Miguel de la Vega
@migueldelavega.bsky.social
#CivicSpace Policy and Advocacy Lead at #Oxfam @oxfaminternational.bsky.social
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#Malawi 🇲🇼 MISA-Malawi urges the police to proactively investigate and prosecute attacks on journalists, including online abuse targeting women reporters.
MISA Malawi calls for police commitment to ending impunity for crimes against journalists | MISA Malawi
PROMOTING FREE EXPRESSION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
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November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
#Malawi 🇲🇼 MISA-Malawi urges the police to proactively investigate and prosecute attacks on journalists, including online abuse targeting women reporters.
Inequality is a driver for #CivicSpace closures globally, but hope resides on the active citizens. @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #OpED #ICSW www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin...
Crushing dissent widens rifts with governments
Thousands of civil society organisations (CSOs) and activists are gathering in Bangkok during the International Civil Society Week from Nov 1–5. The event will be organised by the CIVICUS Allian...
www.bangkokpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Inequality is a driver for #CivicSpace closures globally, but hope resides on the active citizens. @oxfaminternational.bsky.social #OpED #ICSW www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opin...
ODA: There’s not enough money for cooperation so why spend it on gender equality and justice? odi.org/en/insights/...
There’s not enough money – so why spend it on gender equality and justice?
This ODI Insights piece unpacks how recent aid cuts amid accelerating backlash to gender equality are not just budgetary decisions, but part of a broader trend of gender being politicised in multilate...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
ODA: There’s not enough money for cooperation so why spend it on gender equality and justice? odi.org/en/insights/...
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The attack on civil society is a major faultline⚡️
🌍 Civil society closures
💸 Aid collapse
🛑 Weaponised laws
👩👩👧👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked
⚔️ Security over rights
An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity.
@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
🌍 Civil society closures
💸 Aid collapse
🛑 Weaponised laws
👩👩👧👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked
⚔️ Security over rights
An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity.
@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
A/80/219: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Gina Romero - Freedom of assembly and association rights, collective action and human solid...
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Gina Romero, sounds the alarm about the compounding existential threats to these rights,...
www.ohchr.org
October 4, 2025 at 7:42 AM
The attack on civil society is a major faultline⚡️
🌍 Civil society closures
💸 Aid collapse
🛑 Weaponised laws
👩👩👧👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked
⚔️ Security over rights
An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity.
@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
🌍 Civil society closures
💸 Aid collapse
🛑 Weaponised laws
👩👩👧👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked
⚔️ Security over rights
An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity.
@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social
🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Sharing Oxfam's International’s Executive Director Amitabh Behar reflections on the ceasefire at #Gaza www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
Oxfam reaction to Gaza ceasefire deal | Oxfam International
www.oxfam.org
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sharing Oxfam's International’s Executive Director Amitabh Behar reflections on the ceasefire at #Gaza www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
To be really effective the response is not to sideline NGOs but to ally with them www.devex.com/news/trump-s...
Trump's 'America First' global health plan sidelines NGOs
A U.S.-based global health NGO was denied entry to a U.N. side event on the future of U.S. global health aid. It put a sharp edge on the Trump administration's plan to work with governments and the pr...
www.devex.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
To be really effective the response is not to sideline NGOs but to ally with them www.devex.com/news/trump-s...
Clinic of #Oxfam partner Palestine Medical Relief Society was destroyed by #Israeli forces in #Gaza on Monday. The building also housed another Oxfam Partner, Al Ataa, a womens association which worked to empower and protect vulnerable groups. Photo: PMRS oxf.am/gaza-partner...
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Clinic of #Oxfam partner Palestine Medical Relief Society was destroyed by #Israeli forces in #Gaza on Monday. The building also housed another Oxfam Partner, Al Ataa, a womens association which worked to empower and protect vulnerable groups. Photo: PMRS oxf.am/gaza-partner...
"In #Gaza, a famine has been caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference, sustained by complicity. In Gaza, as we heard, a child has been killed on average every hour for almost two years." @tomfletcherun.bsky.social #UNGA #Israel #GazaGenocide www.ochaopt.org/content/rema...
Remarks at the UN General Assembly High-Level Event “Call to Action for Palestinian Children in the West Bank and Gaza” | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied ...
Mr. Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator
New York, 24 September 2025
[As delivered]
Your Majesty, and Excellencies, Colleagues.
The first v...
www.ochaopt.org
September 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"In #Gaza, a famine has been caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference, sustained by complicity. In Gaza, as we heard, a child has been killed on average every hour for almost two years." @tomfletcherun.bsky.social #UNGA #Israel #GazaGenocide www.ochaopt.org/content/rema...
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Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Mass Shooters Are Not Disproportionately Transgender
Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
www.motherjones.com
August 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Brave journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa was assasinated today by Israel, for exposing the truth. I'm short of words. Even from afar it's deeply sadening and enraging. #israelgenocidalstate #Gaza www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m... @the-independent.com
Maryam Abu Daqqa spent months photographing the war in Gaza – her images will endure
Maryam worked tirelessly to document the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza strip, writes her colleague at Independent Arabia, Ezz Al Din Abu Eisha
www.independent.co.uk
August 27, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Brave journalist Mariam Abu Daqqa was assasinated today by Israel, for exposing the truth. I'm short of words. Even from afar it's deeply sadening and enraging. #israelgenocidalstate #Gaza www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m... @the-independent.com
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📰 Haven’t read the latest edition of the FoAA News yet? I invite you to learn about the most relevant activities I have carried out in recent months and the next steps of my mandate.
👉 Read here: freeassemblyandassociation.net/3rd-edition-...
#FreedomOfAssociation #FreedomOfAssembly #UN
👉 Read here: freeassemblyandassociation.net/3rd-edition-...
#FreedomOfAssociation #FreedomOfAssembly #UN
3rd edition of the FoAA News – Freedom of peaceful assembly and association
Read the 3rd edition of our newsletter here. Podrás encontrar la versión en español aquí.
freeassemblyandassociation.net
August 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
📰 Haven’t read the latest edition of the FoAA News yet? I invite you to learn about the most relevant activities I have carried out in recent months and the next steps of my mandate.
👉 Read here: freeassemblyandassociation.net/3rd-edition-...
#FreedomOfAssociation #FreedomOfAssembly #UN
👉 Read here: freeassemblyandassociation.net/3rd-edition-...
#FreedomOfAssociation #FreedomOfAssembly #UN
For every 6 Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 are civilians #IsraelGenocide www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
www.theguardian.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
For every 6 Palestinians killed in Gaza 5 are civilians #IsraelGenocide www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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#Sudan 🇸🇩 CIHRS and civil society urge the @uninvhrc.bsky.social to extend the Fact-Finding Mission’s mandate for 2 years, warning that “accountability is not a luxury; it is a prerequisite for sustainable peace.” buff.ly/ooNBs5C
Sudan: Extend the mandate of the Fact-Finding Mission for two more years
To Permanent Representatives of Member and Observer States of the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council (Geneva, Switzerland) 14 August 2025 Your Excellencies, Ahead of the UN Human Rights…
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August 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
#Sudan 🇸🇩 CIHRS and civil society urge the @uninvhrc.bsky.social to extend the Fact-Finding Mission’s mandate for 2 years, warning that “accountability is not a luxury; it is a prerequisite for sustainable peace.” buff.ly/ooNBs5C
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🇰🇪 ⚖️ How does digital surveillance impact #CivilSociety in Kenya?
📄 ICNL’s latest report examines how #surveillance laws and practices affect rights and freedoms, analyzes #Kenya’s legal frameworks + documents real risks faced by civil society.
🔎 Read the full report: www.icnl.org/post/report/...
📄 ICNL’s latest report examines how #surveillance laws and practices affect rights and freedoms, analyzes #Kenya’s legal frameworks + documents real risks faced by civil society.
🔎 Read the full report: www.icnl.org/post/report/...
August 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
🇰🇪 ⚖️ How does digital surveillance impact #CivilSociety in Kenya?
📄 ICNL’s latest report examines how #surveillance laws and practices affect rights and freedoms, analyzes #Kenya’s legal frameworks + documents real risks faced by civil society.
🔎 Read the full report: www.icnl.org/post/report/...
📄 ICNL’s latest report examines how #surveillance laws and practices affect rights and freedoms, analyzes #Kenya’s legal frameworks + documents real risks faced by civil society.
🔎 Read the full report: www.icnl.org/post/report/...
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🗣️ Despite shrinking space and funding uncertainty, Asia’s #CivilSociety is innovating!
⚖️ With targeted legal reform, strategic partnerships, and renewed donor support, civil society can remain the cornerstone of democratic resilience in the region. Learn more HERE:
⚖️ With targeted legal reform, strategic partnerships, and renewed donor support, civil society can remain the cornerstone of democratic resilience in the region. Learn more HERE:
August 19, 2025 at 2:30 AM
🗣️ Despite shrinking space and funding uncertainty, Asia’s #CivilSociety is innovating!
⚖️ With targeted legal reform, strategic partnerships, and renewed donor support, civil society can remain the cornerstone of democratic resilience in the region. Learn more HERE:
⚖️ With targeted legal reform, strategic partnerships, and renewed donor support, civil society can remain the cornerstone of democratic resilience in the region. Learn more HERE:
If profit interests replaces aid, surelly the world is recolonizing... www.devex.com/news/is-glob...
Is global development decolonizing or recolonizing?
Opinion: The “neocolonial” international aid system is being replaced by more coercive and exploitative policies reminiscent of the colonial era.
www.devex.com
August 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
If profit interests replaces aid, surelly the world is recolonizing... www.devex.com/news/is-glob...
It's past time that "the international community implement the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle." and stop #IsraelGenocide on
#Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-tr...
#Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-tr...
UN military force needed to halt Israel's assault on Gaza, tribunal says
The Gaza Tribunal Project calls on the UN General Assembly to set up a military force to stop massacres in Gaza
www.middleeasteye.net
August 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It's past time that "the international community implement the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) principle." and stop #IsraelGenocide on
#Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-tr...
#Gaza www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-tr...
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#BREAKING | Now in Jerusalem: Protest against the gen0cide in G4za. Protestors are chanting "Don’t say we didn’t know, gen0cide is happening in our name."
August 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
#BREAKING | Now in Jerusalem: Protest against the gen0cide in G4za. Protestors are chanting "Don’t say we didn’t know, gen0cide is happening in our name."
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A baby girl and her parents have been killed in the al-Mawasi area, once designated a ‘safe zone’ by Israel.
Israeli attack kills baby girl in Gaza as more Palestinians die of hunger
A baby girl and her parents have been killed in the al-Mawasi area, once designated a ‘safe zone’ by Israel.
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August 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A baby girl and her parents have been killed in the al-Mawasi area, once designated a ‘safe zone’ by Israel.
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Una colección de informes estadounidenses sobre delitos contra los derechos humanos recortó u omitió el lenguaje sobre los abusos persistentes y violaciones en El Salvador, Hungría, Arabia Saudita, los Emiratos Árabes Unidos e Israel, todos ellos considerados aliados del presidente Trump.
El informe sobre derechos humanos de Trump modifica el lenguaje sobre la situación en Israel y El Salvador
El nuevo reporte también omite muchas referencias anteriores a las violaciones de los derechos de las mujeres y de las personas LGBTQ en múltiples países.
nyti.ms
August 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Una colección de informes estadounidenses sobre delitos contra los derechos humanos recortó u omitió el lenguaje sobre los abusos persistentes y violaciones en El Salvador, Hungría, Arabia Saudita, los Emiratos Árabes Unidos e Israel, todos ellos considerados aliados del presidente Trump.
Gaza today... share.google/UbEEuL3G4uWs...
Not enough food in Gaza to sustain life - Oxfam
There is not enough food in Gaza to sustain life, Oxfam's Humanitarian Response Adviser in the enclave has said.
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August 16, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Gaza today... share.google/UbEEuL3G4uWs...
The "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" #GHF is a criminal scheme for killing Palestinian population #Gaza #IsraelGenocide msf.org.uk/article/msf-...
MSF Gaza report: This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing
GHF-run food distributions in Gaza are sites of “orchestrated killing and dehumanisation” that must be shut down
msf.org.uk
August 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" #GHF is a criminal scheme for killing Palestinian population #Gaza #IsraelGenocide msf.org.uk/article/msf-...
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Billions of ocean creatures have died during marine heatwaves in recent years, including keystone species like sea stars that regulate kelp ecosystems. We need to stop burning fossil fuels, people, and soon! insideclimatenews.org/news/0408202...
Scientists Pinpoint Cause of Massive Sea Star Die-Offs, and Suspect a Link to Global Warming - Inside Climate News
Outbreaks from ocean pathogens that can be deadly to marine life and even threaten humans are more frequent in overheated waters.
insideclimatenews.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Billions of ocean creatures have died during marine heatwaves in recent years, including keystone species like sea stars that regulate kelp ecosystems. We need to stop burning fossil fuels, people, and soon! insideclimatenews.org/news/0408202...
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A new proposed law in Ethiopia restricts civil society and bans foreign groups from supporting any election-related work, such as observing elections, educating voters, or providing technical help. 💔🇪🇹⚖️
#Ethiopia #CivicSpace
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#Ethiopia #CivicSpace
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HRW urges lawmakers to reject civil society bill, calls on Ethiopia’s partners to denounce proposed law - Addis Standard
HRW urges lawmakers to reject civil society bill, calls on Ethiopia’s partners to denounce proposed law Addis Standard News -
addisstandard.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A new proposed law in Ethiopia restricts civil society and bans foreign groups from supporting any election-related work, such as observing elections, educating voters, or providing technical help. 💔🇪🇹⚖️
#Ethiopia #CivicSpace
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#Ethiopia #CivicSpace
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