A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
The world must not forget the women of Afghanistan
Not only has there been no let-up in the terrible situation imposed upon the women of Afghanistan by the Taliban, but the situation is becoming acutely worse, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
An Afghan IWD protest in 2022
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
As tensions escalate over Iran, CAROL MOCHAN MSP argues that Britain must finally learn from the disastrous legacy of Iraq and choose diplomacy over another catastrophic conflict
While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER
The mass killing of Iranian schoolgirls should have dominated global headlines. Instead it became another example of how civilians — especially women and children — are targeted in war, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
AS PEOPLE around the world prepare to celebrate International Women’s Day, the ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan does not even consider the country’s women to be second-class citizens.
People in Afghanistan and their “social rank” are categorised according to their ethnicity, as Pashtuns or non-Pashtuns, or their religion, as Sunni or Shi’ite Muslims.
However, women in Afghanistan have no privilege according to any marker and rank lower than low — thus, a Pashtun woman is as deprived as a Hazara woman and will face myriad forms of oppression over the course of her life.
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Afghan women living under the Taliban are navigating a system that makes their public existence conditional on male approval, writes SHUKRIA RAHIMI
