Victoria Schneider

Freelance Journalist, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
Co-Founder of Timbuktu in the Valley Learning Space, Johannesburg

[Victoria Schneider @vic_schneider]

@EGYPTAIR my bag to Cairo was delayed five days ago and I am still waiting for it to be delivered - no call center number works and the airport is not responding. @EgyptAir_Online

[GRAIN @GRAIN_org]

Investigators hired by #Socfin tell Mongabay they were shocked by findings of sexual harassment & gender-based violence on some of the company's oil palm & rubber plantations in Africa. "If they don’t make progress on these issues, we would stop working with them,” @EarthwormGlobal says.
https://t.co/I9JWAuec0T #Bollore

[GRAIN @GRAIN_org]

Local communities in Liberia, supported by civil society around the world, are concerned that rubber giant #Socfin is divesting from Salala Rubber Corporation without resolving its longstanding social, environmental, cultural and other liabilities first
https://t.co/kTYIWQQARl

[Latoya @LatoyaAbulu]

Human rights allegations prompt World Bank to freeze project’s funds in Tanzania

@vic_schneider reports for @MongabayOrg @mongabay

https://t.co/or0tvIAiy9

[Oakland Institute @oak_institute]

“This suspension is a big deal... It is not often that funding of a project is stopped while an investigation by the @InspectionPanel is happening.” - @Mittaloak

@Mongabay @vic_schneider: Human rights allegations prompt World Bank to freeze project’s funds in Tanzania: https://t.co/od0yOdS959

[Victoria Schneider @vic_schneider]

The World Bank's private lending arm is delaying the publication of a report implicating it in human rights abuses in Liberia -> https://t.co/jAye014XRR

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Dehumanization of the Other - in all its manifestations - is what makes the crime of genocide possible. Yesterday, and today.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

This new @WorldBank -#UN report shows that the estimates of the Gaza destruction used in my "Anatomy of a genocide" report were conservative.

The report exposes a level of erasure of a society that is unprecedented in our time:
https://t.co/jJxvFVopkn

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

Last year, I met a Palestinian writer, born in Haifa in 1936, who was displaced in 1948 and has been living in exile ever since. He shared that he would like to hire translators for a book he wrote about his childhood in Haifa and his journey in exile. I suggested he consider translators from Gaza, recognizing both the quality of their work and the vital support needed there. He was immediately taken with the idea and set it into motion. When we met again this week, I asked about his translation project. He said that he had found and hired young translators from Gaza, but then he said that all of them were killed by Israeli bombs in the past five months.

[Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein]

German Media Giant Axel Springer Profits on Israel’s Illegal Settlements. My latest for @theintercept

https://t.co/XU0qnzI9wA

[Heather Barr @heatherbarr1]

This clip of South Africa’s foreign minister Naledi Pandor is well worth watching to
understand how the SA govt sees the ICJ case.

[RSF @RSF_inter]

🔴 RSF releases the findings of its investigation into the death of @Reuters reporter Issam Abdallah in Lebanon, on the border with Israel: even though Abdallah and his colleagues were clearly identifiable as journalists, their vehicle was deliberately targeted. 👇

[Victoria Schneider @vic_schneider]

Lebanon: Deadly Israeli attack on journalists must be investigated as a war crime https://t.co/N0TaSRYvsj

[Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein]

This is one of the most serious, vertiginous pieces of journalism I've read lately. Someone please translate it into German. kudos @972mag
https://t.co/uvRXSiH8eZ

[Jehad Abusalim @JehadAbusalim]

This thread highlights Gaza's most significant religious, cultural, and archaeological sites. While serving as an educational resource, it also serves as a record of these sites, aiming to raise awareness about their existence and to caution against any efforts to damage them.

[Ghassan Abu Sitta, Chair of Conflict Medicine AUB @GhassanAbuSitt1]

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐨’𝐬 "𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚" 𝟏𝟗𝟑𝟕 𝐀 𝐌𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝, 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐊𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐞. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐓𝐨 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐁𝐞 𝐍𝐨 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩

[Victoria Schneider @vic_schneider]

@StandardBankZA I sent a dm thank you

[Victoria Schneider @vic_schneider]

@StandardBankZA is once again failing to provide basic services to our nonprofit. We've been trying for 8 days to move funds from Timbuktu in the Valley's Euro account to the rand account. Staff has not been paid salaries because of this. Shameful. @mailandguardian @TheStar_news

[Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein]

Das imo Absurdeste an der Staatsraison ist ja dass sie in den 15 Jahren seit ihrer Verkündung offenbar kein bisschen dazu geführt hat dass der Grossteil der Leute sich ansatzweise über Israel/Palästina informiert hätte - journalistisch arbeitende Leute ausdrücklich eingeschlossen

[Jadaliyya @jadaliyya]

Our next teach-in will take place this Thursday, 1pm EST, on "Gaza in Geography," with @nsdoud Nour Joudah and @JehadAbusalim Jehad Abu Salim. Join us live on https://t.co/yd2rEmUqk2