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1 year

Astonishing scenes in Pakistan where former prime minister @ImranKhanPTI unveils scores of tear gas shells he says were fired at his residence in Lahore by police as supporters block attempts to arrest him

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Just spoken to my son who is a student in Scotland. They are now not allowed to visit each other’s flats, banned from going to pubs & all tuition is online. So they’re getting in debt paying huge amounts of rent & fees to stay imprisoned in their rooms. This can’t be right

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One million people have been forced to flee their homes in Ukraine - among them 7 year old Violeta who made the 4 day journey from Odessa with her cat Richard

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Has Pakistan’s powerful army gone too far this time? All eyes on Pakistan after the most astonishing election results in the country’s history

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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Media in Pakistan freer than in the West, claims its caretaker PM ⁦ @AnwaarKakar ⁩ - so how come we can’t get visas to cover the elections?

Media in Pakistan freer than in the West, claims PM Kakar

Says Imran jailed not for his political opinions, but for alleged role in May 9 events

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Unbelievably the British Home Office has denied visas to the 47 young afghan musicians due to fly tomorrow from Portugal for their 4 city Breaking the Silence tour to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan women and girls

Each note played for the women and girls that could not escape the Taliban

Musicians who fled as the militants returned to power are making a new life in Portugal

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As results come in for Pakistan’s election, things not going as planned for the men in khaki - Imran Khan’s independents in a shock lead despite locking him & many of his colleagues up, taking away his election symbol and preventing them campaigning #silentrevolution

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I watched Kate’s moving interview abt her cancer & her wonderful medical team while sitting 5am in St Helier hospital A&E waiting 8 hrs on plastic chairs with a close family member who has advanced cancer. How can this be ok in the world’s 6th biggest economy ?

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Great news - Home Office has overturned their decision & the Afghan youth orchestra will now be coming to UK and playing their women’s day concert at @southbankcentre then Bham,, Liverpool & Manchester. . Pls go see them & show your support for Afghan women & girls 🙏

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Pakistan’s powers-that-be not taking any chances when it comes to making sure the country’s most popular politician cannot contest the election …

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🚨🚨 #BREAKING : Special court sentenced 10 years imprisonment to #PTI founder/ former PM @ImranKhanPTI and ex foreign minister @SMQureshiPTI .

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The Taliban government has 33 mullahs and 4 people under US sanctions but zero women or people from other political groups. Son of late leader Mullah Omar is Defence Minister. They say they have changed but this is hardline

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Juggling college essay crises with meeting world leaders to try and ensure school for every child - the remarkable ⁦ @Malala ⁩ at 21

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So happy flying back into beautiful snowy Afghanistan but also bit sad wondering what I will find

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@David_Cameron @ForeignSecUK can you do something ? UK spent 20 years tellling Afghan girls and women they could be free and now we refuse to let them in to play concerts sponsored by @southbankcentre

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As if Afghans have not suffered enough, Pakistan now forcibly expelling as many as 2 million as world turns a blind eye, distracted by Middle East

Sulaiman Hakemy

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6 months

Today I am at Torkham, on the Afghan border with Pakistan, where 10s of thousands of Afghans have gathered, having been expelled from Pakistan. >2,000 families have crossed here in the past 24 hours. We’re seeing perhaps the largest forced expulsion in the world since the 1950s.

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A few weeks ago I was siting in the flat of ⁦⁦ @vamelina ⁩ drinking to her new life in Paris and her new book on women investigating Putin’s war crimes. Now she is a victim of a war crime herself. Very hard to write this

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4 years

Are there any women in the UK government ? Only seen men for weeks

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By the way @ukhomeoffice all members of Afghan youth orchestra happily returned to Portugal after their tour of UK despite your fears they would try to stay here

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Never imagined I would be wishing my husband good luck as he heads out to the supermarket

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The musicians are aged 14-22 and more than half of them female. ‘It’s so disappointing ‘ says Dr Ahmad Sarmast, head of the orchestra. ‘These girls have been practising for months and it would have been so beautiful ‘

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13 years ago today #BenazirBhutto was killed - we still don’t know by who. Meeting her in London changed my life and her photo addressing her final rally hangs over my desk

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Lovely tribute from @piersmorgan - ‘she was there for us in the best of times and worst of tines’

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20 years ago today a tiny thing the weight of a sugar packet came into my life almost 12 weeks early. Thanks to the amazing #Neonatal unit of University College Hospital London & @NHSuk he is a strapping young man studying at university who makes me smile everyday

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Thousands of Ukrainian children have been tricked or forcibly abducted to Russia in one of the most chilling stories I have reported on. But some brave mums embarked on an astonishing 5000 mile journey behind enemy lines to get their daughters back

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‘My men have had some vodka. Now they want some entertainment …’ Chilling words and truly a story I wish i didn’t have to write. Just hope this time - for once - these brave survivors get justice #ukraine

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Can we borrow her first to sort out Brexit?

Opinion | America Deserves a Leader as Good as Jacinda Ardern (Published 2019)

New Zealand’s prime minister moved swiftly to ban weapons of mass killing after a gunman attacked two mosques.

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1 year

About time Afghan men supported the women

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Male university students have walked out of their exam in protest against Taliban’s decision to BAN female students from university education. Several male professors have also resigned so far. This must happen across the country NOW!

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Is it not enough that they had to flee the Taliban?

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The bravest girls in the world - thank you ⁦ @srakorg ⁩

Huddled in secret schools, Afghan girls refuse to give up on education

Behind a yellow door in an alley blanketed by snow, 25 girls sit on the floor, huddled in coats and headscarves, in front of a white board. “What are you doing?

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This is real leadership

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"I really am sorry, from the bottom of my heart. But if the price we pay is 590 deaths a day then this in unacceptable." German Chancellor Angela Merkel begs Germans to follow coronavirus restrictions in an unusually emotional appeal ahead of Christmas.

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that's an Oxford education for you...

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Glorious morning in #Eurovision winning #Ukraine - hoping there will be peace for them to host it next year.

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Wow - not an image I ever thought I’d see. @Pontifex and @AyatollahSistan sitting together in latter’s home in Najaf. Hope it brings unity

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shocked to hear this attack on one of Pakistan's most respected journos, my old friend @javeednusrat Thank God he is ok but what does this say about the onslaught on the media in Imran Khan's Pakistan?

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Pakistan's Establishment is more subtle than barring foreign journos - they tell me no visa for first time in 31 yrs because of 'a glitch'

Pakistan’s military uses menace to ease Imran Khan’s path into power

Gul Bukhari, 52, was driving to her television studio in Lahore one night last month when pick-up trucks blocked her way and armed men dragged her from her car so forcefully they left bruises on her...

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hard to believe it is nine years since the assassination of #BenazirBhutto the bravest woman I knew and sorely missed

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2 years

More and more brave women coming out in Afghanistan as well as Iran

Habib Khan

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Women are protesting in Bamyan and Herat provinces of Afghanistan. #FreeAfghanistan

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Are you watching @Tobias_Ellwood ?

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A group of women come out on the streets of Kabul today to protest against the Taliban’s closure of all beauty salons in Afghanistan. The women chanted "bread, work, justice". The Taliban used water cannons & gunshots disperse the protesters.

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While world’s attention elsewhere pls spare a thought for Afghanistan where Taliban say more than 2000 people killed in earthquake in 13 villages around Herat

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6 years

So sorry to hear of passing of Mrs Nawaz Sharif - i always remember how she stood up to Musharraf and refused to leave her car when he sent a crane to tow it away and stop her leading a procession. Brave woman and condolences to the Sharif family

Begum Kulsoom Nawaz passes away in London after battle with cancer

She is survived by her husband, Nawaz Sharif, and four children, Hassan, Hussain, Maryam and Asma.

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2 years

My little street in SW London held a Christmas sale and raised more than £1000 which matched by the govt becomes £2000 - enough to feed 20 Afghan families for 3 months. If streets all over UK do the same we could really make a difference

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The UN estimates that there are 12.9 million children in need in Afghanistan. As the crisis escalates, aid workers have reported meeting despairing parents trying to give away their children to ensure they are fed. Please donate now.

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10 years today since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, perhaps the most courageous person I ever met, a loving mother, loyal friend - even when we didn’t agree - & a big influence on my career. Huge loss for pakistan. RIP Bibi you are much missed #RememberingSMBB

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3 years

So many heartbreaking messages from Afghans left behind as last UK evacuation flight leaves. 20 years, so many lives lost or damaged, for what?

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Wandering round Kabul seeing Taliban everywhere and most of my old friends either fled or in hiding, hard not to wonder what last 20 years was for

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‘It was one of the most amazing visits I have ever done’ Countess of Wessex tells #psvi conference about her recent visit to Panzi hospital in DRC and talks movingly of their ‘holistic approach’ and the compassion of their staff

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Congratulations @BakhtawarBZ I hope you will be very happy. I still remember when you were born - first ever baby born to a PM in office

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So i chose Benazir Bhutto who literally changed my own life for my Great Lives on @BBCRadio4 with the wonderful Matthew Parris this afternoon at 16.30

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Christina Lamb on Benazir Bhutto

Christina Lamb, author and journalist nominates Benazir Bhutto as her great life.

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5 years

As I wrote almost 30 years ago in Waiting for Allah, Pakistan is an army with a country not vice versa ...

Drazen Jorgic

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This is a story that has taken more than a year to report out. I hope it sheds a little bit of light on modern-day Pakistan

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Woman caller on 5 Live just made v fair point - what on earth makes a bad deal ok just because Theresa May will step down ?

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Shocked that on the anniversary of Benazir Bhutto's death, her son @BBhuttoZardari and widower @AAliZardari banned by Pakistan government from leaving the country

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These brave girls are so inspiring - met some of them last year and one of them told me she feels "like flying" when she bikes. Imagine cycling with men throwing stones - one even deliberately drove his motorbike into them.

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At least 30 girls took part in a cycling race in Kabul on Thursday to say no to violence against women and defend women’s rights for education.

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Miserable day in Kabul seems fitting for the one year anniversary of Taliban rule - ‘I feel like I am living in a box they keeps getting smaller’ one Afghan woman told me

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I remember it well - and she campaigned while pregnant with @BBhuttoZardari

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'The next day I was back on the job': the last time a woman PM gave birth in office 🤗

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While lockdown has emptied the streets of London buses have kept going and driving one of them might be the most dangerous job in the country. Their families want them to be given proper protection

Coronavirus: Bus driving is deadlier than being a doctor — and the killer could climb on board at...

When Tony Jones gets home from work in south London each evening, his three sons text to check that he is OK. He is not a doctor, nurse or care worker but a London bus driver, a job that, according...

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This is like one of those really long rambling excuses for why you haven’t done your essay and you don’t have a proper reason #DominicCummngs

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It’s also the only country on earth which bans girls from school and university … you may forget @Levisonwood but they have no choice

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For anyone interested in visiting the Wakhan in Afghanistan, my guide Malang is now running tours and expeditions. It’s completely safe and the country is welcoming tourists. Forget what you may have heard, it’s a beautiful country & welcoming people.

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Bamian was the showpiece of the new Afghanistan with female Governor, cycling club & ski group. It was also where the Taliban blew up the giant Buddhas. As the Taliban’s most persecuted minority, many there are now living in fear

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Horrendous reports of rapes of women in Tigray not getting enough attention

hiwet

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"One woman was held captive for over 10 days, raped by 23 Eritrean soldiers, then left on the side of the road. Surgeons had to remove stones and nails that had been inserted inside her genitals"💔 #TigrayGenocide #WomensDay @UN_Women @christinalamb

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The Afghan youth orchestra has toured Spain, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and will play New York’s Carnegie Hall but @ukhomeoffice won’t let them in

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A statement on the Afghan Youth Orchestra's planned concert at the Southbank Centre this Thursday:

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‘There is no other way’ but education for girls says Afghanistan’s former President Hamid Karzai speaking out against the Taliban for the first time

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Wonderful to see 2 of my favourite strong women @Jemima_Khan & Malala's mum at #HeNamedMeMalala premiere in London http://t.co/j35Arz1gek

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MPs locked up 8 months without trial or bail; beatings of elderly people; kidnapping of opposition party & hospitals doing operations by light of mobile phones - been reporting from #Zimbabwe 29 yrs but never seen it so bad. On ⁦ @TimesRadio ⁩ 9.35am

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Glad to read this ⁦⁦ @clarissaward ⁩ & that things are improving - 20 years ago when I was reporting as a mum I was described as an ‘ego-driven maniac’ by a fellow female war correspondent (who went on to have a child herself) - I was devastated

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Love the fact that a woman wins Nobel Prize for Physics the day after Italian physicist belittles women scientists saying 'physics was built by men'

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Tragedy after tragedy in Afghanistan

WFP in Afghanistan

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🚨Breaking: #Afghanistan was hit by two more earthquakes this morning. This brings it to a total of 7 earthquakes with multiple aftershocks in a week. Since then, dozens of villages have been affected — some of them entirely flattened. #HeratEarthquake

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Rape has long been a war crime. Time to start actually bringing people to justice

Dame Melinda Simmons

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Rape is a weapon of war. Though we don’t yet know the full extent of its use in #Ukraine it’s already clear it was part of 🇷🇺 arsenal. Women raped in front of their kids, girls in front of their families, as a deliberate act of subjugation. Rape is a war crime.

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As Mercedes, Jaguar, Ford, Renault, Toyota et al rush to develop electric cars, how many customers know that the cobalt for their batteries come from DRC where men, women & children are risking their lives? Amazing pix from ⁦ @paulaphoto ⁩

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Sadly we don’t seem to be able to deal with more than one crisis at once

Clare Daly

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Meanwhile in Afghanistan... tens of thousands seeking refuge; five million children facing famine; 500% increase in child marriages; children being sold to feed families... Not a mention of it. My god, they must be wondering what makes their humanitarian crisis so unimportant.

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I am beyond tired of seeing women and children killed in men’s wars. Please stop this now

Richard Sewell

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Disaster: our hospital, Ahli Arab hospital has taken a direct hit from an Israeli missile. Early reports say hundreds of women and children killed. This is deliberate killing of vulnerable civilians. The bombs must stop now. There can be no possible justification for this.

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These women are so brave. The least the world can do is listen

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Video: Women protesters in Kabul, chanting slogans for jobs, food and for their rights to be recognized, call on the international community to aid Afghanistan and avert disaster. #TOLOnews

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Lora, the brave hydrologist who measures the level of the Dnipro every 30 minutes (despite Russian shelling) and says it’s now going down

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Not often these days that a positive story comes from war weary Afghanistan but these schoolgirls building a ventilator from old Toyota Corolla parts are truly inspirational as is the woman behind them ⁦ @RoyaMahboob ⁩

Teenage girls breathe hope into Afghanistan with Covid ventilator made of old car parts

A group of teenage girls in Afghanistan has built a ventilator using old car parts to help overcome desperate shortages in their country’s fight against Covid-

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20 years ago the Taliban blew up the Buddhas of Bamian. This time round they blew up the statue of a local hero. They say they have changed

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Once again rape being used as a weapon of war. Shocking reports from Tigray. It’s time to take a stand

Meron T.G.

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These are gender based #WarCrimes being committed to #tortue and coerce women into submission. This #WomensHistoryMonth please use your voice to help us put a stop to it. #TigrayGenocide #WeaponizedRape @christinalamb @LinaAbiRafeh

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So sad to see all that hope after Mugabe’s ouster turned to horror. We expose children beaten and other atrocities that Zimbabwe regime is hiding behind an internet shutdown its spokesman says is ‘to protect the people’ | News | The Sunday Times

Exposed: the horror Zimbabwe is hiding behind a news blackout

Hundreds of people, including children as young as 10, have been killed or beaten in Zimbabwe in recent days in a crackdown the regime has tried to hide by shutting down the internet and deporting...

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3 years

For some reason war rape is the most neglected war crime. It’s also happening in more and more places. It’s time for everyone everywhere to take violence against women more seriously

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4 years

12 years ago today one of the bravest people I have ever met was killed - a tragic loss for her family and country. Proud to have counted her as a friend #RememberingBenazirBhutto

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So far today I have seen Londoners gardening, playing cricket, meeting for coffee, doing Zumba - no one 'reeling'

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If we cannot protect children then what are we?

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3,195 children killed in #Gaza in just three weeks has surpassed the annual number of children killed across the world's conflict zones since 2019. We are calling for an immediate ceasefire.

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Hoping Afghan children like these in Kabul’s first mobile library will soon know peace after today’s signing of #AfghanPeaceDeal even if many doubts still remain

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2 years

This is horrific and completely unacceptable

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Protests outside my house, targeting my children, antisemitic abuse on social media…. It’s almost like I’m back in 90s Lahore. #PuranaPakistan

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So thrilled to win this award -and so impressed to see all the nominees and winners at #amnestymediaawards

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2 years

Boris you left a cat behind at Kabul airport ….

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Mugabe’s death is reminding me how when he banned British journalists and we had to go undercover and speak in code on the phone we referred to him as the Yorkshireman - try saying his name backwards...

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So moving to hear brave Rita & Rowena Kahsay talk abt rape of #Tigray women & catch up with Katrien Coppen of ⁦ @MukwegeFound ⁩ in ⁦ @UKParliament ⁩ on #International Day of Elimination of Sexual Violence - thank you ⁦ @helenhayes_ ⁩ Pls sign

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10 months

Every day I get heartbreaking messages like this from Afghan women

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9 months

Next month marks a year since Mahsa Amini’s death triggered mass protests across Iran led by women. Over that year four incredibly brave women who were part of it risked their lives to get out their stories and tell how resistance continues

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

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4 years

Great to see the first prosecution anywhere in the world today of an ISIS militant for committing genocide against the Yazidis. Once again Germany leading the way (and Amal Clooney)

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3 years

Somehow Harefield hospital managed to do 3 lung transplant ops this week even as many of its staff are off with covid & more than half its ICU beds occupied by London’s sickest covid patients- oh and a 50% drop in available organs. Humbling

Every day they transplant new life into the dying, and they don’t stop for Covid

In her small cluttered office in Harefield Hospital, northwest London, consultant cardiologist Dr Shelley Rahman Haley kicks some astonishingly high-heeled gree

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4 years

Heartbreaking stories of the Kabul mothers whose newborn babies were shot dead. Why isn’t this making more news ? The whole world should be shouting abt this

Mehreen Zahra-Malik

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4 years

After struggling to get pregnant for years, Zainab gave birth to a boy on Tuesday in #Kabul . She named him Omid, 'hope' in Dari. She spent 7 years trying to have a child, waited 9 months to meet her son and had just 4 hours with him before he was killed.

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10 years

Imran Khan talks of democracy but seems to be all but begging army to seize power. Hope wiser heads prevail

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4 years

Another day another attack on young Afghans just trying to learn - last week a study centre, today Kabul university. 25 more dreams turned to coffins. When will it ever end ? #Afghanistan

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christinalamb

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1 year

Can the UN seriously be contemplating recognising the Taliban - the only land on earth that bans girls from high school and uni and women from working? That really would be supping with the devil

Top UN Official Proposes Meeting to Discuss Recognition of Taliban

United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed stresses need for engagement with Afghanistan’s fundamentalist authorities

www.voanews.com

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The Taliban made them flee homes & family to keep making music but this week the Afghan youth orchestra is in UK on their Breaking the Silence tour - starting at ⁦ @southbankcentre ⁩ I met them in their new home in Portugal

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2 years

“Tyrants the world over love situations where there are distractions and Covid has been a wonderful distraction’ says courageous Zimbabwe opposition politician ⁦ @DavidColtart ⁩ speaking in London tonight

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@christinalamb

4 years

“I know if I tell my story probably for the rest of my life it’s the first thing people will find if they Google me but I want to stop this happening to other women’ - in my job I have met many brave women but Caitlin is truly heroic in coming forward

Gulf minister of tolerance in ‘sex assault’ on Hay books festival worker

A British woman who alleges she was the victim of a serious sexual assault by a senior Emirati royal while working on the launch of the Hay literary festival i

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@christinalamb

5 years

These days the ‘trailing spouse’ just as likely to be a man. Half of Britain’s ambassadors in Africa are now female. Very much enjoyed meeting these inspiring women

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2 years

Sadly the reports of Russian soldiers raping Ukrainian women is part of an epidemic round the world - time for the world to start doing more than just expressing outrage via @YouTube

The world’s most neglected war crime | Christina Lamb | TEDxLondonW...

Content note: this talk includes extended references to extreme sexual violence and rape.Christina Lamb opens her talk telling us this is something we might ...

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5 years

Depressing to hear that Pakistani authorities apparently still ‘clueless’ on who bombed Benazir Bhutto’s truck in Karachi 12 years ago today - I was one of those on top lucky to survive. Around 200 died - Pakistan’s worst ever bombing

12 years on, no progress in Karsaz bombing case

PPP government has not yet set up a tribunal to inquire into Oct 18, 2007 tragedy.

www.dawn.com

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6 months

In these bleak times a rare good news story of a real hero risking his life to bring education to the forgotten girls of Afghanistan

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