Yoriko Yasukawa
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Yoriko Yasukawa
@yorikoy.bsky.social
· Mar 15
Una fascinante entrevista a #JoséWoldenberg, ex-Presidente del Instituto Federal Electoral de #México sobre las reformas electorales que permitieron la transición democrática de aquel gran país. Aquí la entrevista entera en Spotify:
drive.google.com/file/d/16xQj...
drive.google.com/file/d/16xQj...
My admiration and gratitude to these brave young people of the #PacificIands who moved countries around the world and the #InternationalCourtofJustice @CIJ_ICJ to fight the #ClimateCrisis! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...
How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law
www.nytimes.com
September 14, 2025 at 12:54 AM
My admiration and gratitude to these brave young people of the #PacificIands who moved countries around the world and the #InternationalCourtofJustice @CIJ_ICJ to fight the #ClimateCrisis! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...
So glad the @NewYorker shared this magnificent gut-wrenching chronicle of how 6 ordinary people experienced the #AtomicBomb in #Hiroshima as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of that atrocity. www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...
Hiroshima
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.
www.newyorker.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:09 AM
So glad the @NewYorker shared this magnificent gut-wrenching chronicle of how 6 ordinary people experienced the #AtomicBomb in #Hiroshima as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of that atrocity. www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...
Way past time #Japan did the right thing. #RecognizePalestine #FreePalestine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...
The Changing Map of Palestinian Recognition
www.nytimes.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Way past time #Japan did the right thing. #RecognizePalestine #FreePalestine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...
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World leaders - stand together against this war and all wars.
Diplomacy is hard, dialogue with your adversaries is hard, peace making is hard.
But that’s why you were elected — to do the hard thing. The right thing.
Do your duty!
Diplomacy is hard, dialogue with your adversaries is hard, peace making is hard.
But that’s why you were elected — to do the hard thing. The right thing.
Do your duty!
June 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
World leaders - stand together against this war and all wars.
Diplomacy is hard, dialogue with your adversaries is hard, peace making is hard.
But that’s why you were elected — to do the hard thing. The right thing.
Do your duty!
Diplomacy is hard, dialogue with your adversaries is hard, peace making is hard.
But that’s why you were elected — to do the hard thing. The right thing.
Do your duty!
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- ¿Cuántas mentes desperdiciamos al ahorrar en educación?
- En educación no se ahorra ¡se invierte!
- Y no hay inversión más sensata, más relevante y más rentable que la inversión en educación.
- En educación no se ahorra ¡se invierte!
- Y no hay inversión más sensata, más relevante y más rentable que la inversión en educación.
May 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM
- ¿Cuántas mentes desperdiciamos al ahorrar en educación?
- En educación no se ahorra ¡se invierte!
- Y no hay inversión más sensata, más relevante y más rentable que la inversión en educación.
- En educación no se ahorra ¡se invierte!
- Y no hay inversión más sensata, más relevante y más rentable que la inversión en educación.
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The tumult now unsettling the Global North may be an unexpected opportunity through which a truer, less hierarchical human rights order might at last emerge.
What the Global North Can Learn From the Global South
The tumult now unsettling the Global North may be an unexpected opportunity through which a truer, less hierarchical human rights order might at last emerge.
buff.ly
May 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The tumult now unsettling the Global North may be an unexpected opportunity through which a truer, less hierarchical human rights order might at last emerge.
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Allowing these atrocities to continue day in and day out degrades and lessens humanity as a whole.
It is way past time for all of us to say STOP.
#ArmsEmbargo against Israel NOW.
bbc.com/news/article...
It is way past time for all of us to say STOP.
#ArmsEmbargo against Israel NOW.
bbc.com/news/article...
BBC cameraman haunted by Gaza's malnourished children injured in Israeli strike
Israel says it targeted top Hamas militants hiding among civilians at the Khan Younis hospital.
bbc.com
May 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Allowing these atrocities to continue day in and day out degrades and lessens humanity as a whole.
It is way past time for all of us to say STOP.
#ArmsEmbargo against Israel NOW.
bbc.com/news/article...
It is way past time for all of us to say STOP.
#ArmsEmbargo against Israel NOW.
bbc.com/news/article...
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This ruling upholds the laws protecting the basic rights of every person in this country.
This admin can’t keep snatching up hardworking people without cause, just for being brown and working class. We’ll keep fighting for the rights of farm workers and every immigrant community.
This admin can’t keep snatching up hardworking people without cause, just for being brown and working class. We’ll keep fighting for the rights of farm workers and every immigrant community.
April 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This ruling upholds the laws protecting the basic rights of every person in this country.
This admin can’t keep snatching up hardworking people without cause, just for being brown and working class. We’ll keep fighting for the rights of farm workers and every immigrant community.
This admin can’t keep snatching up hardworking people without cause, just for being brown and working class. We’ll keep fighting for the rights of farm workers and every immigrant community.
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Urging no further escalation of India-Pakistan conflict.
Terrorist attacks should be treated as criminal acts and best prevention is peace building benefitting all - especially the people of Kashmir.
edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...
Terrorist attacks should be treated as criminal acts and best prevention is peace building benefitting all - especially the people of Kashmir.
edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...
India attack on Pakistan in wake of Kashmir massacre, airspaces closed around Lahore: Live updates | CNN
India said it launched a military operation against Pakistan, hitting “terrorist infrastructure” in both Pakistan and Pakistan administered-Kashmir, in a major escalation of tensions between the two n...
edition.cnn.com
May 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Urging no further escalation of India-Pakistan conflict.
Terrorist attacks should be treated as criminal acts and best prevention is peace building benefitting all - especially the people of Kashmir.
edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...
Terrorist attacks should be treated as criminal acts and best prevention is peace building benefitting all - especially the people of Kashmir.
edition.cnn.com/world/live-n...
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Keep your eyes on the prize — more just and representative decision-making, more effective and timely conflict resolution — NOT who gets to be a permanent member of the Security Council!
sc.mp/d9o8a
sc.mp/d9o8a
Meeting in Brazil, Brics foreign ministers fail to issue joint statement
Objections to expansion of UN Security Council by new, African members overshadowed consensus on ‘protectionist’ trade measures.
sc.mp
May 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Keep your eyes on the prize — more just and representative decision-making, more effective and timely conflict resolution — NOT who gets to be a permanent member of the Security Council!
sc.mp/d9o8a
sc.mp/d9o8a
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How many lives have been lost because of trigger happiness and callousness toward lives on the other side? Stop this and all wars now! #peacenow #savelives
#EndWarNow
#EndWarNow
Israeli military admits its troops killed UN worker in Gaza Strip
Israel had previously denied its troops were responsible for the killing of a UN worker with tank fire on 19 March.
www.bbc.com
April 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
How many lives have been lost because of trigger happiness and callousness toward lives on the other side? Stop this and all wars now! #peacenow #savelives
#EndWarNow
#EndWarNow
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🌍 On #EarthDay 22 April--also anniversary of the #ParisClimateAgreement signing—it’s heartening to know that people globally want stronger climate action despite fossil‑fuel lobby misinformation and government excuses.
Real change is within reach.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Real change is within reach.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🌍 On #EarthDay 22 April--also anniversary of the #ParisClimateAgreement signing—it’s heartening to know that people globally want stronger climate action despite fossil‑fuel lobby misinformation and government excuses.
Real change is within reach.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Real change is within reach.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Putting this into the universe, because this is the only outcome I expect out of our press in this moment. I’m okay with adjacent questions about the general violations— but this absolutely should be asked (and addressed though my standards are just at ASK)
Tomorrow’s going to be a good stress test of the press. El Salvadoran President Bukele will visit the White House. At the press availability, every Q ought to be about Abrego Garcia: where is he now? Did US ask you to return him? etc. WH will hate, maybe try to prevent, so all should band together.
April 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Putting this into the universe, because this is the only outcome I expect out of our press in this moment. I’m okay with adjacent questions about the general violations— but this absolutely should be asked (and addressed though my standards are just at ASK)
Mi solidaridad con don @oariascr de #CostaRica y apoyo a los principios y valores por los que él y su país siempre han luchado - la #Paz, la #Democracia y los #DerechosHumanos
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ex-Costa Rica president says US visa revoked after criticism of Trump
Óscar Arias, 84, who won Nobel peace prize in 1987, said US president was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’
www.theguardian.com
April 2, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Mi solidaridad con don @oariascr de #CostaRica y apoyo a los principios y valores por los que él y su país siempre han luchado - la #Paz, la #Democracia y los #DerechosHumanos
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Shameful and shameless as is to be expected from this regime. The rest of the world should condemn this behavior not normalize it. #SolidarityWithGreenland
US Vice President JD Vance has now said he will join his wife Usha on her highly contentious visit to Greenland later this week, a decision that added fuel to the diplomatic fire while revealing major changes to the United States’ itinerary on the Arctic island.
JD Vance will visit Greenland, but a controversial US trip just got a lot more low-profile | CNN
US Vice President JD Vance has now said he will join his wife Usha on her highly contentious visit to Greenland later this week, a decision that added fuel to the diplomatic fire while revealing major...
www.cnn.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Shameful and shameless as is to be expected from this regime. The rest of the world should condemn this behavior not normalize it. #SolidarityWithGreenland
A shameful decision by the government of #Japan that should be reversed. #GenderEquality
Japan’s decision to end it contribution to the U.N.’s top gender equality body could hardly come at a worse time, both diplomatically and symbolically.
Why Did Japan Cut Funding to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women?
Japan’s decision to end it contribution to the U.N.’s top gender equality body could hardly come at a worse time, both diplomatically and symbolically.
buff.ly
March 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
A shameful decision by the government of #Japan that should be reversed. #GenderEquality
How is this atrocity allowed to continue in #Gaza? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
Children, families, a doctor: Here are some of those Israel killed in Gaza
Israel has left families bereaved and shocked across the Gaza Strip with a new wave of brutal attacks.
www.aljazeera.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
How is this atrocity allowed to continue in #Gaza? www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
The operative word being ‘alleged.’ Even Fox News knows lack of due process when they see it…
March 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
The operative word being ‘alleged.’ Even Fox News knows lack of due process when they see it…
Una fascinante entrevista a #JoséWoldenberg, ex-Presidente del Instituto Federal Electoral de #México sobre las reformas electorales que permitieron la transición democrática de aquel gran país. Aquí la entrevista entera en Spotify:
drive.google.com/file/d/16xQj...
drive.google.com/file/d/16xQj...
March 15, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Una fascinante entrevista a #JoséWoldenberg, ex-Presidente del Instituto Federal Electoral de #México sobre las reformas electorales que permitieron la transición democrática de aquel gran país. Aquí la entrevista entera en Spotify:
drive.google.com/file/d/16xQj...
drive.google.com/file/d/16xQj...
About time #Japan broadened and diversified its alliances…
Opposition parties are calling for Japan to join forces with European countries that have expressed solidarity with Ukraine, but PM Ishiba has maintained a neutral stance.
Japan’s Catch-22 Situation Over US-Ukraine Row
Opposition parties are calling for Japan to join forces with European countries that have expressed solidarity with Ukraine, but PM Ishiba has maintained a neutral stance.
buff.ly
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
About time #Japan broadened and diversified its alliances…
A truly horrifying headline from the @nytimes.com.
War as a business venture…#UkraineWar
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...
War as a business venture…#UkraineWar
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...
Europe Faces a Huge Bill to Defend Ukraine. Investors Are Thrilled.
Europeans would need to ramp up military spending quickly, a notion that has set off a market rally, led by defense stocks.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A truly horrifying headline from the @nytimes.com.
War as a business venture…#UkraineWar
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...
War as a business venture…#UkraineWar
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...
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Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain
February 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain
条約を批准しないだけでなくオブザーバー参加も放棄。恥ずべきこと。https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/51960091aa1b55c046167d40530e4b555d2ed547
【速報】政府が核兵器禁止条約締約国会議へのオブザーバー参加見送りを表明 岩屋外相「大変厳しい判断をした」（FNNプライムオンライン（フジテレビ系）） - Yahoo!ニュース
岩屋外相は18日午後の記者会見で、米国で3月3～7日に開かれる核兵器禁止条約第3回締約国会議への日本政府のオブザーバー参加を見送る方針を表明し、「大変難しい、厳しい判断をせざるを得なかった」と語った
news.yahoo.co.jp
February 23, 2025 at 3:17 AM
条約を批准しないだけでなくオブザーバー参加も放棄。恥ずべきこと。https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/51960091aa1b55c046167d40530e4b555d2ed547
Yes, but why don’t we see the @nytimes.com or any other outlet at the press conference calling out the brazen lie??? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
Trump Falsely Suggests Ukraine Is to Blame for the War: What to Know
A look at how the war in Ukraine began, the state of the peace talks and why the country isn’t holding elections.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Yes, but why don’t we see the @nytimes.com or any other outlet at the press conference calling out the brazen lie??? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...