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This summer, Paddington Bear visited Buckingham Palace to join the late Queen Elizabeth II for afternoon tea and share their mutual love of jam sandwiches in what became the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee ) one of the highlights of the celebration.
When the Queen passed away on September 8, the mourning crowd left not only bouquets, but also thousands of Burlington bears and teddy bears outside the palace. Now the bears have been professionally cleaned and will be donated to Barnardo, UK (Barnardo’s) Foundation, to pay tribute to the Queen and to pass on joy to more children. The Queen has been a patron of the children’s charity for many years before being taken over by current Queen Camilla in 2016.
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Iranian women’s rock climbing (competitive climbing) player Elnaz Rekabi competed without a headscarf in the Asian Championships in South Korea a few days ago, sparking a sensitive timing of mass protests across the country over the death of woman Mahsa Amini sensation. According to Iran’s strict rules for women, female athletes who represent their country overseas must also wear hijabs and loose-fitting clothing that covers the whole body. Many believe that Rekabi showed up without the hijab in solidarity with the demonstrators.
The BBC’s Persian website reported that Rekabi’s friends were unable to contact her after the match. A day after the loss of contact, Rekabi posted on Instagram, saying that she “accidentally” did not wear a hijab to play under the bad schedule, and apologized for the concern, and the Iranian embassy in Seoul also strongly denied her passport. , mobile phones were confiscated by officials and other “fake news”.
In the early morning of the 19th, Rekabi flew to the Iranian capital Tehran. At the airport, she was surrounded by a large number of supporters chanting “heroes” and reiterated her clarification on Instagram during an interview on state-run TV. However, the Iranian government has a dark history of forcing the parties and their families to publicly confess their guilt and apologize many times in the past. People from all walks of life worry that Rekabi, who has become a symbol of resistance and whose whereabouts are currently unknown, will become the next target of the authorities’ crackdown.
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out of gender
Sweden held parliamentary elections in September. The right-wing camp won the majority of seats . Ulf Kristersson, leader of the Moderate Party, was elected prime minister, and the far-right Sweden Democrats, the second largest party in this election, were elected as prime minister. Democrats, although not in the cabinet, played a key role in supporting the formation of the new government for the first time in exchange for the ruling coalition’s commitment to strengthen immigration and crime policies.
The current government has just come to power, when Foreign Minister Tobias Billström announced that Sweden would abandon its long-established “feminist foreign policy”, a concept pioneered by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2014 and meant to promote gender equality Placed at the heart of Sweden’s international agenda, goals include promoting economic emancipation, combating sexual violence and promoting women’s political participation.
According to the Swedish government, “feminist foreign policy” contributions include assisting other countries in formulating gender equality policies, as well as laws involving gender-based violence, female genital mutilation and child marriage, but have also sparked backlash in the Middle East – 2015 In 2008, the then-Swedish foreign minister criticized Saudi Arabia’s women’s rights issue, and Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador to Stockholm to protest.
Bierstrom emphasized that sexual equality is the basic value of Sweden and the new government, but the expression of “feminist foreign policy” will make the label cover up the content, and the content of related topics has been gradually withdrawn from the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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With her iconic bangs and willow eyebrows, and big eyes that seem to talk, Anna May Wong, the first Chinese film star in Hollywood, became the first American coin to be minted a century after starring in her first film. Asian American.
To commemorate the centenary of women’s suffrage in the United States, the United States Mint launched the ” American Women Quarters Program “, which will issue five specially designed quarters each year from this year to 2025. ), the portrait of George Washington on the obverse of the coin remains unchanged, and the protagonists of the reverse pattern are outstanding women from politics, science, art, civic movement and other fields with different ethnic backgrounds, in recognition of their contributions to the United States, except for Anna May Other female pioneers include Sally Ride, the first female astronaut in the United States, and Maya Angelou, an African-American poet.
Anna May Wong, who was born in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, started acting in movies at the age of 14. In the “Yellowface” era when Hollywood was still full of white people playing Asian roles, she often only got roles with stereotyped oriental images, the “Anti-Interracial Marriage Act” at that time (Anti-miscegenation laws) made it impossible for her to kiss European and American actors in front of the silver screen.
Even under the many restrictions, Anna May Wong still created a splendid acting career spanning silent films, sound films, and theater, and left her own star on the Walk of Fame. The New York Times described her as “the great era of Hollywood.” One of the most memorable characters.”
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“All their hopes are gone now.” ??
After the return of the Taliban to power, Afghan women’s education rights have been severely damaged. High school girls in most provinces have not yet returned to school. Although high school girls are allowed to take college entrance examinations, the authorities have further restricted the subjects women can take in public universities. Department .
For example, in Nangarhar University in eastern Afghanistan, out of a total of 13 colleges, only 7 are open for female students to apply for the exam. Women are not allowed to study veterinary, journalism, economics, engineering, agriculture and other departments. The majors include nursing, teacher training and Islamic studies, and they are not allowed to study in other provinces. The authorities have explained that there are “insufficient teachers” in some departments to teach female students alone. And if the Taliban continues to keep female students out of secondary schools, the number of women applying for university admissions will continue to decline in the next few years.
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