We have reached a critical tipping point. The Taliban has now banned any interviews or questions from journalists on women and girls’ education. They are making it clear – women and girls will not return. We warned this day would come. The world didn’t listen.

So many young women in Kabul & provinces telling me about the revenge of Taliban in the past few days. They’ve started enforcing the V&V law as a revenge, they’re telling women that the more your supporters in the west make noise, the more you will suffer. Today a woman in Takhar

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I was on this first date, and the guy kept getting progressively angrier during our conversation even though I agrees with him for most of the discussion, till eventually he yelled, “Why are you dismissing my POV!” And I was like 🤨 It was my unintentional Indian head shake 😶

I've been talking to women inside #Afghanistan and a worrying factor is that the men in their circle are too comfortable with the draconian #Taliban laws against women. "Our men seem to agree with them. They're not going to stand up for us. They're going to stand with them."

🥲URGENT PLEA FROM CHARLOTTE🥲 🆘 We need help today, right now. 🆘 Our board has suggested drastic cuts in staffing—and asked us not to feed the ones we do have—because we can’t raise salary funds. This would mean critical injured patients get euthanized instead of

“Even the dead seem to have more rights in Afghanistan than women" As usual, insightful and sensitive piece from Ruchi Kumar روچی کمار रूची कुमार on the tireless efforts of Afghan women to fight back against Taliban oppression in whatever ways they can thenationalnews.com/news/asia/2024…

“Some say it is like gradual death, but even the dead seem to have more rights in Afghanistan than women." thenationalnews.com/news/asia/2024…

“I am a woman, I am the world. I love my freedom … If the boots are on my throat, the fist on my mouth, I swear by the light of my heart, I will not stay in this terror.” thenationalnews.com/news/asia/2024…

Lviv, the cultural capital of Ukriane, has been considered “relatively safe” being farthest from the Russian frontline. It’s where IDPs go to find safe havens, where NGOs set up bases. This attack goes to show that nowhere is safe for Ukrainians in their own country.

"It's being said that my son was killed over suspicion of being a Muslim. Why would you kill Muslims? Are Muslims not human? You will kill any ordinary Muslim on the roads," said mother of Aryan Mishra.

Looking for senior women speakers from the telecom industry for an annual telecom event - suggestions pls? Pls RT!

Beluga whale alleged to be Russian ‘spy’ was shot, animal rights groups say dlvr.it/TCpm0Y

#TAPI gas pipeline project starts in #Afghanistan: Recent satellite images shows excavation for the pipeline has begun inside Afghanistan on the #Turkmenistan border. When completed, TAPI will annually transport 33 billion m3 of natural gas to Afghanistan, #Pakistan and #India.

NEW: Turkey’s Anadolu news agency confirms that a US - Turkish double citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi today lost her life after shots fired by the Israeli soldiers in Nablus, the West Bank