#Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. People are dying from lack of access to essential health services and medicines, while there is a very real risk of mass starvation in some regions. Insecurity and operational hurdles continue to pose a challenge in the timely

My grandfather, Yousef Khoshkish, was the last Governor of the Central Bank in Iran before the Islamic Revolution. He was executed by Khomeini’s regime 44 years ago, today. Every day, especially today, I think of his legacy serving Iran. Before his time at the Central Bank, he

The Taliban’s new decree bans women’s voices from being heard by men outside their family. This regime has progressively banned women from work, education, travel, media, and public life, reducing their existence to mere reproductive functions with no voice or face.

🚨WARNING: EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND UPSETTING CONTENT 🚨 Here is the video. However difficult this will be for some to watch, I encourage you to watch all of it. Then imagine you had to live through it. We did. This is what the protesters march in support of. This is what the

As conflict rages in Sudan, outbreaks of cholera, measles, dengue fever, malaria, meningitis and polio are afflicting people who are already struggling to survive. Vaccination campaigns, including for cholera and polio, are under way. To continue and expand efforts, a drastic

By now, you’ve probably seen footage of the small protest in the Gaza Strip yesterday (thank you Ihab Hassan) by displaced civilians who were calling on Hamas to release the Israeli hostages, end the war, accept the ceasefire/hostage deal, and stop their suffering. These voices

One picture is pure fiction, yet the whole world can’t stop talking about it. The other is Marzieh, Ebrahimi attacked with acid by the Islamic Republic of Iran for the “crime” of not covering her hair and the whole world is silent about it. It is true that, how Iran under the

The higher the baby weight, the more inaccurate the ultrasound. Accurate statistics about the accuracy of ultrasounds in helping women make life changing decisions about their birth, must be given to them at the right time, along with all relevant information including cascades.

Antimicrobial resistance (#AMR) threatens to make routine infections increasingly deadly. Marking the start of #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek, Merianne Mohamad from School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences King's Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine has answered some questions on the topic.🧵⬇️ #ScienceAtKings #KingsQs The Roger Williams Institute of Liver Studies

1/ Today is 20 years since the Indian Ocean Tsunami. Women were disproportionately victims, partly because of reasons related to cultural expectations for girls that meant that they were less likely to be able to swim and restrictive clothing that made it harder to run and climb.

DrAnnie It’s true, none of them matter, but I named them specifically to highlight that despite the confusing amount of likes on their posts, most of those likes are from the Middle East and Russia. This type of disinformation that manipulates algorithms to create a public perception of

🧵In return for the four Israeli women abducted, Israel is releasing 200 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. The Western media is doing almost zero analysis of who these people are. Here is some basic info according to the names circulating at the moment: 👇

On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, I have some thoughts on why Holocaust education hasn’t been as effective as we might’ve hoped. Much of the western world was taught the “what” of the Holocaust (what happened), but not the “why” (why it happened). They were taught about

On this Holocaust Memorial Day I hope people will look into the Holocaust, learn, understand. The Holocaust did not begin with gas chambers. It began with normalized dehumanizing of Jewish people. It began with conspiracy theories. It began with attacks on Jewish businesses,

🧵I came across today the story of this horrifying photo. My friend נועה מגיד | Noa magid posted the events leading to this photo in Hebrew, and I want to share with everyone (in case you missed it) one of the horrors of 10/7. Never forget, never forgive.

Nova survivor Hadar Sharvit came to an international conference on violence against women in Milan to share her testimony and also talk about the sex crimes committed by Hamas on October 7th. International Women's Day is a reminder to the world that Israeli women also have

Alright, ready for this? Here’s a quick thread with highlights from The 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report—also known as The Roberts Report. It’s the most comprehensive document published to date on the events of October 7, 2023, detailing thousands of incidents from

Yaron Lischinsky was the finest friend I’ve ever had, brilliant, kind, and endlessly thoughtful. A devout Christian and a gifted linguist, he spoke German, Hebrew, and Japanese. He was full of curiosity and always brimming with ideas. I don’t think we ever had a conversation that

Today, we Iranians are faced with something truly unbelievable: Western, liberal, “woke” feminists, clueless about the brutal reality in our country, consistently stand with our oppressors under the delusion of saviorism. They have no understanding of the decades of humiliation,

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