Saving Mes Aynak

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Human and women’s rights activists: Under the Taliban’s gender-apartheid regime, where women’s voices are banned, their voices have only grown louder in defiance. Now, as August 15, the Black Day for Afghanistan, approaches, they rise again. They call on world: Stand with them.

We are witnessing a human rights crisis of global proportions. A staggering number of #Afghans, incl refugees, forcibly returned from #Iran & #Pakistan with threats or actual returns from other countries. States abandoning their moral & legal responsibilities must reverse course.

Tibet’s environment faces two enormous threats: climate change and colonization. And while the Tibetan people are on the front line in resisting these twin dangers, the fate of billions of people depends on Tibet’s environment being preserved. Protect #Tibet to protect Asia!

4 years since the fall of AFG. Afghanistan is suffering under gender apartheid, forced exile,and silence. We have neither forgotten nor surrendered. 📢August 15:Global protest against the Taliban and their supporters. 🎥Watch the video.Share our voice. #Afghanistan #Aug15Protest

1397 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 937 days since the Taliban banned women from going to university. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

“+500k have been forced into Afghanistan just since the war between Israel & Iran last month, returned to a homeland grappling w/severe humanitarian crisis & draconian restrictions on women/girls, in one of worst displacement crisis of past decade.” nytimes.com/2025/07/16/wor…

China's dam dreams is South Asia's nightmare! It’s massive hydro project in #Tibet is not just an engineering feat, it’s a geo-strategic weapon, that could devastate ecosystems, farming, & water access downstream, putting millions lives at risk. #SaveTibet timesnownews.com/world/asia/chi…

Shaman's poncho, crafted from hide and pigment, Alaska, United States, Tlingit culture, c. 1850.

This week's ANE Today #ObjectoftheWeek: Part of a model chariot, with an impression of the sun god Shamash rising over the mountains. Ceramic, ca. 2000 – 1600 BCE. Metropolitan Museum of Art 48.131. Photo courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: buff.ly/DFfFcEM

Zeus’s left foot in Kabul at the National Museum of Afghanistan

To all the Afghans in the states who saved my countrymen and earned the right to be here, to all the Afghans believed us when we said that if they stood with us, we'd make sure that their country didn't fall to the Taliban and they wouldn't become targets for death, just know…

The impending disaster of Temporary Protected Status disappearing, humanitarian parole drawing to its end, and refugee, economic, and human rights crisis in Afghanistan portend more trauma for our allies. Grateful to France 24 for letting me highlight the complex interplay of…

#mesaynak #buddhism #china #savemesaynak

Thank you to the South Asian Institute, @Kartemquin @macfound @IcarusFilms

THRILLED that "Hey Hugo" is an official selection of the prestigious @MiddFilmFest in #Vermont. Big congrats to Annie Xia and Ysa Quiballo. This documentary was made in my Documenting #Carceral Injustice class at #Sheridan #Prison. mnff2025.eventive.org/films/hey-hugo…

Tonight at midnight, Afghans who came to the U.S. seeking safety and reprieve from dangerous conditions in Afghanistan will lose their Temporary Protected Status and will now be at serious risk of detention and deportation. Nobody should be forced back to Afghanistan, and doing…

I am Maria Noori, former university lecturer in Afghanistan. Since August 15, I’ve been banned from teaching, education, and freedom. August 15 is a black day for Afghan women. Stand with us. #FreeAfghanWomen #AfghanistanBlackDay #MariaNoori

1396 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 936 days since the Taliban banned women from going to university. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

This is what the ancient #Buddhist city of #Mesaynak will be turned into. #savemesaynak