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"No, no, your voice is not shameful, your voice is a revolution!” Thousands of Iraqi women shouted these words in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square in October 2019. The unprecedented scale of women’s participation helped turn what could have been just another wave of popular protests, which had grown more common over the past decade, into an uprising. Thawra Tishreen (the October Revolution) saw ordinary people demonstrating against the political class and the system that had been put in place following the US-led invasion in 2003.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, will appear via live video link at a June 22 event hosted by U of T President Meric Gertler and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy (photo supplied)
an official said they ve been shelled for every ten minutes. they say shelling is nonstop, it continues and it s really scary. every ten minutes. imagine that. what we re seeing here on the ground is the locations where the refugees are coming from are changing. initially i think it was people from kyiv or from the central part of the country got out but now we re seeing so many more people from mariupol, kharkiv, cities under siege trying to get out here. those are people in lviv right now or at the borders. what are you seeing? yes. i m seeing more people, more families who came from eastern part of ukraine. this is good they were able to escape but also at the same time we need to keep in mind there are still hundreds of thousands of people still in mariupol and also in kharkiv. kharkiv is the second biggest city of ukraine, however, it s been bombarded 24/7. this is why it s very important. yes, we ve had some success in evacuation but there are many