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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 16h

In Soedan woedt al ruim twee jaar een oorlog, die aan tienduizenden mensen het leven heeft gekost.

Miljoenen Soedanezen zijn op de vlucht geslagen.

De VN hebben de oorlog bestempeld als de „ergste humanitaire crisis ter wereld”.

Zestig doden in Soedan door droneaanval: ‘Kinderen, vrouwen en ouderen werden volledig verbrand’

Soedan: De aanval vond plaats in Al-Fashir, de laatste stad in de regio Darfur die niet in handen is van de paramilitaire Rapid Support Forces. De afgelopen weken hebben de paramilitairen veel grondge...

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Evan Washington @eewash.bsky.social · 1d

in a more just world, Peter Thiel would be yet another insane podcaster/blogger/poster we all agree to ignore

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 1d

Say no to drugs, kids

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

"Billionaires are dangerous. We should tax them until they aren't."

Amen. #TaxTheRich

Momster for Gliberty 🧟 @fakegreekgrill.bsky.social · 1d

This has been one of the biggest things the Trump admin has changed my mind about. I used to be indifferent to billionaires, but I no longer find that an option.

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

“There is no time to delay, @microsoft.com should take decisive action to ensure they are not profiting from grave human rights abuses of Palestinians."

- Deborah Brown, technology and rights deputy director @hrw.org

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Israel/Palestine: Microsoft Should Avoid Contributing to Rights Abuses

Microsoft should suspend business activities that are contributing to grave human rights abuses and international crimes by the Israeli military and other Israeli government bodies, Human Rights Watch...

www.hrw.org

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

Mooi initiatief van @degoedezaak.bsky.social!

Ik steun een deelnemer aan deze Sponsorloop van Hoop met een mooi bedrag, dat gaat naar een goed doel, bv @vluchtelingwerk.bsky.social.

Doen jullie ook mee?

We zijn met veel meer!

DEGOEDEZAAK @degoedezaak.bsky.social · 2d

Zondag gaat extreemrechts weer demonstreren tegen asielbeleid in Amsterdam.

Samen draaien we deze mars van haat om naar een sponsorloop van hoop! 'Sponsor' vanaf €3,- een extreemrechtse demonstrant om geld op te halen vóór medemenselijkheid en humane opvang: buff.ly/87Lxs1t
#Hoopzaaiers

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

Need some background on #NobelPeacePrize laureate Maria Corina Machado's home country, Venezuela?

Then start with this @hrw.org report⤵️

Punished for Seeking Change

The 104-page report, “Punished for Seeking Change: Killings, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detention Following Venezuela’s 2024 Election,” documents human rights violations against protesters,...

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

...human rights violations and a devastating humanitarian crisis. Foreign governments should support Venezuelans as they continue to struggle for a rights-respecting democracy.”

- Juanita Goebertus Estrada, director of HRW's Americas Division

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

HRW's comment:

“The Nobel peace prize awarded to Maria Corina Machado should help reinvigorate international efforts to promote a peaceful transition to democracy in Venezuela. People in Venezuela have suffered for too long at the hands of a brutal government responsible for systematic human...

Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING NEWS!

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

Live-stream / recording #NobelPeacePrize for Maria Corina Machado (Venezuela):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrRB...
#NobelPrize

Announcement of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

YouTube video by Nobel Prize

www.youtube.com

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING NEWS!

"The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

"Governments should... seek justice for the atrocities committed with impunity over the past two years, including the Hamas-led war crimes and crimes against humanity on October 7 and thereafter and Israeli authorities’ war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of genocide in Gaza."

Gaza: Ceasefire No Substitute for Action on Aid, Justice

The Israeli government and Hamas agreed on October 9, 2025 to the first stage of the US government’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict,” which includes a ceasefire, the release of Israeli a...

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 2d

Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, host of #COP30.

New report @hrw, going out on October 15.

Journalists can DM me for embargoed copy, interview requests, access to multimedia.

#ClimateEmergency

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

On October 9, the Bangladesh authorities filed charges against 28 people for enforced disappearances, secret detention, and torture.

It was a long time coming. #JusticeMatters!

New from @hrw.org ⤵️

www.hrw.org/news/2025/10...

Relatives hold portraits of disappeared family members at an event calling for the end of enforced disappearances, killings, and abductions, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, August 30, 2014.

© 2014 Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/ ZUMA Wire/Alamy

Statue of "Lady Justice" outside Bangladesh's Supreme Court building. © Public

Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses the media in Mirpur after the anti-quota protests.

© 2024 Bangladesh Prime Minister's Office/AFP via Getty Images

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Nadia Bouras @nadiabouras.bsky.social · 2d

Als je erkent dat de woorden v Wilders c.s. leiden tot politiek geweld, waarom verlang je dat slachtoffers met hun beulen aan tafel gaan? Hoe beschermt dat de slachtoffers v racisme? En hoe versterk je de rechtsstaat door juist de bedreigers ervan als gelijkwaardige gesprekspartner te behandelen?

Rob Jetten @robjetten.bsky.social · 2d

In mijn Nederland kunnen Sylvana Simons, Fleur Agema en ik samen aan tafel zitten. Fel in het debat, maar met respect voor elkaar.

De Nederlandse vlag is niet van één partij, maar van iedereen die vooruit wil. Het kan wél!

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 1d

"Trump has been an enabler of war. By his actions, he has supported Netanyahu’s offensive war for the complete ethnic cleansing and destruction of Gaza."

Need I list all the reasons why Trump shouldn’t get a Nobel peace prize? | Sidney Blumenthal

Trump has been an enabler of war, famine, disease and death

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Szabolcs Panyi @szabolcspanyi.bsky.social · 3d

💥🔎💰NEW INVESTIGATION: Across the Visegrád countries, politicians use paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and NGOs – while Meta & Google profit from this #SponsoredHate. Such ads reach tens of thousands of users while evading platform moderation. @vsquare.bsky.social

Sponsored Hate: How Politicians Paid for Meta Ads to Attack Journalists - VSquare.org

Across the Visegrád countries, politicians have increasingly used paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and civil society organizations.

vsquare.org

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Siem Eikelenboom @sieboom.bsky.social · 1d

WAARSCHUWING: 'Experts en de Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid (NCTV) waarschuwen. Zij zien 'remigratie' als een eufemisme voor grootschalige deportaties van mensen met een migratieachtergrond. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/vi...

Deze politieke partijen willen migranten deporteren

PVV, FvD, BBB en JA21 pleiten in hun verkiezingsprogramma’s voor het ‘remigreren’ van mensen met een migratieachtergrond. Daarmee normaliseren ze een rechts-extremistische term voor deportaties. Exper...

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 2d

Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, host of #COP30.

New report @hrw, going out on October 15.

Journalists can DM me for embargoed copy, interview requests, access to multimedia.

#ClimateEmergency

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 2d

HRW publiceert op 15 oktober een nieuw rapport over illegale veehouderij en de verwoesting en schending van mensenrechten in de Braziliaanse deelstaat Pará, waar #COP30 plaats vindt.

Journalisten kunnen me DM-en voor contact met onderzoekers, toegang tot multimedia etc.

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Jan Kooy @kooyjan.bsky.social · 2d

„We hadden hier een rustig bestaan, we leefden van de natuur. Van de visvangst en de jacht. Maar nu COP30 in Belém wordt georganiseerd loopt onze gemeenschap gevaar.”

Must-read @ninaj13.bsky.social / @nrc.nl in aanloop naar #COP30 ⤵️

Om de Amazone te beschermen organiseert Brazilië een dure klimaattop midden in de jungle

Klimaattop Brazilië: De Braziliaanse president Lula presenteert zich graag als beschermer van het oerwoud. Als gastheer van de jaarlijkse VN-klimaattop wees hij junglestad Belém aan. Maar de accommoda...

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · 2d

I am reading reports that the German coalition has agreed the main parts of its welfare "reform" package. Details still emerging.

This shift toward a more punitive logic and harsher sanctions will come at the cost of human rights.

I explain more in this recent piece.

www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

Rights Should Guide Welfare ‘Reform’ Debate in Germany

The partners in Germany’s governing Christian Democrat-Social Democrat coalition have been sparring over the contents of a planned replacement of the Citizen’s Income social security benefit, with a “...

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Kartik Raj @kartikraj.bsky.social · 2d

Medien berichten, dass sich die große Koalition auf die wichtigsten Punkte ihres Sozialstaats-Reformpakets geeinigt hat.

Diese Hinwendung zu einer Logik von Strafe und härteren Sanktionen wird auf Kosten der #Menschenrechte gehen.

Mehr dazu erkläre ich hier.

www.hrw.org/de/news/2025...

Streit um Sozialreformen: In Deutschland drohen die Menschenrechte auf der Strecke zu bleiben

Die Koalitionspartner der schwarz-roten Bundesregierung in Deutschland streiten sich derzeit um die Inhalte der geplanten großen „Sozialreform”, bei der das Bürgergeld durch eine neue „Grundsicherung ...

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 3d

We’re honored that our With Humanity campaign calling on the EU to uphold the rights and dignity of people on the move is a finalist at the Shorty Awards!

Please help amplify this call by voting here: https://shortyawards.com/10th-impact/with-humanity-campaign

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