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MEPs reject call to halt funding for environmental NGOs:

“The European People's Party (EPP) group’s campaign to block EU financial support for non-profit environmental groups has taken a blow after a trio of conservative lawmakers broke ranks and voted down a motion to censure the European Commission over its use of public funds.”

euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04

MEPs reject call to halt funding for environmental NGOs 
euronews · MEPs reject call to halt funding for environmental NGOs In a knife edge vote, the European Parliament’s environment committee voted down an objection jointly tabled by the conservative European People’s Party (EPP) against continued funding of civil society campaign groups. #EuropeNews
#EU#Europe#NGO

#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #ngo / #warcrime / #impunity / #ifrc

„The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is "outraged" at the deaths of eight medics killed on duty in Rafah in southern Gaza.

The nine-person ambulance team came under heavy fire in al-Hashashin on 23 March, said the IFRC. Their bodies were retrieved on Sunday after access was denied for a week. One medic is still missing.“

bbc.com/news/articles/crkxm1rg

Palestinian Red Crescent Society employees embrace as the bodies of their colleagues are brought to a medical facility in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Photo: 30 March 2025
www.bbc.comGaza: Red Cross outraged over killing of medics by Israeli forcesSix Civil Defence first responders and a UN employee were also killed in the incident in Rafah on 23 March.

The Israeli violence continues, supplies are still scarce, and rebuilding is sabotaged by Israel. So the work by The Sameer Project is still very much needed. Here's a conversation from last September with one of the founders, Hala Sabbah.

youtube.com/watch?v=ICxLVeTg2Q

On this donation page, you can read more about their activities: chuffed.org/project/113222-ten Any amount is incredibly welcome!

#SaveGaza #PalestineSolidarity #RefaatAlareerCamp #MutualAid #NoCharity #NGO #SameerProject #Gaza #Solidarity #Winter @israel @palestine  #SameerProjectGaza

Hinweis für die Zivilgesellschaft: die Union versucht in den Koalitionsverhandlungen die Förderung von zivilgesellschaftlichem Engagement vom Familienministerium in das Innenministerium zu ziehen.

Nach dem seltsamen 551-Fragenkatalog vom Februar zu urteilen werden düstere Zeiten für NGOs anbrechen, wenn die SPD das nicht verhindert.

Quelle: lto.de/recht/hintergruende/h/u

Legal Tribune OnlineWas Union und SPD im Bereich 'Innen und Recht' planenSicherheitsoffensive angekündigt: Worauf sich die Fachpolitiker von Union und SPD in der Innen- und Rechtspolitik geeinigt haben. Und wo es noch hakt.

#brd #israel #palästina : #krieg / #kriegsdienstverweigerung / #ngo / #newprofile

Kriegsdienstverweigerung in Israel

Die israel. Kriegsdienstverweiger*in u. New Profile-Aktivist*in Or wird aus erster Hand über die Situation in Israel/Palästina nach dem 7. Okt. 2023 berichten u. erklären, wie die Militarisierung der israel. Gesellschaft mit dem Widerstand gegen den Krieg im Gazastreifen u. der Besetzung des Westjordanlandes zusammenhängt.

28.03.2025

Göttingen, Obere Maschstr. 10, 18 Uhr

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Italienische Regierung gesteht Einsatz von #Spionagesoftware gegen #NGO ein

#Italiens Staatssekretär, Alfredo Mantovano, hat laut Medienberichten eingeräumt, dass der italienische Geheimdienst den Einsatz von Spionagesoftware gegen Mitglieder der Seenotrettungs-NGO „Mediterranea Saving Humans“ autorisiert hat.

euractiv.de/section/europa-kom

Composting the #TechShit

The value of the #Fediverse isn’t in the tech specs. It’s not in the #ActivityPub protocol or the code itself, those are tools. The value lies in the culture that birthed it. The #Fediverse is the living embodiment of the #openweb, not some #VC Silicon Valley plaything. But as money floods in, as #mainstreaming forces try to turn it into another hollow platform, we risk losing the very thing that makes it powerful, its strong decentralized, trust-based roots.The looming battle is […]

hamishcampbell.com/composting-

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