My reaction to the just-concluded first Board meeting of the Loss and Damage Fund in Abu Dhabi:

'The first meeting of the Loss and Damage Fund laid foundational stones by agreeing on vital procedures and committees, charting paths toward selecting a host country, establishing…

This is really life-affirming. Please give it a watch. 🙏🏻♥️

1/4 Sharing our new open-source IATI dataset on Hugging Face, for training language models to analyse #aid projects. Check it out here: huggingface.co/datasets/devin… #NLP #AI

🚨❗️🆘 More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the past six months. #StopSendingArms to Israel or risk complicity in committing war crimes and genocide! #CeasefireNOW

TODAY is the Global Day of Action🛑Arms sales and transfers to Israel MUST STOP and steps towards an immediate sustained ceasefire must begin.End the human suffering in Gaza now! #StopSendingArms #CeasefireNOW

Oxfam finds that of the $10.5bn reported by the Asian Development Bank for adaptation finance (2019 - 2023) only $0.6bn (6%) was provided as grants.
The majority $9.8bn (93%) was provided as loans with only 27% provided with concessional terms.
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The proportion of #ODA for Reproductive Health Care and Family Planning has halved since 2013 from 1.6% to 0.8%. A reminder during #CPD57 that more financing is needed to reverse this trend and realise Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
#SDGs #SRHR #ICPD30

Bragging abt the amount of speaking time he has used, Mick Wallace fails to say how much was used denying Assad & Russia warcrimes, smearing Syrian rescue workers, repeating Kremlin & Assad propaganda, voting vs Iran ending execution of children etc etc
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Central and northern regions of #Mali are currently grappling with two simultaneous crises: a sharp deterioration of food insecurity levels, and the arrival of 70,000 refugees
fleeing from neighbouring countries.

I'm allocating $11M from CERF - The UN's emergency fund to address this dual crisis.

We are proud to welcome our new partners in advancing #MNCH , #SRHR & #AHWB .

AFIDEP All India Welfare Society Biosphere Foundation Development Initiatives (DI) Down Syndrome International (DSi) @Gamjul Juzoor Maternity Foundation prolight foundation Reproductive Health Network Kenya

#PartnersForChange

When someone shows you how they are .. believe them …

The relentless countdown to horrific war across the worlds largest displacement camp, Rafah, must be stopped. Israel and Hamas must agree to the proposed ceasefire, the hostage and prisoner release and the start of political talks for lasting peace. unocha.org/news/un-relief…

MAKE THE TWO-STATES SOLUTION REAL!
Making the two-states solution real is the ultimate victory over Hamas and Islamic Jihad and their distrorted version of Islam as well as over the political parties of Ben Gvir and Smootrich with their distorted version of Judaism. There is no…

Kenya flood death toll rises as more torrential rain forecast
Total deaths reach 76 and more than 130,000 displaced as weeks of flooding also affects east African neighbours
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'ICPD - four letters carrying weight, the global consensus that #SRHR are #HumanRights ; preconditions for securing wellbeing & prosperity for all people”

Powerful #Nordic statement delivered by Bjørg Sandkjær at #CPD57

Takk! 🇳🇴 Tack! 🇸🇪 Tak! 🇩🇰 Kiitos! 🇫🇮 Þakka þér fyrir 🇮🇸

We tracked an IDF combat engineering unit as they moved across Gaza, using social media and satellite imagery to build a picture of where they went, what they demolished and why.

By their own count, they destroyed hundreds of homes.

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Areej Al-Sadhan أريج السدحان #FreeSadhan sister of 'disappeared' Saudi aid worker, calls on #NUFC & #SUFC supporters to urge #SaudiArabia ’s authorities to free her brother, Abdulrahman al-Sadhan. #FreeSadhan by holding up a poster in the 27th minute of today's match.

Memorial to the Palestinian journalists killed by Israel, outside the White House Correspondents Dinner which is filled with the those who sponsor this slaughter and those who provide the propaganda for it.

Homosexuality is now punishable by up to 15 years in prison in Iraq. Instead of passing laws that would protect and help Iraqis, parliament is doing the exact opposite. Horrific and unacceptable.

I implore US & UK governments, unless you want to destroy the last fragments of the international rules based order that you've severely damaged over #Gaza , please don't interfere with the #ICC . All we have are the rules! Is it so hard for you to uphold them? Rishi Sunak President Biden