Joan Baez: ‘Action Is the Antidote to Despair’
The legendary folk singer writes for Rolling Stone about standing up to tyrants ahead of the Power to the People Festival.
Commentary: https://t.co/mTyzIex5hP
🎒School days are back in Gaza.
@UNICEF is bringing 350k children back to learning through 200+ learning centres across the #GazaStrip.
A safe place to learn.
A teacher by their side.
A future to build.
Thanks to our donors including @eu_echo, @SwedeninJERU & @ItalyMFA_int.
🚨 Nearly 8.3 million forcibly displaced and stateless people are on the brink of losing access to vital assistance because of funding cuts.
Find out more in our new report: https://t.co/B7RxZwJ3Cp
On September 26, 2016, photojournalist Hamdi El-Zaeem was arrested while reporting near Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate.
Ten years later, his case is still not over. His latest hearing has just been postponed again.
https://t.co/09jS1YDaOE
#FreeHamdiElZaeem
“I have been a journalist for 24 years.”
Tuğba Tekerek wrote one article for Kaos GL. Two years later, that piece of journalism became part of a case that put her behind bars in Turkey.
https://t.co/BgfCbCDeAf
#PressFreedom#Turkey
Salman al-Khatib survived the attack. But the image remains: a Palestinian journalist putting away his camera, removing his helmet and taking off his PRESS vest because he feared being identified could expose him to further violence.
@Sallman_kh@CPJMENA
https://t.co/6h385qgxiq
Tran Hiep travelled to Phnom Penh to meet Vietnamese human rights activists. Days later, he vanished. He is now being held in Vietnam on terrorism allegations. His family and colleagues say he was abducted in #Cambodia.
#TranHiep#HumanRights#Vietnam
https://t.co/5Wl5zhwRWm
Ursula Hirschmann. Simone Veil. Emma Bonino.
Each participant in Women Who Built Europe will choose one life and turn a moment from it into a two-page comic.
@europedirectER
https://t.co/9YWesddgQZ
Rasoul Bodaghi has spent nearly two decades defending teachers’ and students’ rights in Iran.
He has faced years in prison for his union activism. Now he has been arrested again.
https://t.co/HBMi5NT6Cz
#FreeRasoulBodaghi#Iran
The right to information lets you hold governments accountable, participate in public decisions & push back against corruption. If you care about human rights, the environment, or just how decisions get made, this is how you find out.
Read more ▶️ https://t.co/pBl4v3Ziyy
Google Earth has updated its images to show the devastating scale of destruction across Gaza with swathes of the strip reduced to rubble.
Read more: https://t.co/BBMDsysCf1
In the Crosshairs of Memory is a visual archive of journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war. It is also a work in progress: as @pressfreedom verifies and updates its documentation, I update the archive. Memory requires accuracy.
https://t.co/bDy4xOsxGt
His camera was confiscated. His work interrupted. His life consumed by detention, restrictions and postponed hearings.
For Egyptian photojournalist Hamdi El-Zaeem, this has lasted ten years.
https://t.co/09jS1YDaOE
#PressFreedom#Egypt
Kananelo Boloetse edits Newsday Media and has worked for press freedom in Lesotho. According to @Amnesty, his abductors questioned him about his journalism and human rights work.
https://t.co/wqbvOVGctJ
Turkish journalist Tuğba Tekerek has been jailed over an article she wrote two years ago about LGBTQ+ people in Georgia.
Reporting on a targeted community should never become evidence against a journalist.
https://t.co/BgfCbCDeAf
#FreeTugbaTekerek#PressFreedom
CPJ reviewed 229 deaths documented in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory, removing 22 individuals, reinstating 6 and reclassifying 12. I am updating my visual archive accordingly.
@pressfreedom
https://t.co/bDy4xOsxGt