Prior to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the country was moving towards democracy, with the Afghan constitution providing equal rights for women. This picture was from pre-Taliban days, when Afghan women had access to professional careers, university-level education, shops selling non-traditional clothing, public transportation, and freedom.

freakthink:

sempiterna:

siddharthasmama:

eccentricmango:

I’m just gonna leave this here.

like it truly amazes me that these countries engaging in this deliberate infringement on human rights can just WASTE money on developing anti-homeless shit like spikes, barred benches, or timed seating, but not spend any of that to FIX their homeless problem by either building shelters, coming up with programs to help, or increasing benefits. The idea that people are homeless by choice, or just ‘too lazy’ needs to fucking end. Most homeless are either disabled veterans, people with mental illness, LGBTQ youth/individuals whose families have abandoned them, or, my personal favorite, entire fucking families with children who have been displaced. Seriously, these people are not a burden, our worlds globalized capitalist structuring is.

^ entirely, all of this.

what kind of cruel society puts up spikes in all the safe, dry locations that the homeless population can stay in? what kind of cruel society spends money trying to hide the homeless population, instead of spending money trying to end it? fuck

This is just sickening and no excuse is good enough to offset the sheer inhumanity of this crap.

So what the internet is saying is its cool for homeless people to sleep on their door step.

People are going apeshit about the homeless spikes. Almost daily all over Florida, Georgia and South Carolina for 2 years I was asked for money by homeless people. In return I’d offer them a job working in maintenance. Mowing lawns, pouring cement, what ever. 1 guy ever accepted the offer. A month later he flipped a bobcat(small construction equipment).