Afghanistan Briefing Paper: Too Many to be Given Safe Passage, Too Few to be Part of Humanitarian Response
It’s been too long since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, making life an act of constant survival for millions. Women, children, internally displaced people, and queer people have been fighting every single day since - and many days before that - to survive not only a totalitarian violent regime that has no respect for human dignity but malnutrition, homelessness and poverty. Queer people in Afghanistan have been trying to survive beatings, rape, and humiliation for a long time.
This briefing paper is a mere glance at their daily but collective struggle — as some things cannot be muttered or spoken, even by the strongest survivors. What is happening to queer people in Afghanistan is not a crisis. No — it will not disappear one day — it is a result of our failure, our neglect of their existence, and their plight.
They will survive this, one way or another, and history will remember those who stayed silent and those who did not. Perhaps one day soon, more will be done to reveal the violence that queer people have experienced and continue to experience - but today, we ask that you stand in solidarity with them wherever they are. Raise your fist. Be their ally in this fight.
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