CIDSE

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[CIDSE @CIDSE]

📣 On Monday, 12 October, EU foreign ministers meet.

The EU says Israeli settlements are illegal, yet it's their largest export market.

@CIDSE & EuMEP show how to end this trade: an EU Regulation under Article 207 TFEU.

🔗 https://t.co/Tcmsc8rC5S

[CIDSE @CIDSE]

Who's accountable when pesticides cause harm across borders? ⚖️

Join CIDSE's side event at the #BindingTreaty negotiations
📅 Mon 12 Oct, 13:00–14:00
📍 Room XI, Palais des Nations, Geneva

Register 👉 https://t.co/kMnZeFWszA

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

Pope Leo XIV sends a message of condolence to the parish priest of Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza City after an Israeli strike kills five people, including two Christian women.

https://t.co/TcPctPhL8r

[European Laudato Si' Alliance @ELSiAEurope]

🇪🇺 Europe must step up at #COP31.

Today, ELSiA & partners call on EU leaders to:
✅ Phase out fossil fuels
✅ Deliver a just transition
✅ Increase climate finance
✅ Champion agroecology
Climate leadership means standing with the most vulnerable & protecting our common home. 🌍

[UNESCO @UNESCO]

Human dignity must remain at the heart of our digital future.

During his address at @UNESCO, Pope Leo XIV reflected on the challenges posed by artificial intelligence, calling for technology to remain at the service of people and for greater protection of children and young people in the digital age.

While artificial intelligence can process and correlate vast amounts of information, it cannot provide meaning or trust. In the words of @Pontifex , “Meaning is the oxygen of the mind.”

His message ultimately went beyond technology: trust, dialogue and education are essential to overcoming divisions, strengthening our common humanity and building lasting peace.

▶️ Watch highlights from Pope Leo XIV’s address at UNESCO.

[CIDSE @CIDSE]

Food is a human right, and the EU must guarantee it! 🇪���

As #AGRIFISH ministers discuss the post-2027 #CAP today, CIDSE and 70+ organisations launch the EU Food Justice Forum declaration calling for food systems rooted in human rights.✊

📃 https://t.co/GVCbqye5xi

[Ireland at UN @IrishMissionUN]

Today, ahead of the 2️⃣nd Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels Conference (TAFF-2) next year which Ireland 🇮🇪 and @TuvaluGov 🇹🇻 will co-host, we brought stakeholders together on the margins of #UNGA81.

Minister @timmydooley reiterated that TAFF-2 will be a vital opportunity to advance enabling pathways to implement a progressive transition away from fossil fuels, creating sustainable societies for all.

Ireland is ready to lead by example and has committed to publish a Roadmap on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels by the end of 2026.

🇮🇪 looks forward to partnering with 🇹🇻 as we move from discussion to implementation.

[Iglesias y Minería @iglesiaymineria]

✍️El "diálogo" entre empresas mineras, Iglesias y comunidades suele presentarse como un camino prometedor. Sin embargo, un análisis revela que esta idea reposa sobre argumentos frágiles o desconectados de la realidad de los territorios.
Artículo 👇🏾
https://t.co/lu5LhIuEx3

[European Laudato Si' Alliance @ELSiAEurope]

🙏🌍 Together in prayer, together in action.

Join ELSiA on 11 October at the House of Compassion (12:45 pm) for an ecumenical prayer service bringing together Anglican, Catholic and Protestant communities before the Brussels Climate March.

#BrusselsClimateMarch

[CIDSE @CIDSE]

📢 @btselem just released a new report on Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank.

Read the full report here ➡️ https://t.co/2QK5GoLxe4

[B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم @btselem]

Israel is dismantling Palestinian collective life in the West Bank.

A catastrophe is unfolding across the West Bank. Checkpoints, expulsions, killings and land takeovers are not separate events or isolated human rights violations. They are part of the same system. It is time to connect the dots.

Our new report, The Elimination Project, shows how these mechanisms form one political project: dismantling Palestinian collective life while expanding Israeli control and Jewish presence.

Since late 2022, and especially since October 2023, this process has accelerated and become more openly violent. Palestinians live under constant threat from soldiers and armed settler militias. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has killed 1,107 Palestinians, including 245 children. State-backed settler farms and outposts seize vast areas, communities are expelled, and movement restrictions fragment Palestinian space.

Israel is also strangling the Palestinian economy, criminalizing political and social organizing, shutting down civil society organizations and arresting journalists and activists.

Together, these mechanisms cut Palestinians off from land, livelihoods and one another, dismantling the conditions they need to exist as a people – with institutions, leadership, shared history and a political future.

The Elimination Project is not new. Its logic has shaped Israeli policy for decades through dispossession, fragmentation, military rule and apartheid. In 2017, Bezalel Smotrich published the “Decisive Plan,” centered on making Jewish-Israeli control irreversible. It gives Palestinians three options: relinquish their collective aspirations and live under Jewish supremacy, leave, or face military repression. Under the current government, central elements of this vision are being translated into policy, budgets, powers and practices. In Gaza, this logic has reached its most extreme manifestation: the genocide Israel is committing there.

The international community must stop treating Israel’s violence and violations as isolated incidents, stop enabling Israel’s crimes, and end the impunity that allows the Elimination Project to continue.

Connect the dots. See the system.

Read more in our new report.
https://t.co/aWjyA06fAp

[CIDSE @CIDSE]

📢 New guide: how EU Member States can turn the CSDDD into strong national law. It's not the directive we fought for, but it's a legal tool worth fighting with — if gaps are closed & aligned with international standards. 📖 https://t.co/uFyub9ss0N #CSDDD

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

In the Pontifical Gardens of Castel Gandolfo, Pope Leo will celebrate Mass for the World Day of Prayer for Creation on September 1.

https://t.co/KaWzITMSEj

[CIDSE @CIDSE]

✊ Together with 200+ civil society organisations and businesses, Catholic organisations are calling on EU leaders to make a concrete plan for Europe’s exit from fossil fuels.

📣 Let’s make this fossil fuel crisis Europe’s last.

➡️ https://t.co/6fOsMCXZm0

[CIDSE @CIDSE]

This summer, Europeans are paying twice for our fossil fuel dependence.

🔥 Heatwaves, wildfires & drought are devastating people’s lives. Ever-growing energy bills are squeezing families and local businesses.

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[CAFOD @CAFOD]

The ongoing expansion of illegal settlements is an major obstacle to peace in the Holy Land

In Qusra, escalating violence saw Palestinian families have supplies cut off as they came under siege from settlers.

📷 Settlers attempting to break into the courtyard of a family home.

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

As commercial deep-sea mining is increasingly being considered in parts of the Pacific, the Bishops of the region call for prudence, insisting that "the absence of complete scientific certainty should never become an excuse for proceeding without due care."

https://t.co/ixKEfJT2uU

[CAFOD @CAFOD]

“Through drones, we can see how miners have been entering our land and community. It’s important to keep the community safe” shares a young indigenous leader.

Young Indigenous people are using drone technology to defend the Amazon forest. #WorldIndigenousDay

[CIDSE @CIDSE]

📢 The @EU_Commission can propose a ban under Art 207 TFEU.
👉 Member States can request this by simple majority. If it refuses, it can be challenged in court.
🗣️Instead of watching from the sidelines the EU should take action to stop trading with the settlements.

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[CIDSE @CIDSE]

👉On Monday, the Foreign Affairs Council meeting ended without a decision, referred back to COREPER. Rather than the full proposal many Member States and HRVP @kajakallas have long requested, the @EU_Commission presented only an options paper.
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[CIDSE @CIDSE]

EuMEP and CIDSE prepared a #proposal showing how a trade measure could be adopted, implemented & enforced:

👉 https://t.co/Tcmsc8rC5S

@MartinKonecny @DorienVdb50
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