanistan to sustain their work on the front lines of conflict and crisis. Donate here.

Afghanaid is a humanitarian and development organisation, working with millions of deprived and excluded families in some of the poorest and most remote communities in Afghanistan. They build basic services, improve livelihoods, strengthen the rights of women and children, help communities protect against natural disasters and respond to humanitarian emergencies. Donate here.

Global Fund for Women are a leading funder of gender justice organisations and movements worldwide. They are funding gender justice groups in Afghanistan and are working to protect and relocate women human rights defenders who are in danger. Donate here.

For people who aren’t on TwiX, this is the list of locations:

Here is the list of Vigils for this Saturday;

LONDON/SE
South West London (Wimbledon)
North London (Archway)
South East London (Peckham)
Oxford
Surrey (Epsom)
Cambridge
Chesham
Tunbridge Wells

SOUTH WEST
Bristol
Bath
Somerset

MIDLANDS
Derby

NORTH
Ulverston
Bradford
Leeds

SCOTLAND
Glasgow
Edinburgh
Aberdeen

WALES
Cardiff
Wrexham

NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast

Thank you so much for posting this, there's one local to me and I will go to it. I feel so helpless knowing what's happening to women in Afghanistan and that there is so little we can do. But I'm grateful to have the opportunity to do anything.

Thanks for posting, I'll be there and I'm sharing this with everyone I know
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Thansk for posting, I was unaware of their work. I can't make Saturday but with you in spirit.

Thanks for posting - I’ll be going to this

Thanks for posting. Shocking situation

Thank you for linking to the organisations.

DM me if anyone going to the Surrey one

Shame post didn't get more replies.

Can anyone tell me what can be done about the situation? Are any of these organisations going to get anywhere?

I feel like I'm dying insude when I read the horrors. The vigils will hopefully raise public aware and we will put pressure on our government to do SOMETHING but what?

We can't invade their country, we are not at war with them. We could do sanctions, they probably wouldn't work.

It is not just about overthrowing the Taliban, the men of the country are happily going along with this oppression of their women. We would literally have to take out half the country to free these women.

What can be done?

No vigil in the NE sadly, but I'll donate to an assistance charity, so thank you for posting a list.

Utterly futile.

According to an Afghan woman who secretly teaches English in Afghanistan, the West needs to stop all aid, as despite it going through NGOs, ends up in the Taliban's hands or their friends.

To correct a pp, she also said that many ordinary Afghan men are not in favour of the almost total restrictions on women but for men to resist means beatings, prison or death.

Needs western Govts to start acting together and pressurising other Muslim states who do have some influence but we have none, we abandoned them

What's the point?

Can’t see t(e thread because I’m not on Xitter. Just t(e name of my town doesn’t really help - where can I find out where exactly for each town?
Edit: found it

I find it utterly horrifying that anyone can be treated in this way. I was distraught watching the BBC programme showing the atrocities are even worse. The world has become crazy. Thanks for posting the info about the vigils .

It's like watching a living nightmare. How is this allowed to happen? Why won't other Governments DO SOMETHING?

it’s horrific.
we all tried to do something by invading and it did more harm than good.,
i don’t know what the answer is.

Thank you for posting this.

Thanks for posting. No vigil anywhere near me but I have saved the details and will make my first donation on pay day.

Is there a list with locations outside of twitter?

Absolutely everything important that needed to be changed started with people asking ‘what’s the point?’

Nothing by itself changes anything, but an accumulation of small actions over time might. Just seeing a photo of women far away doing something to show they have not forgotten you might do something for one woman’s
morale in Afghanistan. Wouldn’t that be worth it?What’s the alternative, do nothing at all?

Thank you, as I am not on X.

Are there any specific locations ?

Anyone know where the Oxford one will take place?

Bonn Square.

This is what’s currently up.