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Melissa Gaju Fundira retweeted
Can power shift, one conversation at a time? @newhumanitarian and @cftchange’s new podcast hopes so. Listen to people on both sides of the power spectrum discuss how to do humanitarian aid better. 🎙️Episode one is out now. #powershift buff.ly/dMqwDaw
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“If you can’t see it for the circus it is, you’re part of the problem.” From COPtimist to sceptic, @willrworley reflects on the dysfunction that was #COP29 – and tries to scrub away the sense of “being somewhat unclean for having participated” at all. thenewhumanitarian.org/analy…
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Tomorrow is the priority deadline for our Palestinian Journalists Fellowship, in collaboration with @ArabReform_ARI!
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The community gathered after the viewing and church service to honor Erixon’s life and legacy. His parents spoke lovingly about him, sharing how sweet and kind he was, always smiling—a quality that earned him the nickname “Gentil,” meaning sweet or kind in French. This gathering is a powerful reminder of the love and unity he inspired. We will forever remember his warmth and gentle spirit as we continue to seek justice for his untimely loss. #JusticeForErixon #CommunityUnity #WeWantAnswers #HonoringHisLegacy #GentilForever
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I have written to the @gillerprize to request that my name, image and work be removed entirely from the their website and all related material and videos. My work will no longer be submitted. I thank them in advance for respecting my wishes.
"Do I want to imagine a world beyond aid? I'd much rather imagine a world beyond cruelty" @akrishnan23 on 'If not aid, then what?' panel hosted by
@newhumanitarian @cftchange & @RefugeesIntl on the sidelines of #UNGA79 thenewhumanitarian.org/event…
Melissa Gaju Fundira retweeted
Happening now: If not aid, then what? Gaza, Sudan, and the limits and future of humanitarian aid. A discussion hosted by @newhumanitarian & @RefugeesIntl on the #UNGA79 sidelines
"The emergency response rooms have already started building the future of humanitarian aid." -- Sudanese activist Hanin Ahmed when asked what she thought about a future beyond aid.
HAPPENING NOW: thenewhumanitarian.org/event…
Melissa Gaju Fundira retweeted
Beyond aid: what’s next? Can the sector move past its colonial roots, or is a new approach needed? @sabanadine
"If in 10 years from now, organizations were not bold enough to make changes, we would have failed our organisations, but especially those we are meant to serve." — Nadine Saba on our @newhumanitarian panel w/ @cftchange & @RefugeesIntl happening now: thenewhumanitarian.org/event…
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"There can be no advocacy without accountability, and if there are no consequences for abandoning or sabotaging diplomacy or mediation, we can expect all efforts to inevitably fail." Thaer Ahmad, MD, Palestinian-American emergency medicine physician @RefugeesIntl @newhumanitarian
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"No on really cares about what is happening to volunteer humanitarians on the ground" says @HaninA21 of Emergency Response Room volunteer and Sudanese activist.
Melissa Gaju Fundira retweeted
A reminder that Black people are 7x more likely to be wrongly convicted of murder than white people and since the late 1980s, Black folks make up more than 50 percent of exonerations.
Nothing like #BreakingNews from @gathara
My latest dispatch on the US election for @AJEnglish
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You can read the full article ("Debate in nuclear-armed former colony fails to reassure global community") here: aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/…
Melissa Gaju Fundira retweeted
“Students from all around the world have started school, except for us. We're collecting water and standing in food lines.”
After 11 months of unrelenting Israeli bombardment, this is what children in Gaza’s lives are like.
#Trump2024
#KamalaHarris
Melissa Gaju Fundira retweeted
A scary thought: When the genocide in Gaza eventually ends, we will still have to live in a world where those who perpetrated, armed, financed, justified and shielded it will present themselves as the face of a "humanitarian" response and expect us to politely engage with them.