Luísa Fondello
@lfondello.bsky.social
Brazilian, trying to make EU policies bring justice for the global South, working at Caritas Europa. (re)tweets are personal views
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⛔Today, while ministers from the African Union and the European Union discussed their cooperation at the 2025 Ministerial Meeting, civil society and youth were left out of the conversation.
🔗To know more read the piece by the Africa-EU Civil Society Platform: concordeurope.org/2025/05/21/2...
🔗To know more read the piece by the Africa-EU Civil Society Platform: concordeurope.org/2025/05/21/2...
2025 AU-EU Ministerial Meeting: a missed opportunity for youth and civil society meaningful participation - CONCORD
The African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) will convene a Ministerial Meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, 21 May 2025, bringing together representatives from over 80 governments to advance their...
concordeurope.org
May 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
⛔Today, while ministers from the African Union and the European Union discussed their cooperation at the 2025 Ministerial Meeting, civil society and youth were left out of the conversation.
🔗To know more read the piece by the Africa-EU Civil Society Platform: concordeurope.org/2025/05/21/2...
🔗To know more read the piece by the Africa-EU Civil Society Platform: concordeurope.org/2025/05/21/2...
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The EU has to try harder to come up with a credible offer for #FfD4. The #debt crisis - exacerbated by #climate emergencies - and drastic #aid cuts make international cooperation more urgent than ever.
Read more: euobserver.com/news/ar2474e...
cc @oxfameu.bsky.social @actionaideu.bsky.social
Read more: euobserver.com/news/ar2474e...
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May 22, 2025 at 6:50 AM
The EU has to try harder to come up with a credible offer for #FfD4. The #debt crisis - exacerbated by #climate emergencies - and drastic #aid cuts make international cooperation more urgent than ever.
Read more: euobserver.com/news/ar2474e...
cc @oxfameu.bsky.social @actionaideu.bsky.social
Read more: euobserver.com/news/ar2474e...
cc @oxfameu.bsky.social @actionaideu.bsky.social
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"Germany Tried to Silence Me, a UN Official, for Talking About Israel’s Genocidal War in Gaza"
Read Francesca Albanese's article on her five-day trip that exposed Germany's harsh deviation from democratic values and shrinking landscape for freedom of expression:
zeteo.com/p/germany-tr...
Read Francesca Albanese's article on her five-day trip that exposed Germany's harsh deviation from democratic values and shrinking landscape for freedom of expression:
zeteo.com/p/germany-tr...
Germany Tried to Silence Me, a UN Official, for Talking About Israel’s Genocidal War in Gaza
Francesca Albanese on her five-day trip that exposed Germany's harsh deviation from democratic values and shrinking landscape for freedom of expression.
zeteo.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Germany Tried to Silence Me, a UN Official, for Talking About Israel’s Genocidal War in Gaza"
Read Francesca Albanese's article on her five-day trip that exposed Germany's harsh deviation from democratic values and shrinking landscape for freedom of expression:
zeteo.com/p/germany-tr...
Read Francesca Albanese's article on her five-day trip that exposed Germany's harsh deviation from democratic values and shrinking landscape for freedom of expression:
zeteo.com/p/germany-tr...
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No, the ceasefire did not collapse. Israel collapsed it, as they always planned. After two weeks of no supplies to 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, once hunger had returned, Israel unleashed its bombs once again. And so the genocide continues.
March 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
No, the ceasefire did not collapse. Israel collapsed it, as they always planned. After two weeks of no supplies to 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, once hunger had returned, Israel unleashed its bombs once again. And so the genocide continues.
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As the 🇪🇺 Commission rushes to finalise the EU-Indonesia trade deal - the 'resource grab' deal as we call it - our own @juliezalcman.bsky.social & Rachmi Hertanti from @tninstitute.bsky.social explain why it's far from clean.
www.sustainableviews.com/a-not-so-cle... @sustainableviews.bsky.social
www.sustainableviews.com/a-not-so-cle... @sustainableviews.bsky.social
A not-so-clean trade deal between the EU and Indonesia
Rachmi Hertanti is a researcher at the Transnational Institute, and Julie Zalcman is a trade campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe The EU’s proposed critical minerals deal with Indonesia needs ref...
www.sustainableviews.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
As the 🇪🇺 Commission rushes to finalise the EU-Indonesia trade deal - the 'resource grab' deal as we call it - our own @juliezalcman.bsky.social & Rachmi Hertanti from @tninstitute.bsky.social explain why it's far from clean.
www.sustainableviews.com/a-not-so-cle... @sustainableviews.bsky.social
www.sustainableviews.com/a-not-so-cle... @sustainableviews.bsky.social
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#WestBank: @unhumanrights.bsky.social report echoes #ICJ finding that #Israel is responsible for #apartheid: ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Facts are clear, as is the law. #EU inaction untenable at best, complicit at worst: www.hrw.org/news/2024/10...
@kajakallas.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Facts are clear, as is the law. #EU inaction untenable at best, complicit at worst: www.hrw.org/news/2024/10...
@kajakallas.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
March 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
#WestBank: @unhumanrights.bsky.social report echoes #ICJ finding that #Israel is responsible for #apartheid: ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
Facts are clear, as is the law. #EU inaction untenable at best, complicit at worst: www.hrw.org/news/2024/10...
@kajakallas.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Facts are clear, as is the law. #EU inaction untenable at best, complicit at worst: www.hrw.org/news/2024/10...
@kajakallas.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
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⚠️ Shockingly irresponsible behaviour by EPP MEPs:
at a time where the rise of authoritarian far right forces pose a direct threat to civic space and #democracy in numerous European countries, conservative MEPs are running an Orban-style witchhunt against civil society, based on gross disinformation
at a time where the rise of authoritarian far right forces pose a direct threat to civic space and #democracy in numerous European countries, conservative MEPs are running an Orban-style witchhunt against civil society, based on gross disinformation
Fake news has become a powerful tool in the hands of the right-wing in the European Parliament.
Since early 2024 two myths have been spread about EU funding of NGOs. They have no substance, but still lay the ground for debate and proposals
Read our article!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/f...
Since early 2024 two myths have been spread about EU funding of NGOs. They have no substance, but still lay the ground for debate and proposals
Read our article!
corporateeurope.org/en/2025/03/f...
False alarm: fake news and the right fuel attack on NGOs
Documents show the European Commission initiated its attacks on civil society funding due to pressure from right wing MEPs early 2024, even if the institution must have known their arguments were fals...
corporateeurope.org
March 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
⚠️ Shockingly irresponsible behaviour by EPP MEPs:
at a time where the rise of authoritarian far right forces pose a direct threat to civic space and #democracy in numerous European countries, conservative MEPs are running an Orban-style witchhunt against civil society, based on gross disinformation
at a time where the rise of authoritarian far right forces pose a direct threat to civic space and #democracy in numerous European countries, conservative MEPs are running an Orban-style witchhunt against civil society, based on gross disinformation
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“Trabalho doméstico, criar crianças, trabalho sexual. Isso tudo é trabalho, não é apenas um serviço pessoal, uma coisa que fazemos só porque somos mulheres”. A filósofa Silvia Federici explica que todo esse trabalho doméstico e de cuidado foi organizado a partir da forma capitalista de produção.
March 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
“Trabalho doméstico, criar crianças, trabalho sexual. Isso tudo é trabalho, não é apenas um serviço pessoal, uma coisa que fazemos só porque somos mulheres”. A filósofa Silvia Federici explica que todo esse trabalho doméstico e de cuidado foi organizado a partir da forma capitalista de produção.
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Israel's latest strikes in Gaza are both illegal and devastating. Blocking the aid is too!
The huge civilian toll demands immediate condemnation.
The EU, and HR/VP Kaja Kallas must take a clear, urgent stance and call for a swift shift to the second phase of the ceasefire.
The huge civilian toll demands immediate condemnation.
The EU, and HR/VP Kaja Kallas must take a clear, urgent stance and call for a swift shift to the second phase of the ceasefire.
March 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Israel's latest strikes in Gaza are both illegal and devastating. Blocking the aid is too!
The huge civilian toll demands immediate condemnation.
The EU, and HR/VP Kaja Kallas must take a clear, urgent stance and call for a swift shift to the second phase of the ceasefire.
The huge civilian toll demands immediate condemnation.
The EU, and HR/VP Kaja Kallas must take a clear, urgent stance and call for a swift shift to the second phase of the ceasefire.
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Les images sont effroyables : Israël a rompu le cessez-le-feu et repris les bombardements sur Gaza, faisant des centaines de morts.
Après avoir coupé l'aide humanitaire, l'accès à la nourriture et l'électricité.
Le génocide doit cesser et la complicité des Etats européens avec !
Après avoir coupé l'aide humanitaire, l'accès à la nourriture et l'électricité.
Le génocide doit cesser et la complicité des Etats européens avec !
Des frappes israéliennes sans précédent depuis l'entrée en vigueur du cessez-le-feu le 19 janvier ont fait "au moins 330 morts" à Gaza dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, a annoncé le ministère de la Santé du gouvernement du Hamas pour le territoire palestinien.
March 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Les images sont effroyables : Israël a rompu le cessez-le-feu et repris les bombardements sur Gaza, faisant des centaines de morts.
Après avoir coupé l'aide humanitaire, l'accès à la nourriture et l'électricité.
Le génocide doit cesser et la complicité des Etats européens avec !
Après avoir coupé l'aide humanitaire, l'accès à la nourriture et l'électricité.
Le génocide doit cesser et la complicité des Etats européens avec !
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As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode
As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode
I saw them killed by sniper fire and drones. Why doesn’t Labour condemn it? Why do arms keep flowing in Israel’s direction?
I had never imagined, when working as a professor of transplant surgery at a large teaching hospital in London, that one day I…
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children. It shames me that Britain played a part in it | Nizam Mamode
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On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the 6 million Jews exterminated in the Shoah - two thirds of Europe's Jewish population - and victims of all genocides.
Today, I always think about platform 17 of Berlin-Grunewald railway station.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...
Today, I always think about platform 17 of Berlin-Grunewald railway station.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...
What my generation can learn from the Holocaust
We should recall that hatred continues to be fanned against entire peoples, and that man is capable of both wonderful benevolence and unspeakable horrors
www.independent.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the 6 million Jews exterminated in the Shoah - two thirds of Europe's Jewish population - and victims of all genocides.
Today, I always think about platform 17 of Berlin-Grunewald railway station.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...
Today, I always think about platform 17 of Berlin-Grunewald railway station.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/comme...
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After killing at least 24 people in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Israeli forces so far today have shot and killed two people and wounded 17, including a child and a paramedic, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/vq4fki
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/vq4fki
January 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
After killing at least 24 people in southern Lebanon on Sunday, Israeli forces so far today have shot and killed two people and wounded 17, including a child and a paramedic, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/vq4fki
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/vq4fki
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Mídia libanesa reportou três mortos e cerca de 30 feridos após soldados israelenses abrirem fogo contra pessoas desarmadas que desafiaram as restrições impostas por Tel Aviv operamundi.uol.com.br/guerra-no-or...
Exército de Israel adia retirada do Líbano e atira contra civis que tentam voltar às suas casas
Após o anúncio das autoridades israelenses sobre o adiamento da retirada das tropas do Sul do Líbano, que deveria ser concluída até domingo (26/01), conforme o acordo de cessar-fogo, a situação se agr...
operamundi.uol.com.br
January 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Mídia libanesa reportou três mortos e cerca de 30 feridos após soldados israelenses abrirem fogo contra pessoas desarmadas que desafiaram as restrições impostas por Tel Aviv operamundi.uol.com.br/guerra-no-or...
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And a rare, fruitful Access to Information request, showing how hard the EU's humanitarian aid department tried to resist their development colleagues' approach to implementing last year's cuts to the EU development budget.
www.devex.com/news/reveale...
www.devex.com/news/reveale...
January 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
And a rare, fruitful Access to Information request, showing how hard the EU's humanitarian aid department tried to resist their development colleagues' approach to implementing last year's cuts to the EU development budget.
www.devex.com/news/reveale...
www.devex.com/news/reveale...
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Israeli forces raided Jenin this week, just days after the Gaza ceasefire and a Palestinian Authority operation.
The raid sparks fears that Israel may bring Gaza-style devastation to the West Bank.
Read investigative journalist Theia Chatelle’s piece: https://zeteo.com/p/jenin-israel-raid-palesti…
The raid sparks fears that Israel may bring Gaza-style devastation to the West Bank.
Read investigative journalist Theia Chatelle’s piece: https://zeteo.com/p/jenin-israel-raid-palesti…
January 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Israeli forces raided Jenin this week, just days after the Gaza ceasefire and a Palestinian Authority operation.
The raid sparks fears that Israel may bring Gaza-style devastation to the West Bank.
Read investigative journalist Theia Chatelle’s piece: https://zeteo.com/p/jenin-israel-raid-palesti…
The raid sparks fears that Israel may bring Gaza-style devastation to the West Bank.
Read investigative journalist Theia Chatelle’s piece: https://zeteo.com/p/jenin-israel-raid-palesti…
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A letter seen by Euronews claims Israeli diaspora minister Amichai Chikli’s opposition to the hostage-ceasefire deal and “support” for far-right European politicians make him an “inappropriate” keynote speaker.
Hostage families urge MEPs to ‘reconsider’ invite to Israeli minister
A letter seen by Euronews claims Israeli diaspora minister Amichai Chikli’s opposition to the hostage-ceasefire deal and “support” for far-right European politicians make him an “inappropriate” keynot...
www.euronews.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
A letter seen by Euronews claims Israeli diaspora minister Amichai Chikli’s opposition to the hostage-ceasefire deal and “support” for far-right European politicians make him an “inappropriate” keynote speaker.
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A landmark exhibition, 'Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism', has opened at London’s Royal Academy, showcasing 134 works from ten pivotal Brazilian artists, many displayed in the UK for the first time.
Video. Unseen Brazilian art takes centre stage at London's Royal Academy
Video. A landmark exhibition, Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism, has opened at London’s Royal Academy, showcasing 134 works from ten pivotal Brazilian artists, many displayed in the UK for the fi...
www.euronews.com
January 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
A landmark exhibition, 'Brasil! Brasil! The Birth of Modernism', has opened at London’s Royal Academy, showcasing 134 works from ten pivotal Brazilian artists, many displayed in the UK for the first time.
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Those who armed Israel must go to jail.
Those who used platforms to justify Israel's mass slaughter must have their reputations destroyed.
If not, we will normalise depravity which will lead to the ruin of us all.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Those who used platforms to justify Israel's mass slaughter must have their reputations destroyed.
If not, we will normalise depravity which will lead to the ruin of us all.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s leaders committed genocide in Gaza and must pay for it. Their political and media allies must too | Owen Jones
This unprecedented slaughter could not have happened without powerful cheerleaders. Hold them to account, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Those who armed Israel must go to jail.
Those who used platforms to justify Israel's mass slaughter must have their reputations destroyed.
If not, we will normalise depravity which will lead to the ruin of us all.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Those who used platforms to justify Israel's mass slaughter must have their reputations destroyed.
If not, we will normalise depravity which will lead to the ruin of us all.
New column 👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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People in Gaza desperately need a #ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access.
Statement by @planglobal.bsky.social following the @hrw.org report concluding that Israel’s obstruction of water supply in Gaza amounts to an act of genocide.
plan-international.org/news/2024/12...
Statement by @planglobal.bsky.social following the @hrw.org report concluding that Israel’s obstruction of water supply in Gaza amounts to an act of genocide.
plan-international.org/news/2024/12...
No other option: World leaders must act now after another conclusion of genocide in Gaza - Plan International
Human Rights Watch reports that Israeli authorities have deliberately obstructed Palestinians’ access to water and as a result, civilians in the Gaza Strip, including children, do not have enough wate...
plan-international.org
December 20, 2024 at 11:32 AM
People in Gaza desperately need a #ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access.
Statement by @planglobal.bsky.social following the @hrw.org report concluding that Israel’s obstruction of water supply in Gaza amounts to an act of genocide.
plan-international.org/news/2024/12...
Statement by @planglobal.bsky.social following the @hrw.org report concluding that Israel’s obstruction of water supply in Gaza amounts to an act of genocide.
plan-international.org/news/2024/12...