My guest is shaharzad akbar, former chairperson of afghanistans independent human rights commission. What would morally acceptable engagement look like . Shaharzad akbar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Its good to be here. Its good to have you here. If i may, im going to start with some powerful words of yours. You wrote recently, i spend every day with a fire burning in my heart with the pain of injustice that women in my country face. Of course, since the taliban takeover, youre no longer living in your homeland. Youre living here in the uk. Does that actually, in a funny sort of way, intensify the pain you feel . Absolutely. I mean, every day i feel like im living two different realities at the same time. I wake up in oxford, where im a visiting scholar and its green and beautiful and people are going on about their lives. And then im all day long following the situation back home, talking to colleagues, monitoring the human rights violations. And during the day, several times, i h
In my heart with the pain of injustice that women in my country face. Of course, since the taliban takeover, youre no longer living in your homeland. Youre living here in the uk. Does that actually, in a funny sort of way, intensify the pain you feel . Absolutely. I mean, every day i feel like im living two different realities at the same time. I wake up in oxford, where im a visiting scholar and its green and beautiful and people are going on about their lives. And then im all day long following the situation back home, talking to colleagues, monitoring the human rights violations. And during the day, several times, i have to kind of stop myself and remind myself to be more present, especially around my children, but also not to be paralysed by the pain, because pain can be paralysing, it can take away action. You talk about monitoring the situation every hour of every day and of talking to colleagues. Im just wondering how you can talk to colleagues working on human rights issues ins
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the england manager gareth southgate says he s happy to take supporters stick, instead of the players. i stick, instead of the players. understand it. i m no to i understand it. i m not going to back away from it. the most important thing here is that the supporters stay with the team. i understand the sort of narrative towards me, and, you know, that is betterfor the team than it being towards them. but it is creating an unusual environment to operate in. i have not seen any other team qualify and receive similar. so this is what it all means for group c. denmark serbia was also a drab 0 0 draw so denmark and slovenia join england in the last 16. denmark and slovenia, see there, played three, drew three. slovenia, would you believe, have never actually won a game at the euros. denmark finished ahead of slovenia by having a better head to head record in qualifying. as for england, top of the group, one win, two draws, two goals and not a lot to excite, and in a week where t
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