Jacob Sarkodee

CEO at Global Counter-Trafficking Group; ❤️ the world game; husband & dad; @ObamaFoundation Asia Pacific 2022 Leader

[Jacob Sarkodee @Sarkodee]

A🧵 on the necessity of protection as the most sustainable strategy at scale that we have to protect people at risk of being forced into #modernslavery.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

🚨Urgent Appeal from Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya

This is an urgent appeal regarding the catastrophic situation in north Gaza. All hospitals in the north have completely collapsed, and there is no medicine, fuel, or any basic necessities available. Please amplify this message.

[Jacob Sarkodee @Sarkodee]

Against all law and morals.

[Charles Lister @Charles_Lister]

Just now -- acclaimed British surgeon testifies to #UK Parliament, detailing how #IDF "quadcopters" would arrive at the scene of airstrikes in #Gaza & "pick-off" / "shoot" the injured, including children.

[حسام شبات @HossamShabat]

Today, I met my dad’s friend on the street. I honestly didn’t recognize him; no one looks the same after a year of genocide. I asked him how he had been doing. He said he had four sons, and one after another, they were killed over the span of a year. His last son and wife were killed last month. Now, he sleeps on the streets with no family. A vibrant man who once owned a house, a car, and a business is now deprived of everything, even his family.

[Better Renting @BetterRentingAU]

Today we released our 2024 Cost of Renting Report based on a survey of 1400+ renters earlier this year. We focused on affordability issues related to rental costs ... 🧵

[Philippa Greer @philippa_bear]

Today entering Gaza City. The ruins of life. A donkey laying dead attached to a cart with someone’s possessions. Clusters of people crossing to the South, with too much to walk with under the sun and given the length of the journey. A man carrying a white flag in front of his family. Women about to collapse, dragging bags over the ground, walking backwards, stopping and closing their eyes. A man on the ground in underwear, with soldiers near the checkpoint. A woman presumably crossing with him, stalled, distraught, in desperation. They passed by these ruins. #Gaza #CeasefireNOW

[Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland]

Gaza: absolutely heartbreaking to meet my NRC colleagues here, who have been through so much.

One of them had 126 relatives killed, in a single Israeli attack, in Beit Lahia. Cousins, nieces, children... killed.

Such attacks are the definition of disproportionate warfare.

[Michael Salter @mike_salter]

Unpopular opinion but social media sites are so egregiously unsafe and tech companies have dragged their feet on child protection for so long - I don’t think we can justify letting children onto these sites any more.

[Jan Egeland @NRC_Egeland]

Returning to Gaza now, I see destruction that defies belief, from Rafah, via Khan Yunis, to Gaza City.

This is destruction of an entire society of more than 2 million people, in a densely populated, small, confined territory.

This is in no way “self-defence.”

[Louise Wateridge @UNWateridge]

Across northern #Gaza, there is no way of telling where the destruction starts or ends.

No matter from what direction you enter #Gaza City, homes, hospitals, schools, health clinics, mosques, apartments, restaurants - all completely flattened.

An entire society now a graveyard.

[Jacob Sarkodee @Sarkodee]

10 out of 10

[Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا @SMohyeddin]

Ridiculous questions today for @FranceskAlbs from @BryanPassifiume

Bryan was sent a couple months ago on an all expenses paid trip to Israel by the former ambassador of Canada to Israel @VivianBercovici for an outfit called Exigent Foundations.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Shortly after the @WHO-led mission to Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday, the facility's third floor was reportedly hit again, injuring six children who are patients there. One child sustained a critical injury. Water tanks were damaged. Heavy bombardment persisted very close to the hospital, including when WHO was delivering aid.

It is appalling that hospitals in #Gaza continue to be attacked, patients continue to be harmed, and health workers and humanitarians continue to work under life-threatening conditions.

[Thomas Mayo @thomasmayo23]

Many QLD’ers worked hard to get a Truth & Healing process up & running. Imagine how heartbreaking it must be to have spent decades opening hearts & minds, achieving bipartisanship, only to have it ended by Crisafulli’s LNP’s choice to promote ignorance & lies instead.

[Jacob Sarkodee @Sarkodee]

"How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me."

Habakkuk 1:2-3
https://t.co/G47wLkC9kn

[Jacob Sarkodee @Sarkodee]

Eight Australian international counter slavery NGOs have come together under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and align ahead of the 2025 Federal election. https://t.co/ycZe8D1ItY

[Jacob Sarkodee @Sarkodee]

With surging harm to people, and enormous profits going to exploiters, there is comparably very limited direct investment by Australia �� both private and public sector — to counter slavery and human trafficking in our region and around the world.
https://t.co/ycZe8D1ItY

[Shane Wright @swrighteconomy]

The hits just keep coming: ABS says average loan in Oz has hit a new high of $642.1k in Sept (up 7.2% over year). NSW at $779k (but shy of its record). However, Qld hit a new high of $620k (up 15.2% over year) and WA back at $559k to be up 17.6% over year.

[Jacob Sarkodee @Sarkodee]

Arundhati Roy, exceptional analysis.

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Award-winning author Arundhati Roy strongly criticised the US and Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and Lebanon in her acceptance speech for the PEN Pinter Prize at a ceremony in London earlier this month

[Jacob Sarkodee @Sarkodee]

‘A Cartography of Genocide’

[Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi]

NEW: ‘A Cartography of Genocide’. Since October 2023, we have collected and analysed data related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Our findings indicate that Israel has systematically targeted all aspects of civilian life. https://t.co/UUxYqpTF72

[Philippe Lazzarini @UNLazzarini]

Using bulldozers, Israeli Forces severely damaged today (Thursday) the @UNRWA office in the Nur Shams Camp, north of the #WestBank.

The office can no longer be used.
It was the hub to deliver basic services to more than 14,000 Palestine Refugees in the camp, including learning for children, health, sanitation & social protection.

During the Israeli military operation, roads, water + electricity networks were also destroyed in the camp.

Once again, United Nations facilities are being routinely disregarded while they must be protected at all times, including in times of conflict.

[Jacob Sarkodee @Sarkodee]

One can thank God for the ICC.

[Int'l Criminal Court @IntlCrimCourt]

#ICC President at #UNGA: “We are only bound by the law & we do not change the course of our actions due to threats, be them political or of another nature. We will continue abiding by our mandate undeterred, with integrity, determination, impartiality+independence at all times.”