First stop on my visit to Central Asia: Tajikistan, a key player on regional security energy and climate.

Great to see the Nurek Hydro-Electric project, the second tallest dam in the world – a testament to the region’s potential to power a greener future.

Ташаккур Тоҷикистон!

The UK must honour duty to protect Afghan families seeking asylum, given the scarcity of legal routes.

If the Rwanda Bill sends 'illegal migrants' from Afghanistan to Rwanda, it will tarnish our legacy as founding signatory of 1951 Refugee Convention.gov.uk/government/new…

Thank you @stevebakerfrsa! We need more British MPs like you who speak up for the women and girls of Afghanistan and their basic human right to education.

The Taliban banned girls education for 6 years during their last rule in Afghanistan. We MUST NOT let that happen again.

🔴 The Government’s treatment of Afghans since before the fall of Kabul to today has been a shameful saga of failure.

Read the full story here👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

Appalled. Speaking to a couple from Afghanistan — civil society activists from Balkh, with their 18-month old daughter, denied asylum today.

Unbelievably, they were told to get Taliban verification for their documents.

We MUST honour our promises to the people of Afghanistan.

940 days since the Taliban banned girls from school. 481 days since the Taliban banned women from university. Afghanistan = ONLY country that bans girls' education

EVERY girl has a right to an education. How can we remain silent to this unfolding atrocity?bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…

#EidMubarak 🌙

Expressing our warm wishes to Muslims in the UK & around the world celebrating Eid al-Fitr.

May this joyous festival bring you peace & happiness. In the spirit of Eid, let us continue to protect the human rights & fundamental freedoms of the people of Afghanistan

Eid Mubarak from all of us at UN Women in #Afghanistan !
May this Eid bring with it a renewed commitment to standing behind Afghan women and girls in the struggle for their rights.

This makes me sick to my stomach.

How can we allow women to be “stoned to death in public” in 2024? The world’s silence is deafening. Where is the humanity?

We can’t let the Taliban do this to the women of Afghanistan. Time to speak up!
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

This is the horrific reality the world has left Afghanistan’s women to face.

The Taliban supreme leader, Haibullah Akhunzada announced that they will start ‘stoning women to death in public’, as he declared war against Western democracy

We MUST speak up!
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

'America continues to turn its back on the evidence gathered by other agencies. US intelligence reports, at least those made public, see al-Qaida as at a ‘nadir’ in Afghanistan, and no threat outside the country.'

✍️ David Loyn spectator.co.uk/article/how-is…

Our op-ed today for FPI/Interruptrr

'Time to end gender apartheid. Include it in the Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity Treaty at the UN'

👉interruptrr.substack.com/p/gender-apart…

915 days since Taliban banned teenage girls from going to school in Afghanistan - the ONLY country in the world.

As the new academic year begins, 330,000 more girls can't go to school. A total of 4 million banned from school since Taliban return.

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Happy #Nowruz to all, marking a new year & a new beginning!

As we celebrate our 5000-year-old ancient holiday, let's keep the people of Afghanistan in our hearts, wishing them strength and hope in the face of challenges, especially as the Taliban have banned Nowruz celebrations.

Happy #ChaharshanbeSuri to all - an ancient Persian festival dating back to 1700 BCE.

On the last Wednesday before #Nowruz , we come together to hope for health and happiness for the new year by lighting fires and embracing the light.

May light always triumph over darkness.

Shabnam Nasimi’s unrelenting support of the Women of Afghanistan is very commendable.
The fight against the ignorance and brutality of the #Taliban regime against its female population must go on until women are seen as equal citizens again.

On #InternationalWomensDay I stand with the women of Afghanistan, call on the #Taliban to respect the human rights of women & girls under international law, and urge the immediate and unconditional release of detained women human rights defenders. 👇
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Afghanistan is the ONLY country in the world where female education is a barred.

903 days since the Taliban banned girls from school. 444 days since Taliban banned women from university.

Speak up Afghanistan’s women & girls📢

#InternationalWomensDay   #LetHerLearn .