Geno Teofilo
@genoteofilo.bsky.social
Media Specialist, former Oxfam, Red Cross & others. Seen on CNBC, Al Jazeera, BBC News and more. Coffee please!
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Geno Teofilo
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· May 5
NPR and PBS push back against Trump’s order to cut funding: ‘This could be devastating’
PBS’s Paula Kerger and NPR’s Katherine Maher say they’re looking at legal options to defend against White House
www.theguardian.com
The @npr.org journalists I dealt with in #Africa did excellent work. (1 was unjustly jailed !) Would be a terrible shame if they cripple this quality news source.
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Indonesia authorities say death toll from floods and landslides on Sumatra island has risen to 174 and 74 missing.
Damage and more rain hamper search for flood and landslide victims in Indonesia
Rescuers are hampered by damaged bridges and roads and a lack of heavy equipment after flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island that killed at least 82 people.
bit.ly
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Indonesia authorities say death toll from floods and landslides on Sumatra island has risen to 174 and 74 missing.
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Russia’s banning of @hrw.org as an “undesirable” foreign organization, made public today, is yet another mark of the Kremlin’s repression. It only redoubles our determination to document the Russian authorities’ human rights violations and war crimes
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
Russia: Government Designates Human Rights Watch “Undesirable”
(Berlin, November 28, 2025) — Russia’s designation of Human Rights Watch as an “undesirable” foreign organization, made public by the Justice Ministry on November 28, is yet another mark of the Kremli...
www.hrw.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Russia’s banning of @hrw.org as an “undesirable” foreign organization, made public today, is yet another mark of the Kremlin’s repression. It only redoubles our determination to document the Russian authorities’ human rights violations and war crimes
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
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“This is Trump doing what he always does: demagoguing immigrants without justification or evidence and using that demagoguery in an attempt to take away important life-saving protections,” one immigrants' rights expert said.
In 'Political Attack,' Trump Revokes Protected Status for Minnesota Somalis
"This decision, fueled by harmful misinformation campaigns that we believe have external political motives, will tear families apart and send individuals to a country they have not known for over 20 years," one campaigner said.
www.commondreams.org
November 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
“This is Trump doing what he always does: demagoguing immigrants without justification or evidence and using that demagoguery in an attempt to take away important life-saving protections,” one immigrants' rights expert said.
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More than 150 human rights, civil rights and immigrant advocacy groups wrote a letter in June to Trump, Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, pleading with them to extend the TPS designation for immigrants from Myanmar in light of a 7.7-magnitude earthquake...
www.notus.org/immigration/...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
More than 150 human rights, civil rights and immigrant advocacy groups wrote a letter in June to Trump, Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, pleading with them to extend the TPS designation for immigrants from Myanmar in light of a 7.7-magnitude earthquake...
www.notus.org/immigration/...
www.notus.org/immigration/...
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‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
As Mumbai sees increased energy demand from new datacenters, particularly from Amazon, the filthiest neighbourhood in one of India’s largest cities must keep its major coal plants
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
‘It’s hell for us here’: Mumbai families suffer as datacentres keep the city hooked on coal
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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Saudi Arabia has a long & ongoing record of significant human rights violations, including the repression of peaceful dissent, extensive discrimination against women & minorities, abuse of migrant workers, & frequent use of the death penalty for non-violent offenses.
America is not proud of him.
America is not proud of him.
November 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Saudi Arabia has a long & ongoing record of significant human rights violations, including the repression of peaceful dissent, extensive discrimination against women & minorities, abuse of migrant workers, & frequent use of the death penalty for non-violent offenses.
America is not proud of him.
America is not proud of him.
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At least 25 killed, including children, in Russian attack on Ukraine apartment building
At least 25 killed, including children, in Russian attack on Ukraine apartment building
More than 470 drones and almost 48 missiles were fired by Russia in the attack, says Zelenskiy
www.irishtimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:47 PM
At least 25 killed, including children, in Russian attack on Ukraine apartment building
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Ukraine has asked the Vatican to formalize its role facilitating negotiations over the return of Ukrainian children and civilians taken by Russia during the nearly four-year war, a Kyiv government official said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/4i5WPn4
Zelenskyy asks Vatican to formalize mediation role for return of Ukrainians taken by Russia
Ukraine has asked the Vatican to formalize its role facilitating negotiations for the return of Ukrainian children and civilians taken by Russia during the war.
www.pbs.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Ukraine has asked the Vatican to formalize its role facilitating negotiations over the return of Ukrainian children and civilians taken by Russia during the nearly four-year war, a Kyiv government official said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/4i5WPn4
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Unspeakable suffering in Tawila.
Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child.
They're asking the world if help is coming.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child.
They're asking the world if help is coming.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
In Darfur, Sudan’s lost children wander through a landscape of death
Around 200 unaccompanied children have arrived in the Sudanese town of Tewila after escaping El Fashir, where RSF fighters have carried out mass killings.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Unspeakable suffering in Tawila.
Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child.
They're asking the world if help is coming.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Over half of the fleeing survivors are children. One injured woman I met walked into the camp after surviving an attack, carrying her friend's starving child.
They're asking the world if help is coming.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
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Hasina is being tried in absentia for crimes against humanity for a violent crackdown on student protests last year.
Bangladesh on edge as verdict against fugitive ex-PM Sheikh Hasina expected
Hasina is being tried in absentia for crimes against humanity for a violent crackdown on student protests last year.
bit.ly
November 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Hasina is being tried in absentia for crimes against humanity for a violent crackdown on student protests last year.
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This was Alessandra Korap Munduruku this morning. She lives in the Brazilian state where COP is taking place this year! She was not given a pass into the Blue Zone.
These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!
These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This was Alessandra Korap Munduruku this morning. She lives in the Brazilian state where COP is taking place this year! She was not given a pass into the Blue Zone.
These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!
These are the voices you should be listening to, boosting, and celebrating. Not the politicians who are attending #COP30!
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Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children. n.pr/3M38F5i
Remembering Armero: Colombia's town buried in tragedy
Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children.
n.pr
November 14, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Forty years after the Nevado del Ruiz volcano wiped out the town of Armero, the ghosts of Colombia's deadliest tragedy still haunt its slopes, and families are still searching for lost children. n.pr/3M38F5i
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Without an agency dedicated solely to this issue, there is a real risk that HIV will be folded into broader health agendas and quietly deprioritised.
As UNAids nears its end, story of the global HIV response is far from over
www.dailymaverick.co.za
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Without an agency dedicated solely to this issue, there is a real risk that HIV will be folded into broader health agendas and quietly deprioritised.
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Dr. Jamal Eltaeb of Sudan has been awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. He says, "Every day we work in the impossible conditions with barely enough to keep people alive." n.pr/4oYRKiA
Doctor in Sudan wins $1 million prize for his extraordinary courage: 'It is my duty'
Dr. Jamal Eltaeb of Sudan has been awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. He says, "Every day we work in the impossible conditions with barely enough to keep people alive."
n.pr
November 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Dr. Jamal Eltaeb of Sudan has been awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. He says, "Every day we work in the impossible conditions with barely enough to keep people alive." n.pr/4oYRKiA
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After the ceasefire, UN and partners are scaling up aid across #Gaza.
The positive impact is already felt in all areas.
But to leave no one behind, the ceasefire needs to last and restrictions have to to be lifted.
Here's the latest on the response: https://bit.ly/48ZspR5
The positive impact is already felt in all areas.
But to leave no one behind, the ceasefire needs to last and restrictions have to to be lifted.
Here's the latest on the response: https://bit.ly/48ZspR5
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
After the ceasefire, UN and partners are scaling up aid across #Gaza.
The positive impact is already felt in all areas.
But to leave no one behind, the ceasefire needs to last and restrictions have to to be lifted.
Here's the latest on the response: https://bit.ly/48ZspR5
The positive impact is already felt in all areas.
But to leave no one behind, the ceasefire needs to last and restrictions have to to be lifted.
Here's the latest on the response: https://bit.ly/48ZspR5
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A tragedy is unfolding in Sudan.
Millions are displaced, hungry, and at risk. The impact reaches across borders, with refugees fleeing to Chad and South Sudan.
Oxfam stands in solidarity with those affected and urges the world not to look away.
Full statement here: bit.ly/4qKNR2E
Millions are displaced, hungry, and at risk. The impact reaches across borders, with refugees fleeing to Chad and South Sudan.
Oxfam stands in solidarity with those affected and urges the world not to look away.
Full statement here: bit.ly/4qKNR2E
November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A tragedy is unfolding in Sudan.
Millions are displaced, hungry, and at risk. The impact reaches across borders, with refugees fleeing to Chad and South Sudan.
Oxfam stands in solidarity with those affected and urges the world not to look away.
Full statement here: bit.ly/4qKNR2E
Millions are displaced, hungry, and at risk. The impact reaches across borders, with refugees fleeing to Chad and South Sudan.
Oxfam stands in solidarity with those affected and urges the world not to look away.
Full statement here: bit.ly/4qKNR2E
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Hurricane Melissa has devastated communities across the Caribbean, including Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and beyond bringing flooding, storm surge and winds.
We've distributed relief items to families in the Dominican Republic and stand ready to assist further.
We've distributed relief items to families in the Dominican Republic and stand ready to assist further.
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hurricane Melissa has devastated communities across the Caribbean, including Jamaica, Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and beyond bringing flooding, storm surge and winds.
We've distributed relief items to families in the Dominican Republic and stand ready to assist further.
We've distributed relief items to families in the Dominican Republic and stand ready to assist further.
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An interesting statistical analysis of which countries talked about which of three major world crises (Israel/Gaza; Ukraine; #Sudan) at the UN this year. 🇨🇦's silence on #Sudan is disappointing. www.crisisgroup.org/global/how-s...
How the Spotlight on Peace and Security Issues Shifted at the 2025 UN General Assembly | International Crisis Group
The speeches at the UN General Assembly this year focused their foreign policy attention on Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and UN reform. Crisis Group experts analyse the issues world leaders picked out and wha...
www.crisisgroup.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
An interesting statistical analysis of which countries talked about which of three major world crises (Israel/Gaza; Ukraine; #Sudan) at the UN this year. 🇨🇦's silence on #Sudan is disappointing. www.crisisgroup.org/global/how-s...
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United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher calls for immediate 'unhindered access' for aid deliveries.
UN calls for Israel to open more Gaza crossings for surge in aid deliveries
United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher calls for immediate 'unhindered access' for aid deliveries.
bit.ly
October 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher calls for immediate 'unhindered access' for aid deliveries.
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"Operation Move Earth": a two-year secret operation carried out by Bashar Al-Assad's regime in #Syria
From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Exclusive: Assad government secretly moved mass grave to cover up killings, Reuters investigation finds
From 2019 to 2021, Syria’s authoritarian government carried out a secret operation to move tens of thousands of bodies from the exposed Qutayfah mass grave to a hidden site in the desert east of Damascus. The goal of the clandestine reburial was to hide evidence of atrocities as Bashar Assad tried to regain international standing
www.reuters.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
"Operation Move Earth": a two-year secret operation carried out by Bashar Al-Assad's regime in #Syria
From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
From 2019 - 2021, thousands of bodies were excavated from a mass grave in Qutayfah & "trucked" more than an hour away, to "hide evidence of mass killings".
www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Eswatini activists filed an urgent application in the Courts of Eswatini to declare the deportation agreement between Eswatini and the United States unconstitutional.
www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org/not-in-our-n...
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“Not in our name!” says Eswatini activists opposing shadow US deportation planes - Southern Africa Litigation Centre
Mbabane, Eswatini: 14 August 2025: The Eswatini Litigation Centre (ELC), alongside Mzwandile Banele Masuku, the Swaziland Rural Women’s Assembly (SRWA), and ...
www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org
August 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Eswatini activists filed an urgent application in the Courts of Eswatini to declare the deportation agreement between Eswatini and the United States unconstitutional.
www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org/not-in-our-n...
@cnn.com @news24southafrica.bsky.social
www.southernafricalitigationcentre.org/not-in-our-n...
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CDC has been a global leader in public health & played a key role in smallpox eradication. Health depts in red states & blue states rely on CDC expertise & support. The CDC EIS program trains the next generation of public health leaders & disease detectives.
They are burning it to the ground.
They are burning it to the ground.
October 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
CDC has been a global leader in public health & played a key role in smallpox eradication. Health depts in red states & blue states rely on CDC expertise & support. The CDC EIS program trains the next generation of public health leaders & disease detectives.
They are burning it to the ground.
They are burning it to the ground.
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International aid groups were gearing up on Friday to funnel as much aid as possible into Gaza, but their staff on the ground said they did not yet have a clear picture of what would be allowed in under the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal.
Aid Groups Prepare to Provide Quick Relief to Gaza Under Cease-Fire
The new Israel-Hamas deal contains provisions to increase aid to Gaza, and for the reopening of a border crossing from Egypt.
nyti.ms
October 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
International aid groups were gearing up on Friday to funnel as much aid as possible into Gaza, but their staff on the ground said they did not yet have a clear picture of what would be allowed in under the Israel-Hamas cease-fire deal.