Annie Kelly
Editor at The Guardian
Human rights journalist and editor of The Guardian's Rights and Freedom reporting project. Views my own. Pitches/tips to [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Annie Kelly |Tom Levitt
It was only seconds after soldiers entered the Hashash family’s home in the Balata refugee camp in the West Bank that the dog attack began. As military raids rolled out across her neighbourhood one morning in February 2023, Amani Hashash says she took her four children into a bedroom. When she heard Israeli military coming into their home she called out that they were inside and posed no threat.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Annie Kelly
Late last week, Los Angeles was left stunned as droves of federal US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers bore down on homes, businesses and neighbourhoods across the city in a series of immigration raids. The anti-ICE protests that followed were swift and furious, fuelled in part by the reported ill-treatment of some of the 118 people thought to have been detained, allegedly without judicial warrants.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Zahra Joya |Annie Kelly
How ordinary men became unpaid Taliban enforcers in their own homes Illustration: Anna Ivanenko/The GuardianTo be a father of daughters in the Taliban’s Afghanistan has become a daily nightmare for Amir. Now, he says, he is more prison guard than loving parent, an unwilling and unpaid enforcer of a system of gender apartheid that he despises yet feels compelled to inflict on his two teenage girls in order to protect them from the Taliban’s rage and reprisals.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Annie Kelly
Good morning. The Labour party is to cancel its national women’s conference while it waits for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to issue its final guidance on how to apply the supreme court ruling that the term “woman” in the Equality Act only applies to a “biological woman”. This, however, could take some time. Just yesterday, the EHRC announced it was extending its public consultation period to six weeks.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Annie Kelly
Good morning. Today, Keir Starmer will meet with EU leaders at a crucial Downing Street summit. On Saturday a press release all but said the deal was done – but on Sunday night government sources said talks were going “down to the wire”. Then, a few minutes ago, the Guardian’s Pippa Crerar reported a late breakthrough – but noted that there are “still some steps to take”. You might remember the old Brexit phrase: “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”.
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Latest from our Rights and Freedom project - in collaboration with @RukhshanaMedia and @ZahraJoya. One young woman's story of forced marriage in a Taliban police station. Reporting by Haniya Frotan, editing by @tom_levitt #Afghanistan #endgenderapartheid https://t.co/dUMp3jG66t
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RT @MarziehHamidi: Women in Afghanistan face oppression under gender apartheid, while the men’s cricket team represents the Taliban. Stand…