Geneva Summit

Listen as Marzieh Hamidi, recipient of the International Women’s Rights Award at , rejects efforts to normalize the Taliban’s rule in Afghanistan:

“They are terrorists today, and they will remain terrorists tomorrow. I know this not as theory, but as lived reality.”

Her message: Don’t be fooled by the Taliban’s propaganda. Listen to the women who suffer at their hands.

Watch as French comedian Sophia Aram presents the International Women’s Rights Award to Marzieh Hamidi at .

Sophia highlighted Marzieh’s determination as a taekwondo athlete and her courage in speaking out against gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

“If Marzieh is a champion on the mat, she is above all a champion for women’s rights.”

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Au , l’humoriste française Sophia Aram a remis le Prix international des droits des femmes à Marzieh Hamidi.

Sophia a salué la détermination de Marzieh en tant qu’athlète de taekwondo et son courage à dénoncer l’apartheid de genre en Afghanistan.

« Si Marzieh est une championne sur le tatami, elle est avant tout une championne des droits des femmes. »

Pedro Urruchurtu, held hostage in the Argentine embassy in Caracas for over 400 days, told about an unlikely source of hope while trapped: wild parrots.

He shared that as his rescue drew nearer, “They felt like a signal from the universe that it was time to fly.”

His message: Finding symbols of hope under threat is itself an act of resistance.

Listen as Blessed Mhlanga shared with the cost of free speech and journalism in Zimbabwe: Prison.

Mnangagwa’s regime has proven Blessed’s point: Following his speech, authorities called him a criminal, threatening arrest. He has been unable to return home to his family in Harare.

Pastor Ezra Jin is being held as a political prisoner in China simply for leading his Christian church.

His daughter, Grace Jin Drexel, made an urgent appeal for her father's release:

"I now stand before you in my most vulnerable state, 5 months pregnant and traveling across the world to plead for my father’s release."

The CCP must immediately release Pastor Jin and all 17 other Zion Church leaders.