@erikapineros.bsky.social
Journalist • Photographer • Filmmaker • Conflict, social issues, human rights 🇨🇴 🇰🇭 www.erikapineros.com
Very professional. Get it right next time. I had to correct you 3 times.
13.06.2025 04:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's ColOOOOmbia, NOT Columbia!!
12.06.2025 02:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Check your spelling!!!!!!
08.06.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Seriously? At least spell the name of the country properly!!!
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Krakow 🇵🇱
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Unmatched courage
"If you are reading this, it means I have been killed."
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Having been involved in the interagency discussions in 2016 over a strike on the Houthis in Yemen, I'll just say that this was not how the Obama administration handled these matters.
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Chankoo Yeng, 19, showers after his father blessed him in preparation to his trip to Kampong Chhnang to study Korean. Chankoo and his older brother, plan to migrate to Korea where they've been promised factory jobs. “I’m excited and happy, but also nervous”, he says. His family hopes the money he makes will help them alleviate debts. Kampong Thom, Cambodia. Nov. 17, 2024. Erika Piñeros
Lisa Yeng, 13, sits in a hammock after her brother Chankoo left their home to prepare for his new life in Korea. “I will miss them very much. But I will stay here and study to become a teacher and help people in my village get a better education.” © Erika Piñeros
Chankoo Yeng stands in his floating home on the Tonlé Sap lake on November 17, 2025. © Erika Piñeros
Chem Chan Kai, 40, unloads the fish from his boat after collecting the catch from the nets in the Tonlé Sap. His wife, Sinon, and daughter, Lisa, separate the fish to be sold at the market. Kampong Thom, Cambodia. © Erika Piñeros
Megadams and canals push Mekong fishing families to the brink 🇰🇭
Here, Chankoo on the day he left his home to study Korean and chase a new life as a factory worker. His family hopes his earnings can alleviate their debts. ©Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #development #environment #migration
Giant infrastructure projects wreck ecosystems and communities along the Mekong 🇰🇭
Here, the endangered Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in Kratie and the threatened eco-tourism industry at stake. © Erika Piñeros
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
“We can’t normalize, tolerate or allow for police violence to be used in every protest, and for press to be the preferred target of the repressive forces each time"
buenosairesherald.com/society/arge...
Muslim Cham, Sam Tam, 32, takes a break on his boat while fishing at the Tonle Sap lake in Kampong Thom on November 16, 2024. © Erika Piñeros
Sorting the catch of the day. All fishermen noted the catch has decreased noticeably in recent years. © Erika Piñeros
A bird’s eye view of floating villages in the Tonle Sap lake in Kampong Thom, Cambodia. © Erika Piñeros
Giant infrastructure projects along the Mekong wreck ecosystems and force communities to send their children away 🇰🇭
Here for @TheTimes, I document a dying Mekong and its inhabitants whose livelihoods are at further risk.
#Cambodia #Mekong #fishing #development #environment #photojournalism
A recent event reminded me of this. Worth a read:
"...requiring that men intuit that a "yes" actually means "no," because women lack the wherewithal to know their own minds or to express themselves, revives the pernicious belief that women are perpetually childlike."
reason.com/2019/08/23/i...
Reading between the lines.
An interesting choice of photographs at the Anlong Veng Peace Centre portraying Khmer Rouge leaders, Pol Pot and Ta Mok, also known respectively as 'Brother Number One' and 'The Butcher' for his brutality🇰🇭
#Cambodia #memory #KingdomOfWonder #OnAssignment
Don’t Look Away:
Cambodia’s growing environmental crisis 🍃🇰🇭
If you find yourself in Siem Reap, check out the Angkor Photo Festival. Swing by the The Bean Embassy to see this collection of photographs by independent media professionals in Cambodia.
#Cambodia #AngkorPhotoFestival #photojournalism
“US sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court are a gift to perpetrators of mass atrocities around the globe. To defend justice, ICC member countries should do all they can to support the court.” Liz Evenson, international justice director, Human Rights Watch
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing sanctions on the International Criminal Court.
This order effectively puts the US on the side of war criminals at the expense of victims of grave crimes seeking justice.
Read more: bit.ly/4gxSvuD
Wrote this in 2020, about the Chinese plan to take over UN institutions, starting with WHO
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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#Thailand #dog
Meta donated $1 million to the inauguration committee of President-elect Donald Trump, the company confirmed.
The donation comes weeks after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg visited his Mar-a-Lago resort as the tech giant seeks to mend fences with the political right.
Angkor commute 🇰🇭
#Cambodia #AngkorWat #commute #Canon
Stung Treng provincial spokesman Men Khung confirmed by telephone that the six were arrested after they ignored instructions from authorities to leave the forestry area where no access is allowed. He said the 6 were not environmental activists but attempted to sow anarchy and provoke the authorities
24.11.2024 11:34 — 👍 12 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1Useful tips for searching Bluesky 🦋🔎
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