Wonderful news that Maggie Gobran – Mama Maggie, the Mother of Cairo – is on the List of BBC 100 most inspiring and influential women 2020 and how they are making a difference in the world

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Wonderful news that Maggie Gobran – Mama Maggie, the Mother of Cairo – is on the List of BBC 100 most inspiring and influential women 2020 and how they are making a difference in the world

A few years ago I had the chance to see this remarkable woman’s work in the most deprived parts of Cairo. This is a little of what I wrote about her in “Signs of Contradiction.”

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Wonderful news that Maggie Gobran – Mama Maggie, the Mother of Cairo – is on the List of BBC 100 most inspiring and influential women 2020 and how they are making a difference in the world

Wonderful news that Maggie Gobran – Mama Maggie, the Mother of Cairo – is on the List of BBC 100 most inspiring and influential women 2020 and how they are making a difference in the world

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Statement by the All-Part Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Pakistani Minorities, on April 16th – the anniversary of Iqbal Masih’s murder

Despite the suppression of the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan the Government admits it “has not introduced any Global Human Rights sanctions against the Taliban since they took power in 2021.” Parliament needs to assert oversight of the random and opaque process of Magnitsky Sanctions.

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