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johnlowrie.bsky.social
Advocating for better/fairer #foreignaid #humanrights and #governance for vulnerable and indigenous peoples worldwide especially Cambodia & St Helena Island.
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Great piece by Seoung Nimol and Coby Hobbs looking at the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project, where Indigenous communities allege abuse continues, despite the REDD+ project being reinstated by Verra. Worth noting Verra didn't send a team to the site before reinstating the REDD+ project.

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And the "rap" just keeps rapping. (Never mind #UN agencies get their 8% "running costs" (i.e., luxury offices; rented mansions, #SUVs, + of course numerous 5-star hotel gatherings. (They can withstand @USAID cuts no problem!) @CobytHobbs ‪@stephencorry.bsky.social cambojanews.com/carbon-credi...

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"Developments banks" in @WorldBank group and #MFIs as we see in #Cambodia actually inhibit and harm "human rights, community leadership, and environmental sustainability". x.com/LowrieJohn/s... @re-course.org‬ ‪@ceebankwatch.bsky.social‬ www.ipsnews.net/2025/02/civi...

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Right now in the West you will find it easier to part with your money for any one of the leading #Conservation bodies and their "good causes" than to find out why environmental defenders and journalists are killed, incarcerated, or exiled. gifts.worldwildlife.org/gift-center/...

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My small effort to promote democracy, despite it out-of-favour. kiripost.com/stories/is-e...

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@newseye.bsky.social True, not AI or Deep-Fake generated? if so re-found #WinstonChurchill style leadership.

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@cbatesy.bsky.social Good news? People fixing the world. Bad news, for every fixer there are others who unfix, and sometimes they include big people who should know better..... like #WorldBank that doesn't even act on its own Inspection Panel's advice. 1/

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@marylawlorhrds.bsky.social FYI. #Cambodia's frontline #HumanRights NGOs are already affected, in fact owed money due under USAID contracts. Some operations without other donor funds have had to cease.

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Reflections on at times a positive experience over 30 years with @USAID, interspersed with "differences", the last one being re: @PreyLangNetwork in #Cambodia. anorthumbrianabroad.blogspot.com/2021/04/exas...

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Today's disappearing tweets from the other X-it place. Victim of Elon's algorithms? Over 30 tries, I'm close to giving up.

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@theguardian.com FYI - www.phnompenhpost.com/national/uk-...

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There can be only one thing to say on this auspicious occasion.

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Today's re-posting. Quoting me: #Cambodia's microfinance bubble I will say this of its victims. There are many victims and they are largely innocent victims." anorthumbrianabroad.blogspot.com/2018/09/mfi-...

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Some of you ex-X/Twitter users will be glad you don't encounter this post #Musk treatment to those of us persisting despite its sad decline. 1/

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"I had the devil's job with the tweet before. Twitter playing up. Too often now my tweets don't go or have disappeared if I check if they have gone. Sometimes they say they might be spam at other times - exceeded my daily count, add phone number! Elon's work as I don't pay?" @robmerrick.bsky.social

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Good spot on @bbcworldservice just now re: #Insomnia. No-one suggested one good therapy: listen to @bbcworldservice on low volume. Works a treat. @JamesTGallagher @Dr_Allie_Hare @ProfEspie @FaithOrchard @OverToYouBBC www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

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"Out with the old, in with the new?" Not in #Cambodia where.... back "In with the old, out with the new!" Is ex-PM #HunSen leading the #China trip more evidence of a return to the old guard in charge in #Cambodia? He did vacate his old office but not power. Top of agenda: "My canal, please?"

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Quite amused to see this long gone image of a garment factory in #UK. The glimpse might not be typical but today's workers in #BanglaDesh and #Cambodia will envy such "welfare" efforts to make their work more pleasant. t.co/dymz8b7KbM

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A very early start for today's migration from the Ex-Bird to X and Exit: News story from #Laos but could be #Cambodia on breakfast @skynewsrss.bsky.social before I'd even gone online. Salutary warning: my blog: "Beware of laced rice wine!" anorthumbrianabroad.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-...

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Today's migration from the Ex-Bird to X and Exit: In #Cambodia you see and hear "Same, same but different". That applies to @geraldrflynn.bsky.social's observation. What's going on in #Laos is same, same in #Camboidia, but what's different is it's done there on a bigger scale.

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Joining the gentle trickle of folks finding Blue Sky instead of dark clouds.

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