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Took a break from #ToxicTwitter while on leave & decided I’m not coming back. Will focus on LinkedIn. Will keep this account to follow the very few still here whose work I respect. Otherwise, I’m only going to post nice stuff now & then. Like…
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The results are in, and the stage is set! 🎤
Congratulations to the six speakers who qualified through the video submissions for the Inter-University AML/CFT Public Speech Challenge 2026 grand finale.
Join us on 26 September 2026 at the International University of East Africa, Kampala, as they make their case and put their public speaking skills to the test.
Who will command the room? Come witness the grand finale! 🏆
#AMLCFT #PublicSpeaking #InterUniversityChallenge #Uganda
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Our November newsletter features stories on Nigeria’s FATF grey list exit, Africa AML/CFT Conference & Security First report launch in Botswana, FATF Rec 8 workshop, condemnation of Oworonshoki demolitions, and EiE Conference in Accra.
Read more 👉 shorturl.at/35rjQ
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Ongoing! @ayicripyouths
AYICRIP , in partnership with the AGFCS, with support from FGHR, is organising a one-day sensitization on Strengthening the Capacity of Youths in Civic Engagement and Changing Negative Profiling Narratives.
#CivicSpace #YouthEngagement #AGFCS
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What does securitization (or the #SecurityPlaybook) look like in digital spaces and thru new tech? What kind movement innovations, legal and normative pushback and counter-technologies are emerging?
Join us this afternoon! 📣
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@CCDNigeria in partnership with the AGFCS with support from the FundforGlobalHumanRights is organising a one-day policy review of the Oyo State Persons Living with Disabilities Law (2017).
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35 NPOs in South-West Nigeria participated in @Spaces4Change’s 2-day workshop in Ogun State, supported by the @GlobalCtr. The training deepened participants' understanding of TF risks, AML/CFT regimes & FATF R8, strengthening NPOs' resilience against terrorism financing abuse.
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Podding my dried borlotti beans for storage and later use (while supping a pint in the late summer warmth). #SimplePleasures
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Perhaps an especially British social media trend (?), but ‘post match interviews’ are doing the rounds, esp. on GCSE exam results day. Like this one (yep, my daughter will kill me for this! 😅)
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Took a break from #ToxicTwitter while on leave & decided I’m not coming back. Will focus on LinkedIn. Will keep this account to follow the very few still here whose work I respect. Otherwise, I’m only going to post nice stuff now & then. Like…
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"Misusing terror laws to police public dissent undermines justice" - @AmnestyKenya @irunguhoughton ring the alarm bell at the escalating abuse of counter-terror & security laws & institutions to quell protests, quash criticism & clampdown on #CivicSpace.
#ExpressionIsNotTerrorism
#AssemblyIsNotTerrorism
#PicketingIsNotTerrorism
#FinancingProtestIsNotTerrorism
#DefendingRightsIsNotTerrorism
#TerrorismIsReal With 3 @kdfinfo officers killed last week, 107 Kenyans last year, we must use counter terrorism resources wisely.
Read my #StandardSettingKE reflection below...
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States around the world, Kenya included, are employing a #SecurityPlaybook of laws, technologies & narratives to restrict #CivicSpace & entrench authoritarian power as has been documented by Kenyan civil society: civic-futures.org/new-report…
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UN human rights chief @volker_turk condemns UK's proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist entity. UK is misusing counter-terrorism legislation to quash dissent to its actions that support Israeli genocide in Gaza, & in turn undermines core civic freedoms #SecurityPlaybook
#UK Government’s decision to label ‘Palestine Action’ a terrorist group raises serious concerns that counter-terrorism legislation is being applied to a group that is not terrorist in nature & risks hindering the legitimate exercise of fundamental freedoms.
The decision could lead to further chilling effect on the lawful exercise of these rights by many people - @volker_turk
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“The Council affirms that human rights defenders and organizations must not be criminalized, harassed or intimidated for their work. A safe civilly space is essential to constitutional democracy”
The Defenders Coalition welcomes this advisory by Martha Koome, Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya.
@CJMarthaKoome
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An amazing job opportunity at the wonderful @FundHumanRights - Director of Programs. Come work with a bunch of passionate program folks (incl. me!) and stellar activists we have the privilege to support: linkedin.com/jobs/view/42557…
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Concerns from international rights experts at the UN about the UK Government misusing counter-terrorism law to criminalise legitimate protest. Yet another indicator that the UK is among the growing number of states using a 'Security Playbook' to stifle dissent.
I join UN experts in urging the UK not to misuse counter-terrorism law to ban Palestine Action, which would criminalise legitimate protest by its members and chill free expression, assembly and association
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Diplomáticos de 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇳🇴 visitaron en prisión a Luis Pacheco y Héctor Chaclán, mostrando solidaridad ante su injusta persecución.
Reafirmamos el apoyo a la libertad de expresión y rechazamos intimidaciones contra pueblos indígenas, periodistas y operadores de justicia.
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Israel has written one of the darkest pages in the history of genocide.
With the world looking elsewhere, the militarization of aid adds another layer to Israel’s deliberate imposition of genocidal conditions against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and injured at or near aid distribution points since Israel’s weaponized “humanitarian” aid distribution system was imposed at the end of May.
Families are being forced into an impossible choice: die of hunger or die trying to get food. Seeking food should never be a death trap. Israel must end its genocide and lift the blockade now.
Act now: amn.st/60174nC0L
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I see the supposed “free speech mob” want to shut down voices of people they disagree with. I pay my license fee unlike many of your supporters and would like the chance to see this thanks.
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I join UN experts in condemning Israel’s illegal, aggressive armed attack on Iran. “Preventive” strikes against nuclear & missile programs & terrorism are grave violations of the United Nations Charter and are destructive of international order, peace & human rights
UN experts condemn #Israeli attack on #Iran & urge end to hostilities. They call on intl community to take principled & coordinated action to uphold intl law & prevent further escalation. "Failure to act will drag the entire region & beyond into the abyss"
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