Yoriko Yasukawa
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Vice-President, Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability (FOGGS)
https://www.foggs.org/
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Una fascinante entrevista a
#JoséWoldenberg
, ex-Presidente del Instituto Federal Electoral de
#México
sobre las reformas electorales que permitieron la transición democrática de aquel gran país. Aquí la entrevista entera en Spotify:
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My admiration and gratitude to these brave young people of the
#PacificIands
who moved countries around the world and the
#InternationalCourtofJustice
@CIJ_ICJ to fight the
#ClimateCrisis
!
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...
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How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/magazine/global-climate-law-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.l08.h1SQ.Xc0C0SKya-8-&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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So glad the @NewYorker shared this magnificent gut-wrenching chronicle of how 6 ordinary people experienced the
#AtomicBomb
in
#Hiroshima
as we commemorate the 80th anniversary of that atrocity.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/194...
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Hiroshima
A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb. Survivors wonder why they lived when so many others died.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1946/08/31/hiroshima
2 months ago
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Way past time
#Japan
did the right thing.
#RecognizePalestine
#FreePalestine
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...
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The Changing Map of Palestinian Recognition
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/world/middleeast/palestinian-state-recognition-maps.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
3 months ago
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Bravo
#Hungary
!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Budapest Pride draws huge crowds in defiance of Orban legal threats
Tens of thousands have gathered for the LGBTQ march in Hungary's capital, despite a police ban and warning from PM Viktor Orban.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c23g02dl1z8o
4 months ago
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Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability
4 months ago
World leaders - stand together against this war and all wars. Diplomacy is hard, dialogue with your adversaries is hard, peace making is hard. But that’s why you were elected — to do the hard thing. The right thing. Do your duty!
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Leonardo Garnier
5 months ago
- ¿Cuántas mentes desperdiciamos al ahorrar en educación? - En educación no se ahorra ¡se invierte! - Y no hay inversión más sensata, más relevante y más rentable que la inversión en educación.
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The Diplomat
5 months ago
The tumult now unsettling the Global North may be an unexpected opportunity through which a truer, less hierarchical human rights order might at last emerge.
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What the Global North Can Learn From the Global South
The tumult now unsettling the Global North may be an unexpected opportunity through which a truer, less hierarchical human rights order might at last emerge.
https://buff.ly/ByvPiIU
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Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability
5 months ago
Allowing these atrocities to continue day in and day out degrades and lessens humanity as a whole. It is way past time for all of us to say STOP.
#ArmsEmbargo
against Israel NOW.
bbc.com/news/article...
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BBC cameraman haunted by Gaza's malnourished children injured in Israeli strike
Israel says it targeted top Hamas militants hiding among civilians at the Khan Younis hospital.
https://bbc.com/news/articles/cjdznz727z8o
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United Farm Workers
6 months ago
This ruling upholds the laws protecting the basic rights of every person in this country. This admin can’t keep snatching up hardworking people without cause, just for being brown and working class. We’ll keep fighting for the rights of farm workers and every immigrant community.
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6 months ago
Urging no further escalation of India-Pakistan conflict. Terrorist attacks should be treated as criminal acts and best prevention is peace building benefitting all - especially the people of Kashmir.
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India attack on Pakistan in wake of Kashmir massacre, airspaces closed around Lahore: Live updates | CNN
India said it launched a military operation against Pakistan, hitting “terrorist infrastructure” in both Pakistan and Pakistan administered-Kashmir, in a major escalation of tensions between the two n...
https://edition.cnn.com/world/live-news/india-pakistan-attack-kashmir-tourists-intl-hnk
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Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability
6 months ago
Keep your eyes on the prize — more just and representative decision-making, more effective and timely conflict resolution — NOT who gets to be a permanent member of the Security Council!
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Meeting in Brazil, Brics foreign ministers fail to issue joint statement
Objections to expansion of UN Security Council by new, African members overshadowed consensus on ‘protectionist’ trade measures.
https://sc.mp/d9o8a
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Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability
6 months ago
How many lives have been lost because of trigger happiness and callousness toward lives on the other side? Stop this and all wars now!
#peacenow
#savelives
#EndWarNow
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Israeli military admits its troops killed UN worker in Gaza Strip
Israel had previously denied its troops were responsible for the killing of a UN worker with tank fire on 19 March.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp348npzy8xo
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Foundation for Global Governance and Sustainability
6 months ago
🌍 On
#EarthDay
22 April--also anniversary of the
#ParisClimateAgreement
signing—it’s heartening to know that people globally want stronger climate action despite fossil‑fuel lobby misinformation and government excuses. Real change is within reach.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/22/activate-climate-silent-majority-support-supercharge-action
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Jaimee Choi 🪐📚
6 months ago
Putting this into the universe, because this is the only outcome I expect out of our press in this moment. I’m okay with adjacent questions about the general violations— but this absolutely should be asked (and addressed though my standards are just at ASK)
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Mi solidaridad con don @oariascr de
#CostaRica
y apoyo a los principios y valores por los que él y su país siempre han luchado - la
#Paz
, la
#Democracia
y los
#DerechosHumanos
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Ex-Costa Rica president says US visa revoked after criticism of Trump
Óscar Arias, 84, who won Nobel peace prize in 1987, said US president was behaving like ‘a Roman emperor’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/costa-rica-oscar-arias-visa-trump
7 months ago
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Shameful and shameless as is to be expected from this regime. The rest of the world should condemn this behavior not normalize it.
#SolidarityWithGreenland
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7 months ago
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A shameful decision by the government of
#Japan
that should be reversed.
#GenderEquality
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7 months ago
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How is this atrocity allowed to continue in
#Gaza
?
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...
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Children, families, a doctor: Here are some of those Israel killed in Gaza
Israel has left families bereaved and shocked across the Gaza Strip with a new wave of brutal attacks.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/18/children-a-doctor-here-are-some-of-the-people-israel-killed-in-gaza
7 months ago
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The operative word being ‘alleged.’ Even Fox News knows lack of due process when they see it…
7 months ago
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Una fascinante entrevista a
#JoséWoldenberg
, ex-Presidente del Instituto Federal Electoral de
#México
sobre las reformas electorales que permitieron la transición democrática de aquel gran país. Aquí la entrevista entera en Spotify:
drive.google.com/file/d/16xQj...
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7 months ago
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About time
#Japan
broadened and diversified its alliances…
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7 months ago
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A truly horrifying headline from the
@nytimes.com
. War as a business venture…#UkraineWar
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/b...
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Europe Faces a Huge Bill to Defend Ukraine. Investors Are Thrilled.
Europeans would need to ramp up military spending quickly, a notion that has set off a market rally, led by defense stocks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/business/dealbook/europe-ukraine-defense-stock-market.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F7A99C90-0212-43D2-BE8D-7D04DFD85699
8 months ago
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The Onion
8 months ago
Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain
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条約を批准しないだけでなくオブザーバー参加も放棄。恥ずべきこと。https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/51960091aa1b55c046167d40530e4b555d2ed547
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【速報】政府が核兵器禁止条約締約国会議へのオブザーバー参加見送りを表明 岩屋外相「大変厳しい判断をした」(FNNプライムオンライン(フジテレビ系)) - Yahoo!ニュース
岩屋外相は18日午後の記者会見で、米国で3月3~7日に開かれる核兵器禁止条約第3回締約国会議への日本政府のオブザーバー参加を見送る方針を表明し、「大変難しい、厳しい判断をせざるを得なかった」と語った
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/51960091aa1b55c046167d40530e4b555d2ed547
8 months ago
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Yes, but why don’t we see the
@nytimes.com
or any other outlet at the press conference calling out the brazen lie???
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...
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Trump Falsely Suggests Ukraine Is to Blame for the War: What to Know
A look at how the war in Ukraine began, the state of the peace talks and why the country isn’t holding elections.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/world/europe/trump-zelensky-ukraine-comments.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
8 months ago
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Anne Applebaum
8 months ago
President's Day rallies
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jamelle
8 months ago
so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky
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Money talks
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これって防衛費を増やしたりするよりずっと緊急な問題のはず。
www.asahi.com/rensai/list....
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連載「貧困率4割~高齢単身女性のいま」一覧:朝日新聞
連載「貧困率4割~高齢単身女性のいま」一覧 :朝日新聞
https://www.asahi.com/rensai/list.html?id=2092
8 months ago
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So NYT thought ‘Musk Makes it Up as he Goes Along’ was too impolite…?
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
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Live Updates: Musk Asserts Without Proof That He’s Fixing a Bureaucracy Rife With Fraud
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/11/us/president-trump-news?smid=nytcore-ios-share
8 months ago
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Yes, we’ll done! And thanks for sending out the message that we shouldn’t assume autocrats have the authority to do everything they want. Challenge them at every turn!
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8 months ago
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist
8 months ago
So the kid who didnt know what version control was is rebuilding the national payment system, the kid from kiwifarms has your SSN, the "kid" with the Twitter account from apartheid South Africa has your address and the kid who wanted an llm to convert a pdf has your tax return, did I get them all?
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Matt Novak
8 months ago
Trump says he’s fired the chairman of the Kennedy Center and named himself chairman.
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So now
#Trump
and his lackeys are resorting to outright lies (yet again) to make it look like their diplomacy by extortion and black mail actually works. Thanks you
#Panama
for having the courage to call them out!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Panama says US 'spreading lies' over free canal passage
The US State Department had claimed that they were no longer required to pay a fee for transit.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyep7e070wo
9 months ago
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The Donald doing the Vlad. Or maybe the Bibi…#FreePalestine
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/u...
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Trump Proposes U.S. Takeover of Gaza and Says Palestinians Should Move
The president met with the Israeli prime minister at the White House, meeting in person with another world leader for the first time since returning to power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/us/politics/trump-gaza-strip-netanyahu.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
9 months ago
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Why is the entire country not to mention Congress up in arms. Sci-fi horror movie stuff…
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9 months ago
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Only if they also take corrupt and malevolent oligarchs feeding off the government they claim to despise. Plus their boss.
#oligarchy
#fascism
9 months ago
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So does this amount to a rich guy openly bribing the President of the United States to give him control of federal government funds or am I just completely off the mark??
#Oligarchy
#Fascism
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/01/us/trump-tariffs-news/treasury-department-payments-system?smid=nytcore-ios-share
9 months ago
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Absolutely disgraceful
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Japan to halt funding for a UN women's rights panel over call to end male-only imperial succession
Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti...
https://apnews.com/article/japan-un-gender-equality-women-emperor-succession-d093b3e1774493548c7b1bd183d2c516
9 months ago
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Who invited this awful person to my favorite city in the world??
#NewYorkCity
9 months ago
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Bravo
#CostaRica
!
ameliarueda.com/noticia/muer...
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Muertes por mordeduras de serpiente en país africano se redujeron a cero gracias a suero antiofídico creado por científicos de la UCR
Más de 100 mil viales de antídoto se distribuyen en varias naciones del continente africano, Centro y Sudamérica desde tierras ticas
https://ameliarueda.com/noticia/muertes-mordeduras-serpiente-africa-reducido-suero-antiofidico-creado-ucr-noticias-costa-rica?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0Fy4QPAQU77a026iFi8_ZK5LYvTQU6zEerIXeGVu5KGiDE2XIam0JdJj0_aem_AfWNcmipXVT2ILK3-NhXqA
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Agreed
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But of course that wasn’t a
#Nazi
salute
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
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Musk tells Germans to get over 'past guilt' in speech to far-right AfD rally
The tech billionaire and Trump adviser has drawn rebukes for repeatedly endorsing the AfD in the leadup to Germany’s snap election next month.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/25/musk-german-afd-rally-weidel-00200620
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Jorts (and Jean)
9 months ago
This song is a banger
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Bravo
#Thailand
! A great example for Asia.
#Japan
needs to follow!
#MarriageEquality
www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...
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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/radio/asianview/interviews/20250117/
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9 months ago
United Farm Workers union members are being rounded up by ICE. You can donate to UFW here, they need all the help they can get:
ufw.org/donate
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Nobleza. ¡Viva
#México
!
mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexican...
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Mexican firefighters head to Los Angeles to assist as devastating wildfires threaten the city
President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexican firefighters and military personnel were going to Los Angeles to help fight devastating wildfires.
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexican-firefighters-head-to-los-angeles-to-assist-as-devastating-wildfires-threaten-the-city/
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Of course no contradiction between this and willingness to allow measles and polio to spread by discouraging vaccination…
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Listen to Part 2 of our interview with former Foreign Minister of
#Guatemala
Fernando Carrera about navigating the treacherous geopolitics of recognizing the State of
#Palestine
including a tricky meeting with Netanyahu.
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Absolutely unacceptable. The true results of the presidential elections of
#Venezuela
must be made public and, of course, respected.
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