Martha Kombe

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Internalized oppression & colonial mimicry, Why Fanon’s theory still matters today.

They said, Be less.
I became more.

They warned, Don't speak.
I built a stage.

Wow.💥
1 million used cigarette butts, packed into plastic bottles, now stand in front of the Palais des Nations in Geneva – where negotiators are meeting for the UN Plastics Treaty.

The image was shared by @ash.org on their website.
Photo by Morgan Cox.

We are the Knowledge Hub for Articles 17 and 18 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Here, we focus on the tobacco industry's environmental impacts, working and health conditions in the production chain, and livelihood alternatives for tobacco workers.

BAT Bangladesh has been ordered to vacate its head office and factory in Mohakhali, Dhaka. The Supreme Court rejected the company’s appeal to extend its land lease.

The Bangladesh Environment Movement had long called for the plant’s removal due to its impacts.
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Single-use vapes to be banned in Jersey next month - Bailiwick Express News Jersey Single-use vapes will be banned in Jersey next month – but retailers have until February next year to sell existing product stock. The Infrastructure Minister has signed a Commencement Order which mea...

The ban on single-use #vapes was introduced to reduce Jersey’s waste.

Retailers have until February next year to sell existing product stock.

www.bailiwickexpress.com/news/single-...

Nationally, the Agriculture Committee of the Chamber of Deputies approved a request for a public hearing on Brazil’s stance at COP, arguing that proposed measures could cause “irreparable damage” to #tobacco farmers.
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In Brazil, the tobacco industry is mobilizing to try to interfere with #COP11. A bill in Rio Grande do Sul – the country’s top tobacco-producing state – seeks to label tobacco as of “economic, social, and cultural interest.” The goal is to pass it before COP11 to support the sector’s positioning. +

Experts stress that the Global #PlasticsTreaty must include a BAN on cigarette filters to reduce plastic pollution and protect our oceans.

The next round of negotiations begins this August in Geneva.

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#WHOFCTC #FCTC_Art_18
#INC5_2
#CigaretteButts

🔗https://files.ggtc.world/uploads/2025-07-16/10-47-05-580941/INC5.2_Cigarette_Filters_in_the_Global_Plastics_Treaty_August2025.pdf

🔗https://extranet.who.int/fctcapps/fctcapps/fctc/kh/alternativelivelihoods/e-library/opposition-banning-cigarette-filters-and-belief

🔗https://extranet.who.int/fctcapps/sites/default/files/inline-files/EN-Microplastics-and-Tobacco_1.pdf

🔗https://healthpolicy-watch.news/smoke-signals-from-the-plastics-treaty-why-geneva-cant-ignore-health-governance/
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Card with title: UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations just started, and subtitle: What’s Missing in the Draft Text?

The latest round of UN #PlasticsTreaty talks has started in Geneva, but there are key issues with the draft text:
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@whofctc.bsky.social @unfairtobacco.bsky.social @ash.org @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social

After 11 days of talks in Geneva, countries were once again unable to reach an agreement on a Global #PlasticsTreaty.

Delegates remain deadlocked over issues that have stalled progress for years:

Reminder to Smile regardless the turmoil.

So beautiful, the way the sun’s reflection dances on the water, the tree standing in quiet grace, and the edit as the perfect cherry on top.

Thank you for sharing such a beautiful pic.

Lovely... Here I come 🏃💨

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EXPLANATION (HIROSHIMA) You have to explain to the new girl, you always do, to the one who means, staying late, to scrub the stain from the marble stair displayed at the museum. You have to explain that the darkness is not a stain she can erase. Rather, it's shade and shadow, a stranglehold that's all that's left of a girl and boy who sat on the school stair as children do, and vanished. You have to explain: we guard the stain. Andrea Cohen

It is 80 years since Hiroshima and Nagasaki burned. This is the poem, from Andrea Cohen, which haunts me.

The threat is close in these dark days. This is no bygone fight.