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Byline Festival will be held June 2-4, at Pippington Park, Sussex. Protest against fake news and alternate facts while debating, thinking, laughing and dancing! Heidi will be joined by Sue MacGregor on Saturday June 2 at 2.30pm, to discuss women on war.   Download the full programme here. Visit the Byline Festival website to book tickets and help change…
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This article was first published in the June issue of Standpoint. Until Donald Trump dropped the $16 million, 21,600-pound GBU-43 Mother of all Bombs on rural Afghanistan, there was no indication that the country was even on the President’s radar. Then on April 13, he let IS have it. But IS numbers in Afghanistan had already…
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This article was first published in the April 2017 issue of Standpoint.  The irony wasn’t lost on any of the 12 high-powered women who had gathered in the House of Lords at 2.30 pm on March 22. The Afghan Women’s Support Forum was holding one of its quarterly meetings to discuss keeping the issue of Afghan…
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On International Women’s Day – March 8th – Heidi will appear on a panel as part of The Ties that Bind Women from East to West, a special event hosted by The University Women’s Club, PAWA and the Hermann Gundert Society. Commencing at 2.30pm, the event will include a series of panels concerning women in the workplace,…
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First published by Mantraya on 14 October 2016 Stories of abuse and the mutilation of women in Afghanistan are so common we are almost desensitised to it. Violence against women and particularly domestic violence has fed the headlines certainly since our recent escapade into the country, one attack more horrific than the next. Male abuse…
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This article was first published in the July/August 2016 issue of Standpoint. Could the greatest dilemma faced by men and women today come at the end of a meal when the waiter appears with the bill? Hamlet’s quandary pales into insignificance as the question “to pay or not to pay” surfaces and the dating diners…
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