Erika Piñeros

Social leader Jani Silva discusses risks of traveling after receiving threats from illegal armed groups. Putumayo, Colombia. ©Erika Pineros / Global Witness 🇨🇴

@GlobalWitness.org documented 146 killings and disappearances of land and environmental defenders.

#Colombia #conservation #humanrights

New threats target land and environmental rights defenders Land and environmental defenders face extreme violence, criminalisation and lack of protection around the world, with 146 killed or disappeared in 2024

In 2024, @globalwitness.org documented 146 killings and long-term disappearances of land and environmental defenders. Many attacks go unreported. 82% of all cases took place in Latin America. Colombia remains one of the world’s deadliest:

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Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times

“...people are making real connections with these AI now, regardless of whether it is real or not.”

The surface cause of the conflict is a decades-long dispute over ancient temples and an ambiguous border. But beneath the nationalist rhetoric lies a more strategic target: the proliferating scam compounds, an industry that accounts for up to 60 percent of Cambodia's economy.

Trapped in a ChatGPT Spiral Podcast Episode · The Daily · 16/09/2025 · 44m

Such an important warning, again ⚠️

@nytimes.com #AI #ChatGPT #epidemic

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Last night's exhibition at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum by participants of the Archives of Perpetration Workshop. Visit the White Lotus Room for a glimpse of Cambodian's new proposals for memorializing the past 🇰🇭

The exhibition will then move to Choeung Ek and M-13.

#Cambodia #memory #genocide

MAKE THEM STOP

No caption needed.

A boy stands in front of a community centre on the riverbanks of the Putumayo River. Putumayo, Colombia. July 19, 2025. ©Erika Pineros 🇨🇴

#Colombia #onassignment #Amazonia #Putumayo #noAI #Canon

Very professional. Get it right next time. I had to correct you 3 times.

It's ColOOOOmbia, NOT Columbia!!

Check your spelling!!!!!!

Seriously? At least spell the name of the country properly!!!

Krakow 🇵🇱

'We, French journalists, stand in solidarity with our colleagues in Gaza' OP-ED. Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip have killed nearly 200 Palestinian journalists in 18 months. A collective of French professional organizations condemns this massacre and the media blackout t...

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.

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

Argentine photojournalist in intensive care after being shot with tear gas canister - Buenos Aires Herald Pablo Grillo required urgent brain surgery to treat the injury sustained in Wednesday’s protests

“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"

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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

'I'm Radioactive' Until the spring of 2018, Jonathan Kaiman was the Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times. Today he is living at the home of his parents in Phoenix

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."

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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

How China Outsmarted the Trump Administration While the U.S. is distracted, China is rewriting the rules of the global order.

Wrote this in 2020, about the Chinese plan to take over UN institutions, starting with WHO

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🇹🇭 🐕 🇲🇲

#Thailand #dog

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta donates $1M to Trump inauguration fund Meta’s donation comes weeks after Mark Zuckerberg met President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, as the Facebook founder seeks to mend ties with the right.

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

A prominent Cambodia environmentalist is arrested while investigating illegal logging A prominent Cambodian environmentalist has been arrested along with five others while investigating illegal logging in a national park.

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

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