Following the terrorist attacks by Hamas against 🇮🇱, we have indications of X/Twitter being used to disseminate illegal content & disinformation in the EU. Urgent letter to gorklon rust on #DSA obligations ⤵️

9 of our United Nations staffers have been killed in airstrikes in📍#GazaStrip since Saturday. “The protection of civilians is paramount, including in times of conflict. They should be protected in accordance with the laws of war.” Juliette Touma The Associated Press apnews.com/live/israel-ha…

Seeing absolutely chilling attempts to equate advocacy for Palestinian human rights with support for Hamas or its actions. It's a dangerous pattern that shuts down discussion or awareness of what's happening right now in Gaza amid rising Islamophobia. Quick thread:

.United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) provides assistance and protection for Palestine refugees. Agency’s services include education, health care, relief & social services, camp infrastructure and improvement, microfinance & emergency assistance.

remarkable Haaretz op-ed by the award-winning Israeli journalist and commentator Gideon Levy

BBC team reporting from Gaza find dozens of neighbours & friends among the injured & dead in Al-Shifa Hospital. Exceptional reporting - at a huge personal cost - from adnanelbursh Rushdi Abualouf & many others in Gaza.

Well deserved Dr Patricia M Lewis - warmest congratulations! Maith thu fein!

We are in shock and mourning. It is now confirmed that 29 of our colleagues in📍#Gaza have been killed since October 7. Half of these colleagues were @unrwa teachers. As an Agency, we are devastated. We are grieving with each other and with the families.

Today I am at Torkham, on the Afghan border with Pakistan, where 10s of thousands of Afghans have gathered, having been expelled from Pakistan. >2,000 families have crossed here in the past 24 hours. We’re seeing perhaps the largest forced expulsion in the world since the 1950s.

Gaza: More kids killed than the annual number of kids killed across all conflict zones since 2019 (Save the Children) More UN workers killed than in any comparable period in the UN’s history (UN) More journalists killed than in any conflict period since 1992 (CPJ)

As suffering in Gaza grinds on, the European Commission has decided to tighten conditions for Palestinian development aid and to hold back €39 million in payments to 51 NGOs and civil society organisations until they submit new paperwork. irishtimes.com/world/europe/2…

More women and children have been reported killed in Gaza in less than two months than 18 months of war in Ukraine, 20 years of war in Afghanistan or the first year of US invasion of Iraq in 2003. nytimes.com/2023/11/25/wor…

Powerful statement by Attorney General on behalf of 🇮🇪 at International Court of Justice hearings on legal consequences of Israeli practices & policies in Palestine. We have concluded 🇮🇱 has committed serious breaches of international law. Full statement: t.ly/7uE3O

Staggering. The number of children reported killed in just over 4 months in #Gaza is higher than the number of children killed in 4 years of wars around the world combined. This war is a war on children. It is a war on their childhood and their future. #ceasefireNow for the

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This week we are on the cusp of pushing forward the #GlobalDigitalCompact. Safe Online and 43 child rights orgs submitted a joint statement to the GDC to advocate for measures protecting children's rights online. Let's seize this opportunity! 📢 Renata Dwan #SafeOnline

✨ It was great to start to the #NY mission with Rebecca Finlay of Partnership on AI! We discussed alongside Renata Dwan how UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳’s work on #AIEthics is shifting the conversation from tech to its societal impact and #socialjustice ⚖️. Excited to contribute to the #GDC once approved!

At Partnership on AI #AIPolicy Forum in New York: Gabriela Ramos emphasized need for policies, investments, & incentives & how we cannot have the technological revolution informed only by profit making motives, Renata Dwan urged that the global impact of AI “requires a global response”

A groundbreaking art installation at UN Headquarters by renowned media artist Refik Anadol leverages #AI to raise awareness of the beauty and fragility of the world’s #CoralReefs, and the urgent need to address the climate crisis #OurCommonFuture #UNGA79 news.un.org/en/story/2024/…