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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 11h

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 11h

✅ Respect for human rights, dignity, and solidarity are non-negotiable
✅ Policy coherence is fundamental to prevent harm to local development or human rights violations.

#Migration #Development #EU #DEVE #EuropeanParliament (2/2)

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 11h

💡 International cooperation should instead highlight the positive contribution that migration can bring to development:

✅ Migration control should be differentiated from international cooperation.
✅ Cooperation should focus on poverty eradication. (1/2)

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 11h

⚠️ Simplistic assumptions have consequences

Policies that treat migration as something to be contained have reduced the migration–development nexus to a false equation.

As a result, EU development aid has been made conditional on migration cooperation.

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 11h

📈 More development ≠ less migration

This assumption is not backed by evidence and oversimplifies a phenomenon that is far more multidimensional.

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 11h

🌍 Human mobility is complex.

It results from a web of factors: conflicts, natural disasters, socio-economic conditions, personal choices, networks, and opportunities.

There is no simple cause-effect between “root causes” and migration outcomes.

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 11h

Ahead of tomorrow’s debate in the @europarl.europa.eu DEVE Committee on EU development cooperation and migration, let us rethink the migration-development nexus:

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 2d

In the coming week we will join European civil society in mobilizing to ask the European Commission and Member States to call for the partial suspension of the EU-Israel trade agreement and ending preferential treatment if human rights are not respected! (3/3)

ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 2d

being committed.

We call on European Governments to immediately take action for a sustainable and lasting peace that depends on Palestinian rights, dignity, and self-determination being upheld, with Palestinians at the centre of rebuilding their future. (2/3)

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 2d

📢 END TRADE DEALS WITH ILLEGAL OCCUPATION

European governments cannot continue to speak of human rights while offering trading advantages to Israel. The EU–Israel trade agreement must be reviewed immediately. No state should profit while crimes against humanity, annexation, and genocide are (1/3)

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Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN Europe) @paneurope.bsky.social · 6d

📢📨 Three letters. One message.
We wrote to the @ec.europa.eu, @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu, @europarl.europa.eu & @eu2025dk.bsky.social asking them to stop exporting #pesticides banned in the EU.
www.pan-europe.info/resources/le...

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 5d

🌎 El Grupo de Trabajo de la Sociedad Civil UE–ALC se complace en invitarle a:

"América Latina y el Caribe y la UE frente a los desafíos globales"

📅 ¿Cuándo? 13 de octubre de 2025 | 🕒 15:00 CEST
Únase en línea: ep.interactio.eu/oc2t-hfe-o82...

ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 5d

🌎 The EU–LAC Civil Society Working Group is delighted to invite you to:

"Latin America and the Caribbean and the EU in the Face of Global Challenges"

📅 When? 13 October 2025 | 🕒 15:00 CEST
Join us online ep.interactio.eu/oc2t-hfe-o82...

ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 6d

“Today we have the hopeful news of a first phase of a ceasefire agreement. After two years of genocide, this announcement brings cautious relief.”

Read more about ActionAid’s statement on the ceasefire announcement here:
actionaid.org/news/2025/ce...

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 7d

The panel proposed key actions moving forward:

💡 Shift from loans to grants
🤝 Co-create with communities
🌍 Put climate & social justice at the core
🔍 Ensure due diligence
🏭 Support local industries
📊 Ensure transparency
⚖️ Rebalance power dynamics

ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 7d

Civil society excluded:
From Kazakhstan to Zambia, local voices are missing in decision-making.

Transparency gap:
There is a lack of transparency and public participation in projects.

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 Key takeaways from the event on the EU’s #GlobalGateway:

Debt over Development:
In the Global Gateway approach, projects rely heavily on loans, not grants, adding to the debt of African countries.

Green Colonialism:
Africa provides raw materials while no local benefit is generated.

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 7d

In anticipation of the Global Gateway Forum in Brussels on 9-10 October, ActionAid EU, @concord-europe.bsky.social , @counter-balance.bsky.social and @eurodadnews.bsky.social organised The EU's Global Gateway: a civil society perspective event to discuss the real implications of the EU strategy.

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ClimateActionNetwork @canclimateaction.bsky.social · 13d

CAN condemns the illegal Israeli aggression against the #GlobalSumudFlotilla and its activists.

International law is clear. Israel is in violation.

We call for the immediate and safe release of those illegally abducted by Israel.

Full statement: climatenetwork.org/2025/10/02/c...

#FreePalestine

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SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 ExxonMobil has been lobbying relentlessly to take down the EU’s CSDDD.

Its playbook?
- Lobbying
- Funding think tanks
- Media sponsorships

⚠️The EU cannot let those causing the climate crisis write the rules to get out of it.

www.somo.nl/how-big-oil-kills-sustainability-and-climate-legislation/

How Big Oil kills sustainability and climate legislation - SOMO

Inside ExxonMobil’s lobby campaign to take down the EU’s CSDDD When the EU finally agreed on its landmark Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) in 2024, it was hailed as a breakthro...

www.somo.nl

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 16d

❓What are the real implications of the #GlobalGateway?

Join @concord-europe.bsky.social, eurodadnews.bsky.social, Counter Balance and us on 8 October as we'll discuss the impacts of #energy, mining, #climate & infrastructure projects on the ground.

Register here: www.eurodad.org/eu_global_ga...

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ActionAid Ireland @actionaidie.bsky.social · 16d

"The EU is making moves that would trample on hard-fought protections meant to prevent catastrophic workplace tragedies and environmental abuses. Ireland should stand up against that effort." Read Cillian Quinn's piece in today's TheJournal.ie www.thejournal.ie/readme/irela...

Opinion: Ireland must resist EU attempts to slash and burn environment standards for businesses

The EU is trying to gut hard fought protections for workers and the environment. Ireland should get in its way, writes Cillian Quinn of ActionAid Ireland.

www.thejournal.ie

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 21d

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ActionAid EU @actionaideu.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 One month since the EU-backed Libyan Coast Guard fired on rescue workers + shipwreck survivors, yet cooperation continues.

Today we tell the politicians: no more business as usual. @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu: time to defund violence at sea.

www.politico.eu/article/eu-c...

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