Rawya Rageh

You had me at “cowardice”.

I can’t believe we are watching the deliberate starvation in Gaza and are this helpless. How is this 2025? How did we as a human race allow this to happen? How?

It's out!

The Dangerous Rise of "Dual-Use" Objects in War

Coauthored with @mararevkin.bsky.social and @azmatzahra.bsky.social.

We show that the targeting of dual-use objects over the last several decades has placed civilians at great risk.

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“That question mark is hostile!”

Same magazine, same punctuation.😅 #IYKYK

Badar’s fellowship is partially subsidized by the Scholars at Risk program, which works with U.S. universities to host international scholars facing threats in their countries. He never imagined that a country with a Scholars at Risk program would one day pose a risk to scholars.

A powerful essay ⤵️

Gaza: Increasing Israeli “evacuation orders” lead to forcible transfer of Palestinians The increasing issuance by Israeli Forces of “evacuation orders” – which are, in effect, displacement orders – have resulted in the forcible transfer of Palestinians in Gaza into ever shrinking spaces...

"In some 36 strikes about which the UN Human Rights Office corroborated information, the fatalities recorded so far were only women and children."

Read that again.

www.ohchr.org/en/press-bri...

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.

“Ma, forgive me, ma. This is the path I chose — to help people.”

Ya Allah.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

So many lives destroyed. Who is going to fund the reconstruction? Who will help people rebuild their lives? Oh, Khartoum.

@aljazeeraenglish.bsky.social is running an utterly heartbreaking report by Mohamed Vall from the Sudanese capital Khartoum. He says the destruction has rendered the city unrecognizable. And it shows vividly in the report. If you’ve ever been to Khartoum, you’d recognize many places now in ruins.

Eid prayers in Washington Sq Park, NYC. Quite a beautiful sight to behold.

Eid Mubarak 🪬

Duterte’s lawyer says his client’s transfer to The Hague was “degrading” and amounts to “abduction”.

“Troubled entities struck an unlikely alliance,” he says of the current Philippines administration & the ICC.

Appearing by video link — Duterte’s first ICC hearing.

Duterte arrived at The Hague, was driven in the building in police cars (wasn’t visible in person). Outside, supporters chanted “Send him back!”

Ugh…

According to flight tracking, it would appear that … Duterte has landed in Rotterdam. Next stop, The Hague.

It’s.. happening.

… and here it is: the ICC’s “Warrant of Arrest for Mr Rodrigo Roa Duterte” has been posted.

It appears he is still in transit in Dubai, pending take off to Rotterdam.

www.icc-cpi.int/court-record...

Disbelief.

globalnation.inquirer.net/266744/plane...

Philippines: Former President Duterte’s arrest a monumental step for justice Responding to news that former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has been arrested by Philippine authorities on the basis of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) again...

@amnesty.org “The man who said, ‘my job is to kill’ oversaw the shootings to death of victims – inc children – as part of a deliberate, widespread campaign of state-sanctioned killings.Duterte’s arrest is a hopeful sign for victims in the Philippines & beyond.”
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Video shows former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte being arrested on a plane at Manila airport on an International Criminal Court (ICC) warrant over alleged crimes against humanity during his crackdown on drugs.

Former Philippine President Duterte arrested on an ICC warrant over drug killings Police took him into custody on orders of the ICC, which has been investigating the massive killings that happened under the former president’s deadly crackdown against illegal drugs.

Between 2016-2019, my colleagues & I documented extrajudicial executions under #Duterte’s “drug war” among other violations. The work was cited in the request to investigate him over crimes agnst humanity. That the people of the #Philippines could witness justice served…
apnews.com/article/rodr...

Ramadan Kareem 🌙

Decades of Progress at Risk: U.S. Aid Cuts Threaten Haiti’s Healthcare Hear directly from Wesler Lambert, Zanmi Lasante’s interim executive director, about the dangers of a U.S. funding freeze on communities in Haiti.

“Funding freezes implemented by the US govt are straining already fragile public health infrastructure & overburdening essential care programs”

What one aid group says abt impact in Haiti.

This amid spiraling sexual violence by gangs necessitating a complex response.

www.pih.org/article/deca...

🚨 Major threat to academic freedom in NY:

Has an American governor ever intervened to shut down a search committee?

Here's the key paragraph in Hunter's advert. 1) For starters, "critical lens" doesn't nec mean "supportive lens." 2) Using all terms that follow doesn't make someone antisemitic.

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Make a huge mistake. Then make a false claim about how you fixed it.

They did it for PEPFAR.

Now Ebola.

I follow this particular topic VERY closely, so here's what really happened and why this isn't true AT ALL...🧵

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

“Perhaps the greatest of these sins is convincing ourselves that posting is a form of political activism, when it is at best a coping mechanism—an individualist solution to problems that can only be solved by collective action.” www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

Wow

📢 Join us for an online event to remember #MarieColvin on the 13th anniversary of her killing by Assad's regime and hear about #Syria's post-Assad future from MCJN members who are highly acclaimed journalists from #Syria and #Lebanon.

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📣 Out Now: @amnesty.org’s report “‘I’m a child, why did this happen to me?’ Gangs’ assault on childhood in #Haiti”

Based on 112 interviews, we document

‼️ Recruitment of children
‼️ Rape & sexual violence
‼️ Killings & injuries
‼️ Impact on children with disabilities

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

In September, I went to Haiti with a colleague and we interviewed 50+ children. Our @amnesty.org report on the gangs’ assault on childhood comes out next week.