Amnesty International

[biddyboo]

Amnesty International is getting a lot of pushback on Twitter for a post celebrating Roxy Tickle's win yesterday.

Helen Staniland has highlighted this excerpt from an article they wrote about women in Afghanistan

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/womens-rights-afghanistan-history

The article contains this sentence "Under the Taliban, women and girls were discriminated against in many ways, for the 'crime' of identifying as a girl".

Who the f*ck wrote this? The Taliban treat them appallingly because they 'identify' as a girl, rather than because of the fundamental reality of their biological sex? It has made me so angry.

I used to support Amnesty, but not anymore? Are there any human rights charities that aren't in thrall to gender ideology?

rather than picking apart the language used

As if language didn’t matter. When clearly its whole existence was because of how much language and the meaning of language matters. So either the organisation was being obtuse or deliberately misleading. Neither a good look.

I could never understand how they failed to recognize that an organization that centers free expression it has to stay away from other political positions, no matter how worthy they are.

I had always been under the impression that Amnesty International had a policy that each national group wasn't to report or campaign on things in its own country due its need to be neutral of local politics that its staff and members could have personal stakes in. So Amnesty Ireland or Amnesty UK would stay away from issues around Northern Ireland, for example, while Amnesty in other countries could campaign on NI, as they could be purely motivated by human rights issues rather than their own political points.

so, they did link in their email to some lengthy and detailed reports which naturally were very shocking and there was no stupid language at all in the one I read (it used the word gender but in the old/feminist sense of GBV)
which makes me wonder why, in their more public facing writing they are so crass

Two sets of authors? Two different audiences. One analytical and the other virtue signalling performative. Does lead to dissonance in their messaging.

yes, I'm guessing the proper researchers who have been in the field wrote the actual reports and some intern wrote the precis for the plebs to read on the website