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Read this, what a disaster Trump is
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Canadian woman held with daughter by ICE warns all immigrants to ālie lowā
Tania Warner says she has documents showing she is in the US legally, but immigration agents were not swayed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/24/canadian-mother-detention-warns-immigrants?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
8 days ago
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Belgium ex-politician (and EU Commissioner) has to appear before court in the case of the murder from 65 years ago of president Patrice Lumumba of Congo - good!
www.spiegel.de/ausland/etie...
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Früherer EU-Kommissar Davignon muss wegen Lumumba-Mord vor Gericht
Als EU-Kommissar machte Ćtienne Davignon Karriere. Nun wirft ihm die belgische Justiz die Mitwirkung an der Ermordung von Kongos Premier Patrice Lumumba 1961 vor. Davignon ist der letzte mutmaĆliche B...
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/etienne-davignon-ex-eu-kommissar-muss-wegen-mord-an-patrice-lumumba-vor-gericht-a-d0775177-0c95-4416-8ce5-71dad3925181?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh
15 days ago
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PFAS vervuiling in Nederland wordt veroorzaakt door bedrijven zoals Chemours en komt ook binnen via de revieren vanuit het buiteland - en wel 80 ton per jaar!
about 1 month ago
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Spannende sessie van WECF over zorgwekkende stoffen, o.a.
#PFAS
tijdens de stakeholderdag āchemische stoffen en gezonde leefomgevingā van het Ministerie van Infrastruktuur en Waterstaat
about 1 month ago
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Maureen Pickering
about 1 month ago
āMajor leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkersā reminds us that spikes in childhood leukaemia, breast cancer, thyroid cancer and all cancers around nuclear facilities have been confirmed by German and other independent researchers
talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/15/m...
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āMajor leak at Highland nuclear site triggers hunt for mystery bunkersā reminds us that spikes in childhood leukaemia, breast cancer, thyroid cancer and all cancers around nuclear facilities have been...
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. The Nationalās report today with the above headline, reminds me. Of what? Increased child leukaemia Increased breast cancer Increased thyrā¦
https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/15/major-leak-at-highland-nuclear-site-triggers-hunt-for-mystery-bunkers-reminds-us-that-spikes-in-childhood-leukaemia-breast-cancer-thyroid-cancer-and-all-cancers-around-nuclear-facilities-have-be/
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Women Engage for Common Future
about 1 month ago
Annabel at
#SBI-6
: We'll be closely following discussions on the mid-term review of the Gender Plan of Action, alongside cooperation with other conventions. The latter is a key point to continue our advocacy at the climate COP for increased synergies between the Rio Conventions. š¤
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POLITICO Europe
about 2 months ago
Russia poisoned opposition politician Alexei Navalny with a toxin from a poison dart frog, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom said today.
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Alexei Navalny was killed by Russia with frog toxin, 5 European countries say
There is āno innocent explanationā for the presence of the toxin ināÆNavalnyās body, the U.K. said on Saturday.Ā
https://www.politico.eu/article/alexei-navalny-killed-russia-frog-toxin-5-eu-countries-say/
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European Environmental Bureauš
about 2 months ago
šā Environmental defenders are not criminals. They are democracy in action. š£ Weāre happy to share that the Guidelines on the Right to Peaceful Environmental Protest and Civil Disobedience by UN SR on Environmental Defenders
@michelforst.bsky.social
are now available in French, Spanish and Russian.
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In Tajikistan studying gender dimension of plastic waste pollution, working with stakeholders from civil society, environmental committee, private sector to better understand challenges and good practices
about 2 months ago
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WECF Nederland
2 months ago
Nieuwsgierig over energie armoede & de EU Green Deal? āļø Doe mee met onze online lunch Webinar morgen! Meld je aan via de link:
us06web.zoom.us/j/85940903105
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European Environmental Bureauš
2 months ago
A new report from the
@ec.europa.eu
, published today, confirms what we already knew: the societal costs of PFAS pollution are enormous! š¶The Commission estimates that inaction on PFAS could cost society up to ā¬1.7 trillion by 2050.
www.politico.eu/article/fore...
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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe)
2 months ago
1/5 š We analysed
#pesticide
residues in apples in 13 European countries. The result: conventional apples are contaminated with a cocktail of pesticides (85%). It shows that the current pesticide authorisation needs to be improved, not demolished.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
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European Environmental Bureauš
2 months ago
The Hague District Court found the Netherlandsā climate policy insufficient, discriminating against Bonaire residents, and ordered immediate action to curb emissions and protect the Caribbean island from sea-level rise and extreme weather. āļøRead more
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Check out Springsteenās Steets of Minneapolis
www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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Bruce Springsteenās angry anti-ICE song is on-the-nose in the right way
The starās urgent and to-the-point protest song is not subtle about its target and right now thatās why it works so well
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/29/bruce-springsteen-anti-ice-protest-song?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
2 months ago
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European Environmental Bureauš
2 months ago
ā ļøUN expert warns: chemical pollution is a hidden global crisis. āForever chemicals,ā corporate loopholes & weak policies put human rights and environment at risk. Science & political will must align to protect human rights.
@euobserver.com
@elenasanchez.bsky.social
euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...
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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe)
2 months ago
The
@ec.europa.eu
's planned abolition of
#pesticide
protection standards is unlawful. This is shown by a legal opinion published today.
www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
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Weakening of pesticide protection standards is unlawful - Legal opinion criticises draft EU legislation
The European Commission's planned abolition of pesticide protection standards is unlawful. This is shown by a legal opinion published today. The legal opinion, commissioned by the Aurelia Foundation, ...
https://www.pan-europe.info/press-releases/2026/01/weakening-pesticide-protection-standards-unlawful-legal-opinion-criticises
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This week meeting with women waste pickers in the Lusaka Landfill and women organic farmers near Mambwa -Zambia - to get their vision for ways out of plastic pollution to share with parties to BRS Conventions, amazing powerful women, such an enrichement!
2 months ago
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Trump is spreading false information on World Health Organisation to cover up his inacceptable step to leave WHO
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft...
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Rückzug aus Gesundheitsorganisation: WHO-Chef nennt US-Gründe unwahr
Washington hat gerade den offiziellen Rückzug aus der WHO verkündet. Doch ihr Chef, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, weist die angeführten Gründe als unwahr zurück. Die Amerikaner würden »falsche Informati...
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/rueckzug-aus-gesundheitsorganisation-who-chef-nennt-us-gruende-unwahr-a-e6bf4f0b-d901-473b-8018-9dc23d271dd1?sara_ref=re-so-app-sh
2 months ago
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WECF and partners are in Zambia working with the environmental management agency ZEMA working with women organisations and stakeholders on how to reduce pollution from plastic waste and the toxic chemicals they emit, made the national TV
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2 months ago
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European Environmental Bureauš
3 months ago
š° New EU-wide protections against PFAS in drinking water are now in force! This is a win for people, our waters and strong EU rules! š But for harmonised monitoring, we must defend the EU's Water Framework Directive - the cornerstone of water protectionā More ā¬ļø
#ProtectWater
#OneHealth
#BanPFAS
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South Africans tricked into fighting for Russia in Ukraine - Outright evil
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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āOutright evil:ā anguish and anger over South Africans tricked into fighting for Russia
Relatives fear for lives of men thought to remain trapped in war after allegedly being recruited by a daughter of Jacob Zuma
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/dec/14/south-africans-tricked-fighting-for-russia-ukraine?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
4 months ago
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Finally free, after 5 year, Maria Kalesnikava - conditions in Belarusian prison equaled torture
www.spiegel.de/ausland/bela..
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4 months ago
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Nadia van der Linde
4 months ago
'De criminaliteit is al jaren dalende, maar hoe veiliger een land, hoe hysterischer we met het laatste stukje onveiligheid omgaan... Demonstreren wordt steeds meer als een potentiƫle verstoring van de openbare orde gezien.'
#Demonstratierecht
#CivicSpace
#Art9
www.groene.nl/artikel/klei...
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Hoe de overheid het demonstratierecht steeds verder uitholt
De sfeer tussen demonstrant en autoriteiten verhardt. De politie arresteert en slaat vaker, burgemeesters leggen striktere regels op en demonstranten worden nauwlettend gevolgd. āZe hebben me radicaal...
https://www.groene.nl/artikel/klein-tegen-de-grote-politie?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=bluesky
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European Environmental Bureauš
4 months ago
This week brought news none of us can ignore. Democracy in Europe is under mounting assault, and calls to dismantle the rules that protect people and nature keep growing. Those driving this push want silence. Instead, our collective resolve is getting louder
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Women Engage for Common Future
4 months ago
Our
#UNEA7
event Toxic
#SkinBleaching
creams
#mercury
showed our partners
#WEP
documentary film on the huge problem in
#Nigeria
and Bangladesh government,
#EEB
#IPEN
who spoke on growing global illegal sales, agressive (often racist and sexist) marketing see
www.zeromercury.org/mercury-adde...
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reposted by
Women Engage for Common Future
4 months ago
At
#UNEA7
#Nairobi
partner Semia Gharbi is sharing the lessons and results of our
#Gender
#Chemicals
and
#Waste
project in
#Tunisia
(supported by BRS secretariat) where rural women transit away from pesticides and plastic usage instead moving to eco-tourism & agroecology!
youtu.be/yBnUxJwZWtU?...
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Teaser "What a Waste" Documentary - Tunisia
YouTube video by WECF International
https://youtu.be/yBnUxJwZWtU?si=rS4W-dnJTZojSZSw
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Women Engage for Common Future
4 months ago
On international
#HumanRights
Day the Womenās Mayor Group
#WMG
called out some of the negotiators at
#UNEA7
who are trying to move us all backwards 80 years or more by refusing to refer to
#GenderEquality
- while showing milesstones of the last decades including
#CEDAW
#SDGs
#Beijing
Platform Action
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reposted by
Women Engage for a Common Future e.V.
4 months ago
Bis 2026 kƶnnen noch BeitrƤge zum Bericht des Special Rapporteurs on Toxics and Human Rights zu
#Ewigkieitschemikalien
#PFAS
eingereicht werden.
www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...
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reposted by
Women Engage for a Common Future e.V.
4 months ago
Eine gesunde Umwelt ist ein Menschenrecht! Dieses ist durch wachsende Verschmutzung durch
#Chemikalien
bedroht. Gerade spricht
@chinkiepg.bsky.social
von
@toxicsfree.bsky.social
mit Marcos A. Orellana, Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights bei
#UNEA7
.
#Menschenrechte
in die Umweltpolitik!
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Women Engage for a Common Future e.V.
4 months ago
Beim Global Major Groups and Stakeholder Forum
#GMGSF
treffen sich die 9 UN Major Groups, um Erfahrungen auszutauschen und Strategien für die
#UNEA7
zu entwickeln. Mit der
#Women'sMajorGroup
fordern wir
#Gendergerechtigkeit
in der
#Umweltpolitik
und einen Platz am Tisch:
#wewon'tbesilenced
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reposted by
POLITICO Europe
4 months ago
Ursula von der Leyenās European Commission should continue to enforce its digital rules with an iron fist despite the outcry from U.S. officials and big tech moguls, co-chair of the Greens in the European Parliament Bas Eickhout told POLITICO.
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Keep hitting US Big Tech with fines, Europeās Greens tell von der Leyen
EU Greens chief tells POLITICO Brussels āshould pick on this battle and stand strongā in the face of U.S. backlash.
https://www.politico.eu/article/keep-hitting-us-big-tech-fines-europe-greens-tell-ursula-von-der-leyen/
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POLITICO Europe
4 months ago
OPINION: Slavery is alive and thriving, and itās wrapped inside shiny chocolate bars that promise to be āfair trade,ā āchild-labor freeā and āsustainable.ā š
politi.co/4orKvz6
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SimonaZimmermann
4 months ago
Jetzt anmelden für das
#UNEA7
Event zu Schadstoffen in Bleichcremes: einige enthalten hochgiftiges Quecksilber. Unsere Partner:innen vom Women Environmental Program
#WEP
#Nigeria
zeigen ihre Dokumentation 'Fairness at a Cost'. Online und vor Ort in
#Nairobi
#Kenia
#toxicfreefuture
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More terrible news,
#Chernobyl
leaking radiation again after Russian drone hit, another immense risk and cost to be paid ultimately by them
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair ā IAEA
Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia blew hole in painstakingly erected ā¬1.5bn shield meant to allow for final clean-up of 1986 meltdown site
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/06/chornobyl-disaster-shelter-no-longer-blocks-radiation-and-needs-major-repair-iaea?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
4 months ago
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Women Engage for Common Future
4 months ago
Emotional minute of silence for the victims of the terrible violence in
#Ukraine
#Gaza
and
#Sudan
following testimonies by participants at the 21st Global Major Group and Stakeholder Forum
#GMGSF
#UNEA7
including risk of nuclear disaster as Russian drone damaged
#Chernobyl
carcophage
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Women Engage for Common Future
4 months ago
Register for the
#UNEA7
event on Toxic Skin Bleaching - a growing global health threat - where our partners from Women Environmental Program
#WEP
#Nigeria
will screen the new documentary āFairness at a Costā with many testimonies āeven babies harmed by toxic bleaching creamsā
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reposted by
Women Engage for a Common Future e.V.
4 months ago
Heute versammeln sich Umweltaktivist:innen zum
#GlobalMajorGroupsAndStakeholdersForum
, um ihre unterschiedlichen Stimmen gemeinsam für starke Umweltpolitik bei
#UNEA7
und darüber hinaus mit wirkungsvoller Beteiligung aller Betroffenen zu erheben. WECF ist mit
#WomenMajorGroup
und
@eeb.org
dabei.
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Women Engage for Common Future
4 months ago
21st Global Major Group and Stakeholder Forum
#GMGSF21
kicked off at
#UNEA7
Nairobi with 1000 registered participants where we support the key messages action including with the Womenās Major Group
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Women Engage for a Common Future e.V.
4 months ago
Insprierende GesprƤche und leckeres Essen gab es beim Women's Delegate Lunch der
#Women'sMajorGroup
bei
#UNEA7
. Z.B. setzt sich @MunyilaBadiliAfrica in Kenia für
#gifftfreieMenstruation
und gegen
#menstruationsarmut
ein. Vernetzung, Austausch und gute Laune für internationalen
#Ćkofeminismus
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Women Engage for Common Future
4 months ago
Government and civil society met at the Women Delegates Lunch at the UN Environment Assembly
#UNEA7
OECPR in
#Nairobi
to share priorities for UN resolutions that include womenās rights and gender equality recognition and actions
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Women Engage for Common Future
4 months ago
7th UN Environment Assembly
#UNEA7
is where we meet governments and where we share our key concerns and policy recommendations, with the Womenās Major Group
#WMG
and allies working to end
#plastic
#chemical
and
#mining
pollution that destroy health and livelihoods of women and their communities
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At
#UNEA7
OECPR joining an exciting event by our partners CEJAD Kenya on zero waste strategies for Africa
4 months ago
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reposted by
Women Engage for Common Future
4 months ago
EU Commissioner for International Partnerships Jozef Sikela engaged in a dialogue with Civil Society and Local Authorities on the Global Gateway investment program, our
@saschawecf.bsky.social
gave key messages on addressing risks and gaps incl. on human rights and protecting biodiversity & climate!
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EEB Economy & Climate
4 months ago
Staying stylish AND kind to the planet these holidays? It is possible!āØāš ā This Thursday, our textile expert Emily Macintosh will speak at
@wecf.org
's webinar on
#fastfashion
and the holiday season. ā Join us online on 4 December at 13:00. Register here:
www.wecf.org/event/webina...
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Dying from drinking water and n Argentina
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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āThere were eight of us, only two are aliveā: the growing crisis of arsenic in Argentinaās water
In some of the countryās poorest, driest areas, people rely on water contaminated with arsenic 60 times over safe limits, causing crippling illnesses in families
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/nov/27/argentina-hidden-arsenic-crisis-poor-contaminated-water-illness-family-die-children?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
4 months ago
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reposted by
Women Engage for Common Future
5 months ago
Peopleās Summit Climate March at
#COP30
#Belem
with the feminists calling for Gender-justice Climate-justice and Human rights in!! Give us that ambitous
#GAP
! And kick the polluters-out!
#Feminists
demand climate justice
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Join us in Amsterdam this Saturday with African activists and feminist Filmaker Sarah Kuck at Pakhuis de Zwijger, 15 of November! Register now!
add a skeleton here at some point
5 months ago
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Women Engage for Common Future
5 months ago
š¬ Screening + Panel discussion š¢ With speakers: Sarah Kuck (Director ā Present Medium) Toni Haastrup (Professor of International Politics ā University of Manchester) Ernestine Leikeki (CAMGEW, WECF partner from Cameroon) Valery Molay (Climate Justice Policy Expert ā WECF)
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Women Engage for Common Future
5 months ago
š Afrikadag 2025 | WECFās event: Documentary & Panel A session amplifying African ecofeminist voices and exploring how grassroots, women-led initiatives are shifting the narrative from dependency to power and tangible community change Tickets?
www.afrikadag.nl/tickets/
!
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Women Engage for Common Future
5 months ago
ā We shared our demands so loudly, that even within the gender negotiations that were happening earlier that afternoon, you could hear our rumblings of the powerful action: Baskets to Belem. ā š Power to the feminists at the Women and Gender Constituency š
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