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The African Union’s feebleness means that the continent is almost voiceless on the international stage, writes columnist @hofrench.bsky.social.
Africa Needs a Continental Body With Teeth
The African Union has become a back-scratching club of heads of state.
foreignpolicy.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The African Union’s feebleness means that the continent is almost voiceless on the international stage, writes columnist @hofrench.bsky.social.
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The 2025 U.N. climate conference, COP30, will run from Nov. 10-21 in Belém, Brazil, and is expected to host the largest participation of Indigenous peoples in the conference series’ history, with more than 3,000 Indigenous delegates registered.
Mongabay spoke with some about their objectives.
Mongabay spoke with some about their objectives.
Indigenous delegates prepare for COP30 with focus on justice, land and finance
As the Brazilian city of Belém prepares for this year’s U.N. climate conference, COP30, Indigenous leaders worldwide say they’re getting ready to have their demands addressed. Dubbed the “nature COP”…
news.mongabay.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
The 2025 U.N. climate conference, COP30, will run from Nov. 10-21 in Belém, Brazil, and is expected to host the largest participation of Indigenous peoples in the conference series’ history, with more than 3,000 Indigenous delegates registered.
Mongabay spoke with some about their objectives.
Mongabay spoke with some about their objectives.
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No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse.
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#Disaster #Hurricane #Climate #Science
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#Disaster #Hurricane #Climate #Science
No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse
An analysis of the storm found “all aspects of this event were amplified by climate change, and that we'll see more of the same.”
grist.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
No doubt about it: Climate change made Hurricane Melissa way worse.
grist.org/climate/no-d...
#Disaster #Hurricane #Climate #Science
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#Disaster #Hurricane #Climate #Science
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What to know this week:
US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza
Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen
Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?
US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza
Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen
Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
What to know this week:
US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza
Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen
Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?
US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza
Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen
Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?
Women Who Manage Climate Disasters Are Generally the Last to Get Funding passblue.com/2025/11/09/w...
Women Who Manage Climate Disasters Are Generally the Last to Get Funding
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November 9, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Women Who Manage Climate Disasters Are Generally the Last to Get Funding passblue.com/2025/11/09/w...
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Larry Ellison. Jeff Bezos. Rupert Murdoch. One by one, billionaires tied to Trump are snapping up media outlets and pushing them rightward. The goal isn’t truth—it’s control.
Mainstream media is now mainly leaning right
Most traditional media have long held a more left-leaning tone, but that’s changing.�
From on the ground reporting to the ...
www.dailykos.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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[COMMENTARY]
🐾 In Kenya, Samburu women of the Mama Simba program lead lion conservation — restoring harmony between people and wildlife.
This commentary reminds us: “When women lead, everything changes.”
** Views are author’s. #VoicesFromTheLand
🐾 In Kenya, Samburu women of the Mama Simba program lead lion conservation — restoring harmony between people and wildlife.
This commentary reminds us: “When women lead, everything changes.”
** Views are author’s. #VoicesFromTheLand
Women can help rebuild our relationship with lions: Voices from the land (commentary)
This series, Voices from the Land, brings together opinion pieces led and written by Indigenous peoples from around the world. Through these commentaries, we share our lived realities and reflections…
news.mongabay.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
[COMMENTARY]
🐾 In Kenya, Samburu women of the Mama Simba program lead lion conservation — restoring harmony between people and wildlife.
This commentary reminds us: “When women lead, everything changes.”
** Views are author’s. #VoicesFromTheLand
🐾 In Kenya, Samburu women of the Mama Simba program lead lion conservation — restoring harmony between people and wildlife.
This commentary reminds us: “When women lead, everything changes.”
** Views are author’s. #VoicesFromTheLand
What to know this week:
US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza
Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen
Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?
US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza
Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen
Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?
November 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
What to know this week:
US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza
Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen
Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?
US maneuvers at the UN re Syria & Gaza
Who won our informal poll re next UN SecGen
Mamdani & the UN: will he visit?
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[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More passblue.com/2025/11/07/u...
[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More
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November 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More passblue.com/2025/11/07/u...
[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More passblue.com/2025/11/07/u...
[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More
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November 8, 2025 at 2:15 AM
[UN: Nov. 7] It’s Climate-Talks Time; US Moves on Syria and Gaza & Much More passblue.com/2025/11/07/u...
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Feminist Foreign Policies Are Fighting for Their Life passblue.com/2025/11/05/f...
Feminist Foreign Policies Are Fighting for Their Life
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November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Feminist Foreign Policies Are Fighting for Their Life passblue.com/2025/11/05/f...
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From Gaza to Syria, US Makes New Moves in the UN Security Council passblue.com/2025/11/06/f...
From Gaza to Syria, US Makes New Moves in the UN Security Council
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November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
From Gaza to Syria, US Makes New Moves in the UN Security Council passblue.com/2025/11/06/f...
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Ms Rachel 🤝 Zohran
"I refuse to apologize for any of it"
"I refuse to apologize for any of it"
Today, Ms.Rachel accepted Glamour Magazine ‘Women of The Year’ by wearing a custom dress with drawings from children from Gaza.
November 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ms Rachel 🤝 Zohran
"I refuse to apologize for any of it"
"I refuse to apologize for any of it"
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"Hundreds of #university staff have been killed, including deans and heads of department, sometimes in their own homes with their families. Thousands of students have been killed by Israeli attacks in #Gaza. Formal #education has been brought to a complete standstill." #genocide
"Despite the overwhelming evidence, the flagrant illegality, the profound damage to Palestinian self-determination, the protests and the pleas, these crimes continue without pause."
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...
Higher education has been destroyed in Gaza
Academics call for sanctions as Israel’s actions against education in Gaza draw condemnation
www.irishtimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
"Hundreds of #university staff have been killed, including deans and heads of department, sometimes in their own homes with their families. Thousands of students have been killed by Israeli attacks in #Gaza. Formal #education has been brought to a complete standstill." #genocide
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A must-read for anyone at #COP30 and beyond thinking about how to rescue 1.5°C and limit #overshoot!
After years of political failure, the world can still rescue 1.5°C – if countries pursue the “highest possible ambition”, starting now.
New report from Climate Analytics and @pik-potsdam.bsky.social shows how it’s possible.
Read more: climateanalytics.org/publications...
New report from Climate Analytics and @pik-potsdam.bsky.social shows how it’s possible.
Read more: climateanalytics.org/publications...
Rescuing 1.5°C: new evidence on the highest possible ambition to…
This study shows that, even after years of insufficient action, the world can still return to well below 1.5°C of warming this century if countries pursue the “highest possible ambition” in climate ac...
climateanalytics.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A must-read for anyone at #COP30 and beyond thinking about how to rescue 1.5°C and limit #overshoot!
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Something is #rotten in Europe...
#Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?!
#genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza
#Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?!
#genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza
Gabriele Nunziati was fired for asking if Israel should pay for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
Italy: IFJ-EFJ call for the reinstatement of sacked journalist Gabriele Nunziati
Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati, Brussels correspondent for the Agenzia Nova news agency, was told his collaboration with the agency was stopped ...
europeanjournalists.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Something is #rotten in Europe...
#Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?!
#genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza
#Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?!
#genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza
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it's like seventieth on the list of problems here but none of these gold tones match and it feels like that's a problem they could have solved by buying a single bulk-sized peel-and-stick package of gilt foam gewgaws instead of ordering a new one every time they ran out
November 7, 2025 at 1:27 AM
it's like seventieth on the list of problems here but none of these gold tones match and it feels like that's a problem they could have solved by buying a single bulk-sized peel-and-stick package of gilt foam gewgaws instead of ordering a new one every time they ran out
From Gaza to Syria, US Makes New Moves in the UN Security Council passblue.com/2025/11/06/f...
From Gaza to Syria, US Makes New Moves in the UN Security Council
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November 7, 2025 at 1:04 AM
From Gaza to Syria, US Makes New Moves in the UN Security Council passblue.com/2025/11/06/f...
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EXCLUSIVE COLUMN: New York is quietly preparing for a Trump takeover of the country’s largest city, writes our Jonathan Martin.
Inside Hochul’s Emergency Plan to Keep Trump Out of New York
State officials, business leaders and activists are quietly forming a coalition to stop a federal incursion into America’s largest city following Zohran Mamdani’s victory.
www.politico.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:51 PM
EXCLUSIVE COLUMN: New York is quietly preparing for a Trump takeover of the country’s largest city, writes our Jonathan Martin.
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Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
November 6, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.
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It's been over 10 years since the last large-scale UN mission start-up. This week, I provide a refresher on start-up funding arrangements, explain the Secretary-General's request for the UN Support Office in #Haiti, and point out some issues with the request.
casquebleu.substack.com/p/getting-th...
casquebleu.substack.com/p/getting-th...
Getting the UN Support Office in Haiti off the ground
A refresher on mission start-up financing
casquebleu.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
It's been over 10 years since the last large-scale UN mission start-up. This week, I provide a refresher on start-up funding arrangements, explain the Secretary-General's request for the UN Support Office in #Haiti, and point out some issues with the request.
casquebleu.substack.com/p/getting-th...
casquebleu.substack.com/p/getting-th...
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A real man of action.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 6, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A real man of action.
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📰🚨Journalists for Transparency #J4T, an initiative of IACC, is a global collective of journalists exposing issues of transparency and corruption.
🔗Explore our latest investigations from India to Kenya, Nigeria, and beyond → j4t.org
@anticorruption.bsky.social @giz.de @passblue.bsky.social
🔗Explore our latest investigations from India to Kenya, Nigeria, and beyond → j4t.org
@anticorruption.bsky.social @giz.de @passblue.bsky.social
J4T
Journalists for Transparency
j4t.org
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
📰🚨Journalists for Transparency #J4T, an initiative of IACC, is a global collective of journalists exposing issues of transparency and corruption.
🔗Explore our latest investigations from India to Kenya, Nigeria, and beyond → j4t.org
@anticorruption.bsky.social @giz.de @passblue.bsky.social
🔗Explore our latest investigations from India to Kenya, Nigeria, and beyond → j4t.org
@anticorruption.bsky.social @giz.de @passblue.bsky.social