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Saudi dissident "not free" -

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 06:32:35 +0000

In reply to Extraordinary!

Saudi dissident "not free" - harsh probation, says sisters

Meanwhile "Saudi reforms" a lie

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/11/middleeast/loujain-hathloul-saudi-mbs...

Obviously not worth their

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:53:24 +0000

In reply to One particularly alarming

Obviously not worth their weight in gold, I have to point out.

One particularly alarming

artappraiser — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:40:25 +0000

In reply to UN Calls for End of Female Genital Mutilation in Somalia

One particularly alarming sentence from the article below

..The Wanaaleru Organization for Amazonian Indigenous Women has reported that women have been “sold” for between 5 and 10 grams of gold....

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— InSight Crime (@InSightCrime) February 9, 2021

I suspect (but am not sure)

artappraiser — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 23:38:25 +0000

In reply to It's the shame of Africa.

I suspect (but am not sure) the UN is singling out Somalia here because there has been much better headway made on the issue in other African nations, but that Somali culture has been a particularly tough nut to crack. It's not about all of Africa...

Wow, that's pretty catty. And

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 16:26:50 +0000

In reply to It's the shame of Africa.

Wow, that's pretty catty. And I'm pretty sure that's a tiny part of why the West is, not just feels, superior.

It's the shame of Africa.

Aaron Carine — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 15:41:55 +0000

In reply to UN Calls for End of Female Genital Mutilation in Somalia

It's the shame of Africa. Possibly it gives the West some excuse for feeling superior, although I don't want to push that too far.

Extraordinary!

PeraclesPlease — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 14:32:56 +0000

In reply to UN Calls for End of Female Genital Mutilation in Somalia

Extraordinary!

President Biden has made Human Rights Accountably a central tenet of US foreign policy!

MBS, sobered to Trump’s demise, & desperate to ingratiate himself to the Biden Administration, will free Imprisoned Saudi activist Loujain al-Hathloul. https://t.co/ioEMDQghEW
— Rula Jebreal (@rulajebreal) February 9, 2021