Strong Aeon essay by journalist Cathy Otten on the ethics and limits of humanitarian journalism, and whether witnessing and documenting suffering actually leads to action. aeon.co/essays/how-might-humanitarian-journalism-be-done-better

“Is there a better way to write about the horrors of the world?” - Cathy Otten (former roommate in Iraq, badass reporter) aeon.co/essays/how-m...

www.opendemocracy.net/en/enough-br... @sianushka.bsky.social Launching in Bristol, Enough vowed to be the ‘breathalyser of rape’. But can fem tech really ‘deter’ sexual violence?

“The UN human rights office said on Friday that it had recorded at least 798 killings both at aid points run by the U.S.– and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and near humanitarian convoys run by other relief groups, including the UN.” www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

This is what happens when states are allowed to kill journalists with impunity. They carry on doing so.

“We are outraged by Saudi Arabia’s execution of prominent journalist Turki al-Jasser, who was detained for seven years because the regime believed he reported on allegations of corruption within the Saudi royal family,” said CPJ Chief Program Officer cpj.org/2025/06/saud...

Israel may have the intelligence, the capability and impunity to attack its enemies, but it cannot destroy them IWPR's Managing Editor Daniella Peled (@daniellapeled.bsky.social) writes for The Observer ⬇️ observer.co.uk/news/interna...

Read our new short guide for reporting safely under threat and harassment for US-based journalists, based on our press freedom talk with the Committee to Protect Journalists. gbvjournalism.org/storage/uplo...

Read the full letter here rorypecktrust.org/news-and-ins...

The Rory Peck Trust, along with over 100 news organizations and media freedom NGOs, is calling for immediate, independent, unrestricted international media access to Gaza. The coalition which includes BBC News and the leading Israeli publisher Haaretz is demanding full protection for journalists.

Vitally important research by @jbgallopin.bsky.social coming out of a region of Sudan where it is so hard to gather the facts from because of limited access and connectivity, allowing abuses to occur in virtual silence.

Unprecedentedly strong intervention by ICRC. “Palestinians, she says, have been stripped of human dignity. International humanitarian law is being hollowed out. What is happening in Gaza, she says, surpasses any acceptable legal, moral and humane standard” www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

UN reforms: Budget cuts and dramatic restructuring aren’t going to cut it. Aid needs to tackle its economic inefficiency problem.

"biological sex" is the idea that being born with a vulva makes you female, until it doesn't because you were too good at sports.

Telegraph printed 42 articles attacking trans people between 24 April and 4 May 2025 (11 days)

Very sorry to hear that Hajar Harb, a courageous journalist from Gaza who we mentored on the Refugee Journalism Project a few years ago, has died in London. There's a crowdfunder here to support her family in the UK and Palestine if you can spare anything. www.justgiving.com/page/hajarharb

We joined forces with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and photojournalist Jodi Hilton, to deliver vital tips and findings to reporters on how to stay safe under threat and harassment. gbvjournalism.org/page/press-f...

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m... There is a war on journalists raging around the world: let their voices be heard Annie Kelly

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... An important piece on journalists under threat around the world

Turkish Cypriot journalist threatened, source murdered after reporting on alleged government corruption mailchi.mp/cpj/journali...

The story about the life and death of journalist Viktoria #Roshchyna, killed by #Putin‘s men / #Russia, must be told again, and again, and again.

A chilling story about my ex colleague, journalist Viktoria Roshchyna, detained by Russia on the occupied territories of Ukraine while reporting. She was tortured and killed, her body returned to Ukraine several months later with missing organs, as brain www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

NEW: Nike has made an expansive effort to convince consumers, investors and others that it is improving the lives of factory workers who make its products, not exploiting them. A rare view of wages at one Cambodian factory tests this claim. With @oregonian.com

The BBC keep doing this. This isn't true. This is straightforwardly wrong in law. The ruling *only* applied to the Equality Act 2010. Trans women are still legally women for the vast majority of purposes! That's the whole point of the Gender Recognition Act. I've put in a complaint. So can you.

A feminist's perspective on the recent Supreme Court ruling – this week in my column for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/opinion/defi...

CPJ issues safety advisory for journalists traveling to the US - “CPJ has seen a spike in concern among journalists whose work entails travelling to the United States or crossing the border.” cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-...

The @sdnsolidarity.bsky.social is providing support to various civilian-led groups providing relief and protection support in N. Darfur where hundreds of thousands are fleeing the RSF's genocidal violence. To support pls go to sudansolidarity.com. Pls consider becoming a monthly donor 🙏🏿.

Haunted by hopelessness: 12 Zambians share their stories as HIV drugs run out www.npr.org/sections/goa...

I have one year of data regarding articles on trans people in the Mail, Times, Telegraph and Guardian/Observer. In 365 days, they have printed a combined 1,075 articles, nearly all attacks. A more detailed post will be up on the Trans Agenda later this week, so be sure to subscribe hleehurley.com

"Everything that I have seen and heard will not be erased from memory and remain etched in the soul" from the diaries of Samira Al-Khalil, human-rights activist and political dissident abducted in Assad's Syria www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/o...

Student #journalists say both sources & opinion writers are asking that their names be removed from articles critical of #Trump policy, with some writers even resigning, the @theguardian.com reports tinyurl.com/yc24yzsr

Video obtained by @nytimes.com confirms the IDF fired on and killed clearly identified Red Crescent medics in Gaza. 15 were killed. Satellite pics analyzed by @ckoettl.bsky.social & @sanjanamv.bsky.social show the IDF then buried the medics andambulances. Story 👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

Bigging this up again. Join our talk tomorrow with CPJ and journalists working in Turkey, China, Pakistan describing working under hostile conditions, sharing a global perspective with US-based journalists facing new threats and intimidation.

Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training chng.it/hnFgPnXxww

"They arrive...babies stuck halfway – heads out, legs trapped, or legs out, while heads remain [inside the birth canal]." Those babies died. Afghan mums & bubs are dying because health care clinics are closing after USAID halted funding. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

The siege of Khartoum has lifted. Left behind are scenes of unimaginable horror @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Return hubs': here we go again. We know externalisation leads to human rights violations. We've seen that with Australia, Italy/ Albania, Rwanda. It's incredibly costly to the taxpayer (£700m to the UK), ties up the courts in legal challenges and leads to arbitrary detention.

almost all efforts to police gender stemming from trans panic end up hurting cis people as well and in greater numbers, because there's a lot more cis people than trans people. because the greatest policing is around women, cis women end up particularly endangered.

Rutgers AAUP-AFT plaintiff in First Amendment lawsuit against Trump administration rdt-dev.getsnworks.com/article/rutg...

CPJ, FPF, and RSF urge Congressional support for public broadcasting and press freedom cpj.org?p=466257

It is good that this Statement on the Importance of Sexuality and Gender Research has been published. It is awful that it has to be published: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@mediagfmd.bsky.social calls on stakeholds to supprot independent journalism and newsrooms in the face of cuts gfmd.info/urgent-call-...

Media freedom is under threat in new and troubling ways. Join reporters Ayla Jean Yackley, Kathleen McLaughlin and Osama Ahmed for the global perspective on media freedom and safety at 10am EST on April 3rd 2025. Register here. rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Through #IWPR’s training, Oksana and three other Ukrainian journalists gained the court reporting skills needed to document war crimes trials and fight disinformation. #UkraineJusticeIWPR #УкраїнаПравосуддяIWPR Read some of Oksana’s reporting here: iwpr.net/about/people...

Our profile of the inspiring @monarishmawi.bsky.social is out! Mona is a Palestinian, Jordanian & Swiss lawyer, currently serving as a Member of the Independent Intl Fact-Finding Mission on the Sudan. Read about her journey - and her advice for others 👇 www.atlaswomen.org/profiles/202...

Journalists among more than 1,100 arrested in Turkey crackdown

‘Reward to dictators’: CPJ stands with millions of people the world round harmed by Trump’s dismantling of VOA, Radio Free outlets cpj.org/2025/03/rewa...

In a press freedom/safety presentation with CPJ and RCFP and they are warning people that they might not want their credentials visible at protests and also that lanyards can be used to strangle you, so that’s new/where we are as a nation.

More than 170 journalists and media workers have been killed since the beginning of the war in October 2023. cpj.org/2025/03/cpj-...