Geno Teofilo
@genoteofilo.bsky.social
Communications and Media Specialist, former Oxfam, Red Cross & others. Seen on CNBC, Al Jazeera, BBC News and more. Coffee please!
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Geno Teofilo
@genoteofilo.bsky.social
· May 5
NPR and PBS push back against Trump’s order to cut funding: ‘This could be devastating’
PBS’s Paula Kerger and NPR’s Katherine Maher say they’re looking at legal options to defend against White House
www.theguardian.com
The @npr.org journalists I dealt with in #Africa did excellent work. (1 was unjustly jailed !) Would be a terrible shame if they cripple this quality news source.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Breaking News: A federal agent shot an immigrant in the leg in Minneapolis, federal officials said, one week after an ICE officer killed Renee Good in the city.
Federal Agent Shoots Immigrant in Minneapolis, Homeland Security Says
The agent shot an immigrant from Venezuela in the leg while trying to arrest him, an official said. The shooting comes a week after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman in the city.
nyti.ms
January 15, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Breaking News: A federal agent shot an immigrant in the leg in Minneapolis, federal officials said, one week after an ICE officer killed Renee Good in the city.
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#Venezuela: #UN independent investigators call for immediate release of all political prisoners news.un.org/en/story/202...
Venezuela: UN independent investigators call for immediate release of all political prisoners
More than 100 political prisoners have been released in Venezuela, the Government announced on Monday, just over a week after the seizure and rendition of President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas by the Un...
news.un.org
January 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
#Venezuela: #UN independent investigators call for immediate release of all political prisoners news.un.org/en/story/202...
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For NGOs: What will happen in 2026 ??🧐
My story here at NGO Aid Watch:
ngoaidwatch.com/2026-what-wi...
My story here at NGO Aid Watch:
ngoaidwatch.com/2026-what-wi...
2026: What Will NGOs Face This Year? | NGO Aid Watch
Predictions for the NGO world this year. What's coming?
ngoaidwatch.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
For NGOs: What will happen in 2026 ??🧐
My story here at NGO Aid Watch:
ngoaidwatch.com/2026-what-wi...
My story here at NGO Aid Watch:
ngoaidwatch.com/2026-what-wi...
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The US government and NOAA stopped counting, but the billions in disaster costs accumulated nevertheless: $115 billion in 2025.
Just the LA fires alone were over $61 billion, and the accelerating climate-related disasters won’t stop just because we’re no longer counting them.
Just the LA fires alone were over $61 billion, and the accelerating climate-related disasters won’t stop just because we’re no longer counting them.
In 2025, America suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days
In 2025, America suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days
A new analysis finds that in 2025, major catastrophes took 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. It could have been much worse.
dlvr.it
January 11, 2026 at 6:46 PM
The US government and NOAA stopped counting, but the billions in disaster costs accumulated nevertheless: $115 billion in 2025.
Just the LA fires alone were over $61 billion, and the accelerating climate-related disasters won’t stop just because we’re no longer counting them.
Just the LA fires alone were over $61 billion, and the accelerating climate-related disasters won’t stop just because we’re no longer counting them.
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Here's my story on NGOs in 2025...✍️
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
December 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here's my story on NGOs in 2025...✍️
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
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In Renk, a border town in South Sudan, where up to 1,000 people are arriving from Sudan every day, Oxfam is being forced to scale down its operations by 70 per cent over the next month. Unless new funding is secured by February, Oxfam will have to shut down its operations there entirely.
December 29, 2025 at 8:26 AM
In Renk, a border town in South Sudan, where up to 1,000 people are arriving from Sudan every day, Oxfam is being forced to scale down its operations by 70 per cent over the next month. Unless new funding is secured by February, Oxfam will have to shut down its operations there entirely.
For NGOs: What will happen in 2026 ??🧐
My story here at NGO Aid Watch:
ngoaidwatch.com/2026-what-wi...
My story here at NGO Aid Watch:
ngoaidwatch.com/2026-what-wi...
2026: What Will NGOs Face This Year? | NGO Aid Watch
Predictions for the NGO world this year. What's coming?
ngoaidwatch.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:30 PM
For NGOs: What will happen in 2026 ??🧐
My story here at NGO Aid Watch:
ngoaidwatch.com/2026-what-wi...
My story here at NGO Aid Watch:
ngoaidwatch.com/2026-what-wi...
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The atrocities unfolding "in Sudan, already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, is especially sickening," writes our columnist Nicholas Kristof.
Opinion | Letting ‘Peace on Earth’ Mean Nothing
A militia accused of genocide has seized a city of a quarter-million people, and it now appears from satellites to be a ghost town.
nyti.ms
December 25, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The atrocities unfolding "in Sudan, already the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, is especially sickening," writes our columnist Nicholas Kristof.
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The deregistration of INGOs in Gaza and the West Bank violates civilian rights under international humanitarian law.
We stand with 52 aid organisations demanding an end to the Israeli Government's halt of life-saving aid, denying emergency medical assistance.
Humanitarian access is not optional.
We stand with 52 aid organisations demanding an end to the Israeli Government's halt of life-saving aid, denying emergency medical assistance.
Humanitarian access is not optional.
January 2, 2026 at 3:18 PM
The deregistration of INGOs in Gaza and the West Bank violates civilian rights under international humanitarian law.
We stand with 52 aid organisations demanding an end to the Israeli Government's halt of life-saving aid, denying emergency medical assistance.
Humanitarian access is not optional.
We stand with 52 aid organisations demanding an end to the Israeli Government's halt of life-saving aid, denying emergency medical assistance.
Humanitarian access is not optional.
Here's my story on NGOs in 2025...✍️
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
December 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Here's my story on NGOs in 2025...✍️
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
Whew!
What a year for the NGO world.
ngoaidwatch.com/2025-the-ngo...
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🇺🇦🎄Merry Christmas, everyone. Your support for Ukraine means more than words can say. Thank you for standing with us. Lviv, Ukraine
December 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
🇺🇦🎄Merry Christmas, everyone. Your support for Ukraine means more than words can say. Thank you for standing with us. Lviv, Ukraine
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The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.
Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
But that toll is a dramatic undercount.
ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.
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In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for life-changing — sometimes lifesaving — post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.
Congolese rape survivors search in vain for medicine after USAID cuts
In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for PEP kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In eastern Congo, where rape is widespread, the cancellation of USAID funding for life-changing — sometimes lifesaving — post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) kits has left many victims vulnerable, according to nearly 50 interviews.
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Yale report unveils RSF attempt to cover up Sudan atrocities, mass burials https://aje.io/9ibu83
December 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Yale report unveils RSF attempt to cover up Sudan atrocities, mass burials https://aje.io/9ibu83
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Human Rights Watch is deeply alarmed by the arrest of several human rights defenders in Iran, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.
Authorities must immediately release all individuals arrested in connection with exercising their human rights.
Authorities must immediately release all individuals arrested in connection with exercising their human rights.
December 12, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Human Rights Watch is deeply alarmed by the arrest of several human rights defenders in Iran, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi.
Authorities must immediately release all individuals arrested in connection with exercising their human rights.
Authorities must immediately release all individuals arrested in connection with exercising their human rights.
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Trump officials were warned repeatedly that cutting off food aid to refugees in Kenya would lead to violence and death. They did so anyway, and thousands starved. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/keny...
After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death
“Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trump officials were warned repeatedly that cutting off food aid to refugees in Kenya would lead to violence and death. They did so anyway, and thousands starved. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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More than 27 years after the Good Friday Agreement ended the Troubles, the legacy of the conflict festers in Northern Ireland and beyond
How to heal the trauma from Northern Ireland’s killings
The British government hopes new commissions will draw a line under the Troubles. It won’t be easy
econ.st
December 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
More than 27 years after the Good Friday Agreement ended the Troubles, the legacy of the conflict festers in Northern Ireland and beyond
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I was in Myanmar in 2015, just as identity cards were taken from Rohingya to keep them from voting. It was part of a decades-long process of redefining citizenship that ate away at their rights more every year. When governments start doing this, they can move the goalposts anytime they want to.
A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.
Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I was in Myanmar in 2015, just as identity cards were taken from Rohingya to keep them from voting. It was part of a decades-long process of redefining citizenship that ate away at their rights more every year. When governments start doing this, they can move the goalposts anytime they want to.
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Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
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#CleanEnergyJobs shorturl.at/d6rDJ
Growth in global energy jobs outpaced wider economy for 3rd yr in a row. Fossil industry has dropped 38,000 jobs in last 5 yrs, consistent with a full phaseout of Fossil Fuels by 2050.
Growth in global energy jobs outpaced wider economy for 3rd yr in a row. Fossil industry has dropped 38,000 jobs in last 5 yrs, consistent with a full phaseout of Fossil Fuels by 2050.
Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge
Fossil fuel employment has fallen to less than 1% of the Canadian work force, while growth in global energy jobs outpaced the wider economy for the third year in a row, according to two reports releas...
shorturl.at
December 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#CleanEnergyJobs shorturl.at/d6rDJ
Growth in global energy jobs outpaced wider economy for 3rd yr in a row. Fossil industry has dropped 38,000 jobs in last 5 yrs, consistent with a full phaseout of Fossil Fuels by 2050.
Growth in global energy jobs outpaced wider economy for 3rd yr in a row. Fossil industry has dropped 38,000 jobs in last 5 yrs, consistent with a full phaseout of Fossil Fuels by 2050.
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Today on Human Rights Day, we’re reminded that the struggle for human rights now extends into the digital world.
Protecting digital rights is part of protecting each other — and building a future where everyone can live, speak, and participate with freedom and dignity!
Protecting digital rights is part of protecting each other — and building a future where everyone can live, speak, and participate with freedom and dignity!
December 10, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Today on Human Rights Day, we’re reminded that the struggle for human rights now extends into the digital world.
Protecting digital rights is part of protecting each other — and building a future where everyone can live, speak, and participate with freedom and dignity!
Protecting digital rights is part of protecting each other — and building a future where everyone can live, speak, and participate with freedom and dignity!
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Syria is struggling to heal a year after the Assad dynasty's repressive 50-year reign came to an end following 14 years of civil war that left the country battered and divided. n.pr/3Ygf1RO
Syria marks a year since Assad fled, but struggles to heal
Syria is struggling to heal a year after the Assad dynasty's repressive 50-year reign came to an end following 14 years of civil war that left the country battered and divided.
n.pr
December 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Syria is struggling to heal a year after the Assad dynasty's repressive 50-year reign came to an end following 14 years of civil war that left the country battered and divided. n.pr/3Ygf1RO
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Host: 75,000 immigrants with no criminal record were detained by ICE since the beginning of the Trump admin's crackdown. These people did not fall into the categories the administration has talked about—national security and public safety threats. Less than 10% had any serious criminal convictions
December 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Host: 75,000 immigrants with no criminal record were detained by ICE since the beginning of the Trump admin's crackdown. These people did not fall into the categories the administration has talked about—national security and public safety threats. Less than 10% had any serious criminal convictions
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Pakistan, Afghanistan exchange heavy fire along border, officials say reut.rs/3MiZCh2
Pakistan, Afghanistan exchange heavy fire along border, officials say
Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged heavy fire along their border late on Friday, officials from both countries said, amid heightened tensions following failed peace talks earlier this week.
reut.rs
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Pakistan, Afghanistan exchange heavy fire along border, officials say reut.rs/3MiZCh2
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The CDC vaccine advisory panel move to end hepatitis b shot recommendations at birth.
These recommendations have been in place since 1991 and have prevented a lot of death and disability.
Vaccines save lives.
Anti vaxx grift ends them. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
These recommendations have been in place since 1991 and have prevented a lot of death and disability.
Vaccines save lives.
Anti vaxx grift ends them. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
RFK Jr.-appointed panel removes universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for U.S. infants | CBC News
A panel of advisers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has voted to remove the longstanding recommendation to universally vaccinate American infants against hepatitis B.
www.cbc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The CDC vaccine advisory panel move to end hepatitis b shot recommendations at birth.
These recommendations have been in place since 1991 and have prevented a lot of death and disability.
Vaccines save lives.
Anti vaxx grift ends them. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
These recommendations have been in place since 1991 and have prevented a lot of death and disability.
Vaccines save lives.
Anti vaxx grift ends them. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...