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‘Their history is just erased’: Google drops a key program for boosting women in tech

The email that said the career resource program for women would no longer be part of Google was terse and followed months of eroding support. But the deletion of years of Women Techmakers’ work came as a significant shock to its members. “Everything that I ever hosted and facilitated for Women Techmakers is gone. And …

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Egypt Independent October 28, 2025

The possibility of “self-determination for the Palestinian people is being erased,” Canadian PM says

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said recognizing the Palestinian state is imperative now because the prospect of a two-state solution “is receding before our eyes.” “It’s necessary in our judgment, and the judgment of most other countries in the world, that we have to push on this now, because, as I say, the possibility — …

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Egypt Independent September 24, 2025

Opinion: Rafah became my home after displacement. It is now being erased

Opinion: Rafah became my home after displacement. It is now being erased Before October 2023, Rafah – a city covering

Middle East Eye April 13, 2025

Israel’s destruction of Umm al-Hiran: A Palestinian village erased

Israel’s destruction of Umm al-Hiran: A Palestinian village erased After decades of struggle, the native Palestinian village has been destroyed

Middle East Eye December 2, 2024

Two years on from Taliban takeover, Afghan women are being ‘erased from everything’

CNN — When Zahra thinks back to her life before the summer of 2021, it seems like another reality. As a student in Afghanistan, she had “lots of friends.” “We were happy together,” she recalled. “We were studying, sometimes we were gathering together … we were riding bikes.” Zahra, 20, doesn’t ride bikes anymore. Or …

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Egypt Independent September 1, 2024