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MISA Malawi calls for police commitment to ending impunity for crimes against journalists | MISA Malawi PROMOTING FREE EXPRESSION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

#Malawi 🇲🇼 MISA-Malawi urges the police to proactively investigate and prosecute attacks on journalists, including online abuse targeting women reporters.

Crushing dissent widens rifts with governments Thousands of civil society organisations (CSOs) and activists are gathering in Bangkok during the International Civil Society Week from Nov 1–5. The event will be organised by the CIVICUS Allian...

Inequality is a driver for #CivicSpace closures globally, but hope resides on the active citizens. @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #OpED #ICSW www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin...

There’s not enough money – so why spend it on gender equality and justice? This ODI Insights piece unpacks how recent aid cuts amid accelerating backlash to gender equality are not just budgetary decisions, but part of a broader trend of gender being politicised in multilate...

ODA: There’s not enough money for cooperation so why spend it on gender equality and justice? odi.org/en/insights/...

A/80/219: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Gina Romero - Freedom of assembly and association rights, collective action and human solid... In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Gina Romero, sounds the alarm about the compounding existential threats to these rights,...

The attack on civil society is a major faultline⚡️

🌍 Civil society closures
💸 Aid collapse
🛑 Weaponised laws
👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked
⚔️ Security over rights

An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity.

@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social

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Sharing Oxfam's International’s Executive Director Amitabh Behar reflections on the ceasefire at #Gaza www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

Trump's 'America First' global health plan sidelines NGOs A U.S.-based global health NGO was denied entry to a U.N. side event on the future of U.S. global health aid. It put a sharp edge on the Trump administration's plan to work with governments and the pr...

To be really effective the response is not to sideline NGOs but to ally with them www.devex.com/news/trump-s...

Clinic of #Oxfam partner Palestine Medical Relief Society was destroyed by #Israeli forces in #Gaza on Monday. The building also housed another Oxfam Partner, Al Ataa, a womens association which worked to empower and protect vulnerable groups. Photo: PMRS oxf.am/gaza-partner...

Remarks at the UN General Assembly High-Level Event “Call to Action for Palestinian Children in the West Bank and Gaza” | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied ... Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator New York, 24 September 2025 [As delivered] Your Majesty, and Excellencies, Colleagues.   The first v...

"In #Gaza, a famine has been caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference, sustained by complicity. In Gaza, as we heard, a child has been killed on average every hour for almost two years." @tomfletcherun.bsky.social #UNGA #Israel #GazaGenocide www.ochaopt.org/content/rema...

Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Maryam Abu Daqqa spent months photographing the war in Gaza – her images will endure Maryam worked tirelessly to document the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza strip, writes her colleague at Independent Arabia, Ezz Al Din Abu Eisha

Brave journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa was assasinated today by Israel, for exposing the truth. I'm short of words. Even from afar it's deeply sadening and enraging. #israelgenocidalstate #Gaza www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m... @the-independent.com

📰 Haven’t read the latest edition of the FoAA News yet? I invite you to learn about the most relevant activities I have carried out in recent months and the next steps of my mandate.

👉 Read here: freeassemblyandassociation.net/3rd-edition-...

#FreedomOfAssociation #FreedomOfAssembly #UN

Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000

For every 6 Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 are civilians #IsraelGenocide www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Sudan: Extend the mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission for two more years To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) 14 August 2025 Your Excellencies, Ahead of the UN Human Rights…

#Sudan 🇸🇩 CIHRS and civil society urge the @uninvhrc.bsky.social to extend the Fact-Finding Mission’s mandate for 2 years, warning that “accountability is not a luxury; it is a prerequisite for sustainable peace.” buff.ly/ooNBs5C

So thankful for the follow and proud of Mo. Today I really feel "I'll never walk alone"

🇰🇪 ⚖️ How does digital surveillance impact #CivilSociety in Kenya?

📄 ICNL’s latest report examines how #surveillance laws and practices affect rights and freedoms, analyzes #Kenya’s legal frameworks + documents real risks faced by civil society.

🔎 Read the full report: www.icnl.org/post/report/...

🗣️ Despite shrinking space and funding uncertainty, Asia’s #CivilSociety is innovating!

⚖️ With targeted legal reform, strategic partnerships, and renewed donor support, civil society can remain the cornerstone of democratic resilience in the region. Learn more HERE:

Is global development decolonizing or recolonizing? Opinion: The “neocolonial” international aid system is being replaced by more coercive and exploitative policies reminiscent of the colonial era.

If profit interests replaces aid, surelly the world is recolonizing... www.devex.com/news/is-glob...

I know, but only pray for a game 1 victory!

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In Joe we trust!

UN military force needed to halt Israel's assault on Gaza, tribunal says The Gaza Tribunal Project calls on the UN General Assembly to set up a military force to stop massacres in Gaza

It's past time that "the international community implement the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle." and stop #IsraelGenocide on
#Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-tr...

#BREAKING | Now in Jerusalem: Protest against the gen0cide in G4za. Protestors are chanting "Don’t say we didn’t know, gen0cide is happening in our name."

Israeli attack kills baby girl in Gaza as more Palestinians die of hunger A baby girl and her parents have been killed in the al-Mawasi area, once designated a ‘safe zone’ by Israel.

A baby girl and her parents have been killed in the al-Mawasi area, once designated a ‘safe zone’ by Israel.

El informe sobre derechos humanos de Trump modifica el lenguaje sobre la situación en Israel y El Salvador El nuevo reporte también omite muchas referencias anteriores a las violaciones de los derechos de las mujeres y de las personas LGBTQ en múltiples países.

Una colección de informes estadounidenses sobre delitos contra los derechos humanos recortó u omitió el lenguaje sobre los abusos persistentes y violaciones en El Salvador, Hungría, Arabia Saudita, los Emiratos Árabes Unidos e Israel, todos ellos considerados aliados del presidente Trump.

Not enough food in Gaza to sustain life - Oxfam There is not enough food in Gaza to sustain life, Oxfam's Humanitarian Response Adviser in the enclave has said.

Gaza today... share.google/UbEEuL3G4uWs...

MSF Gaza report: This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing GHF-run food distributions in Gaza are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation” that must be shut down

The "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" #GHF is a criminal scheme for killing Palestinian population #Gaza #IsraelGenocide msf.org.uk/article/msf-...

Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming  - Inside Climate News Outbreaks from ocean pathogens that can be deadly to marine life and even threaten humans are more frequent in overheated waters.

Billions of ocean creatures have died during marine heatwaves in recent years, including keystone species like sea stars that regulate kelp ecosystems. We need to stop burning fossil fuels, people, and soon! insideclimatenews.org/news/0408202...

HRW urges lawmakers to reject civil society bill, calls on Ethiopia’s partners to denounce proposed law - Addis Standard HRW urges lawmakers to reject civil society bill, calls on Ethiopia’s partners to denounce proposed law Addis Standard News -

A new proposed law in Ethiopia restricts civil society and bans foreign groups from supporting any election-related work, such as observing elections, educating voters, or providing technical help. 💔🇪🇹⚖️

#Ethiopia #CivicSpace

🔗 addisstandard.com/hrw-urges-la...

A group of global civil society organizations have placed the US on a watchlist for urgent concern over the health of its civic society, alongside Turkey, Serbia, El Salvador, Indonesia and Kenya.