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The Taliban regime returned to power in 2021, overthrowing the United States-created Afghan government and reintroducing restrictive policies on women’s rights. These policies included banning female students from universities, dismissing female government employees, and restricting women from traveling long distances alone. In response, Afghan women initiated social movements, forming women’s organizations and taking to the streets to draw global attention and resist the Taliban’s rights restrictions. Applying feminist theory, this research explores how political decisions influence men’s and women’s lives and delves into the development of social movements. This descriptive qualitative research, based on secondary data from a literature study, reveals that Afghan women’s social movements stem from the Taliban’s 2021 policies and garner global attention through media exposure. Movements like Medica Mondiale, dedicated to Afghan women, require increased support from international organizations in terms of financial, technical, and moral assistance to sustain and advance their cause.

Da Nang is a coastal city with a beach more than 60 km long. With beautiful beaches, gentle stretches and endless white sand, including My Khe beach, voted by US Forbes magazine as one of the 6 most attractive beaches on the planet. Da Nang also has the Ba Na Hills tourism brand. Discovered and built during the French colonial period, Ba Na tourist area is located west of Da Nang city, increasingly attracting tourists with a cable car system that holds 4 world records and an indoor entertainment area. The largest in Southeast Asia – Fantasy Park. Orientation for tourism development of Da Nang city to 2030, vision to 2045 with the goal of becoming a high-quality tourism and service center, creative tourism destination of Vietnam and Southeast Asia; Vision that by 2045, the city will become Asia’s leading tourist destination, one of the centers of high-end, creative, green, smart marine and eco-tourism resorts and organize conferences and events. international festival events. To accomplish this task, environmental risk management at tourist destinations plays an important role in creating the image of the destination. Effective environmental risk management at the destination will help ensure tourist safety, increase tourist satisfaction and contribute to tourism development at the destination.

This paper outlines the differences between electronic and printed reading comprehension for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students. It explores which sources EFL students prefer and the reasons behind that; whether the reading mode influences the comprehension of the material being read; and which reading strategies are applied to each reading mode. We hypothesize that comprehension is easier and more successful when reading from printed sources. The method includes an experiment with students from the English Language Teaching (ELT) Program at the South East European University (SEEU) in North Macedonia. It aims to analyze and compare text comprehension and strategies used during digital reading (e-reading) and printed reading (p-reading). Findings clearly showed a preference for p-reading and more successful comprehension with this mode. No difference was found in the reading strategies application between e-reading and p-reading. The main conclusion is that there are no differences in the cognitive process underlying reading and understanding of electronic and print media, but comprehension and hence learning is more successful with printed sources. Eye fatigue and brain strain are the greatest disadvantages of electronic reading. Current and future English teachers, educational workers and policy makers should consider these conclusions when creating curricula for all educational levels and all ages.

Inquiry learning has long stood the test of time over the last hundred years to maintain value in the practice of education, more so in the 21^st century. ‘Introspection’ captures best what Dewey (1910/1933) illumines on reflective thinking which is vital in the teaching-learning process (Bybee & Landes, 1990; Gibbs 1988; Farell, 2008). The current literature is rich to inform on the principles and practices of inquiry learning, but with disparate findings as to its effectiveness and design of approaches, both as framework for empirical work and as pedagogical innovation. This study reflects on the Inquiry-based Learning Project (IQBLP) designed to engage students to explore Intercultural Communication Competencies (ICC) of migrants, expats, and international students. The project was designed to be fully online. Through a comprehensive and reflective action analysis using SWOT, the study found that the IQBLP is an authentic highly motivating experience for students to achieve learning outcomes and could be moderately affected by student’s mediocre or superficial attitude towards learning. It is highly potential to promote holistic development with very minimal to negligible risk when done online. It is theoretically and philosophically sound to build ICC and uncover the hidden curriculum, targeting all prescribed general education outcomes. Its risks and threats are manageable but vital to inform future directions and application across the curriculum in hybrid or in-person modality.

Board accountability and Financial Performance are significant concepts among SACCOs in Uganda due to their involvement in the financial inter mediation process. In spite of the several interventions by Bank Uganda, a number of banks and other financial institutions have failed to operate forcing the regulators to intervene to ensure sanity in the financial system. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of corporate governance on financial performance of SACCOs in Kiruhura District, Uganda and the specific objective were; To examine the effect of board accountability on financial performance of selected SACCOs in Kiruhura District, In this study, a cross-sectional survey research design was employed, adopting quantitative and qualitative approaches research approaches. A total population of 342 people were used at a confidence level of 95% or error of 0.05 and the sample size was 184 respodents who involved the staff and members taken from the six SACCOs registered in Kiruhura district’s, Uganda as of January 2023.The obtained data for analysis  was divided into two phases. First, descriptive statistics on the respondents and the preliminary data analysis  were performed using SPSS version 20.0. These statistics included multicollinearity, mean and standard deviation, outliers and extreme values, and missing values and in the second phase, the structural relationships between the variables in the suggested conceptual model were tested and examined using structural equation modeling (SEM). Jaffrey’s Amazing Statistical Program (JASP) version 0.17.2.0 was used to implement SEM. The findings of the study were: The effect of board accountability (BAC) on financial performance was found to have a negative effect (g = -0.908), implying that the data failed to support the direct relationship between BAC and FiP, thus not supporting H_01,  Therefore the study concludes that  SACCOS will do less well financially the more its board assumes accountability for the company’s decisions and communicates them openly to stakeholders.the study recommends that  the  board of directors should be more effective in ensuring that they communicate the  decisions clearly and appropriately so that SACCO’s  maximize shareholders wealth. SACCO’s should seek best strategies of communicating and sharing the accountability feedback with SACCO members to generate maximum benefits for everyone.