Anchor and Correspondent. Host of BBC World News' Impact with Yalda Hakim. RTs not endorsements. http://yaldahakimfoundation.org #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
UK welcomes the release of 5 British men detained in Afghanistan.
Wonderful evening with wonderful friends raising funds for Shamsa Children’s village for Afghan orphans. Thanks to Maryam Gailani and @Jemima_Khan
Day 282 since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. The Taliban continue to say they want to see girls return to their classrooms but are doing nothing to reverse their policy, stopping girls from getting an education #LetAfghanGirlsLearn
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"Mum, they didn't let me enter my school. They're saying girls aren't allowed" Hopes and dreams shattered once again for millions of Afghan girls left in tears and devastated by the continued Taliban ban
Every evening Ukraine's President#Zelenskyy addresses his nation. Tonight for the first time, he did it in English. Calling on people everywhere to show their solidarity "Come out of your offices and homes, show your support to the Ukrainian people" #UkraineRussiaWar
“We found 18 bodies in there. They had been torturing people. Some of them had their ears cut off. Others had teeth pulled out. There were kids like 14, 16 years old, some adults. They just took the bodies away yesterday.” #UkraineRussiaWar
Women in #Herat , now under Taliban control are telling me when they tried to enter the grounds of their University today they were told to go home. Women working in offices also turned away. Schools have been shut down. 60 percent of University students in Herat were women.
A wonderful note about Lviv from someone born here - "You can be born in the Austro-Hungarian empire, educated in Poland, married under the Third Reich, work and retire in the USSR and draw your pension in Ukraine and never have left the town.. LVIV"
A room full of men have decided that face veils for women will now be mandatory in Afghanistan. If she doesn’t comply, her male guardian could face three days in prison. #MinistryofVice &Virtue #Taliban #Afghanistan
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