Despite Taliban banning female university education, this young woman is standing outside Kabul University this morning with the hope that she may be able to convince the Taliban to let her in. The Taliban barbwired the main gate of Kabul University and only allow male students to enter. Female students were turned away at gunpoint.  This is beyond cruel.

Hi!

If anyone of you has the ability to donate, even a small sum, or even reblog to help the victims of the recent earthquake in Afghanistan, there is this AMAZING organization; LEARN afghan who has done amazing and great things in Afghanistan since the Taliban overtake in 2021.

Here is the link to their GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/8d7b8ddc

I can assure you that your donation will not go to some corrupt authorities etc. I’ve observed their work for a while now and have even met one of the key figures from this organization, so rest assured that your donation will go towards the people of Afghanistan who are in need!

Never a pressure! If you can’t donate, even a reblog helps! 😇

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The Afghan emergency is one of the biggest humanitarian crises our world has encountered. Conflict, violence, and chronic poverty have forced more than 6 million people to be displaced, both within Afghanistan and in other countries.Together we can deliver hygiene and water storage kits for a displaced family in Afghanistan.Focus on Afghanistan with Islamic Relief United State of America. Donate now : https://irusa.org/asia/afghanistan/ 

HOW TO HELP:

A list of organisations working to aid communities around the world suffering humanitarian emergencies.

MSF provide urgent medical and surgical care in conflict and crisis zones, providing treatment to anyone who needs it, regardless of political affiliation or what side of a conflict they’re on.

The World Food Programme provides urgent food packages to communities that are most at risk of food insecurity, in places like Sudan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, the Congo, Ukraine, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, and many more.

https://www.rescue.org/uk?_gl=1*1pjpb2g*_ga*MTA0MjAyNTQ0MC4xNzA3OTE3NTA1*_ga_2VX3X7JYPY*MTcwNzkxNzUwNS4xLjEuMTcwNzkxODMwMS4wLjAuMA..*_ga_DDZCWB8N2Y*MTcwNzkxNzUwNS4xLjEuMTcwNzkxODMwMS40Ny4wLjA.

The International Rescue Committee provides vital aid to people living in conflict zones, such as Ukraine, Gaza, and Sudan.

Action Aid supports women and girls around the world who are most at risk of deprivation and poverty, sexual violence and FGM. They also provide menstrual products in areas where it is almost impossible to find the most basic levels of hygiene and sanitation, such as conflict zones.

Beyond Conflict is a mental health charity working with survivors of war, with a focus on children, and are currently funding projects to help both Israelis affected by the Hamas pogrom in October and Palestinians affected by the ongoing war.

Refugees International works with refugees and displaced people around the world.

“America likes to tell a certain story about itself: It’s a safe haven, a place of refuge for the tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free. It’s a story that history shows hasn’t always been true. But thankfully, it just got easier for Americans to take matters into their own hands and turn that aspiration into a reality.

The Biden administration on January 19 launched the Welcome Corps, a new program that will allow groups of Americans to directly sponsor refugees to resettle in their communities.

Whereas recent programs have focused on bringing over people from specific places — Afghanistan, Ukraine, Venezuela — this program makes it possible for private citizens to resettle people from any place in the world, so long as they are refugees as defined by the US Refugee Act.

Under the Welcome Corps program, you and a few of your friends can pool together funds to provide an immigration pathway that allows vulnerable people who may not otherwise be able to immigrate the ability to rebuild their lives in the US. Forming a private sponsor group involves bringing together at least five adults in your area and collectively raising $2,275 for each person you want to resettle in your community. With that money, sponsors commit to helping them through the first three months there, which can include securing and furnishing housing, stocking the pantry with food, supporting job hunts, and registering kids for school.

It’s a powerful way to improve life for the newcomers, granting them protection from persecution or violence in their country of origin, plus the chance to access health care, education, and socioeconomic opportunities. It can also improve life for everyone who’ll be in the newcomers’ orbit, including you and your neighbors. Research suggests welcoming refugees will likely benefit your community as a whole, for example by opening new businesses that revitalize neighborhoods. In Canada, a similar private sponsorship program has proven immensely popular and successful over the past decade.

But you might be thinking: Why should it fall to private citizens to fork over the cash, time, and energy to resettle refugees? Shouldn’t that be the government’s job?

...It’s a fair point: This is the government’s job. That’s why the advocacy groups that pushed for the Welcome Corps program insisted that any refugees who come to the US via private sponsorship should be in addition to the number of traditional, government-assisted resettlement cases.

The State Department has signaled that it agrees. This means that by sponsoring a refugee, you can play a role in allowing the US to take in more refugees overall. It really is additive.

And unlike prior programs for Afghans or Ukrainians, which were temporary, ad hoc responses to crises, the Welcome Corps is intended to be a permanent fixture. The hope is that it’ll complement the traditional resettlement process, which has been struggling for years.”

-via Vox, 1/27/23

Women in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan are facing significant challenges in their fight for survival and equality, yet some self-identified feminists, known as TERFs, do not acknowledge or support their struggle and revolution.

FUCK YOU

Cutting hair is a very old and traditional way of grieving in Iran so fuck you.

Not everything is about you. For years women have been oppressed and forced to wear hijab so fuck you. If we don't wear it properly we end up in jail, get lashed or beaten and in cases we end up dead.

Mahsa Amini wasn't the first woman to be killed because of such rules so FUCK YOU.

If we have to, then we will burn our forced hijab. We are oppressed and we need people to be our voice. So for once shut the fuck up and go fuck your selves.

does anyone have reading recommendations that clarify the difference between liberalism and fascism? I’m having trouble distinguishing what is just like normal levels of imperial/colonial violence conducted by a liberal state and what pushes it over the edge into a fascist state. Is fascism simply mature liberalism? Is it liberalism in crisis? Can we only make historical, reactive judgements about what is fascist, which is to say, can we only know if fascism occurred after it has come and gone? I take the general point that calling all liberal states fascist can let them off the hook for types of violence considered normal or “just doing business,” invisibilising the daily violences they conduct as part of the regular maintenance of a liberal capitalist state. People are calling the US fascist for its direct participation in and funding of the genocide in Palestine - a diagnosis I don't disagree with, but if that’s the case, where do you draw the distinction between the US being merely a liberal state with aggressive global imperial ambitions and the US being a fully fascist state? Perhaps more bluntly, what’s the difference between a liberal drone strike and a fascist one? I’m struggling to understand the value of the fascist label, because everything it describes (ultranationalism, a theory of racial and cultural degeneracy/decline, paranoia about an imminent external threat expressed as violence against internal populations deemed to have insufficient loyalty to the country, a turn towards a mythologised tradition of the past, imperial expansion, genocidal projects against minority populations, etc etc) just seems to me like a description of United States in general lol

First Iran, then Afghanistan! This fight has to spread. Afghan women need our support and we will be there for them. No woman should live in oppression. 

On Friday, there was a suicide bomb attach in western Kabul at the Kaj education center in Dasht-e-Barchi, home to a large Hazara community. Death toll is now at 35, mostly girls. More than 82 people have been wounded. Here’s the full article on it: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/1/kabul-attack-death-toll-rises-to-35-mostly-girls-young-women 

If you don’t know about Hazara genocide, read this article: https://civilrights.org/blog/the-hazara-genocide-and-systemic-discrimination-in-afghanistan/

People from first world countries who dismiss middle east's pain because "that's just how things are there" are way too comfortable sharing their lack of empathy

It's funny because the moment something happens to them they're horrified. They aren't used to tragedies, these things "aren't supposed to happen to them"

But our suffering should be normalised huh?

hello desi people of tungle.hell (and also non desi moots who are seeing this) i am . 2 days away from an assignment deadline i desperately need u all to fill my google form for a survey on how family income affects the type of transportation you use and its subsequent effects on carbon footprint (ALL RESPONSES WILL BE ANONYMOUS. PAKKA. I DON'T KNOW WHO FILLED WHAT I WON'T EVEN ASK FOR A NAME) south asians please fill it for me i will do whatever u want thank you so much

can anyone help me identify the culture depicted on this plate? i thrifted it a while ago and while i assume it may be afghani,persian im just not sure ;[

HELP MY AFGHAN FRIEND LEAVE AFGHANISTAN AND STUDY IN ITALY!!! 

This young man of 24 years is a very ambitious and promising scholar, unfortunately all his hopes have been truncated by the rise of the new regime. It is important to get him out of the country and help him reach a better future. I’ve been helping him through the application process to get accepted to an MA course in Italy, but now he needs more substantial help. Consider giving him a chance to continue his education.

The platform we decided to use is a Czech one (I’m Czech) and is the only one that allowed us to collect the money even if the goal is not reached. You can make any donation you want, any amount will be helpful, just be aware it is in Czech crowns: 

1 dollar = 24,30 Kč

1 euro = 24,61 Kč

!!!IF YOU CAN’T CONTRIBUTE FINANCIALLY PLEASE AT LEAST SHARE IT!!!!

Hello,

I’m A.*, an Afghan researcher, I graduated in Archaeology and Anthropology and have decided to continue my academic formation in Italy. I have applied to the prestigious University of La Sapienza (Rome) for a master’s in Cultural Heritage and I’ve already been pre-accepted to the course, which will start in October. Unfortunately, I do not have a lot of financial means right now to embark on this journey and I need your help.

As you may know, the situation in Afghanistan is not the best, especially for people like me. As a member of the Hazara (ethic) and the Shia (religious) minorities, I have been persecuted and my family threatened more than ever before. During my studies, I had the pleasure to work with and learn from international scholars, but you can imagine how this caused even more problems in the current regime. On top of that, my brother served as a soldier under the old government, which made it very difficult for the male members of my family to find a job and provide for our needs.

In the past years, I have dedicated my research to identifying and finding ways to preserve and revive women's dances from Central Afghanistan. Sadly, this is not possible for me anymore, I have been threatened by extremists who are following my family and me because they firmly believe I have committed a sin in encouraging women to dance, and for that, I deserve severe punishment. Threats like these prompted many friends and colleagues to leave Afghanistan and reach for a better future in other countries.

I’m committed to protecting and preserving the rich culture of my country and I would like to give my best in doing so, that’s the reason why I want to continue my education abroad. Unfortunately, this proves to be much more expensive than I have imagined. Up to now, I have been in contact with friends from Italy who guided me through the process of applying for the university and for the visa, now I need to prepare everything for my departure.

The student visa to Italy alone will cost me 80 euros, which is a very high amount when you consider that my family has been surviving on $3 a day this winter. In order to apply for the visa, it is necessary to show sufficient funds to stay in Italy during the period of study, which amounts to a minimum of €6,079.45 per year. Additional money will be needed for official document translations, stamps, and administrative fees. In September, if all goes well, I should be flying from Tehran to Rome in time to enroll at university. Airfare will cost at least 800 euros and health insurance 125 euros for the year.

These expenses are really difficult for me to cover in my current situation, so I am asking for your help.  The target amount of the fundraising is 6,000 euros in order to make all the necessary arrangements. I know this is a lot of money, but if you can contribute even a small amount to this sum, I would be eternally grateful for your kindness. Finally, please share this crowdfunding page with anyone you think might be interested in contributing.

The world is seriously so fucked up that every time I even attempt to write something about Iran, I feel embarrassed. Like I wanna write about how Iranians are protesting when just kilometers away, in Afghanistan, girls aren’t allowed to go to school. When they’re getting raped and murdered by ISIS. I wanna write but then I remeber that Afghans are literally dying of hunger, when I remember that Syria is under fire, when I remember that Russia is still attacking Ukraine, when I remember that Palestinians are dying everyday and no one gives a shit.

But you know what? You know what’s really fucking interesting? The fact that all these events have something in common. And no it’s not the US (not saying they’re not involved or anything) and no it’s not Britain; it’s the fucking IRI.

The Islamic government of Iran has, for decades, been fucking things up in the middle east. And sure they have help from the US and Russia because what they’re doing benefits everybody at the top. They fuck up and all those big guys get a piece of the pie.

They have been funding ISIS and Taliban and at the same time sending troops to Syria and Palestine “to help end terrorism”.

They are killing their own people, supporting Putin and Russia and meddling in the politics of every country in the Middle East.

IRI isn’t just a problem for Iranians. Countries and their politics affect eachother. There is no fucked up nation that is not also ruining the lives of people in other countries. IRI is a problem for the entire world and with their demise so many other problems will also probably die down or become a lot less severe.

The big powers in the world don’t want Iran to be rid of this regime, it’s not good for them. Financially or in any other way. News will get warped, there will be no reports, there will be no help, they will keep on selling them weapons and ammo.

If you’re wondering about the Middle East and why there’s always something bad going on there, if you’re so used to hearing about Middle Easterns dying or being at war, it’s because it’s good for so many people that this be the way things are there. It’s not the natural order of things. No it’s beneficial. It helps the economy of so many other countries and politicians, even those in the fucking Middle East.

No government is going to put an end to this. To anything that’s going on there. It would be stupid of them. It’s only people who can help.

Only people. Normal people who can see clearly that what is happening is not right. People who genuinely have empathy and care. And it’s by people being informed and knowing about things that are happening and demanding action from their governments and the UN, that things will change. And they will.

Things will change, and they will get better. We just all have to take part. Nothing happens if people don’t care.