‘State-centric responses not necessarily best suited to managing #corruption risks in fragile contexts given factionalism and lack of trust’. Dr. Guillaume Nicaise U4. Great panel ‘Mitigating Corruption Risks Post Conflict: An ODA Perspective’ #GACIF OECD Development Roby Senderowitsch

´In divided societies you cannot make assumptions about corruption, it is an integral part of the conflict’; ´you have to think about the impact of a/c initiatives on those divisions’, and ´work to bridge divides while enabling integrity’. #GACIF Diana Chigas Tufts University

UN General Assembly determines that the State of Palestine is qualified and should be admitted as a member to the United Nations. UNGA further recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter. un.org/en/ga/

The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, says Israel has contravened international humanitarian law given the large number of Palestinian civilian women, children and men killed.

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Israeli policy in the West Bank has therefore been described as one of “apartheid” by Palestinians and human rights defenders around the world aje.io/4jsbvi

That this is able to continue is just devastating.

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"Where were you" they will be asking us "when this was happening? What did you do to stop it?"

You can be a celebrity or a ordinary person. If you stay SILENT, PASSIVE, INACTIVE while Palestinians trapped in Gaza - human beings who breath, feel and dream exactly like you - get slaughtered by an unchecked army, you are no different from those who continued to go by their

Today was Shaban’s birthday

Holocaust survivor Irene Weiss: “Man can turn into an animal in no time. All he needs is permission. As soon as permission is given from higher-ups, from the government, it accelerates.”

Are we getting numb and blind on the horrors of Gaza? Never have United Nations warnings been as desperate as now on the disaster in northern Gaza. All proportions of self defense are lost in the massive death, destruction, relocation and starvation of civilians carried out by Israel.

"We lost everything in this hospital...they burned our hearts" We are still here. Watching these endless massacres.Again and again. All carried out with complete and utter impunity. Global "governance", world "leaders", and silent bystanders, you are a disgrace. 🎥:

"We do the most on adaptation, over 50% of global adaptation climate finance, linking it with development. We don’t have separate lenses; we see development and climate integrated." - Juergen Voegele Watch the #COP29 event replay: wrld.bg/GveK50U67b2

Gaza, the prelude of the end of humanity. We have been watching a live streamed genocide for 14 months, while our political leaders have clapped hands to it. Never in my life will I get over this horror alternative reality. A never ending black mirror episode.

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago

As 2024 closes, I pay tribute to over 300 humanitarian workers who lost their lives this year – deadliest on record. I hope that in 2025 international law is upheld, we see genuine accountability, and humanitarian workers are protected to serve those most in need.

Together, we can make 2025 a new beginning. Not as a world divided. But as nations united.

📢Join Stolen Asset Recovery Initiative @World Bank/UNODC & World Bank Gov's session on Financing for Development explores how int'l orgs & other stakeholders, such as CSOs, can support countries in meeting their future anticorruption commitments under the FFD process #UnitedAgainstCorruption