Roda Siad

Interested in migration, emerging tech and humanitarianism | PhD Candidate @mcgillu | documentaries @borderlessfilms

[The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian]

🗣️ “Tough choices lie ahead.” What new data says about where the humanitarian system is heading: https://t.co/dgcfpLHwOW

[Amnesty Kenya @AmnestyKenya]

In our #AmnestyReads today: The emergence of awakened and engaged citizens, and a political class that's oblivious of their plight is fueling the protests.

[Forced Migration Review @FMReview]

Cash-based interventions have the potential to foster empowerment, autonomy & self-reliance, but unequal implementation & politics surrounding #biometric-enabled #CashAssistance threaten these aims.

@ro_siyaad’s FMR 73 article: https://t.co/qIIaFMKbT3

#Displacement #Refugees

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

📢Just launched!

Our new brief, “Perpetrator Personas for TFGBV: A Case Study on Kenyan Content Creators,” dives deep into tackling technology-facilitated gender-based violence.

Discover who the perpetrators are 👇🏾https://t.co/M1cEotOtfM

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

Peaceful protest is a human right.

We are demanding an investigation into the cases of violence against peaceful protestors in #Kenya and calling on the authorities to immediately release all those arbitrarily detained.

Join us: https://t.co/y0TlcUsJBI ✊

[Milagros Miceli @MilagrosMiceli]

📢Thrilled to finally introduce
✨the Data Workers' Inquiry
✨our 15 community researchers
✨and the repository!
This is a long thread and a reminder to join an event that will challenge what you know about data work: https://t.co/duNdPuBZAs
July 8, 5 pm CET/11 am EST,
1/x🧵👇

[The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian]

A severe funding shortfall has forced @WFP's to slash food rations and halt cash transfers to all refugees in Kenya, threatening the well-being of already vulnerable households: ⬇️
https://t.co/gYuzKIwxh2

[Forced Migration Review @FMReview]

This #WorldRefugeeDay, the FMR team invite you to read our most recent special feature on 'Digital disruption and displacement’ as well as our catalogue of past issues.

We also invite you to explore our new website. See: https://t.co/eVX0VihysY

[Reframe @ReframeNetwork]

This #WorldRefugeeDay, we reflect on the powerful voices of refugees and refugee leaders who shared what "home" means to them. Our recent survey uncovered several poignant themes:

Thread 🧵

[Fahad Ahmad @atlast_atweet]

In this @ConversationCA article, @SaiferAdam and I reflect on the ways philanthropists exert influence to clamp down student protests in solidarity with #Palestine: https://t.co/qYew9ckAQ8 @fac4pal

[Roda Siad @ro_siyaad]

Happy to have contributed a commentary to @FMReview’s latest issue on digital disruption and displacement. The piece draws from my fieldwork in Kenya and discusses the unequal implementation of biometric-enabled cash assistance and the risks to refugees and displaced people.

[Forced Migration Review @FMReview]

FMR 73 now online on our new website!

Our latest issue ‘#Digital disruption & #displacement’ is available here:

English: https://t.co/57s42WF4Ry
Arabic: https://t.co/fLLERKeewt
Spanish: https://t.co/8jm09NCrIr
French: https://t.co/XI9vS56RiA

#Refugees #AIEthics #TechEthics

[Forced Migration Review @FMReview]

FMR 73 now online on our new website!

Our latest issue ‘#Digital disruption & #displacement’ is available here:

English: https://t.co/57s42WF4Ry
Arabic: https://t.co/fLLERKeewt
Spanish: https://t.co/8jm09NCrIr
French: https://t.co/XI9vS56RiA

#Refugees #AIEthics #TechEthics

[The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian]

Rather than supporting Palestinians to live in dignity, much of the international humanitarian ecosystem has been co-opted into an overarching system that subjugates them, argues @Yara_M_Asi.
https://t.co/mlk1cjn71M

[Human Rights Watch @hrw]

“I spend my nights awake, alone in a room, holding on only to my family’s reassuring messages: ‘We are still alive.’” - @abier_i in the Daily Brief: https://t.co/abHnRyiJ9n

[UN Development @UNDP]

Somalia’s women journalists are fighting for #HumanRights.

@MediaBilan – Somalia’s only all-women news team supported by @UNDPSomalia – uses its hard-won freedom of expression to highlight rights abuses and achievements.

See how: https://t.co/EgZzqdvZww

[Pollicy @PollicyOrg]

The existing hurdles to access, affordability, lack of education, and inherent biases and socio-cultural norms curtail women's ability to benefit from the opportunities offered by the digital transformation

Find details in our report👉https://t.co/aeFqJ9IUC2

#EncodedBiases

[AmnestyCanada @AmnestyNow]

#SOSPeru 18-year-old Jhonatan Enciso Arias was killed while watching protests from a hilltop. Police were seen firing bullets from a nearby rooftop. Peru’s President must ensure investigation, witness protection, justice & non repetition

Raise your voice👉🏾https://t.co/holwbEU91y

[Simeon Tegel @SimeonTegel]

"Systemic racism," illegal & indiscriminate use of force against "mostly peaceful" protests, and failure of prosecutors to investigate the police and armed forces. Amnesty's investigation into the authoritarian repression of Peru's protests is devastating.
https://t.co/nmectG7PMN