In the wake of the ban on girls and women’s education in places like Afghanistan, I ask: What is it about a girl with a book that so frightens a man with a gun? It is because women’s education is a vaccine against any kind of misogyny.
Author: Rangita de Silva de Alwis
Rangita de Silva de Alwis is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and an expert on the treaty body to the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) and vice chair of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute.
After Atlanta: Four Steps to Building a Future Free of Racism and Gender-Based Violence
“The violence our communities experience every day won’t be solved by more police. It won’t be solved by more people crowding our prisons. Those structures have failed us, time and time again, and they are rooted in and upheld by the same white supremacy that fuels these attacks.”
In the wake of the horrific anti-Asian racism and hate crimes in Atlanta, we need to fight for community-led solutions to help us heal. Here are four.