Amal Clooney

North Carolina · connectedBorn 1978

Lebanese-British-French barrister and human right activist

Worked at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

barrister, human rights defender, writer, lawyer, jurist, prosecutor

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I don’t think people realise that there’s a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they’re sunbathing at their resort.

The fact is, there are violent movies all over the world, and there are mental-health issues in other countries. But this doesn’t happen in other developed countries. The difference is guns, and how widely and easily available they are.

It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience — experiences that only women go through, and struggles that only women face.

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Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

I think because of the brave women who have come forward to tell their stories, the future workplace will be safer for my daughter than it was for people of my generation.

We’re in a situation where a predator feels less safe and a professional woman feels more safe, and that’s where we need to be.

As women we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share.