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Lewis Emmerton

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Passionate about #HumanRights #GenderEquality #SRHR #ReproRights #Youth #LGBTQI | Snr Policy Advisor @SheDecidesGFI | Own views 🌈(he/him) 📍 Edin🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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ILGA-Europe @ilgaeurope.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The #RainbowMap 2025 is live! Find out how 49 European countries rank on LGBTI human rights and see which ones are leading, or falling behind. Check it out now! rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/05/2025
Extinction Rebellion may have gone quiet, but climate protest will come roaring back | Oliver Haynes
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Extinction Rebellion may have gone quiet, but climate protest will come roaring back | Oliver Haynes
The pandemic and harsh laws suffocated climate movements as we knew them. Get ready for a new kind of action, says journalist Oliver Haynes
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YIELD Hub @yieldhub.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
YIELD Hub is at the 78th World Health Assembly! From 19–24 May, Sonali Silva and Dina Chaerani will be representing YIELD Hub in Geneva to advocate for youth partnership in public health solutions. Are you attending ? Let’s connect and strive for a healthier, more inclusive future. 💪 #WHA78 #SRHR
A graphic announcing YIELD Hub’s attendance at the 78th World Health Assembly. At the top is the YIELD Hub logo and the text: "...is attending the 78th World Health Assembly" in purple and pink. Below are two photos: on the left, Sonali Silva, labeled as Executive Director, and on the right, Dina Chaerani, labeled as Programme Associate. The bottom text reads: “Will you be attending? Let’s Connect!” followed by “Geneva, Switzerland – 19–24 May 2025.” The design uses purple and pink accents with a paint-brush style border.
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
In the face of increasing attacks on #reprorights, this show of political solidarity from 78 countries is a beacon of hope Sierra Leone’s Min. H.E. Mrs. Barlay delivered this statement on behalf of a cross-regional group ➡️ Statement: bit.ly/42vMoC6 #CPD #healthforall #health #srhr #genderequality
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
🚨 @hrw.org latest report highlights Romania's dangerous rollback of #reproductiverights. Recent legal changes are putting women’s healthcare access at risk and undoing decades of progress. Read more: shorturl.at/TXGgB #HumanRights #SRHR #WomensRights #Advocacy
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Romania: Dangerous Rollback of Reproductive Rights
The sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls, including the right to abortion and family planning methods, have been significantly eroded in Romania, Human Rights Watch said in a r...
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Just the #BBC doing what the #BBC does, #IsraeliPR sanitising the indefensible - this is murder, not accidental killing - these humanitarian workers were murdered by the #IsraeliState !! #Gaza #Palestine @ifrc.org hehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0xp969n69o
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Israel admits mistakes over medic killings in Gaza
Israeli forces killed 15 emergency workers in a convoy of ambulances near Rafah on 23 March.
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Rightwing US group @ADF_UK is backing an anti-abortion efforts in the UK through legal challenges to #abortion #bufferzones @bpas.bsky.social @msichoices.org @msichoicesuk.bsky.social @backoffscotland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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US anti-abortion group expands campaign in UK
Exclusive: Alliance Defending Freedom, which is funding case of activist Livia Tossici-Bolt, is lobbying against buffer zones around clinics
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
In the name of the family: Yes, Europe could be headed for a ‘Project 2025’ too f24.my/B2Cw.BS
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In the name of the family: Yes, Europe could be headed for a ‘Project 2025’ too
In almost every election in Europe in recent years, a discreet but increasingly powerful force has been at play to help bolster the far right. Much like the architects behind “Project 2025”, a set of…
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ILGA-Europe @ilgaeurope.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
From Hungary to Turkey, LGBTI and feminist protests are being suppressed. When states ban marches and detain activists, they erode everyone’s rights. Read why defending freedom of assembly matters more than ever. www.ilga-europe.org/blog/freedom...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/03/2025
At least 200 Palestinian children have been killed in Gaza since Israel resumed its war on the enclave this week, says UNICEF's Gaza spokesperson Rosalia Paulin. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/u6c13s
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/03/2025
Israel's renewed attacks on Gaza that began on Tuesday have killed a total of 634 people and wounded 1,172, the Gaza Health Ministry says. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lcwldb
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
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Yara M. Asi @yara-asi.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Horrified that the brief respite of the ceasefire appears to be over—already seeing reports of many injured & killed, including children. This after weeks of Israel blocking aid into Gaza. This after months of escalating violence and displacement in the West Bank. The nightmare continues.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/03/2025
BREAKING: Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip have killed at least 235 Palestinians, according to local hospitals. Follow AP's live coverage.
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Live updates: Hundreds killed as Israel launches airstrikes across Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the strikes because of a lack of progress in talks to extend the ceasefire. Officials said the operation was open-ended and was expected to expand.
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Whilst the right to abortion is widely supported in the UK - there is a worrying rise of a vocal and strategic minority of anti choice groups seeking to amend term limits & harass those seeking care www.marieclaire.co.uk/life/politic...
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Inside The UK's Anti-Abortion Movement
The Anti-Abortion Movement Is Sweeping The UK—Is It Being Funded By The US? Bel Trew Investigates.
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shedecides.bsky.social @shedecides.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It's simple: we can't have gender equality without safe abortion ✊ So as leaders gather to discuss women’s rights and progress at #Beijing30, we're proud to be part of the #SafeAbortionDialogue, standing together boldly for abortion rights and access.
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Cristian González Cabrera @cristianfergo.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The CNMP, the nat'l body overseeing the work of Brazil’s prosecutors, issued a crucial recommendation highlighting the key role of human rights education & sexuality education in promoting safer schools. My commentary w/Prof. Denise Carreira of @uspoficial.bsky.social: www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
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Human Rights and Sexuality Education Protects Schools
A legal change could help make schools safer for children in 2025. In December, the National Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office (CNMP) issued a groundbreaking recommendation that highlights the...
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shedecides.bsky.social @shedecides.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Today - on Abortion Provider Appreciation Day - and everyday, we stand behind the skilled & compassionate people that providing abortion care. They face fierce pushback, simply for doing their job. Still, they continue to show up. We continue to celebrate & appreciate them!💐 #AbortionRights
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
'The masters of misogyny and are gaining ground and influence' #AntonioGuterres opening remarks at #CSW69 #UnitedNations #Beijing30
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
'#Womensrights are under siege! The poison of #patriarchy is back and back with a vengeance We must deliver on the promise of Beijing' #AntonioGuterres opening remarks at #CSW69 #UnitedNations
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Nadia van der Linde @nadialinde.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
At the CSW69 this week we reflect on #Beijing30, progress and challenges in achieving women's rights and gender equality since the 4th World Conference on Women in 1995 in Beijing. Here a nice history piece about the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) news.un.org/en/story/202...
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Explainer: The Commission on the Status of Women and why it matters
Ever since former US First Lady and human rights champion Eleanor Roosevelt inspired the first UN sub-commission on the status of women in the 1940s, thousands of women around the world meet at UN Hea...
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Mama Cash @mamacashfund.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
30 years since the Beijing Declaration: We’re reflecting on the wins #feminist movements & Mama Cash grantee-partners have achieved—and the road ahead. Change is happening, but the fight isn’t over. Read more in our latest blog post: www.mamacash.org/resources/th... #Beijing30 #IWD2025 #CSW69
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Thirty years since Beijing: Celebrating progress and confronting challenges  - Mama Cash
Can you believe it’s been 30 years since the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action? It’s a perfect time to…
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shedecides.bsky.social @shedecides.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
SheDecides is at this year's #CSW69! We look forward to championing gender equality and SRHR, including the right to safe abortion for all. Together with allies, we will continue to push forward our shared agenda for human rights! #SheDecides #ResistTheRollback
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
‘It is nearly impossible to have a healthy pregnancy in #Gaza today’ Under siege women and girls are targeted by the #Israeli Army This is #reproductiveviolence, #genocide
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
On this #AbortionProviderAppreciationDay sending love to all those providing care & support for #safeabortion in increasing challenging work environments. 📸 From the newly opened #Abotakclinic in #Warsaw #Poland 🇵🇱 confronting #antichoice folks with a reminder #AbortionIsNormal #SheDecides
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MSI Reproductive Choices UK @msichoicesuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Today is #AbortionProviderAppreciationDay- a day dedicated to highlighting the work of abortion providers as stigma and barriers to access abortion care persist. We are so grateful for our courageous team members who face this down to make sure people can access care. We're proud to stand with you.
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
‘When will the #BBC conclude that #Israel IS violating #internationallaw, and shape its coverage around that truth?’ #Gaza #BBC coverage has been shocking & offers an ongoing platform to #israel PR machine to churn out lies & mirror this in BBC reporting There needs to be an inquiry & answers!
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
‘The biggest rift between my commitment to truth & the role I had to play as a #BBC journalist. We have passed the point at which #Israel’s #warcrimes & #crimesagainsthumanity are debatable. There’s more than enough evidence’ @karishmapatel.bsky.social www.independent.co.uk/voices/bbc-g...
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I’m a former BBC newsreader – Gaza is the reason I resigned
The controversy over the pulling of the ‘How to Survive a Warzone’ documentary is a distraction from a much bigger problem my old employer has with impartiality, writes Karishma Patel
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/03/2025
Israel’s Energy Minister Eli Cohen has ordered the complete cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza, threatening the functioning of the enclave’s desalination plants amid an ongoing aid shortage in the holy month of Ramadan.
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Israel cuts off electricity supply to Gaza as new truce talks set to resume
The electricity cut threatens desalination plants as Palestinians suffer amid an ongoing aid blockade during Ramadan.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
BREAKING: Israel has said it is cutting off its electricity supply to Gaza More to follow
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
This #InternationalWomensDay, we call for the right for safe abortion to be defended against the pushback we are currently witnessing worldwide. We cannot achieve gender equality without ensuring access to safe abortion. Let's stand up for a world where #SheDecides! #IWD2025 #GenderEquality
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shedecides.bsky.social @shedecides.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Welcome to Minister Aukrust, as a new #SheDecides Champion. Norway's demonstrated leadership in advancing gender equality, including on abortion rights, showcases their unwavering commitment to #bodilyautonomy. #SRHR
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shedecides.bsky.social @shedecides.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
When it comes to defending reproductive rights, young people are actively dismantling stigma and challenging oppressive systems! Read how they're taking action: ENG bit.ly/3XsXh5U FR bit.ly/41nosQL #Abortion #YouthRights #SheDecides
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Heading to 🗽 #NewYork tomorrow with @shedecides.bsky.social for #CSW69. Celebrating Beijing Platform for Action turning 30 🎂 & contributing to a Global #SafeAbortion dialogue 💚 If you’re in the Big apple 🍎 and around the #UnitedNations 🇺🇳 next week would be great to say hey 👋
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Action for Global Health @afghnetwork.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Have you read our statement on the UK aid cuts? @adrianlovett.bsky.social of @onecampaign.bsky.social, Mike Podmore of STOPAIDS, @bensimms65.bsky.social of @globalhealthpart.bsky.social, Alison Marshall of Age International and Paul Sommerfeld of @tb-alert.bsky.social all quoted. 👉 bit.ly/41xiaz6
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Jake Atkinson @jakeatkinson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
First lifesaving international aid cut. Now billions to be cut from welfare & other govt spending. This govt is clear: if you are the wealthiest in this country, you don't have to contribute more to our society, you can just get richer - it's the poorest who will pay. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Chancellor set to cut welfare spending by billions
Cuts to areas including welfare will be put to the official forecaster ahead of the Spring Statement.
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Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Morning ☕️ I can’t believe my petition is now less than 1000 signatures away from a government debate. I’ve been doing this with no evangelical 💰 media or Twitter. Please share and help get this over the line. Protect us from MAGA fascism petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Screenshot of my decriminalise abortion petition at 99, 056
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Plan International @planglobal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Anti-Rights = Anti-Equality. This #IWD2025, join us in demanding urgent action to uphold #GenderEquality
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shedecides.bsky.social @shedecides.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Today on #SheDecidesDay and every day, we speak out for a world where women, girls and young people – in all their diversity, can make decisions about their bodies, lives and futures. Without question. #bodilyautonomy #ResistTheRollback for a world where #SheDecides
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Sarah Hyde @sarahehyde.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
“National defence and international development are two sides of the same coin. Our long-term security requires us to invest in both.” #UKAid @emily4mk.bsky.social @afghnetwork.bsky.social @bondngo.bsky.social @appgonglobalsrhr.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Keir Starmer faces backbench rebellion over ‘shortsighted’ cuts to aid budget
MPs ask ‘what will be left of Labour programme?’ amid calls for rethink and plan to speak out against decision
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Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Mary Fissells new book "Abortion: A History" reveals that, whatever evangelicals and Trumpists might believe, society’s knowledge and tolerance of abortion has long been a strong, if quiet, thread. Law or no law, women have always found answers to their problems.
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Listen up, Trumpists – your idea of abortion’s history is all wrong
Mary Fissell’s fascinating book, Abortion: A History, whirls readers from Cicero’s Rome to 16th-century ‘witches’ to modern-day Ireland
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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It’s time for Europe to lead on abortion rights, say lawmakers, NGOs
Pro-choice advocates want Europe to enshrine the right to abortion in the EU Charter and provide funding for women in need.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 01/03/2025
Civic groups and policymakers are urging the EU to safeguard sexual and reproductive rights in Europe amid abortion restrictions in the US and the rise of far-right governments across the continent.
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It’s time for Europe to lead on abortion rights, say lawmakers, NGOs
Pro-choice advocates want Europe to enshrine the right to abortion in the EU Charter and provide funding for women in need.
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#AnnelieseDodds has resigned at Minister #InternationalDevelopment following the horrendous decision to further cut #UKAid theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Anneliese Dodds resigns over Keir Starmer’s decision to cut aid budget
Exclusive: International development minister warns it will be ‘impossible’ to retain funding in Gaza, Sudan and Ukraine
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/02/2025
Keir Starmer to carry out largest cut to UK overseas aid in history
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Keir Starmer to carry out largest cut to UK overseas aid in history
NGOs accuse prime minister of following US by accepting ‘false choice’ of cutting aid to fund defence Sir Keir Starmer is to take UK overseas aid to its lowest level as a percentage of national income since records began, even if he manages to halve the…
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Devex @devex.com · 28/02/2025
Local family planning NGOs in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Malawi, and the Philippines shared how they've had to close down several of their clinics, send staff home with no assurances of returning to work or let them go entirely.
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How Trump’s aid freeze is gutting a lifeline for women and girls
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/02/2025
The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.
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Lewis Emmerton @lewisemmerton.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Devastating impact of #USAid termination of programmes - 🇸🇩 Sudan: ‘We have anywhere between 15 and 30 infants and children in these stabilization centers at a time, and if they do not have care, within about a four to eight-hour period, they will die’ Jocelyn Wyatt, CEO Alight #MuskMurder
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Devex @devex.com · 28/02/2025
Over the last 48 hours, thousands of programs have been terminated — many of which had already been granted waivers to deliver lifesaving humanitarian aid.
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'God Bless America' and the death of 10,000 projects
'God Bless America' and the death of 10,000 projects
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