@alicefranchini
PhD candidate in social movements studies at Scuola Normale Superiore | Co-founder & advocacy officer at EgyptWide | working on activism and civil society in the Mediterranean region, BHR (arms trade, energy). Activist. Views mine. lei / ləi
Just published in the new ESA Special Issue, my amazing colleague A.Gileva on the 2024 student protests in #Serbia and the legacy of anticapitalist movements
europeansociology.org/european-soc...
'Pick up the torch': The revival of Algerian feminist media - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/the-revival-of-algerian-feminist-media
What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this:
An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter
www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...
#Brazil: Illegal cattle ranching has devastated territories in the #Amazon, right where #COP30 will be held
Some of that beef may have come into the EU - and keep coming if EU Deforestation Law #EUDR is delayed
New @hrw.org report: hrw.org/news/2025/10...
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
Horrifying images coming out of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, this morning after a massive Russian drone and missile attack overnight.
As Syrians, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian nation, which is under terrorist attack.
Targeting residential neighborhoods is a war crime.
“This revelation highlights the continued presence of Western technology in Moscow's weapons, despite years of sanctions”
ISA RC 47 “Social classes and social movements” invites:
🎙️ Lectio Magistralis by Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA President
“Social change is never linear. Social movements in polarized times”
🗓️ 9 September 2025
📍 University Guglielmo Marconi, Via Plinio 44, Rome & online
🔗 usgm.link/socialchange
“[the] National Transitional Justice Authority […] is set to only investigate crimes committed by the Assad regime, excluding abuses by other parties. This undermines victims’ rights and any prospect for real accountability”
#Syria
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#ReArmEurope will impact European public spending, but what are the effects on the EU normative frameworks on #arms production and transfers?
An analysis of the new Common Position 2008/944/CFSP for IRIAD.
📌 www.archiviodisarmo.it/analisi-se-i...
#disarmament #armscontrol #europe
APPELLO della RUP al Presidente della Repubblica perché intervenga con assoluta urgenza e con ogni mezzo a disposizione per interrompere lo sterminio della popolazione di Gaza portato avanti da Israele.
📝 Testo della lettera e link per aderire: cloud.reterup.it/apps/forms/s...
Mabruk to #SFHR on their report documenting hundreds of enforced disappearances in #Sinai and exposing Sisi’s “security campaign” for what it is: a ruthless exercise of power consolidation through state terror
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🚨 #Syria is on the brink of civil war.
Join us in urging the UN to act immediately before it’s too late.
✍️Sign the petition and share widely:
act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/prevent...
In solidarity with the people of Suwayda and everywhere else where civilians live in fear for their lives, loved ones and homes.
Stop the killing. We want to build a Syria for all.
all eyes on #Suwayda 👇
Aerial view of illegal Amazon deforestation. Credit: Paralaxis / Alamy Stock Photo
NEW – Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org
Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7
This is the only thing that matters. Nothing European politicians claim to believe in matters. The only thing that matters is what they’re doing.
Family and friends of Syrian activist Ali Mustafa, forcibly disappeared by Assad since 2013, gathered in Damascus to commemorate the first anniversary of his arrest since the fall of the tyrant, and to demand truth and justice for Ali and all of Syria’s disappeared.
📸 Ali Haj Sulieman
Still very relevant and insightful today, especially the considerations about campism and centring the agency of ordinary citizens and movements👇 🇸🇾
Shame on #EU
A precious reading on #ecocide and #oil, the “state within the state” in #Iraq by Azhar al Rubaie, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala
@irpimedia.eu
🔗 irpimedia.irpi.eu/iraq-ecocidi...
An amazing resource on the political landscape in #Syria post-revolution and the struggle of Syrians for the future of their beautiful country👇
The #OHCHR report on the Impact of Arms Transfers on Human Rights is out!
So honored by the inclusion of #EgyptWide ‘s contribution on the “revolving doors” in state authorisation processes and licensed #arms production offshore.
🇪🇺 exporters, we see you!
🔗 documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ge...
