John Lowrie
@johnlowrie.bsky.social
Advocating for better/fairer #foreignaid #humanrights and #governance for vulnerable and indigenous peoples worldwide especially Cambodia & St Helena Island.
Speaks for money except we never know how the other lot would do!
November 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Speaks for money except we never know how the other lot would do!
I still can't find out if it's mysterious censoring or X just want me to pay money to be verified. Why should we? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrx53zeg4o
August 21, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I still can't find out if it's mysterious censoring or X just want me to pay money to be verified. Why should we? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyrx53zeg4o
Good @freemovement.bsky.social, the debate should add more pressure. Can't rely on @StateDept reports: they're distorted under @realDonaldTrump who began family separation as a deliberate immigration policy. newsletter.freemovement.org.uk
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August 19, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Good @freemovement.bsky.social, the debate should add more pressure. Can't rely on @StateDept reports: they're distorted under @realDonaldTrump who began family separation as a deliberate immigration policy. newsletter.freemovement.org.uk
Today's disappearing post on X but copied for here. The barrage of anti-Thai comments will not help to re-establish harmony and jobs. This commentator is or was an official in the Foreign Affairs Ministry but that's not stated. cambodianess.com/article/driv... thailand.iom.int/news/cambodi...
August 15, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Today's disappearing post on X but copied for here. The barrage of anti-Thai comments will not help to re-establish harmony and jobs. This commentator is or was an official in the Foreign Affairs Ministry but that's not stated. cambodianess.com/article/driv... thailand.iom.int/news/cambodi...
@sheehanistan.bsky.social Known as "Win-Win" or "I win, you lose!" Daft donors - @USAID in particular have kept on spending money "assisting" authorities to tackle crime, despite absolutely no will to do so, quite the opposite.
June 28, 2025 at 12:25 AM
@sheehanistan.bsky.social Known as "Win-Win" or "I win, you lose!" Daft donors - @USAID in particular have kept on spending money "assisting" authorities to tackle crime, despite absolutely no will to do so, quite the opposite.
Twitter X gets more annoying. I can't search any more and then tweets seem to go but don't. No problems here but who sees?
June 17, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Twitter X gets more annoying. I can't search any more and then tweets seem to go but don't. No problems here but who sees?
Interview with Duncan McAuley, CEO Action Foundation. Thank goodness such fine deeds go on but what a shame #UK lost the enlightened post-WWII culture where we led in tolerance and provisions for @refugees etc. northeastbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
May 29, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Interview with Duncan McAuley, CEO Action Foundation. Thank goodness such fine deeds go on but what a shame #UK lost the enlightened post-WWII culture where we led in tolerance and provisions for @refugees etc. northeastbylines.co.uk/news/educati...
Slick fundraising, heart-string pulling images. Worst offenders? The major "Conservation NGOs", household names, royal patronage, but with abysmal records in protecting environments or poor indigenous people. www.thirdsector.co.uk/cbi/2025 anorthumbrianabroad.blogspot.com/2020/04/doin...
May 29, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Slick fundraising, heart-string pulling images. Worst offenders? The major "Conservation NGOs", household names, royal patronage, but with abysmal records in protecting environments or poor indigenous people. www.thirdsector.co.uk/cbi/2025 anorthumbrianabroad.blogspot.com/2020/04/doin...
@tomatit0.bsky.social Welcome to the other side - no Elon algorithms!
May 11, 2025 at 6:52 AM
@tomatit0.bsky.social Welcome to the other side - no Elon algorithms!
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
April 23, 2025 at 10:22 AM
April 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Give up on X? Well so far I'm up to 43 attempts to post this left. Elon's free speech algorithms working well. @ritthyou.bsky.social @SkeetCambodia @marisakabas.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Give up on X? Well so far I'm up to 43 attempts to post this left. Elon's free speech algorithms working well. @ritthyou.bsky.social @SkeetCambodia @marisakabas.bsky.social
A little bit of #StHelena here, even if we need to correct #DailyMirror. @sthelenafocus.bsky.social @westmorelandken.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
A little bit of #StHelena here, even if we need to correct #DailyMirror. @sthelenafocus.bsky.social @westmorelandken.bsky.social
Who could possibly guess our great conservation experts would discover this astonishing fact about natural life? (But good free fund-raising material, thank you @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social)💲💰 @vbadpanda.bsky.social @stephencorry.bsky.social t.co/HR0JQyLTpB
March 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
Who could possibly guess our great conservation experts would discover this astonishing fact about natural life? (But good free fund-raising material, thank you @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social)💲💰 @vbadpanda.bsky.social @stephencorry.bsky.social t.co/HR0JQyLTpB
Tabloid daftness #ForeignAid. Picking on the one expensive visitor who gets things done and for the better. One young lady could have told them. #StHelena t.co/zy8gDnWf0X www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
March 6, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Tabloid daftness #ForeignAid. Picking on the one expensive visitor who gets things done and for the better. One young lady could have told them. #StHelena t.co/zy8gDnWf0X www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Reposted by John Lowrie
Great piece by Seoung Nimol and Coby Hobbs looking at the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project, where Indigenous communities allege abuse continues, despite the REDD+ project being reinstated by Verra.
Worth noting Verra didn't send a team to the site before reinstating the REDD+ project.
Worth noting Verra didn't send a team to the site before reinstating the REDD+ project.
Carbon Credit Project Still Threatens Indigenous Livelihoods After Compromised Review | CamboJA News
Sitting beside her recently jailed husband and their seven-year-old son in their stilt house near Koh Kong’s protected forests, Chey Nov fought back tears. ... | Read more at CamboJA News
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March 3, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Great piece by Seoung Nimol and Coby Hobbs looking at the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project, where Indigenous communities allege abuse continues, despite the REDD+ project being reinstated by Verra.
Worth noting Verra didn't send a team to the site before reinstating the REDD+ project.
Worth noting Verra didn't send a team to the site before reinstating the REDD+ project.
And the "rap" just keeps rapping. (Never mind #UN agencies get their 8% "running costs" (i.e., luxury offices; rented mansions, #SUVs, + of course numerous 5-star hotel gatherings. (They can withstand @USAID cuts no problem!)
@CobytHobbs @stephencorry.bsky.social cambojanews.com/carbon-credi...
@CobytHobbs @stephencorry.bsky.social cambojanews.com/carbon-credi...
Carbon Credit Project Still Threatens Indigenous Livelihoods After Compromised Review | CamboJA News
Sitting beside her recently jailed husband and their seven-year-old son in their stilt house near Koh Kong’s protected forests, Chey Nov fought back tears. ... | Read more at CamboJA News
cambojanews.com
March 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
And the "rap" just keeps rapping. (Never mind #UN agencies get their 8% "running costs" (i.e., luxury offices; rented mansions, #SUVs, + of course numerous 5-star hotel gatherings. (They can withstand @USAID cuts no problem!)
@CobytHobbs @stephencorry.bsky.social cambojanews.com/carbon-credi...
@CobytHobbs @stephencorry.bsky.social cambojanews.com/carbon-credi...
"Developments banks" in @WorldBank group and #MFIs as we see in #Cambodia actually inhibit and harm "human rights, community leadership, and environmental sustainability". x.com/LowrieJohn/s...
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Civil Society at the Finance in Common Summit Calls for Community-led, Equitable, and Human Rights-based Development
As public development banks gather for the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) in Cape Town, South Africa, civil society and community activists from across the world are demanding a shift to a community-...
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March 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"Developments banks" in @WorldBank group and #MFIs as we see in #Cambodia actually inhibit and harm "human rights, community leadership, and environmental sustainability". x.com/LowrieJohn/s...
@re-course.org @ceebankwatch.bsky.social
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Right now in the West you will find it easier to part with your money for any one of the leading #Conservation bodies and their "good causes" than to find out why environmental defenders and journalists are killed, incarcerated, or exiled. gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/...
February 22, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Right now in the West you will find it easier to part with your money for any one of the leading #Conservation bodies and their "good causes" than to find out why environmental defenders and journalists are killed, incarcerated, or exiled. gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/...
My small effort to promote democracy, despite it out-of-favour. kiripost.com/stories/is-e...
Is Encouraging Voters to Vote from Abroad Good?
In this commentary, John Lowrie explores how Cambodia is making strides in enfranchising its diaspora, while the UK’s experience highlights the challenges of low participation, the role of an independ...
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February 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
My small effort to promote democracy, despite it out-of-favour. kiripost.com/stories/is-e...
@newseye.bsky.social True, not AI or Deep-Fake generated? if so re-found #WinstonChurchill style leadership.
February 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
@newseye.bsky.social True, not AI or Deep-Fake generated? if so re-found #WinstonChurchill style leadership.