Tsedenya Girmay
@tinnaa180.bsky.social
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GUQ | ME Council
All things migration | HoA
GUQ | ME Council
All things migration | HoA
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Happening today: “Israel-Iran Escalating Confrontation: What is at Stake in the region?”
🗓️ June 18, 2025
🕘 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm (Doha time)
🔗 register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#Iran #Israel
🗓️ June 18, 2025
🕘 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm (Doha time)
🔗 register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#Iran #Israel
June 18, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Happening today: “Israel-Iran Escalating Confrontation: What is at Stake in the region?”
🗓️ June 18, 2025
🕘 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm (Doha time)
🔗 register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#Iran #Israel
🗓️ June 18, 2025
🕘 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm (Doha time)
🔗 register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
#Iran #Israel
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We’re excited to welcome Roula Seghaier as WIMN’s new International Coordinator!
Roula brings a wealth of experience in feminist and migrant rights organizing, from the SWANA region to the global stage!
Read more in our announcement:
shorturl.at/n2Paq
More about Roula: shorturl.at/Rxjdi
Roula brings a wealth of experience in feminist and migrant rights organizing, from the SWANA region to the global stage!
Read more in our announcement:
shorturl.at/n2Paq
More about Roula: shorturl.at/Rxjdi
June 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We’re excited to welcome Roula Seghaier as WIMN’s new International Coordinator!
Roula brings a wealth of experience in feminist and migrant rights organizing, from the SWANA region to the global stage!
Read more in our announcement:
shorturl.at/n2Paq
More about Roula: shorturl.at/Rxjdi
Roula brings a wealth of experience in feminist and migrant rights organizing, from the SWANA region to the global stage!
Read more in our announcement:
shorturl.at/n2Paq
More about Roula: shorturl.at/Rxjdi
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FIFA says that "football unites the world" but ten years on from the most serious scandal in its history it has succeeded in uniting expert opinion on its unfitness to govern world football and the need for meaningful reform of the organisation.
fairsq.org/fifa-joint-s...
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Joint Statement: “FIFA arguably more poorly governed today than a decade ago”
NGOs, academics, writers, whistleblowers and football supporters’ groups are among those who today condemned serious ongoing misgovernance at football’s world governing body FIFA in a joint statement ...
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May 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
FIFA says that "football unites the world" but ten years on from the most serious scandal in its history it has succeeded in uniting expert opinion on its unfitness to govern world football and the need for meaningful reform of the organisation.
fairsq.org/fifa-joint-s...
fairsq.org/fifa-joint-s...
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In January, WIMN hosted the 3rd event in our cross-sectoral dialogue series:
“Land Reclamation Projects in Manila Bay: Filipino Fisherfolk Facing Displacement and Strategies of Resistance.”
We’re proud to share a graphic summary of key insights: womeninmigration.org/2025/04/fili...
#ManilaBay
“Land Reclamation Projects in Manila Bay: Filipino Fisherfolk Facing Displacement and Strategies of Resistance.”
We’re proud to share a graphic summary of key insights: womeninmigration.org/2025/04/fili...
#ManilaBay
May 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In January, WIMN hosted the 3rd event in our cross-sectoral dialogue series:
“Land Reclamation Projects in Manila Bay: Filipino Fisherfolk Facing Displacement and Strategies of Resistance.”
We’re proud to share a graphic summary of key insights: womeninmigration.org/2025/04/fili...
#ManilaBay
“Land Reclamation Projects in Manila Bay: Filipino Fisherfolk Facing Displacement and Strategies of Resistance.”
We’re proud to share a graphic summary of key insights: womeninmigration.org/2025/04/fili...
#ManilaBay
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Israel has used human rights jargon and terms from IHL to provide a veneer of legality for its genocide in #Gaza.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are now adopting the same practice to perpetrate atrocities in #Sudan.
My in-depth story for AJE.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are now adopting the same practice to perpetrate atrocities in #Sudan.
My in-depth story for AJE.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
How RSF is adopting Israel’s ‘template for genocide’ in Sudan
For years, Israel has used human rights terminology to whitewash killing civilians, now the RSF is doing the same.
www.aljazeera.com
May 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Israel has used human rights jargon and terms from IHL to provide a veneer of legality for its genocide in #Gaza.
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are now adopting the same practice to perpetrate atrocities in #Sudan.
My in-depth story for AJE.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are now adopting the same practice to perpetrate atrocities in #Sudan.
My in-depth story for AJE.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/...
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Hello Bluesky!
We are the Women in Migration Network (WIMN)—a global feminist network advancing the rights of women and gender, diverse people and migration. We promote human rights based policies and uplift, migrant women as powerful agents of change in the fight for justice.
womeninmigration.org
We are the Women in Migration Network (WIMN)—a global feminist network advancing the rights of women and gender, diverse people and migration. We promote human rights based policies and uplift, migrant women as powerful agents of change in the fight for justice.
womeninmigration.org
Women in Migration Network | Advancing the Rights of Women in Migration!
womeninmigration.org
April 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Hello Bluesky!
We are the Women in Migration Network (WIMN)—a global feminist network advancing the rights of women and gender, diverse people and migration. We promote human rights based policies and uplift, migrant women as powerful agents of change in the fight for justice.
womeninmigration.org
We are the Women in Migration Network (WIMN)—a global feminist network advancing the rights of women and gender, diverse people and migration. We promote human rights based policies and uplift, migrant women as powerful agents of change in the fight for justice.
womeninmigration.org
Gloria started feeling ill and went to the KU Hospital.. “that’s when they told me one of my kidneys had failed, and the other was removed.” She started dialysis, and her brother donated his kidney when things got worse. @migrantrights.bsky.social
www.migrant-rights.org/2025/04/alle...
www.migrant-rights.org/2025/04/alle...
Allegations of organ trade and illegal harvesting are rife as GCC and African states fail to conduct autopsies - Migrant Rights
www.migrant-rights.org
April 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Gloria started feeling ill and went to the KU Hospital.. “that’s when they told me one of my kidneys had failed, and the other was removed.” She started dialysis, and her brother donated his kidney when things got worse. @migrantrights.bsky.social
www.migrant-rights.org/2025/04/alle...
www.migrant-rights.org/2025/04/alle...
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This Week: “Shaping a Post-Assad Syria: Lessons from the Arab Spring”
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📆 March 5, 2025
📷 3:00 PM (Doha time)
📌 via Zoom
Speakers:
Ala Qasem, Eya Jrad, & @tmegrisi.bsky.social
Moderator: Nader Kabbani
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📆 March 5, 2025
📷 3:00 PM (Doha time)
📌 via Zoom
Speakers:
Ala Qasem, Eya Jrad, & @tmegrisi.bsky.social
Moderator: Nader Kabbani
March 3, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This Week: “Shaping a Post-Assad Syria: Lessons from the Arab Spring”
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📆 March 5, 2025
📷 3:00 PM (Doha time)
📌 via Zoom
Speakers:
Ala Qasem, Eya Jrad, & @tmegrisi.bsky.social
Moderator: Nader Kabbani
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📆 March 5, 2025
📷 3:00 PM (Doha time)
📌 via Zoom
Speakers:
Ala Qasem, Eya Jrad, & @tmegrisi.bsky.social
Moderator: Nader Kabbani
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Really pleased to announce the publication of my latest article "Evidencing alethocide:Israel's war on truth in Gaza" in TWQ. I propose the concept of "alethocide" (killing of truth) to fully capture deliberate, systemic lying in service of genocide.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Really pleased to announce the publication of my latest article "Evidencing alethocide:Israel's war on truth in Gaza" in TWQ. I propose the concept of "alethocide" (killing of truth) to fully capture deliberate, systemic lying in service of genocide.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This Week: “The Gaza Genocide and the Erosion of Global Order”
📆 February 25, 2025
🕓 4:00 PM (Doha time)
📌 Zoom
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@franceskalbs.bsky.social, @muhammadshehada.bsky.social, Omar H. Rahman, & moderated by Ahmed Morsy
📆 February 25, 2025
🕓 4:00 PM (Doha time)
📌 Zoom
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@franceskalbs.bsky.social, @muhammadshehada.bsky.social, Omar H. Rahman, & moderated by Ahmed Morsy
February 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This Week: “The Gaza Genocide and the Erosion of Global Order”
📆 February 25, 2025
🕓 4:00 PM (Doha time)
📌 Zoom
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@franceskalbs.bsky.social, @muhammadshehada.bsky.social, Omar H. Rahman, & moderated by Ahmed Morsy
📆 February 25, 2025
🕓 4:00 PM (Doha time)
📌 Zoom
Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@franceskalbs.bsky.social, @muhammadshehada.bsky.social, Omar H. Rahman, & moderated by Ahmed Morsy
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#Qatar has launched a three-month amnesty period starting from 9 February 2025, allowing foreign residents with irregular immigration status to exit the country without penalties.
Qatar Launches Amnesty for Migrants with Irregular Immigration Status - Migrant Rights
Qatar has launched a three-month amnesty period starting from 9 February 2025, allowing foreign residents with irregular immigration status to exit the country without penalties. It is not clear if re...
www.migrant-rights.org
February 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
#Qatar has launched a three-month amnesty period starting from 9 February 2025, allowing foreign residents with irregular immigration status to exit the country without penalties.
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Episode 8 | "Shifting Landscape of Middle East Cooperation"
In this episode of MEnbar, host @marcowenjones.bsky.social welcomes @galipdalay.bsky.social, a nonresident senior fellow at ME Council, to explore the shifting landscape of Middle East cooperation.
Full Episode:
mecouncil.org/menbar/
In this episode of MEnbar, host @marcowenjones.bsky.social welcomes @galipdalay.bsky.social, a nonresident senior fellow at ME Council, to explore the shifting landscape of Middle East cooperation.
Full Episode:
mecouncil.org/menbar/
January 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Episode 8 | "Shifting Landscape of Middle East Cooperation"
In this episode of MEnbar, host @marcowenjones.bsky.social welcomes @galipdalay.bsky.social, a nonresident senior fellow at ME Council, to explore the shifting landscape of Middle East cooperation.
Full Episode:
mecouncil.org/menbar/
In this episode of MEnbar, host @marcowenjones.bsky.social welcomes @galipdalay.bsky.social, a nonresident senior fellow at ME Council, to explore the shifting landscape of Middle East cooperation.
Full Episode:
mecouncil.org/menbar/
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Two industries have boomed during the war in Sudan gold and livestock. The RSF has looted more than 60% of the 11 million livestock during its siege of the Gezira. Gold has been written abt but this livestock looting is major especially in the middle of a famine/food insecurity.
January 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Two industries have boomed during the war in Sudan gold and livestock. The RSF has looted more than 60% of the 11 million livestock during its siege of the Gezira. Gold has been written abt but this livestock looting is major especially in the middle of a famine/food insecurity.
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Confused Trump Autographs Swearing-In Bible Before Handing It Back To Justice Roberts
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January 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Confused Trump Autographs Swearing-In Bible Before Handing It Back To Justice Roberts
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Egypt: EU overlooked rights violations to speed up €1bn payment, say activists - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eu-deliberately-botched-assessment-egypt-human-rights-violations-expedite-eu1bn-payment
EU 'deliberately' botched assessment of Egypt's rights abuses to speed up €1bn payment
Campaigners say this is the first time in 30 years that the EU failed to enforce preconditions for an aid package
www.middleeasteye.net
January 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Egypt: EU overlooked rights violations to speed up €1bn payment, say activists - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/eu-deliberately-botched-assessment-egypt-human-rights-violations-expedite-eu1bn-payment
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Upcoming Webinar: Building a New #Syria After the #Assad Regime
Join @hafsahalawa.bsky.social, @arwadamon.bsky.social, @haidhaid22.bsky.social & Marwan Kabalan
📆15 January
⏱️ 4:00 PM Doha time
📍Zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join @hafsahalawa.bsky.social, @arwadamon.bsky.social, @haidhaid22.bsky.social & Marwan Kabalan
📆15 January
⏱️ 4:00 PM Doha time
📍Zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
January 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Upcoming Webinar: Building a New #Syria After the #Assad Regime
Join @hafsahalawa.bsky.social, @arwadamon.bsky.social, @haidhaid22.bsky.social & Marwan Kabalan
📆15 January
⏱️ 4:00 PM Doha time
📍Zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Join @hafsahalawa.bsky.social, @arwadamon.bsky.social, @haidhaid22.bsky.social & Marwan Kabalan
📆15 January
⏱️ 4:00 PM Doha time
📍Zoom
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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With the collapse of the Assad regime, 2024 concluded with significant regional shifts. In this special Council Views edition, ME Council directors offer insights on key trends and conflicts likely to shape 2025.
Read more: mecouncil.org/blog_posts/m...
Read more: mecouncil.org/blog_posts/m...
January 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
With the collapse of the Assad regime, 2024 concluded with significant regional shifts. In this special Council Views edition, ME Council directors offer insights on key trends and conflicts likely to shape 2025.
Read more: mecouncil.org/blog_posts/m...
Read more: mecouncil.org/blog_posts/m...
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Honoured to be joining @arwadamon.bsky.social @haidhaid22.bsky.social & Marwan Kabalan for this upcoming webinar, hosted by ME Council.
“Building a New #Syria After the #Assad Regime”: Wednesday 15th January, 16.00 Damascus (08.00 EST/13.00 GMT/14.00 CET).
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
“Building a New #Syria After the #Assad Regime”: Wednesday 15th January, 16.00 Damascus (08.00 EST/13.00 GMT/14.00 CET).
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Building a New Syria After the Assad Regime. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
The Middle East Council on Global Affairs (ME Council) is organizing a webinar to explore how Syria can navigate the challenges of fostering security, state-building, inclusive governance, minority pr...
us02web.zoom.us
January 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Honoured to be joining @arwadamon.bsky.social @haidhaid22.bsky.social & Marwan Kabalan for this upcoming webinar, hosted by ME Council.
“Building a New #Syria After the #Assad Regime”: Wednesday 15th January, 16.00 Damascus (08.00 EST/13.00 GMT/14.00 CET).
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
“Building a New #Syria After the #Assad Regime”: Wednesday 15th January, 16.00 Damascus (08.00 EST/13.00 GMT/14.00 CET).
Register: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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ME Council is on Bluesky!
We are an independent, non-profit policy research institution based in Qatar. We conduct policy-relevant research, convene meetings & dialogues, & engage policy actors on geopolitical & socioeconomic issues covering the MENA region.
Learn more here: mecouncil.org
We are an independent, non-profit policy research institution based in Qatar. We conduct policy-relevant research, convene meetings & dialogues, & engage policy actors on geopolitical & socioeconomic issues covering the MENA region.
Learn more here: mecouncil.org
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The Middle East Council on Global Affairs is an independent, non-profit policy research institution based in Doha, Qatar.
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January 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
ME Council is on Bluesky!
We are an independent, non-profit policy research institution based in Qatar. We conduct policy-relevant research, convene meetings & dialogues, & engage policy actors on geopolitical & socioeconomic issues covering the MENA region.
Learn more here: mecouncil.org
We are an independent, non-profit policy research institution based in Qatar. We conduct policy-relevant research, convene meetings & dialogues, & engage policy actors on geopolitical & socioeconomic issues covering the MENA region.
Learn more here: mecouncil.org
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“Sudan is Gaza on the Nile…Khartoum,& other cities & villages are levelled. It is the largest state to collapse in modern history & the largest displacement crisis in the world today. The remaining population is enduring what will probably be the worst famine in Africa in 100 yrs.” on.ft.com/4ae5aB7
Sudan’s last hope lies in external actors ending the war
Middle Eastern states and their allies must not continue to exploit the country as a battleground for their rivalries
on.ft.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“Sudan is Gaza on the Nile…Khartoum,& other cities & villages are levelled. It is the largest state to collapse in modern history & the largest displacement crisis in the world today. The remaining population is enduring what will probably be the worst famine in Africa in 100 yrs.” on.ft.com/4ae5aB7
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My latest for @theglobeandmail.com, the Ethiopian army has repurposed a stadium in the country's Amhara region, as an artillery base to fire at rebel held villages. I documented the deaths of six civilians in two villages hit by shells in November. The 15 month old conflict rages on.
Ethiopian soccer stadium becomes artillery site as Amhara war persists
More than a dozen residents in Woldia said the city’s stadium has been converted into an Ethiopian army base where artillery guns indiscriminately fire at rebel-held villages many kilometres away
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 20, 2024 at 10:42 PM
My latest for @theglobeandmail.com, the Ethiopian army has repurposed a stadium in the country's Amhara region, as an artillery base to fire at rebel held villages. I documented the deaths of six civilians in two villages hit by shells in November. The 15 month old conflict rages on.
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The ten-month-long shutdown of its main oil pipeline, primarily due to the war in Sudan, has highlighted the urgent need for South Sudan to find an alternative to oil. My latest
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
South Sudan’s economic crisis threatens its fragile peace
It shows what happens when a petrostate’s lifeline disappears overnight
www.economist.com
December 20, 2024 at 12:10 PM
The ten-month-long shutdown of its main oil pipeline, primarily due to the war in Sudan, has highlighted the urgent need for South Sudan to find an alternative to oil. My latest
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
www.economist.com/middle-east-...
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Check out Episode 5 of MEnbar | "The Future of Reform in the Arab World" with Nadim Houry
youtube.com/watch?v=D8zj...
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December 20, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Check out Episode 5 of MEnbar | "The Future of Reform in the Arab World" with Nadim Houry
youtube.com/watch?v=D8zj...
youtube.com/watch?v=D8zj...
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Governments are quickly coming to rely on the ubiquity of smartphones and their apps for immigration enforcement www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Canada border agency launches facial recognition app to track migrants
ReportIn app will help track permanent residents, foreign nationals and refugee claimants required to report to border agents. Critics have concerns.
www.thestar.com
December 20, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Governments are quickly coming to rely on the ubiquity of smartphones and their apps for immigration enforcement www.thestar.com/news/canada/...