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Olga Rodríguez Francisco ✍️

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Olga Rodríguez Francisco ✍️

Spanish journalist and writer
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Almost 3 years of normalization of genocide in Palestine and of persecution of those who denounce it. Also 3 years in which many decent people mobilize against the crimes. ➡️ In times of genocide, if you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem. In times (translated)

All the opening acts for Ed Sheeran scheduled have abandoned the tour. Also, the band that was going to accompany him. (translated)

Two dozen migrants report beatings and abuse by soldiers patrolling Ceuta 20 testimonies collected directly by @elDiarioes, along with a hundred cases detected by organizations. (translated)

Twenty-six prominent speakers who were due to take part in Madrid’s Festival of Ideas have issued a statement announcing that they are putting their participation on hold until the Festival publicly commits to severing ties with Allianz and to refusing financial support “from https://t.co/Bpld4OTkoN #FestivalOfIdeas #Madrid #Allianz #ES

In the face of a genocide and a colonial apartheid occupation perpetuated, one cannot normalize the contribution of companies to a state that commits massive, ongoing, and systematic crimes. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights require taking responsibility. (translated)

26 speakers who were going to participate in the Festival of Ideas have issued a statement indicating that they are suspending their participation until the Festival publicly commits to dissociating itself from Allianz and not accepting financial support "from entities that collaborate. (translated)

And here are parts of the report from the United Nations rapporteur ("From the economy of occupation to the economy of genocide," 2025) in which she names Allianz as one of the fifty companies involved. Link: https://t.co/FYC2boWEfo https://t.co/Niz2d8xCXv (translated)

The United Nations General Assembly votes in favor of promoting a new world map that more accurately represents the size of the continents, especially Africa. The resolution, supported by 164 countries, endorses the replacement of the widely used Mercator projection. (translated)

More than 80 people dead in a drifting cayuco south of Gran Canaria after 27 days in the Atlantic. 44 survivors. ➡️The outsourcing of borders and the wall policy denies safe entry and forces increasingly deadly routes, like grim obstacles. (translated)

How did this happen? A migrant minor with chronic diabetes who arrived in July in Ceuta dies in a reception center managed by the autonomous city. This case raises alarms about the care for the kids who arrived in Ceuta. (translated)

A diabetic migrant minor who arrived in July in Ceuta dies in a reception center managed by the autonomous city. (translated)

Eighty-six people have died trying to enter Ceuta from Morocco, swimming around the jetty of El Tarajal. (translated)

What happened in Ceuta is part of geopolitics. Morocco has objectives in Western Sahara and in its relations with Spain. It has strengthened alliances with Israel and is an important partner of the USA, whose government has issued warnings to Spain. The USA has interfered in (translated)

What happened in Ceuta is part of geopolitics. Morocco has objectives in Western Sahara and in its relations with Spain. It has strengthened alliances with Israel and is an important partner of the USA, whose government has issued clear warnings to Spain. (translated)

Migrants are not an attack. Attacks are poverty, plunder, the unfair distribution of wealth, the lack of rights and freedoms, imperialisms and colonialisms, coercive control, repression, and wars that cause displacement, flight, and seeking. (translated)

Urgent call to the international community by the Israeli human rights organization @btselem to stop Israeli violence, prevent more pogroms by settler militias and the Israeli Army in the West Bank. Today, four Palestinian deaths there. (translated)

The erosion of freedom of expression and the right to protest across Europe↘️ Spain's “gag laws” are part of this trend, further restricting fundamental rights and freedoms. Comedian Héctor de Miguel arrested in Salamanca on the orders of a Madrid court. #FreedomOfExpression #HumanRights #Spain #ES #EU

The setbacks in freedom of expression and protest in Europe, of which the UN rapporteur Irene Khan already warned in 2024 ↘️ The gag laws in Spain contribute to those limits that harm rights and freedoms They detain the comedian Héctor de Miguel in Salamanca for (translated)

An American "philanthropist" was arrested in Ibiza, accused by his country of financing the Palestinian cause His wife and friends claim he is facing "political persecution" for supporting "those suffering genocide in Gaza" (translated)

However, the International Court requests to avoid all types of commercial relations that contribute to the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: these relations are not only the importation of products from settlements, but many more. (translated)