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corepaedianews · 2 years
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Afghanistan: assassination of al-Qaida chief reveals tensions at the top of the Taliban
Michele Groppi, King’s College London The killing of the al-Qaida leader, Ayman al-Zawahiri, in Kabul by a US drone strike on July 31 raises some crucial questions. It appears the ruling Taliban were aware of, and gave their blessing to, al-Zawahiri staying in one of the residential areas in Kabul. But did someone in their hierarchy turn him in to the US – and if so, who and why? It’s worth…
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rotzaprachim · 10 days
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I say this as someone who obviously opposes the Vietnam war, the war in Afghanistan, and the current war in I/p, but I think a lot of Americans including one I was just talking to haven’t got a lot of comprehension that it sure took the uS a lot longer than five months for public opinion to shift strongly away from supporting any of the above, but furthermore - we dont fucking KNOW what the us gov or us public would do or support if they had a hostage crisis with hundreds of us civilians being held by the viet cong or taliban or Sinaloa cartel for months on end, with significant evidence of that group committing sexual assault, within kilometers of where Americans lived. This is not an equivalent thing thing that has ever happened to the us and for the sake of world peace we can be glad it never has, but it’s truly beyond our comprehension what the US (or uk or Canada and such) might do
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afghanbarbie · 7 days
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The sex-based apartheid against women in Afghanistan cannot be reduced to, "Afghan men saw Afghan women enjoying freedom and got mad, so they established extremist religious governments to stop it." I am really tired of seeing this misconception and oversimplification spread around by leftists, liberals and feminists – it's racist, and simply not fucking true.
The majority of Afghans want a secular government and for the oppression of women to end. The Taliban represent a minority of Afghanistan's people. The deterioration of Afghan society – in particular, women's rights and freedoms – directly results from decades of foreign intervention, imperialism and occupation. Afghans did not destroy Afghanistan, the United States did, and the USSR paved the way for them to do so.
Had Afghanistan never been treated like a pawn in the games played by imperialistic powers, had we not been reduced to resources, strategic importance and a tool for weakening the enemy, extremism would have never come to power.
An overview of Afghanistan's recent history:
The USSR wanted to incorporate Afghanistan into Soviet Central Asia and did so by sabotaging indigenous Afghan communist movements and replacing our leaders with those loyal to the USSR. The United States began funding and training Islamic extremists – the Mujahideen – to fight against the Soviet influence and subsequent invasion, and to help the CIA suppress any indigenous Afghan leftist movements. Those Mujahideen won the war, and then spent the next decade fighting for absolute control over Afghanistan.
During that time period, known as the Afghan Civil War, the Mujahideen became warlords, each enforcing their own laws on the regions they controlled. Kabul was nearly destroyed, and the chaos, destruction and death was largely ignored by the United States despite being the ones who caused and empowered it. This civil war era created the perfect, unstable environment needed to give a fringe but strong group like the Taliban a chance to rise to power. And after two decades of war, a singular entity taking control and bringing 'peace' was enticing to all Afghans, even if their views were objectively more extreme than what we had been enduring up to that point.
When the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, they allied with the same warlords that had been destroying our country the decade prior and whom they had rallied against the Soviets – these are the people that made up the Northern Alliance. The 'good guys' that America gave us were rapists, pillagers, and violent extremists, no better than the Taliban. And that's not even mentioning the horrible atrocities and war crimes committed by American forces themselves.
So, no, Afghan men did not collectively wake up one day and decide that women had too much freedom and rush to establish an extremist government overnight. No, this is not to excuse the misogyny of men in our society – the extremists had to already exist for Americans to fund and arm them against the Soviets – but rather to redirect the bulk of this racist blame to the actual culprits. The religious extremism and sex-based apartheid would not be oppressing and murdering us today if they hadn't been funded and supported by the United States of America thirty years ago. And despite all the abuses and restrictions, many Afghan women prefer the Taliban's current government to another American occupation. I felt safer walking in Taliban-controlled Kabul than I did being 'randomly searched' (sexually assaulted) by American military police in my village as a child.
Imperialism is inextricably linked with patriarchal violence and women's oppression. You cannot talk about the deterioration of Afghanistan without talking about the true cause of said decline: The United States of America. Americans of all political views, including leftists and feminists, are guilty of reducing or outright ignoring Western responsibility for female oppression in the Global South, finding it much easier to place all blame on the foreign brown man or our supposedly backwards, savage cultures, when the most responsibility belongs with Western governments and their meddling games that forced the most violent misogynists among us into power.
(Most of this information comes from my own experience living as an Afghan Hazara woman in Afghanistan, but Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords and the Propaganda of Silence covers this in much more detail. If you want more on the Soviet-Afghan war and Afghanistan's socialist history, Revolutionary Afghanistan is an English-language source from a more leftist perspective)
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gatheringbones · 9 months
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[“Given how disillusioned she became, one might imagine that at some point Heather was among those who waved good-naturedly at the Code Pink protesters. Instead, she glared through her sunglasses at them, bristling at their self-righteousness.
Far from appreciating their presence, Heather viewed it as an affront, as if she and her peers needed a bunch of peace activists from Berkeley and San Francisco to have their consciences roused. “They assumed that we don’t give a shit, that we’re just a bunch of brainwashed, nonhuman robots,” she said. “They would say, ‘You know you’re killing people from across the world—you don’t care about it, you have no conscience.’ But they didn’t know us. They didn’t know what kind of shit we had to see; they didn’t know most of us wanted to go home and fucking kill ourselves. “There’s a reason that after work we’d all go and get trashed, then talk about how fucked-up mission was this week,” she went on. “I would go home and drive past these people protesting and then go have nightmares.”
It wasn’t just the protesters’ blindness to her distress that upset Heather. It was also the air of superiority she felt they gave off, an impression inflected by differences in social class. The ranks of Code Pink were dominated by educated women from middle-class backgrounds who could afford to devote their time to protesting America’s wars without worrying about how to pay their bills or make ends meet: people like Toby Blomé. The ranks of the drone program were filled with people like Heather for whom this was an unimaginable luxury, high school graduates from depressed rural areas and hard-luck towns like Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
As during the Vietnam War, when some soldiers returning home felt stigmatized by college students from more affluent families who had secured draft deferments, Heather bitterly resented the judgment of people who had the privilege not to be in her shoes. “I can guarantee that none of you has ever been put in a fucking situation where you have to kill someone or have people that you care about be killed,” she said of the Code Pink demonstrators. The protesters were equally blind to the power dynamics within hierarchical organizations like the military, she felt, shouting antiwar slogans at low-ranking enlistees who had little say over the scope of the drone campaign. “They’re personally attacking these people who have no control over what’s going on,” she fumed. “We have no control on that base over what’s going on with the drone program.”
In fact, some might argue, Heather and her peers had a lot of control. If enough of them quit or became conscientious objectors, it would almost surely have gotten the military’s attention, not least because the high burnout rate in the drone program made staffing missions challenging.
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Not long after Heather got to Beale, she was assigned to provide over-watch for a mission in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan, alerting the marines on the ground to threats—improvised explosive devices, insurgents plotting ambush attacks—that could be spotted on the cameras affixed to the Global Hawk. The work was stressful, not least because a carefully camouflaged fighter or IED could easily escape the camera’s eye. During one shift, a group of marines disembarked from a helicopter and stormed a compound that appeared to be clear of danger. After they entered it, insurgents ambushed them. Heather watched the attack unfold in real time; then she saw one of the marines bleed out.
A few months later, another convoy fell under attack after an IED exploded, igniting a fuel truck that caused more “friendlies” to die. Once again, Heather watched the live feed in real time. At home afterward, she surfed the internet and clicked on a news story about the incident. The article listed the names of some of the soldiers who had been killed, including one who had a wife and young son. When Heather read this, she began to sob.
A week later, at a party for her unit, Heather broke down again, this time in front of her supervisor, who tried to comfort her by reminding her that she was “fighting the good fight.” The slogan had been drummed home to Heather during basic training, when new recruits were told their mission was to save lives and to protect America from “terrorists” and “towel-heads.” For all her alternative inclinations, Heather had internalized this message. She believed that she and her peers were fighting the good fight. But at the party, the words of her supervisor rang hollow to Heather, who wondered whether the mission—which had ended disappointingly, with no progress made in rooting out the Taliban—had been worth it. “Nothing was accomplished by that convoy,” she said later. “Those guys died for absolutely nothing.”
Whether innocent Afghans might also have died did not yet cross Heather’s mind. “I only felt bad about the guys that maybe we would have saved if we somehow had better technology,” she said. “It wasn’t out of any sympathy for the so-called enemy. It was out of self-preservation for our people.”
This began to change after the marine whom she befriended over Skype forwarded her documents about the area in Afghanistan she was surveilling. Like Christopher Aaron, Heather was responsible for conducting surveillance operations rather than coordinating strikes. But what she reported could determine whether a missile would be fired, and it now dawned on her that innocent civilians could die as a result.”]
eyal press, from dirty work: essential labor and the hidden toll of inequality in america, 2021
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renegade0897 · 1 year
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Listen, not every driver can get points, not all drivers are the same in development. Some get points easily, some take time to learn, develop more skills as time goes on and then begin to earn points.
So, these two WHITE AMERICAN TEENAGERS have some backwater podcast saying that "Mick Schumacher had ruined F1 for not earning enough points in spite of his LAST NAME." They go on to say Hulkenberg is a "more decent driver" because HE HAD POINTS.
Listen you underaged ignant fucks (It's a given white American teenagers are assholes, I'm Fil-Canadian so bite me if you will I'll fight you to Hell if I have to), Mick WAS IN A SHITASS OF A TEAM, WITH IDIOTS MAKING POOR AND UNCALLED FOR STRATEGIES THAT COST HIM RACES, A SHITSTAIN OF A TEAM PRINCIPAL WHO USED HIM FOR PR POINTS AND TALK SHIT TO HIM IF HE DIDN'T PERFORM WELL, IN AN UNDERPERFORMING "SHITBOX OF A CAR." What in God's holy fucking hell do you expect the human to do with a car that cannot and refuses to perform even slightly decently?
What, just because of his last name that name will magically carry him to Q3 or the podiums in a snap? Dafuq? 🫤 And saying Hulk is a "more decent driver" try years with "few points" AND NOT A SINGLE PODIUM? And don't you dare compare him to Kevin because Kevin is WAAAAAAAAAAYYY BETTER than Hulk. I know I've advocated not attacking Hulk for replacing Mick out of respect and peace in the F1 community and fanbase but dude, he's spent years in F1 and as a reserve driver and every single time he gets a chance to drive, he almost never gets to the points or even a podium finish.
And this is also coming from two fucking teenagers who say "F1 is too boring and NASCAR is better." Not a surprise at all, no wonder why white American teenagers are idiotic, irritating, annoying and obnoxiously blood pressure-increasing pricks.
What Mick needs is a team that is willing to look out for him and help him do better and give him a car that is strong and capable of getting into the points without having mechanical problems in the middle of the race or a decent race being ruined by idiots who don't know how to strategize if the wheels can last for another lap. Yeah call me a defender but I'm defending this kid to the bone because he's the sole representation of his father, perhaps the greatest F1 driver of all time, and my late father's favorite F1 driver after Ayrton Senna. I can see and sense deep inside he's a good driver, and he is. In spite of the shitass team he was in and the shitbox of a car he was driving, he MANAGED TO GET POINTS and then some, and what did he get? A fucking team principal talking so much shit like he masturbates to Mick's failures (Sorry for the word).
And to these two idiots, they also said in the end that "Sir Lewis Hamilton and Seb Vettel are too woke to be in F1." And they also called Sir Lewis Hamilton a "fuck show who would do better picking cotton than driving race cars. Well let me tell ya'll fuckers something,
KEEP YOUR FUCKING RACIST POLITICS TO YOURSELVES AND STICK TO HILLBILLY NASCAR for all I care. These pricks are pathologically racist towards anyone who isn't white, if only it's legal I'd beat the crap out of them. They want to be racist? Here, let me try.
"White Americans are the real terrorists because they funded the Afghan mujahedeen during the 1980s that led to them forming the Taliban and used a young bumbling Saudi prince to create a group known as Al-Qaeda who in turn is responsible for the deaths of 3,000 innocent people. White Americans also invades two countries and failed and are responsible for the creation of ISIL and the prolonged discrimination of Arabs and an entire religion because of white Americans' "extreme racist epithets.""
Yeah, I said it. These stupid white American teenagers need to learn that not everything in life can be achieved using racism, bigotry, TikTok and shock and awe hillbilly tough boy politics.
Pardon the unnecessary politics but this is just frustrating, I've heard the same shit and coming from the same kind of people. Fucking assholes really.
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thaiika · 2 years
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“The Breadwinner” is so important!
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[this review contains spoilers!! if you don't want them, you can watch the movie and read this post later :)]
“The Breadwinner” (2017) is an animated drama movie by Cartoon Saloon about an eleven-year-old girl named Parvana who lives in Afghanistan ruled by Taliban forces. When her father is improperly imprisoned, she must disguise herself as a boy to work and provide for her family — her older sister, her mother and her little brother —, because women are forbidden to leave their houses without a man. The movie was based on the novel "The Breadwinner" by Deborah Ellis.
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I watched this movie with my mother and by the end both of us were ugly crying so much. I want to tell you why.
First of all, I want to talk about the animation. It's a beautiful unique style that I've never seen before. By the start of the movie I was feeling very nostalgic mainly because I miss 2D animation so much. Cartoon Saloon is an excellent animation studio! And I fell in love with it and loved “Wolfwalkers”  — an Academy Nominee! They didn’t disappoint!
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The animation is literally flawless and very expressive.
Now, let's go deeper into the story.
Parvana is a brave and resourceful young girl, but a traumatized kid as well. She steps up and makes her own decisions as she goes, even if she's scared. She's a great heroine, which you see yourself rooting for. I love the scene where she goes to the bathroom and cuts her own hair willing to disguise herself as a boy, so she can provide for her family. The scene is so beautiful, and she's so courageous. It's sad and touching that she has to do this just to buy food.
Parvana and her family are struggling without the father. They're starving. And in the middle of all this poverty, and violence around them Parvana does something which is really sweet and wholesome, she creates stories about a young boy to tell her little brother every night. The young boy from the story overcomes all his obstacles because of his braveness. This way, among all the trauma they're constantly being exposed to, Parvana and her little brother can still dream and be children at last, both of them seeing hope in the brave young boy stories. It's beautiful and touching. She created this story to have something to inspire and motive herself and her brother, and it's really adorable how he sees himself as the boy from the story.
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Disguised as a boy, Parvana meets another young girl who is doing the same as her. The girl’s name is Shauzia, and quickly they become friends. They work together and share their dreams with each other. It’s so sad to see them trying to be kids, fooling around, planning their future, dreaming of leaving that place among all that misery. It made me think about everyone out there who goes through this in real life, and it's heartbreaking. We, as the audience, keep on rooting for them and feeling happy watching them have some little fun. But at the same time we still have that constant fear chasing us, as we don't know if they'll make their dreams come true, if they'll be exposed as girls and killed, if their families will be okay. I felt so anxious, because my brain couldn't stop remembering me that this is happening in real life.
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By the beginning of the movie, we also get to see Parvana's father who is a teacher, and a disabled man. His name is Nurullah, he uses a mobility aid because he doesn't have one of his legs. He's a good and hopeful person who hopes everyone will have peace someday. The soldiers hurt him a lot even if he's disabled, he's imprisoned unfairly and suffers so much in prison. Parvana is still determined to see him again, of course, and the injustice feels so real, sad and revolting. The violence is really predominant through the movie, even if it's a kid's movie.
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We see how women are treated worse than animals in Afghanistan. Citizens are willing to let them starve. Women just can't buy food! This is only one of many injustices they go through (they are sold to another families when they're kids, they can't work or have finance liberty, they can't have access to secondary and higher education, they can't wear clothes they want to, they can't travel without a man - responsible by them - letting them, and so on). It's so revolting.
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My mom and I cried our hearts out watching this movie, and honestly, I couldn't expect less. I wished this was only a painful movie about things that no longer happen, but people are dying right now in Ukraine, in Iraq, in Ethiopia. Everywhere. All the time. Kids are losing their parents. Women are being killed (Have you guys heard about the Russian soldier who was arrested after sharing a video where he's r*ping an Ukrainian woman?). So many people are being violated, and having their dreams, lives, families stolen from them. What can we do to help?
This movie was really a sad realization experience. As I said, I wish it was all just fiction, but it's not. And it's a great movie to help people develop empathy, and realize how much we have to change as human beings. It's hard to believe that such retrograde thoughts exist, so many human rights are being denied to people, and so many stupid and senseless wars are being frighten, so many lives are being stolen. But this is happening. I wish we could something to prevent.
I'll finish this post with my favorite quote from the movie:
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mariacallous · 1 year
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Women in Afghanistan have disappeared, said Mahbouba Seraj, a prominent rights activist and, most recently, Nobel Peace Prize nominee who stayed behind when the extremist Taliban stormed back to power 18 months ago. Every day, it seems, they issue new edicts that are systematically erasing women from public life. “We don’t exist anymore,” she said. “We are not being seen. We are not allowed to do anything, go anywhere, do our study, go to work.”
Taliban pledges during peace talks with former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to respect women’s rights were lies, she said. Since their return, they’ve repeated those lies to gullible Western officials whose demands for a reversal of anti-women rules are met with “more lies” and even stricter rules. 
And yet. As Afghanistan nears the precipice of economic and social collapse, Seraj, 75, told Foreign Policy the time has come for the world to engage with the Taliban.
The flight of prominent, educated, and capable Afghans is a brain drain that has helped rob the country of its future, she said. After 18 months of brutality, it’s time “to hear their [the Taliban’s] side of the story, too. We really have to come up with some agreement. Talks have to start with the Taliban. It’s not going to work this way. If we don’t sit down and talk to them and see what it is exactly that we can do and they can do, the ones who are going to be paying for it, and who are paying a huge price, are the poor people of Afghanistan, the women and children.”
Seraj is the niece of Amanullah Khan, king of Afghanistan from 1926 to 1929, executive director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Center, and runs domestic violence shelters in Kabul for women and children who she said the Taliban want to put in prison. Even under the republic government, girls and women were often imprisoned if they ran away from abusive fathers or husbands or were suspected of having affairs. Seraj said the Taliban expect her to continue looking after the women even if they do imprison them.
“Every time I talk to the Taliban, I say to them, ‘You have taken a country hostage. This isn’t going to work.’ I ask them, ‘How many people are you—300,000, 400,000, 500,000? And what’s the population of Afghanistan? Forty million. How many are women? Twenty million. How can you ignore us? What are you doing to us?’ I am saying the same thing to the world: ‘How have you allowed something like this, for heaven’s sake?’” 
Seraj despairs of Afghans who have fled into exile pronouncing on what is happening in Afghanistan under the Taliban. They should come back and see what life is like for those who cannot leave, she said. “They have their own agenda, but what I see is needed in Afghanistan [is that] we really have to come up with some agreement. Talks have to start with the Taliban. It’s not going to work this way, absolutely not, if we don’t sit down and talk to them and see what is it exactly that we can do and they can do.”
Her call for engagement is controversial, but it is not new. Former British politician Rory Stewart called for diplomatic recognition in late 2021, along with the lifting of financial sanctions, to deflect the Taliban’s ideological excesses. In exchange, he wrote for the Brookings Institution, the Taliban could meet minimum human rights and governance standards. “Negotiators could push hard for crucially important goals such as: education, even if separate, for girls and women; legal rights for girls and women, and for people from minority ethnic and religious groups; equal access to food, health care, and job opportunities for all elements of society; and denying terrorists safe haven there.” 
While that moment seems like a distant memory, Seraj’s suggestion of engagement comes as the United States appears to have run out of patience with the Taliban’s harsh abuses. Last week, the State Department announced expanded visa restrictions for “certain current or former Taliban members, members of non-state security groups, and other individuals believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, repressing women and girls in Afghanistan.” And at the United Nations, the United States called for a united international response to a ban on women working for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), in response to concerns that some U.N. agencies have complied with men-only aid delivery that further exposes women to abuse.
For former lawmaker Shukria Barakzai, the sort of engagement Seraj wants would give the Taliban a free pass and entrench the impunity they’ve enjoyed so far. 
“It’s time for those countries that have been engaged with the Taliban for the last few years to hold the Taliban accountable for what they are doing,” she said, referring to Pakistan, China, and Russia, among others. “Simply engaging with them gives diplomatic legitimacy to the Taliban without holding them to account. It is time for the Taliban to be held accountable for what they said during the negotiations in Doha, for what they said in the agreement, and for what they did before they were handed the country, and what they have done since. Otherwise, everything is just empty promises.” 
While Taliban abuses since their return to power in the summer of 2021 are far-reaching, it’s the treatment of women that grabs the headlines. Policies of the last Taliban regime, from 1996 to 2001, have been reintroduced and the republic’s laws replaced by a hazy interpretation of Islamic sharia law. They’ve banned women from gyms, parks, and universities (even from taking university entrance exams). The Taliban have introduced restrictions against women working for NGOs—as well as in clinics and health centers if they are not accompanied by a male chaperone. Women cannot leave their homes without male chaperones to travel long distances. In some regions, women cannot run businesses or visit male doctors, and they must wear all-covering clothing. Afghanistan is the only country where girls and women are banned from education beyond primary school.
In January, U.N. officials pressed the Taliban to reverse the ban on women working for charities and attending university. They emerged from meetings saying change was coming, only for the Taliban to then issue new edicts further restricting access to education and work. Many figures of the fallen republic in exile call for retaliation and urge the United States to demand accountability in return for humanitarian relief.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) went one step further in its latest report, raising questions about the impact of U.S. humanitarian relief worth more than $2 billion since the Taliban took power. “It is SIGAR’s judgment that the Taliban regime’s institutionalized abuse of women raises the important question for policymakers of whether the United States can continue providing aid to Afghanistan without benefiting or propping up the Taliban,” it said. The group is making money from aid, it said, “in the form of ‘licenses,’ ‘taxes,’ and ‘administrative fees’ imposed on NGOs and their employees as a condition for operating in Afghanistan.” Aid “may inadvertently confer legitimacy onto the Taliban, both internationally and domestically.” With more than 28 million people depending on international food assistance, “the Taliban’s erasure of women from public life has substantially hindered or prevented the provision of humanitarian aid,” it said.
Some see the focus on the abuse of women’s rights and on hunger as a diversion from the rollback of rights for all Afghans. Far from urging engagement with the Taliban, many prominent Afghans in exile say existing sanctions, mostly on the financial and banking sectors, don’t go far enough. Abdullah Khenjani, formerly a deputy minister of peace, believes food aid is being prioritized over “liberty and rights” and said the Taliban “must face the consequences of their behavior through tailored sanctions.” 
“We have to find more creative methods, beyond economic sanctions and travel bans, to make the Taliban accountable,” including confiscation of assets and sanctions on family members similar to those imposed on Russian oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, he said. “We have to accept the fact that the ultimate goal of economic sanctions is to change the regime with minimum collateral damage on humanitarian grounds.”
For Seraj, though, doubling down on punishment is no alternative to engagement. She’s not a diplomat and doesn’t have any clear idea how to execute such a plan; all she has for now is a cri de coeur.
“We have to do it. There is no other way; we have no other choice. It should be only focused on the people of Afghanistan, on the needs of Afghanistan, on the men and women and how we can go forward. Because otherwise, Afghanistan, every single day, is moving 10 years backward,” she said.
Efforts must focus on “trying to make them sit down and have a discussion with us, with women, with the parties involved, with the stakeholders. They should sit down and talk and see what is really happening. And we should hear their side of the story, too. When we talk to the Taliban, they come up with stories of so much pain, how they were ignored, how nasty the world was toward them, how many of them got killed—which is the truth, it really is. And maybe we could take it from there.” 
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coochiequeens · 2 years
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Across the world, women's rights are under assault. This global war on women demands urgent international attention — and a forceful collective response. 
Feel-good tick box references to gender equality of the kind made in last week's long-winded and largely unreadable official G7 and Nato statements are not enough.
Sexual violence as a tactic of war, terrorism and political repression is on the rise, warns the UN — so where is the outcry?
Twenty-five years after the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, happening in democracies and autocracies, in secular societies and religious ones, in rich and poor nations.
Orientalist and Islamophobic tropes notwithstanding, it is not just a problem "over there" in the Global South and in Muslim majority states. It is also a blight on the face of too many Western democracies.
The US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade, the 1973 landmark case protecting women's right to abortion, is a case in point.
And because what happens in America does not stay in America, there are fears the ruling is likely to embolden anti-abortion movements worldwide, including in Europe.
Some modest headway in recognising the unrelenting tide of discrimination and violence facing women worldwide was made at last week's largely self-congratulatory and mostly irrelevant G7 talk fest.
The group's mention of the many challenges and structural barriers facing women and the call for a gender-equal global economic recovery are a "step in the right direction", says the Gender and Development Network.
The G7 did commit to ensuring women's sexual and reproductive health and rights.
But meeting only days after the US Supreme Court decision, neither US president Joe Biden nor any of the other six leaders — joined by the only woman participant, EU Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen — mentioned the right to abortion.
Even the tough-talking hard security-wired Nato summit, which had 11 women leaders in attendance, managed only a passing reference to the UN's under-implemented and under-funded Women, Peace and Security agenda and the Alliance's work to "incorporate gender perspectives across the organisation".
Let's be generous and say these are good beginnings. 
But let's also be honest and say this is cursory, complacent lip service.
The onus is now on Indonesia as the current G20 chair to make sure that gender equality really gets the priority attention it deserves at the summit in Bali in November.
The unnoticed 'care economy'
That means backing up noble intentions with real action on funding and investment in the care economy, a commitment to ensure women's reproductive health and making sure that women do not bear the brunt of the looming global economic slowdown.
Escalating levels of global inequality are eroding fragile but hard-won gains on gender inequality and it is women — particularly those who face multiple and escalating forms of intersectionality — who have been hit hardest.
Even today, the pandemic continues to impact women and girls disproportiontately and this will remain the case amid looming food insecurity, increased energy prices and high levels of inflation.
Russia's war in Ukraine means that Ukrainian women have now joined the ranks of millions more who have suffered the unrelenting human costs of armed conflict from Syria to Yemen and Afghanistan and far beyond.
Sexual violence as a tactic of war, terrorism and political repression is on the rise, warns UN Women.
Afghan women and girls risk facing an even darker future unless there is a "more concerted international effort" to push the Taliban to respect women's rights.
To be effective, however, those putting the pressure on the Taliban must put their own houses in order.
Which brings us back to the damaging global fall-out of the US Supreme Court decision including concerns that it will embolden anti-abortion movements elsewhere. 
Fearing just that, a group of MEPs has asked that anti-abortion lobbyists be banned from the European Parliament. 
Metsola from Malta — where all abortion is illegal
European Parliament president Roberta Metsola, who is from Malta, is believed to have an anti-abortion voting track record and Malta is the only EU country where abortion is not allowed under any circumstances.
Poland's government has adopted a near-total ban on abortion with limited exceptions in the cases of rape, incest, or danger to the mother's life.
And there is the unhappy fact that EU members Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia have yet to ratify the Istanbul Convention, the first legally-binding international instrument on preventing and combating violence against women and girls at the international level. 
The Polish government may withdraw from the agreement and despite widespread public protests and legal pushbacks, Turkey's Council of State recently ruled to uphold president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decision to take Turkey out of the convention. 
In contrast, Ukraine has ratified the agreement as part of its efforts to meet EU membership criteria. 
There is no denying that advances in women's rights are being made by governments, international organisations, businesses and civil society actors.
But as recent events illustrate, there is much hard work ahead. 
Ending centuries of discrimination, deep-rooted patriarchy and misogyny as well religious extremism and far-right populism which fuel the war on women requires counter-actions on multiple fronts. 
Glib references and occasional mentions of gender equality in speeches and in long, rambling documents are not enough.
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Shada Islam is an independent EU analyst and commentator who runs her own strategy and advisory company New Horizons Project. She is also the editor of the EUobserver magazine.
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Here’s part two of my Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare fic! Part 1 is here if you missed it! Enjoy!
Author's Note: Hey readers! This is going to feature Ghost without his mask! Hope I did the fans justice! Pics are from Pinterest! Little shout out to @cravingcoldoreocake123, @m0chac0ffee, and @nsharks @cheezbites @ladyelissarose
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Ghost woke up in a dimly lit room. A hard mattress was underneath him. The room smelled musty, but he could make out the smells of cooking, of sweat and disinfectant. His shoulder throbbed. The bedding felt scratchy and rough on his skin. He could hear the distant sound of a television. Not all houses had them in this area. He went to rub his eyes, and realized his mask was gone. He looked and saw his clothes folded on the floor beside the mattress. He heard a door open and craned his head slightly, seeing the kid come into the room. The kid said one word in English before lapsing back into Farsi.
“Awake!” he exclaimed, and rushed over to the other side of the room. Ghost sat up, wincing in pain. He had to use every bit of strength to keep his body up as the kid rummaged through something. The kid grabbed what appeared to be a box, and returned to Ghost.
“Here.” he said. Ghost took the box carefully and opened the flap. Tea bags. Oh, the kid figured out he was British and knew people from England liked tea. Good work, kid. He set the box down. He looked down and saw his shoulder had been bandaged. The boy noticed this and went back into the other room, coming back holding a small piece of metal.
“Bullet was in you.”
“Did your mum take it out?”
The kid looked confused. Maybe he didn't know enough to understand. The door opened and a woman stepped in. Her face was covered, but she seemed young.
“I’m sorry if my brother is bothering you.” Her English was stilted, but clear.
“Don't worry, I needed the company.”
“Farid, go to the kitchen.” The woman said to the boy. Farid walked into the next room.
“My name's Amina.”she said softly. “What are you doing all alone in the middle of nowhere? Are you lost? Do you need help?”
“Yes. No! Yes? I’ll...I guess I'll explain everything later.”
Amina left the room and came back with a plate. She sat it in front of Ghost.
"You need to eat."
Ghost looked at it; rice and beans. He could smell some kind of spice; cumin, and maybe turmeric. He picked up the spoon.
"I'm sorry." Amina continued. "I hope you feel better soon.”
"Where is your family?" he asked, taking a bite of the rice and beans. The spices exploded across his taste buds.
“My parents died a few years ago. It's just Farid and me. Don't worry about the other villagers; nobody comes out this way.”
She paused.
“Why are you wearing a military uniform? You're a soldier yourself?”
Ghost looked up from his meal.
“I don't want to talk about it.”
Amina sighed. He wondered if she understood him.
“Alright.” Amina glanced at him. A scarf covered most of her face, but Ghost couldn't help but notice that she had the most beautiful green eyes. They were piercing and intense.
"If you need anything, you call me. I'll tell Farid. He'll get you anything you want. Now, finish eating. You look very hungry.”
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After eating, they talked for a while. Amina told him about her life growing up in the village. She was too young to remember the first time the Taliban had been pushed out, but she remembered the short years of going to school; learning English, wondering about the world outside her village. Her parents had been modern; wanting their daughter to have a future, their young son to know peace. It hadn’t lasted, though.
“Do you have a family back in England?” Amina asked.
Ghost didn’t know how to answer that. What could he tell her?
“I did…” He said. Amina didn’t ask anything else. She picked up the dishes and left the room. After she left, Ghost stood painfully. He was still in his fatigue pants, and an old t-shirt had been pulled on over him. His boots were by the bed. He saw a bathroom, and walked in. Amina’s family must have been lucky, there was a sink and shower. He figured there must be an outhouse. He looked in the mirror, feeling weird without his mask. Amina must have washed his face; his camo makeup was gone. A few scars were etched on his face; old battles still there. He went back to the mattress, feeling drained. He knew he couldn’t stay here long, but he was thankful to still be alive. Thankful that someone had saved him.
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a tirade to be taken seriously
I’ve said it b4, I just didn’t get Y, I think point of constant chatter in head, sounds,&random arguments in house, were 2 stimulate beta waves in brain 2make it seem like I have fictitious divine brain frequency 2rejuvenate people. + w/remoteViewing, morePeople in, higher waves.
At the very onset of my situation, to your Facebook searchers while in school, ur dip sh*t PepsiCo employees, and the rest on tv, to reiterate: I am an Indian with Theistic views. Your American military & government is abusing me into being every1s friend, enemy, love interest-
- please leave my family, me, my possible future wife’s family, alone. We wanted nothing to do with your practices, religions, culture, or anything. We were minding our own business, and then for 6500+ days, ur leads have been lining my family and me against each other-
- how ur leaders went about it? By directly and indirectly pinning my family and me against each other. By putting ur American soldiers into our heads, manipulating our emotions, our compassion, and forcing us, in delusional states, to bend to their will-
- ur government is a racist group of faggots(90s colloquial statement at someone/now completely different/its the kind of term you use against pink faced Caucasian all men military when they rape your mind like they depict the Taliban) promoting me as someone lucky to have big cars, beautiful blondes, five guys hamburgers, big muscles, big pensises, please ur ur own kind for your purposes and leave our peaceful community alone, for my parents who are 65 and myself closer to 40.-
- my family and me don’t want ur trillions, we have our businesses, and wish to return to our country as I once tried, when ur government forced me back with violent youth in government positions and in schools. We are just minding our own business. People are in prisons longer.-
- how I’m writing this at this hour while they express their overly aggressive irritated spiteful emotions at me it is because since my college days, I suffer from insomnia. Ur military, with whose flag I’ve literally wiped my a*s with, for attempting to murder my brother, -
- puts me in delusional states of mind, tries to get me off meds, because after having me preach your Christian religion, they then fondle my balls with their wireless waves. Leave us alone. We don’t want ur trillions, pay off ur deb. Stop bothering us.-
- What is it you think we r? Priests, prophets, kindles? You think I’m the f*in messiah? Please leave us alone. We have suffered enough, my parents are getting old and can’t take another beating for it country’s crimes against humanity against our otherwise overly docile nature.-
- like some of ur conspiracy theorists fear, ur govmt is retarded enough 2 prolong a 6500+ ordeal w/an alleged camera in my tv 2 monitor mind control actions. They’re just abusing a brown man they learned 2 hate in their wars against Afghanistan &Iran. We r Indian & stay Indian.-
- for 6500+ days, while their propaganda youth talk about love related options and interests, they give blind eye to our family’s cultural alliance interests. They turn a delusional mind control situation into opportunity 2 test 4 fake telekinetic powers 2 augment their army.-
- they compound psychological conditioning to say my parents are hateful, my brother will turn away, & the women I like are all f*king and s*king. I don’t no what ur hearing with this tv nonsense, but u have ur lives, & after 6000 days, we deserve 2 live just like U. Go away.
So I’m a brown man with a bald head head a one a cut beard. I have big eyes, a big nose, big sometimes firm/sometimes loose lips, big features, broad shoulders. While ethnically I’m Asian, i could pass as black. My counterparts are generally darker.-
- on this occasion, where a racist black school is ruining my life & a white govmt is encouraging them in form of putting cocaine in their communities, I’m going 2 say 2 these anti niggas and wiggers in their American generals/majors, s*k my d*k & get f* away from my family&me.-
- you think I’m angry when I say these things. The evil infadel American government, for 6500+ days, uses the white propaganda youth to say potential things before I say it, especially if it’s angry, for it to lose efffect when I actually say it, being the second time heard.-
- u think I’m angry when I say these things & propaganda youth encourages 2 give me benefit of doubt & dismiss it. To your president, Congress, and military, grow a spine. U leave pussy a*s white Albany youth or stupid soldiers 2 experience their emotion in myFace 2 f* w/empathy-
- Christ maybe caretaker asking 5 people’s redemption 4 1 more yr, but “God bless America?” U deserve promise of psalm 3. “How many rise up against me?..strike them down…” God will never bless America. Proof is in your Boeing planes falling out of sky/bridges falling w/aTouch.-
- U will always be cursed in my eyes. I would never offer a wishful thought to any of U. When I was “disabled” from praying for myself in my head, y would I, 4 others? I was compliant enough am & am now defiant enough 2 run 2 face 350,000,000 angry whites & blacks 2 my death. -
- nasty things ur sex addicted American culture tells me. They watch me & relay me w/ a shriveled penis or an engorged penis, masturbating 2 the world. They then tell me sex w/prostitutes & orgasms is shared by all women in some demented psychic rape. Values of USA & Albany.-
- you wanna know why they do these things? You deserve a shoe thrown at u, spat in ur face. U guys are probably brainwashed to worshipping ur f*in flag before going to Church & giving ur kids a lunch that isn’t covered by government subsidies. Pimps and whores is ur culture.-
- let my brothers in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East know, what they did to a brown man, who they say is an alpha male, and that they themselves refer to selves as racists. Ur deluded into thinking this is about building up a lowly child, when it’s about a man approaching 40s.-
- clearly as ur American president can’t issue an executive order 2 solve immigration, the worlds armies R amassing in Americas border, ur shooting each other, & bridges/trains/planes R falling, its begs question: how many Americans does itTake 2 change light bulb in 6500+ days?!
- what makes the best spy? Someone who uses your emotions to get close to you, especially with a mix of people with speech/facial expressions rooted in emotional spontaneous stimuli, without reflection in between, and some1 who is accustomed to compassion. Like a vcr on play. -
- whether the worlds memory gets wiped of these bizarre incidents or not, with sedating streams of consciousness that diminishes brain waves, which makes them animalistic, in a crazy attempt to prevent power grid interference,nothing is justifiable-
- evil/ spiteful & angry & salivating & tilling in multiple ways soldiers of the American military keep putting me in delusions. They start w/ emotional blackmail or some form of aggravation, stimuli. They’re obsessed with sex & a good time with friends to plot u in-
- interesting thing w/ facing white man? It’s like video w/will smith against mutated devils. He sees imprint resembling butterfly his dead daughter used 2 draw. & no it’s times 2 let go. He realizes 2listen&that he can’t save them. Starts w/this clip:-
https://x.com/RennyJi/status/1773046950855586002?s=20
- this is the next part of previous clip-:
https://x.com/RennyJi/status/1773047259535471028?s=20
- this is the ending of the clip-:
https://x.com/RennyJi/status/1773047379924582661?s=20
- now I no from these random license plate multiples I’m seeing w/ 7 numbers where a combination of 1,7,9 & multiples of 11 like 22,33,44, etc. could be an answer 2my prayers. I keep saying videos where they’re talking about power of No, that there’s a heaven after this world.-
- I realize they could be Bible verses. It is my habit to cut off people who betray me. Why keep a bad friend or stay in a troublesome relationship? Why stay in a country that abuses ur family despite calls for help, throughout 6500+ days?-
-&then in psalm 119, I think, it says very thing I do. Cut them off. Psalm 3 says God will strike down those engaging in a global conspiracy. (“how many rise up against me, Lord…). All while power of saying No, reminded 2me while Americans obsess on sex &blondes 4 manipulation.-
-whatever I’m saying, it factors U R devils, who to bitter end, will try 2 get ur way by manipulating me 2 write, 2 react. Oh “he’s learning” by stupid pig faced whites like a computer, while retard in head fondles balls and acts like he’s on my side. Ultimate price=ultimatum.
- in my youth, I remember it raining more in August around my siblings birthday. Now the pattern has changed. On The Why Files, and Ancient Aliens, it says American conspiracy exists to control ionosphere and secret navy projects to instigate tidal waves like in Japanese tsunami-
- probably to shake up world. I guess by manipulating ionosphere you can make it perpetually foggy or sunny as it just seems it’s always dark when my favorable aspect of Westchester, New York was its brightness. So wat, am I government spy, paranoid freaks?!-
- lemme guess, how much I no, what 2 delete from memories, if that were 2 happen, then mayB Im guy in Revelations who gets released from grip of an evil force, regains memories & annihilates probably Americans w/ Christ. It starts w/ domino u metaphorically/symbolically push.-
- it’s ur move Americans. I want to move out and I want to risk me being here to poison the blood of your blondes in the words of ur Trump card. Darkness thrives in the void, but always, always, always, yields to lasting light. This WILL NOT end well for you-
- I will hack each of U to pieces for the abuse my family has endured, either metaphorically, or literally. Ur move. Tread with caution. You take the family associated with the CBI and prime minister of another country & rape them and have their son “wave rape” women for sex ed.-
Americans & their American muscle. Big muscles big men. Well learn from the small & mighty,whose compact strength is not a flag that gets used as toilet paper, but their Almighty One True God. Face His wrath 4 high crimes against free will, the God given right of men. Jai Hind.
How will American Shaitaan, infidels of the focus of the jihad (the holy war of the world against mind control) corrupt me? Will they fight my conviction, my abstract beliefs w/hate, lust, or any of the other 7 deadly sins against my 7 virtues?! Coming from a Theist. Jai Hind.
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Joe Biden did not screw-up with Afghanistan. It is arguably one of the best things he has done in his presidency, getting us out of an expensive forever war. Which to be fair, Trump started the peace talks and plans to end the War. Trump would have left Afghanistan to the Taliban too. Trump even called the Taliban good fighters and smart. Trump would have "lost" the war too. Biden was literally just following through a plan that Trump initiated. And again, both deserve credit. Thank God they got us out of Afghanistan. "People should be arrested for supporting drag time story hour". There's that Free Speech Loving Rightwing that we all know. I thought Conservatives hated the "thought police"? But apparently, even if you just support Drag Queen Story Time, Conservatives think you should go to jail. It is ridiculous.
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[ad_1] During the day I take a look at in at the fellow Afghan girls sharing a roof with me at our resort within the Albanian lodge the town of Shengjin. They comic story that I'm Albania's new therapist. We play card video games and consult with Albanian pastry retail outlets the place the deserts style bittersweet, like our exile.We attempt to fill our days with actions to make the time move extra briefly. Closing month, I attended a trauma care path, facilitated through the global reduction group Samaritan's Handbag, the place we talked -- or a minimum of attempted to speak -- about all we left in the back of. Within the courtyard of the resort there's a abnormal copy of the Statue of Liberty. My two sons at all times attempt to climb it. I check out to not take its glance of inexpensive plasticity as some form of omen that liberty in our subsequent house --if there's a subsequent -- is only a puffed-up façade just like the model we had been bought in Afghanistan.There, the placement is bleak. The United International locations Building Programme initiatives that through the center of this 12 months Afghanistan may face "common poverty," with 97% of Afghans dwelling under the Global Financial institution-designated global poverty line of $1.90 an afternoon. It is an build up of as much as 25% at the poverty price previous to america withdrawal, in step with the UNDP. Closing week, the UN introduced its biggest unmarried nation help attraction ever: $5 billion within the hope of shoring up collapsing elementary products and services, that have left 22 million wanting help within the nation, and 5.7 million other people requiring assist past its borders. Afghanistan has grow to be the arena's biggest humanitarian disaster. However no amount of cash will carry peace to our stricken souls.Every time I wash our garments within the sink of our resort room, I take into accounts the remaining day of our outdated lives. Again in August, I used to be washing my youngsters's garments when a pal texted me to straight away pack my circle of relatives's baggage. My liked fatherland Herat, a quite liberal town in western Afghanistan, used to be possibly going to fall to the Taliban inside the subsequent 24 hours. And it did.Forces have been advancing for months, however I wasn't mindful how briefly the placement used to be deteriorating. Nonetheless, I have been apprehensive for a while that the Taliban would attempt to make a comeback. And as a training human rights legal professional, I knew the Taliban would no longer approve of my occupation. In June, after having led a path on home violence consciousness with america executive, I implemented for a Particular Immigrant Visa to The united states. I by no means did listen again from the embassy, and worry my utility used to be misplaced within the administrative mess. However I assumed I had the posh of time. That used to be till I authorised the truth: the Taliban would indisputably take my town and possibly Kabul quickly after. And upon their arrival, all my goals of dwelling in a democratic, equivalent society would vanish.My husband and I briefly packed a couple of suitcases, most commonly garments for our two youngsters and my stepdaughter, and stuck the remaining industrial flight to Kabul. Within the rush to depart, I left in the back of some significant pieces, together with my college degree. I used to be skilled solely in Afghanistan, and am the primary lady in my circle of relatives to finish secondary training, let by myself obtain a college stage. After escaping Herat, my circle of relatives and I spent a month fearfully alternating between a Ecu nonprofit group place of business in Kabul and a pal's condo. The Taliban know who I'm. For the previous decade, I've been advocating for home abuse survivors and main casual however decided coalitions of ladies -- psychologists, docs, activists, legal professionals, educators -- to take in this nation's never-ending struggle in opposition to girls.
In Kabul, we tried to get to the airport some 15 instances. Contacts from all over the world attempted getting us on flights however to no avail. To Qatar? To Mexico? The United States? I did not care the place, I simply sought after to get out.In the end, in August, we were given on a aircraft to Albania, probably the most poorest international locations in Europe. Now we have been right here for the previous 5 months, post through the Albanian executive in a seashore lodge together with virtually 1,000 different Afghans. I've no longer been in a position to reapply for a Particular Immigrant Visa, and we are ready on phrase when our new existence will start in The united states or Canada. We could be right here for some other 12 months. Possibly two. Or perhaps per week. Who controls time? I not take a look at calendars. It wasn't at all times like this. I knew I sought after to be a legal professional to assist girls reside higher lives with the consideration they deserve -- to forestall them from being compelled into marriages they didn't need for themselves and from staying in abusive scenarios for worry or a loss of different choices.My mom used to be compelled to marry my father when she used to be handiest 12 years outdated. As a way to pass to college, my mom and I made up lies in order that my father would let me depart the home. We advised him I used to be going to the mosque or to Quran research. When the Taliban had been in energy, I used to be a tender youngster, and this changed into very tricky, however we at all times discovered some way for me to be informed.We in the end satisfied my father to let me attend college, however my sister wasn't so fortunate. She used to be compelled into marriage on the age of 14. Whilst I've early life reminiscences of the Taliban beating girls within the streets for no longer dressed in their burqas correctly, my later teenager years had been stuffed with promise. There used to be numerous global investment for methods focused at girls's equality and meetings stuffed with 'vital other people' from overseas international locations who advised us we may well be anything else we would have liked to be.Girls's rights had been meant to be the luck tale of the 2001 US invasion, however the legacy of struggle has been killing our girls for years. An estimated two-thirds of Afghan women don't pass to college, 87% of Afghan girls are illiterate, and greater than 70% face compelled marriage. Nonetheless, during the last twenty years, america spent masses of hundreds of thousands of bucks selling girls's rights in Afghanistan, and an entire technology folks entered our careers with authentic hope for gender equality. Now, all of it seems like empty slogans. What's going to grow to be of all of the spectacular girls I do know who're legal professionals, docs, academics, politicians? The Taliban claims it will not hurt them, however the fact may be a ways other, and already the ladies of Afghanistan are being compelled inside of once more.Simply remaining week, photos circulated on social media of staff at clothes retail outlets in Herat chopping off the heads of feminine mannequins. Taliban government have classified them "un-Islamic." Previous this month, they banned girls with out male chaperones from getting into cafes within the town. CNN has no longer been in a position to independently check those stories, regardless that they tally with what I have heard from Afghans dwelling there. Closing month, the Taliban additionally banned girls from touring farther than 45 miles with no shut male family member. 4 years in the past, on Global Girls's Day, I gave beginning to my moment son. I made a promise to myself that I'd by no means elevate my youngsters in a rustic the place girls are second-class electorate.Sadly, our nation's long term has been determined. And it does not come with us. So, I will be able to look forward to some other aircraft to take us even farther clear of a rustic I like however that does not love me.
I will be able to wait to construct us a brand new existence. Afghan girls are sturdy, however we mustn't want to be this sturdy. [ad_2] #resort #room #Albania #Afghan #girls #look ahead to #lives #watch #native land #crumple
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Written a year before the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan – and subsequent capture of the country by the Taliban – in 2021; here's an insight into one of the many factors leading to the current situation for women there (I imagine similar discussions happen at peace talks in other countries):
"...In the June 2017 Afghanistan peace talks, women made up 6% of negotiators, 0% of mediators and 0% of signatories. Causal data for the sudden reversal between 2016 and 2017 is not available, but a clue comes courtesy of a participant at an off-the-record round table on women, peace and security at the International Peace Institute in NY in 2014. 'The UN and other powerbrokers succumb to requests not to have women in the room,' the participant claimed. 'When the local government says "we don't want women," the international community compromises and says "OK." As in post-disaster contexts, the reasoning varies (cultural sensitivities; including women would delay the negotiations; women can be included after an agreement has been reached) but they all boil down to the same line that's been used to fob off women for centuries: we'll get to you after the revolution"
– Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men – Caroline Criado-Perez (2020), p. 294
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Girl Empowerment Podcast: Unleashing Her Power
The importance of girl empowerment cannot be overstated. For too long, girls have been held back by societal expectations, gender biases, and cultural norms that limit their potential. But with the right support, education, and opportunities, girls can achieve great things and become powerful agents of change. To better understand these things, it is best to listen to the girl empowerment podcast by Johari and Sarah.
Girl Empowerment Podcast Talking About Women’s Education
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Hey... so... That happened....
Lot of uninteresting talk in the Video, but the most important points.
US blowed up Nordstream Pipeline.
US Media covered ONLY news about some "UFO", which the "US FORCES" apparently "Shot down".
(Before I get into it, let me just say that I am not Muslim. I am not Ukrainian. I am just an Indian living in Europe)
The US Media channels are completely owned by the Government, Left or Right. Their use/function is only to push forward the Agenda of the side they represent (Left or Right).
Due to US Involvement in Middle East and its wars in Syria and Iraq, there was a Mass-Immigration of Arab people into Europe. Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Greece suffered the most, but took in these Refugees and gave them Chances to live peaceful lives.
How many Refugees did the USA welcome?
I assure you that none of the other Middle-Eastern Countries welcomed Refugees from Syria and Iraq, due to fear of Collapse of their Developing Societies, which could occur due to the Backwardness of the people from these affected countries, I read. They only used to collect Clothes for the Refugees and donate them.
This "Cold"-war between US and Russia has been torturing Europe since the end of WW-II. Germany too suffered a lot. Not all Germans are Nazis. They WERE of minimum amount, but did monstrous things. Nothing Nazi happening in Germany now.
Hitler probably wanted one Currency and one language around the world. But is that different about US?
(Almost) Everything around the World is sold in US Dollars. English is spoken almost all over the World. How is USA different from the Nazi Group of Hitler? Many Americans "jokingly" tell Britishers 'If it weren't for us, then you all would be speaking German.' Who exactly is Nazi here?
For a long time, US Dollar was costlier (or had more value) than Euro. It was almost twice as valuable as Euro (1 US Dollar = 1.79 Euro) last year (maybe it was more). The ONLY Country (of the NATO Group), that profited from the War between Ukraine and Russia (or from the Russian Occupation of Ukraine), is USA.
THE ONLY COUNTRY!
But yeah... USA is the land of the Brave and the home of the Free.. (or the other way around. WHO FUCKING CARES???!!)
Right?
Due to the Inflation that has been happening all over Europe, due to the Russian Monstrosity in Ukraine, many things have become extremely costly.
Preservable Milk, which was 85 Cents per Liter (or 0.85 Euro/L) became 1.79 Euro per Liter.
Vegetable costs soaring high... Everything now costs almost double as it did in 2021.
I understand that USA and Russia have Problems of Understanding and Accepting one another. But does Europe have to suffer continuously due to their childish Tantrums? Can they not solve their Issues in a neutral place?
Ukraine is almost completely destroyed.
Russia is almost completely banned everywhere and by almost everybody.
USA and its Citizens are living their lives as normal. Yes, many Americans are hardworking and many live in Poverty. Is the American Government doing anything for them? Now, that would be a Joke. Americans don't even have proper health Insurance, according to what I read here on Tumblr, but everyone jumps into any Conversation and defends the "Great" America.
Homelessness is rampant.
Homeless people are not allowed (by the US Police) to live somewhere on the Streets or in some other open Place. Yet people always want to defend the US.
How many Protests happened in the USA, to stop USA from doing Wars in Iraq?
How many "peaceful" and "innocent" Americans protested against US Involvement in Syria?
How many Americans voiced against US Involvement in Afghanistan and against US funding the Taliban?
Yet, America is a great Country and innocent people live and work in America. Nothing bad is to be said about America.
Why?
Who gave US the Authority to blow up such Pipelines?
Who gave US any Authority to take life-altering Decisions FOR others also?
Is US the World's Bully? Imposing strict Rules and other Bullshit on everyone, while it is basically being monstrous...? Is that not Bully-Behaviour?
Will the USA ever learn Limits? And what Limits it should not cross?
Will the USA ever learn to MIND ITS OWN F*CKING BUSINESS?
I am afraid, that if this continues, then horrible things will happen soon. Hiroshima- and Nagasaki-horrible...
But, does anyone care..?
Maybe very very few do
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