No happy #IWD 2026 marked by the grim reality that it took a dead man’s emails for the world to believe the testimonies of 100s of women & girls.
I urge scrutiny of how Epstein’s cabal & abuse have been health-washed
And for more attention to the survivors of #VAW 👇
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
🔥 #mustread
#InternationalLaw #HumanitarianLaw #NotATarget #HumanRights
In the blog I ask: How can leaders – and all of us – get the balance between staying principled and being pragmatic right in these complex times?
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I’m so disappointed - in all of us. (Small handful of exceptions, you know who you are.) katribertram.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/p...
Leaders in #globalhealth, your silence on Gates/Epstein is deafening and hugely disappointing.
#independentInvestigationNow
A central point made at the end - and fully in our discomfort zone - is why wars and attacks against brown and black people are “acceptable”. The words “othering” and “dehumanization“ are spot-on. I’d add: racism. cc @fifarahman.bsky.social
For the political leaders of Germany, Canada, Australia and others who with the Iran bombings have carved out exceptions against international rules of and in war, please listen at ca 50 min in: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...
The @alliancehpsr.bsky.social has a new call for proposals on #healthtaxes in #Cambodia, #China, #Kenya, #Indonesia, #Nigeria, #SouthAfrica, #SriLanka, #Thailand, and #VietNam deadline 26 March ahpsr.who.int/funding-oppo...
The list of people, organizations, institutions and countries falling on the wrong side of history is terrifyingly long.
It doesn't have to continue this way.
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Quite a few of us are raising #globalhealth #ethics double-standards publicly, many many more privately.
Any organization I have ever worked for would demand temporarily pausing in a role until an (ideally independent) investigation has been conducted: www.reuters.com/world/us/bil...
Lessons on courage and resistance
#IranWar: Europe’s voice of moral sense speaks Spanish
“Let’s remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime … and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law,”
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I think “rules of war” requires quotation marks here… 😢
The world may be going to hell, but at least we survived another Berlin winter and now suddenly again recall why we all live here. Perk points I got to moderate an event in a swanky building I last visited when Nida-Rümelin spoke there as minister (25 yrs ago!) 🌞
Taking the “good cop” tactic to a next (out of this world) level…
Just what we need. Not. Brace brace
To add to your 😱 list of worries…
♥️ Akademie der Künste Berlin 💪 #wordsmatter #democracy
Don’t worry, most people and our sector are still meeting in working groups and drafting such papers… 🫥
Cutting foreign aid for HIV is reckless, but if you’re on the extreme right, you argue it’s not your government’s responsibility.
Cutting access nationally, for your own citizens, goes against the core responsility of a state, to protect the well-being of its citizens. Any political take: crazy.
Some 🔥 to get us out of our comfortable #globalhealth silence:
“ethically radioactive…And yet we went, and continue to go, with the flow.” #IndependentEvaluationNow #tranparency #accountability
Hi wonderful @devex.com colleagues. Thanks for keeping up the reporting on this, but as not all of us who are keen for more #transparency and #accountability have pro access, a 📣 plea not to limit these to those who can afford paywalls… 🙏
Ahead of Sunday’s #IWD (women’s day), I reiterate my call to stay yourself, and not heed the advice to “toughen up” and “stick it out”.
katribertram.wordpress.com/2023/03/07/v... #integrity #vulnerability #human #womensrights
I’m definitely a culprit here too, but let’s not drop the ball on calling for accountability on #Epstein and crushing national #civicspace and #humanrights. The biggest gift to the men in power - waging this war and benefiting from diversion - is to go silent. Keep #SpeakingUp
Even a war must have rules, and perpetrators who break these rules must be held to account. If there’s one lesson from #NeverAgain, it is this.
