Mahjabeen Hakimi

[ThirdElephant]

This is Mahjabeen Hakimi. She was recently beheaded by the Taliban, having been unable to escape the country before they took over. She was a member of the Afghan junior women's national volleyball team.

According to her coach, who spoke to the press after her family were threatened into silence, female athletes are being actively sought and killed by the Taliban. How is the world standing by and allowing this to happen?

www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatimes.com/amp/news/world/taliban-behead-player-volleyball-women-team-552120.html

Rest in peace Mahjabeen.

I have no words to describe the feeling of seeing yet another wonderful young woman with so much to contribute to the world and with a whole life ahead of her, being horrifically murdered by men brimming with hate and violence.

@NomoreSmiggle

Who do we lobby? I doubt my MP will do anything - he’s a Tory

MPs on all sides were pretty appalled by the withdrawal. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58254794 I don't think any govt is going to get involved without the USA as they put up most of the fire power, and they've clearly washed their hands of it. Poor country, poor women especially. Taliban were always evil, they won't improve. Best bet is probably finding charities that try to get target women out of there, but it won't solve the overall issue. Awful, it's just awful.

Executed. That blithe young life in the photograph extinguished for hatred and her family not even allowed to grieve in public or acknowledge it.

I don't have the words for the horror of this tragedy for the young woman and her family.

Terrible. That beautiful young woman, brutally murdered by men for daring to live a life that transgressed their rules. Just what do you do with living in a world where biological female people are forced to live with horrors like this?

It's truly horrifying. Rest in Peace Majhabeen

Poor poor woman, it breaks my heart, and it's only going to get worse. I feel so powerless, there is literally nothing I can do.

Heartbreaking & Frustrating. I tried to find a charity that supports Afghan women and the first few on my google results don’t have a working definition of women so I have my doubts how much they would help.

Can anyone recommend a grassroots organisation run by and for Afghan women ?

Thank you for starting this thread. I read about this yesterday and it made me feel physically sick. There are also various characters on social media trying to spin a false narrative that this was not the work of the Taliban, but that Majhabeen took her own life. Utterly shameless.

That poor young woman, may she rest in peace.

So sad and so inevitable too once the Taliban took over.

I'm at a loss as to what can be done without putting troops back on the ground and the US has drawn a line under that. Unlikely other countries will undertake anything without US backing.

Horrific. RIP Mahjabeen.

Posters asking about donations to relevant charities:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/guest_posts/4338070-Guest-Post-from-Action-for-Afghanistan-It-s-not-too-late-to-help-Afghan-women-and-girls

www.amarfoundation.org/

twitter.com/sahdyadarr/status/1427175731243724802?s=21

Thanks for the links!

Thanks, Embarrassing.

Thanks @EmbarrassingHadrosaurus

RIP Majhabeen. This is heartbreaking and horrifying.

This is so sad. The world’s lack of outrage at what is happening to Afghanistan’s women is appalling and depressing. But then I guess it’s not really surprising.

Might I also add the charity Women for Women who have always worked and are trying to continue to work with women in Afghanistan:

womenforwomen.org.uk/blog/women-women-internationals-commitment-afghanistan

This is awful.

That poor woman.

@Errno

This is so sad. The world’s lack of outrage at what is happening to Afghanistan’s women is appalling and depressing. But then I guess it’s not really surprising.

I think part of the problem is lack of media representation/news outlets in the country. I don't know also what is happening to some of the Afghanian women's groups I had been following on social media, no recent posts.

Remember the ones who had marched against the Taliban? All quiet since. It doesn't really bear thinking about.

This is horrific.

Is it possible to send money to charities in Afghanistan without the Taliban benefiting?

I wonder what life must be like for the Afghans who fled to refugee camps in neighbouring countries? Is there a way to donate to them?