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This week: News and analyses from Asian parties and movements

The fight for women's lives and liberation is everywhere and addresses everything!

There is an unprecedented economic and humanitarian crisis as the Taliban, divided and without a strategy, rely on edicts against women and repression. Afghans want change: ‘They are doing terrible things ... Do we leave things as they are?’

New spyware to worry about, Ozy Media collapses, and some democratic solutions to the corporate stranglehold on media

Four Afghan women who sought refuge in America talk about their lives now and everything they gave up.

President Biden was right to withdraw US troops. But we should have no illusion that this will end the war for Afghans.

Women have taken up guns in northern and central Afghanistan, marching in the streets in their hundreds and sharing pictures of themselves with assault rifles on social media, in a show of defiance as the Taliban make sweeping gains nationwide.