Afghanistan: Help women and girls in Afghanistan today

Five years after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, the de facto authorities have issued more than 100 decrees affecting Afghan women and girls and stripping them of their rights, freedoms, and dignity.

No other country has dismantled the rights of half its population through law, policy, and practice to the same extent.

At the beginning of this year, the Taliban issued a decree effectively
 legalising domestic violence by allowing husbands to punish their wives.

And in May, another decree removed minimum age protections for marriage and made it harder for women to leave a spouse. This has increased the risk of forced and child marriage.

This is not just a loss of rights. It is the systematic 
erasure of women and girls from public life. 
Five years on from the Taliban takeover and the 
exclusion of women and girls is being normalised.

This unparalleled crisis of women’s and girls’ rights is at risk 
of being forgotten by the world.

Please help

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Self - esteem/wellbeing Self-expression Personhood Mental health Education - Thought Life goals Religion Meaning Life - aspiration Self-determination Spiritual affirmation	Visibility My VOICE Daily routine - Quotidian life Life [this] One - 'Live it' 'Self-actualisation' Life chances Lived experience Liminality -  this is my journey ...
Gender apartheid Relationships Abuse - Domestic violence Cultural beliefs Quality of Life Social Religious beneficience Ethics 'You see me' 'I see you.' ... our journey together. We sisters are recognised  by our brothers.	State sanctioned abuse Scapegoating Power - Absolutism Denial of Human Rights Crimes against Humanity Law, Work  Literal reading / interpretation 'My State sees me?' I am cherished by the society in which live. I can contribute. I can Be and give of myself [here].

Previously: 'Afghanistan' : 'women' : 'girls'

See also 8th Sept. The Last Free Women: A Daring Escape from Afghanistan and Coming of Age in America. Blumenstein & Kapp. Hardcover, 368 pages. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN: 9781538779002

11th Living Knowledge Conference 2026 – Call for proposal now open

Dear all,

we are excited to announce the Call for Proposals for the -

11th Living Knowledge Conference

in Gdańsk, Poland, from July 7-10, 2026!

Taking place in the birth of the Solidarity Movement, the theme of the conference is "Research and Solidarity" which will appeal to everyone interested in supporting, facilitating, or doing community-driven, collaborative research, thereby fostering a ‘community of practice’ that welcomes both old and new friends.

We look forward to hearing from both experienced and new, early-career researchers and practitioners working with community-based research, engaged research, or citizen science.

Deadline for submissions is Dec. 15 / Jan. 10 for poster submission.

Conference Info:

📅 Key Dates & Deadlines
📢 Call for Proposal
💻 Session Formats

More information about the venue and registration will be announced soon.

Attached please find a communication kit that can help to amplify this Call For Proposals. Please share with your networks, community partners, students and faculty.

With thanks,

The Living Knowledge Conference team

Save Cardiff University School of Nursing - Sign the Petition

Cardiff University have announced that the School of Nursing is set to close with cuts to staffing because of a funding shortfall. 

We condemn this action and urge the university to find another solution that does not involve closing the School of Nursing. 

This awful decision will have a direct impact on the number of nurses available to work in health boards across the country . At a time where there is a significant number of nursing vacancies within the NHS this action will undermine an already depleted workforce. 

With well over a 1,000 students within the department, Cardiff University School of Nursing contributes a very important number of nurses which are employed within the NHS each year. 

The school of nursing is ranked 1st in Wales and is an centre of excellence. It is a dynamic, innovative and forward looking school. They are recognised for their excellence in learning, teaching and research. They pride themselves on pursuing research of the highest quality, and are one of the leading healthcare departments in the UK.

As well as this, the staff  work incredibly hard, have invaluable diverse expertise and put their hearts and souls into making the school a vibrant and welcoming place. The nursing department is full of warm, intelligent, passionate people with a wealth of knowledge, who are at danger of losing their livelihoods. We stand in solidarity with the university staff affected by this decision. 

Please sign this petition in the hope that Cardiff University reconsider its decision to close the School of Nursing. 

https://t.co/HU5Cyn8j8p

QR code also available.

Previous posts: 

Nursing, history and (future) travels

Wales

It would be marvellous to be able to deliver a lecture on Hodges' model to new nursing course entrants. Vital though to secure the future of all.

Variable Hours Tutor: Take II

Individual - Group and Rights: c/o Bond (1996)

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"What this means is that it is necessary, or perceived as necessary, for each individual to protect his or her interests against the incursion of others, and the same for each group. Now this would not be possible if each individual did not have his or her own private or personal interests, and if each group did not have its own group interests, and that is undeniably true. Both individuals and groups are undeniably separate and different. Nevertheless, there is a common human interest in individuals and groups being decent to one another and respecting one another, and it would be better for every individual and every group if fear and adversarial competition could be eliminated. It is only because these things can never be completely eliminated, that universal solidarity can never be achieved, that we need the protection of rights, which, as has already been said (p.202 above), are always rights against. ...

SOCIETY - COMMUNITY SOCIAL JUSTICE sense of - SOLIDARITY

Rights are always adversarial, and provide deontic moral grounds for preventing actions or inactions that are contrary to the interests of the person or group whose rights they are. They are needed because such a danger will always continue to exist. This does not mean, of course, that universal solidarity, however unachievable, is not the ideal, for the closer we can get to it the better the interests of all individuals and all groups are served." pp.202-203.

Bond, E.J. (1996). Ethics and Human Well-Being: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. p.202-203.

Exiled from our Museums ...

Questions of Politics, History and Now?

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	Past Disquiet - Artists, International Solidarity and Museums in Exile

"The International Art Exhibition for Palestine took place in Beirut in 1978 and mobilized international networks of artists in solidarity with anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s and ’70s. In that era, individual artists and artist collectives assembled collections; organized touring exhibitions, public interventions and actions; and collaborated with institutions and political movements. Their aim was to lend support and bring artistic engagement to protests against the ongoing war in Vietnam, the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, and the apartheid regime in South Africa, and they were aligned in international solidarity for anti-colonial struggles. Past Disquiet brings together contributions from scholars, curators and writers who reflect on these marginalized histories and undertakings that took place in Baghdad, Beirut, Belgrade, Damascus, Paris, Rabat, Tokyo, and Warsaw. The book also offers translations of primary texts and recent interviews with some of the artists involved."

Kristine Khouri and Rasha Salti, eds. (2019) Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity and Museums in Exile, Chicago, IL., University of Chicago Press.

See also: Exhibition: "Library of Exile"


My source: Cundy, A. (2019) Art's brave new world, Life&Arts, FT Weekend, 9-10 February, p.11.

Mother Pelican ~ Vol. 6, No. 10, October 2010

FYI ... the pelican journal of sustainable development has been renamed
*Mother Pelican* in honor of the *Human Being* she represents.

The October 2010 issue has been posted:
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n10page1.html

Going Forward After the UN MDG Review Summit

1. Current Status of the Millennium Development Goals
2. Review of the "Keeping the Promise" Declaration
3. Timidity of National Governments and Global Citizens
4. Ms. Michelle Bachelet and the UN Women Entity
5. Sustainable Human Development and the MDGs
6. Links to Key UN and MDG Documents and Resources
7. Links to News and Reports about the MDG Summit
8. Current Research on Sustainable Human Development
9. A Meditation on Sustainable Human Development

Supplements:

Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development
Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
Supplement 3: Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM)

Articles:

Socioeconomic Democracy: A Psycho-Politico-Socio-Economic System, by Robley George.

Composition and Trends of Homestead Agroforestry in Bangladesh, by Sourovi Zaman et al.

Will Working Mothers' Brains Explode? The Popular New Genre of Neurosexism, by Cordelia Fine.

A Paradise Built in Hell: Communities that Rise to the Challenge of Disaster, by Rebecca Solnit.

We Need Millennium Development RIGHTS, Not Just Goals, by Phyllis Bennis.

Feedback is cordially invited!

Sincerely,
Luis

Luis T. Gutierrez, Ph.D.
The Pelican Web
Editor, Mother Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Development
http://pelicanweb.org
A monthly, CC license, free subscription, open access e-journal

My source:
e-Network of Academia in Social Sciences (e-NASS)