If you’re in Bangkok, award-winning photographer Patrick Brown will be discussing his book on the #Rohingya#genocide, “No Place on Earth,” today at 11am. I can’t attend but will be there in spirit. Better yet, order a copy of his incredible book.
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“Our boat has sunk!” Setera Begum shouted, as a storm threatened to spill her and around 180 others into the inky black sea south of Bangladesh. “Only half of it is still afloat!”
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💪🙏🇩🇰 for the additional humanitarian assistance to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia. Both flex funding and unearmarked to prioritize nexus approaches.
➡️ address immediate needs ➕ build
communities’ resilience to inevitable future shock
#HornOfAfrica#dkaid@PlanBornefonden
#UNHCR provided logistical support to #Myanmar junta officials visiting #Bangladesh re a repatriation plan that contravenes int’l standards. #Rohingya “were lied to, deceived, or otherwise coerced by Bangladesh administrators into meeting…junta officials” https://t.co/kRKfBfRtPb
Our recent ride on the Salween River, one of the world’s last internationally free-flowing rivers. From snow-melt headwaters on the Himalayas, the majestic Salween (a youngest sister of the Mekong and Yangtze) flows into the Indian Ocean beautifully, and wildly. Love her ❤️
It’s highly significant that prosecutors will have @NUGMyanmar cooperation. Here @mohr_nug welcomes universal jurisdiction cases seeking justice for atrocities in #Myanmar & encourages #German authorities to act on the complaint filed by @FortifyRights & 16 survivors from Myanmar
Press conference today, 11am #Bangkok, on a new criminal complaint filed against #Myanmar military and others for mass atrocity crimes. If you can’t make it to @FCCThai in person, please join us via Facebook livestream at https://t.co/TK9X06b4ca
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
To bomb a home, school, hospital, or any service children rely on is unconscionable.
@UNICEF is calling on states to commit to a new declaration protecting children from explosive weapons in populated areas.
#NotATarget#EWIPA
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Hundreds of thousands of #Rohingya child #refugees are desperate to study, but lack access to formal education. Aid agencies warn they could become a lost generation.
Watch this piece from @AJEnglish's @tanvirbengal, reporting from Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh.
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I will move for a judicial inquiry into media diversity because disinformation & lack of trust are the key challenges of our time.Outsized media power & lack of regional and suburban media disempower communities.I ask the parliament to support this motion, for democracy. #auspoI
162 people in Myanmar have died from land mines and other war related explosives. From January to May alone. That is basically one person a day. #WhatsahappeninginMyanmar https://t.co/FNwkV87Hzd
Breakthrough:
Important new evidence given to @reuters by Commission for International Justice & Accountability shows how Myanmar's military planned the Rohingya purge, incl discussions around the purging and planning.
@walone4@poppymcp
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