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This year marks the 10th anniversary of RAW in War (Reach all Women in War) at #WOWLDN . Presenting the Anna Politkovskaya Award this year is HelenaKennedy, RAW in WAR Founder Mariana Katzarova & Elena Kudimova, Anna Politkovskaya's sister.

Join us WOW - Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre in London, on Sunday, 12 March 2023 at 15.30-16:30 in Level 5 Function Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road for #RefusingToBeSilenced event and meet brave women from Russia & Ukraine: Svetlana GANNUSHKINA & Tetiana SOKOLOVA

The brave & talented women of Afghanistan are devastated this morning as the Taliban prevent them from entering their universities following the BAN on female university education.

This is horrifying to watch. This isn’t right. We mustn’t stay silent.

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Today,7 Oct we remember brave woman journalist & rights defender #AnnaPolitkovskaya . On this day yrs ago we were honored with award in her memory for our work #Manipur along with Svetlana Alexievich #Belarus by Reach All Women in WAR ⁦Mariana Katzarova⁩ opendemocracy.net/en/odr/we-real…

Britain's tech industry needs to address its gender gap and invest in women cityam.com/britains-tech-… #STEM #GenderPayGap 30% Club

I’m honoured to receive the award from The Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy. I hope it brings more light to our collective resistance against war economy, militarisation and quest for truth and justice.

Congratulations, dear Gulalai Ismail ګلالۍاسماعیل! This award to you & all others, including our #AnnaPolitkovskayaAward are just a small recognition for you #RefusingToBeSenced and your enormous sacrifice & efforts to bring peace and justice to Pakistan & the women survivors of violence.

“These are our neighbours. Let them go.” Pollokshields responding now to immigration enforcement raid.

We cannot have even a moment of justice before another Black life is taken by the police, this time a teen named Ma’khia Bryant in Columbus, Ohio who had called them for help.

Instead, they shot her four times. We must end police terror.

#BlackLivesMatter

“It’s a kind of coup, in the middle of London”: Myanmar ambassador to Britain locked out of embassy after breaking with military. He speaks to Guy Faulconbridge reut.rs/3fQ8uIB #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Shannon Wait was told not to discuss pay while working at a Google data centre. She was then suspended after publishing a pro-union post on Facebook.

So she fought back. Here's her story:

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Federal income taxes paid last year:

Nike: $0

FedEx: $0

Zoom: $0

Dish Network: $0

Salesforce: $0

Hewlett-Packard: $0

Kinder Morgan: $0

Archer Daniels Midland: $0

Booz Allen: $0

Charter Communications: $0

Edison: $0

Duke Energy: $0

We must #TaxTheRich

Lakota youth from Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe at US Army Corps of Engineers headquarters in #DC to tell President Joe Biden to #ShutDownDAPL . #StopLine3 Standing Rock Youth #NoDAPL #LandBack @joebiden President Biden The White House

Says it all. theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

#Apr1Coup Amarapura, Mandalay

Amazing demonstration tonight!

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Pakistan human rights defender Muhammad Ismail has spent 2 months in detention on trumped up charges following his bail rejection & his chronic health problems put him at risk. See chronology of harassment he & his family have experienced web.civicus.org/296 #StandAsMyWitness

Let's be clear: 70% of tipped workers are women. We will not have equal pay for equal work until we increase the $2.13 sub-minimum wage - which has not gone up in 30 years - to $15 an hour and adopt one fair wage. We must end the crisis of starvation wages in America.

READ the powerful opinion piece in The Spectator
magazine by 2015 #AnnaPolitkovskayaAward winner, Syrian journalist, Kholoud Helmi when the world marks 10 years since the beginning of the Syrian war.
#RefusingToBeSilenced #RAWinWAR
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