Trude Falch

I dag er den internasjonale dagen for forebygging av voldelig ekstremisme. I Irak har Norsk Folkehjelp i flere år jobbet tett med lokale partnere for å forebygge radikalisering. I går fikk vi anerkjennelse fra Iraks regjering for våre bidrag og samarbeid.

Visste du at hvitt fosfor brenner med en varme på 800 grader? Stoffet brenner seg gjennom menneskekropper helt til beinet, og kan føre til en smertefull død. Norsk Folkehjelp mener at hvitt fosfor bør forbys. Derfor blir vi ekstra bekymret når vi leser om nylig bruk i #Libanon

UNRWA must survive. No country is above international law. Norway is initiating a UN resolution asking the International Court of Justice to clarify Israel's legal obligations to ensure that aid reaches Palestinians. regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/nor…

Kanskje ChatGPT og BingMet blr ta et lite stavekurs

Over 100,000 people are forcibly disappeared in Syria. Sign the #petition calling on @UN member states to support the vote for a new institution to uncover their fate and give answers to their families #RightToTruth act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/truth-and…

Haydi gençler; TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Whatsapp grupları… Her yerde, her yerde sesimi duyurun!

Bu artık bir seçim değil, referandumdur. Bir önceki referandumun sonucu ortada... Sevgili gençler; montaj ve iftiralar her yerde, mesajımı yaymam için, bu namertliğe karşı birlikte mücadele etmeliyiz. Videomu her yerde paylaşın! Her yerde anlatın! Vatanını seven sandığa gelsin.

@MortenMyksvoll Men det var ikke tydelig i det du skrev. Bra du tydeliggjør det nå. Men det hadde vært til større hjelp om du anbefaler gode alternative og uavhengige organ.

@TrudeFalch Eg tilrår grafikken. Det er ikkje det same som valdekninga. Grafikken til alle er lik, sidan det er éi kjelde til tal no.

🗳️🇹🇷 I morgon er det val i Tyrkia. Om teknikken er snill, vil eg publisere provinsresultat med litt kontekst utover kvelden. Du kan òg følgje oppteljinga her: sabah.com.tr/secim/14-mayis… (Nettstadane med resultatgrafikk vil ha like tal) Og til slutt, ein superkort guide til valdagen.

Today we remember the March deportations. On 25 March 1949, the Soviet Union resumed its mass deportations in the Baltic states, mostly targeting women & children. Even babies, pregnant women, and separated children were snatched in the night, packed into cattle wagons, and dispersed across remote parts of Russia in labour camps where they faced hunger, cold, and brutality. Many died on the way or shortly after arrival. Some were even settled in nuclear testing fallout zones. The first wave of mass deportations took place in 1941 after the Soviet Union - in collusion with the Nazis - had first invaded & illegally annexed the Baltic states. The main aim then was state decapitation. This second wave was much broader, named Operation Priboi (Breaker’). It was mostly targeted at rural communities, ultimately aimed at breaking society and national identity, while providing more hard labour inside Russia. Around a quarter of the population fell into the Soviet category of ‘undesirables’. However, the snatching was chaotic. Many families were taken randomly just to fill quotas when the listed family couldn’t be found. Some were taken for just having similar names to those listed. Some local collaborators just wanted to settle scores. Deportations also continued regularly outside of these mass waves. It’s estimated that about 200,000 were deported just from the occupied Baltic states & a further 6 million forcibly transferred in total by the Soviet Union, mostly based on ethnicity (either by removing entire ethnic groups or targeting ‘undesirables’ specifically within ethnic groups). Even the Soviet Union eventually denounced its own mass deportations. They were described as “monstrous acts” by Khrushchev & “terrible felonies” by the Supreme Soviet in 1989. I’m not gonna do the usual screenshotting of bad takes here. The bigger problem is how little the world has learnt about it at all to even have any takes. That’s how history repeats, as we see in the mass deportations that Moscow has resumed in Ukraine today. It’s one part of Russia’s genocidal war that the world finds difficult to comprehend. Some media reports even repeat the nonsense characterisation of it as ‘evacuations’. But mass deportations are key to understanding how Russia intends to consume captured territory. It’s delusional to think you can achieve any peace by giving up on lands and lives already stolen. Every inch of territory consumed only emboldens it to consume more. But hope remains. The Soviets quietly praised themselves for carrying out the mass deportations in the Baltics. But, many historians argue these crimes were also a major political mistake. They deepened opposition to occupation. The topic was heavily censored but people never forgot. That anger eventually spilled out into the open during the Singing Revolution in the Baltics, leading to the restoration of the modern, independent, vibrant, fully restored states we live in here today. In the Baltics today, candles will be lit, names of victims will be read out, and displays will fill public squares. Unfortunately, we are no longer just remembering history but all those in Ukraine facing it today. Join us - in any way you can - to remember the mass deportations and help consign this brutality back into history.

Jeg sitter i utallige debatter om kraft, der omkvedet er at vi liksom MÅ ha mer kraft. Samtidig etableres det nå et Tik Tok-datasenter som krever kraft på størrelse med et altakraftverk! Vi er nødt til å snakke om PRIORITERINGER, ikke bare «mer av alt raskere».

The killer publicly admits his crimes: In 2019 election campaign tour, #Turkey's President Erdogan bragged about how his gov't granted "İmar affı" -- occupancy permits for buildings constructed without license-- for 350,000 people in quake-hit Hatay and Kahramanmaras provinces.

Surprised to hear #Turkey has started drone strikes on the people of NE #Syria again, including this car west of #Kobani. US & international community should urge Erdogan to focus on rescuing his own people still trapped from this devastating earthquake. This is unacceptable.

This Syrian woman has a message. Hear her out.

The Taliban are reportedly shooting and beating male students who walked out of their exams in Afghanistan today in protest against the ban on women going to university. This is truly barbaric and horrifying. The world must watch, listen and act now.

Smilene satt løst under det årlige møtet mellom NF og @Utenriksdept hvor vi la fram gode 2021-resultater på arbeidet med sivilsamfunn og beskyttelse av sivile. Vi er så takknemlige for støtten fra UD, ikke minst nye 100 mill som vil komme sivilbefolkningen i Ukraina til gode🙏🏽💚

GUCC, NPA’s partner in Gaza, works on GBV prevention by building a positive social environment & mobilizing communities to reject #GBV. 12 artistic and cultural projects designed by women and girls and conducted by the communities themselves were possible thanks to @fagforbundet!

Astonishing scenes from #Iran. Protesters have burned down the house of Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic’s founder. The house has been a museum for the past 30 years. This is an attack in the essence of the republic itself.