RT @vulgadrawings: I was on @BBCWomansHour on Monday talking about the conversations I’ve had with these teenagers/young men. This is a breakdown of the key info I’ve learned about this community over the last 18 months or so. There’s a bit more info ...
RT @hameedshuja: DO YOU KNOW WHO IS LEAVING AFGHANISTAN? Majority of those risking everything to leave are the nations's brightest. They are the country's academic brain, the State's core human resource; doctors, engineers, teachers, IT experts, ...
RT @katherineschof8: Now the Taliban are going around threatening musicians and smashing instruments again, I can see I am going to have to do a preemptive thread on the fact that music is NOT banned in Islam, and never has been. 1/
RT @GitaSahgal: If the Taliban are smashing musical instruments, it seems the charm offensive lasted just long enough to please Peter Oborne, and remind John Simpson what charming moderates they were when they last took tea together. @UNSRCulture ...
RT @andrewcopson: As we see Afghanistan fall back into vicious theocracy, this International Day is a timely reminder of the growing number, range, and intensity of acts of violence around the world carried out on the basis of, or in the name of, ...
RT @equalitynow: "The foundation of the team...was a way of activism for us, a way to stand up & send a message to the Taliban that the women of Afghanistan stand together." @khalida_popal calls on sport's gov bodies to ensure the safety female ...
RT @WLUML: Happening tomorrow! For more information, visit https://t.co/1hMy1R... https://t.co/CzvUAi...
RT @PriyaSatia: Many remembered British India's partition in 1947 last weekend without realizing how it was shaping the events just then unfolding in Afghanistan. I explain the connection in this essay @ForeignPolicy : https://t.co/VJ8j3U...
RT @mike_salter: I've written about how the decentralised structure of the Anglican church, including autonomous and unaccountable diocese authority, can facilitate child sexual abuse. https://t.co/PAeZlZ... https://t.co/HxwwLU...
RT @YehudisFletcher: H/T @philmartin100: Forced migrants in a hostile environment - what can unis do for students fleeing #Afghanistan ? https://t.co/prweLI...
RT @EEWomensMuseum: #OTD 45 years ago Jayaben Desai led South Asian women to protest against poor work conditions, at the Grunwick film processing plant, sparking the #GrunwickStrikes The movement inspired strength in a new generation of immigrant ...
RT @SophieRunning: We have written to ask @BorisJohnson urgently to speed up the extraction of vulnerable women and girls from #Afghanistan as the situation there deteriorates, against chaotic administration and confusion over priority lists. ...
RT @YehudisFletcher: "Country boys with a code of honour". We all know what happens to #women where #honour is concerned. https://t.co/2fvBiG...
RT @jodieginsberg: This feels all the more urgent following the terrible news today from our colleagues @DeutscheWelle https://t.co/k8xTSo...
RT @BahmanZuhra: Today I broke down when I had to face an Afghan woman with SIV whose family wouldn’t let her leave, another who was abandoned on Kabul streets by her family for being a risk as an activist & another not allowed out to get fresh ...
RT @SecKermani: Terribly chaotic scenes in Kabul where the British embassy is evacuating people but they’re unable to get into the compound... this family have the right permissions but are stuck outside. The baby is 15 days old, his father - a ...
RT @Stephenmevans1: Utterly absurd that the government is insisting that schools can't replace Christian or other religious worship with more inclusive secular assemblies. What world are they living in? This archaic law needs repeal. ...
RT @MillionWomen: SAT 21ST AUGUST 1 TO 3PM https://t.co/VOKytQ...
RT @GitaSahgal: I’d heard about the girls robotics team from #Afghanistan. Here is a good news story about them.@UNSRCulture ,@feministdissent https://t.co/GTwH22...