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 When one hurts or kills a women
one hurts or kills hummanity and is an antrocitie.
Gino d'Artali
and: My mother (1931-1997) always said to me <Mi figlio, non esistono notizie <vecchie> perche puoi imparare qualcosa da qualsiasi notizia.> Translated: <My son, there is no such thing as so called 'old' news because you can learn something from any news.>
Gianna d'Artali.

Update January 29, 2025

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Afghan activist
Jinha - Womens News Agency - January 29, 2029 - by BAHARIN LEHIB
<<Afghan activist: I get strength from fighters resisting attacks in Syria
“We share the same pain with the Syrian people,” said Sahar Rasouli, an Afghan women’s rights activist from the city of Jalalabad, calling on all oppressed people to unite against the imperialist states.
Jalalabad- Since Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) launched an offensive and toppled the Assad regime on December 8, 2024, imperialist states have made great efforts to use this situation as an opportunity to drive Syria into instability. They even make efforts to portray Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the leader of HTS, as a democratic figure, as they did in Afghanistan for their own political interests. The Turkish state has intensified its attacks on North and East Syria to take control of the region by taking advantage of this opportunity. “We share the same pain with the Syrian people,” said Sahar Rasouli, an Afghan women’s rights activist from the city of Jalalabad, stressing that Afghanistan suffers from the same political crisis suffered by Syria. She also drew attention to the policies of radical Islamists supported by imperialist countries. “If the governments in Syria and Afghanistan were deprived of financial support, they would collapse overnight,” she added, condemning the countries providing financial support to the radical Islamist groups in both Syria and Afghanistan.
‘I get strength from fighters in Syria’
Sahar Rasouli also commented on the ongoing Turkish attacks on North and East Syria. “Whenever I watch news about Rojava and hear the killing of civilians in Erdoğan’s barbaric attacks, my heart bleeds for them. In addition, I get strength from the brave female and male fighters resisting the attacks. Whenever I see these fighters, I say that all the people oppressed by fascist and imperialist states will unite, defend themselves, overthrow these brutal governments and achieve victory.”>>
Source: https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/afghan-activist-i-get-strength-from-fighters-resisting-attacks-in-syria-36432


Caught between Taliban decrees and Trump
Zan Times January 29, 2025 - By: Khadija Haidari
<<Caught between Taliban decrees and Trump executive orders
On January 15, a Pakistani police officer came to our door and, in a mocking voice, said, “Go to Afghanistan, the Taliban will take you to America.” We are an eight-member family. The officer insisted we move to the Haji Camp, a holding facility for refugees. I told them we have no male guardian and pleaded to stay temporarily, promising we would soon leave for America. On December 24, 2024, the IOM requested our documents, stating we should wait for a final email confirming our flight schedule. However, the officers ignored emails from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and gave us one day to leave Islamabad. On that day, we hurriedly packed our belongings and headed to Peshawar where we knew life for a family made up entirely of women would be extremely difficult. We consoled ourselves that these were the final days of our ordeal, and soon we would have some respite. On January 21, we learned from media reports that the new president of the United States, Donald Trump, had suspended the processing of immigration cases for three months. We are stuck, unable to start new lives, fearful of being forced back to live under the Taliban.
"My name is Zakia Ghafoori and I am 24 years old and have a university degree in economics. Before the collapse of Afghanistan, our life was stable. My six sisters and I all worked. Our father, who served in the military, had a good salary. In 2021, the Taliban killed our father a month before they took over Afghanistan. Life for a fatherless family of seven daughters became a nightmare. We were still grieving his loss when the Taliban began imposing restrictions on women’s lives and activities. My mother often said, “Under the Taliban, families with daughters will never find peace, especially if their father was in the military.” This fear forced us to leave our homeland. With the help of one of my father’s friends, we obtained Pakistani visas and moved there in September 2021. While our mother is head of our family, as the eldest daughter, I am responsible for managing the family’s finances. We had little money, and started selling my mother’s gold to make ends meet. Life in Pakistan is incredibly hard – jobs are scarce, and when they are available, the pay is meager. Initially, one of my sisters found a job at a food stand. Later, two more of us found work. Though our income was small, it covered our basic needs. Still, we managed to survive as our immigration case was processed through the UNHCR.
In October 2024, as our visas were nearing expiration, the IOM sent us an email instructing us not to renew them or allow our passports to receive exit stamps from Pakistan as our immigration case was complete and our flight was being arranged. This news filled us with joy. We didn’t renew our visas and stopped working. In December, IOM contacted us to submit the final documents for arranging our flight. We prepared the documents, stopped going to work, and packed our bags, thinking our time in Pakistan was almost over. Now, we are in Peshawar, struggling with economic, mental, and emotional hardships. We are left wondering what will happen to our lives. Amid these unending challenges, we have come to realize that we must take matters into our own hands instead of relying on the uncertain support of governments whose policies shift daily for political reasons. Trump’s recent decision has thrown thousands of people — those who have spent years waiting for immigration to the U.S., who left their countries, homes, and lives behind — into confusion and despair. Among them are many people like us who are facing life-threatening dangers in Afghanistan, unable to work or live freely under the Taliban’s discriminatory policies. Families like ours, with no male members to provide protection or support, are among the hardest hit by this U.S. policy change. We have now decided to take our first step to regain some control over our lives by applying for Pakistani visas to avoid deportation due to our illegal stay. However, the cost of a visa in Pakistan is US$400 per person. For our family of seven, we need $2,800, plus an additional 50,000 Pakistani rupees for application fees. With no income, this amount is beyond our imagination. We know that this is just a glimpse of the immense challenges that Afghan refugees face in neighboring countries. Ours is merely one of the thousands of displaced and stateless families. The fall of the republic and the return of the Taliban have turned our society upside down. Our stories of hunger, persecution, displacement, and statelessness will continue until we have a responsible administration and a government that truly supports its people. I often ask myself: What if we had succeeded in reaching the U.S. before Trump’s administration began? Naturally, our family would have had the chance to work, live a normal life, and escape the fear of the Taliban and the constant threat of deportation by Pakistani authorities. My sisters, deprived of education and work, could have started lives free from these fears. But the line of Afghan refugees and displaced people is so long that even if the refugee system to the United States reopens, there would be countless girls, women, children, and even men in Peshawar, Islamabad, Tehran, and across Afghanistan who would remain vulnerable, stateless, and discriminated against. While efforts must continue to relocate refugees to safer countries, we must not forget that the ultimate solution lies in rebuilding our homeland. Migration cannot be a collective solution. Like my family, Afghanistan itself is on the brink of leaving for a better destination, only to have the changing policies of world leaders slam shut the door we believed was our path to salvation. My family and I now mark the beginning of our fourth year in Pakistan, waiting for a flight to the U.S. My mother is ill. My youngest sister, who is just 15 years old, is also unwell and, like the rest of my sisters, is barred from education in Pakistan. She was in the eighth grade when Kabul fell to the Taliban. Now, public schools refuse to accept Afghan refugees and the fees of private schools are exorbitant.
Most Afghans living in Pakistan constantly worry about their futures and their children’s lives. We are caught between Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada’s decrees and President Trump’s executive orders. Our homeland was handed over to a misogynistic, anti-education, anti-freedom group through an agreement signed in Doha, and now the doors of the world are closed to most of us."
Khadija Haidari is a Zan Times journalist.>>
Source: https://zantimes.com/2025/01/29/caught-between-taliban-decrees-and-trump-executive-orders/

EARLIER NEWS AND FEATURED
France24 - January 24, 2025 - By: NEWS WIRES
<<ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of Taliban leaders for persecution of Afghan women
The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan on Thursday said he is seeking arrest warrants for Taliban leaders accused of persecuting women. Since the militant group regained power in Afghanistan it has imposed heavy restrictions that almost entirely exclude women and girls from public life. The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor on Thursday said he was seeking arrest warrants against senior Taliban leaders in Afghanistan over the persecution of women, a crime against humanity. Karim Khan said there were reasonable grounds to suspect that Supreme Leader Haibatullah Akhundzada and chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani "bear criminal responsibility for the crime against humanity of persecution on gender grounds". Khan said that Afghan women and girls, as well as the LGBTQ community, were facing "an unprecedented, unconscionable and ongoing persecution" by the Taliban. "Our action signals that the status quo for women and girls in Afghanistan is not acceptable," added Khan. ICC judges will now consider Khan's application before deciding whether to issue an arrest warrant -- a process that could take weeks or even months. The court, based in The Hague, was set up to rule on the world's worst crimes such as war crimes and crimes against humanity. It has no police force of its own and relies on its 125 member states to carry out its arrest warrants -- with mixed results. In theory this means that anyone subject to an ICC arrest warrant cannot travel to a member state for fear of being detained. Khan warned he would soon be seeking additional applications for other Taliban officials. The prosecutor noted other crimes against humanity were being committed as well as persecution. "Perceived resistance or opposition to the Taliban was, and is, brutally repressed through the commission of crimes including murder, imprisonment, torture, rape and other forms of sexual violence, enforced disappearance, and other inhumane acts," he said. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that the prosecutor's actions should put the Taliban's exclusion of women and girls from public life back on the international community agenda. "Three years after the Taliban retook power, their systematic violations of women and girls' rights... have accelerated with complete impunity," said Liz Evenson, HRW's international justice director.
'Vice and virtue'
After sweeping back to power in August 2021, the Taliban authorities pledged a softer rule than their first stint in power from 1996-2001. But they quickly imposed restrictions on women and girls that the United Nations has labelled "gender apartheid". Edicts in line with their interpretation of Islamic law handed down by Akhundzada, who rules by decree from the movement's birthplace in southern Kandahar, have squeezed women and girls from public life. The Taliban government barred girls from secondary school and women from university in the first 18 months after they ousted the US-backed government, making Afghanistan the only country in the world to impose such bans. Authorities imposed restrictions on women working for non-governmental groups and other employment, with thousands of women losing government jobs -- or being paid to stay at home.
Beauty salons have been closed and women blocked from visiting public parks, gyms and baths as well as travelling long distances without a male chaperone. A "vice and virtue" law announced last summer ordered women not to sing or recite poetry in public and for their voices and bodies to be "concealed" outside the home. The few remaining women TV presenters wear tight headscarves and face masks in line with a 2022 diktat by Akhundzada that women cover up fully in public, including their faces, ideally with a traditional burqa. Most recently, women were suspended from attending health institutes offering courses in midwifery and nursing, where many had flocked after the university ban. Rights groups and the international community have condemned the restrictions, which remain a key sticking point in the Taliban authorities' pursuit of official recognition, which it has not received from any state. The Taliban authorities have consistently dismissed international criticism of their policies, saying all citizens' rights are provided for under Islamic law.
(AFP)>>
Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250123-icc-prosecutor-seeks-arrest-of-taliban-leaders-over-persecution-of-women
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