Jacob Sarkodee
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CEO at Global Counter-Trafficking Group; ❤️ the world game; husband & dad; @ObamaFoundation Asia Pacific 2022 Leader
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined January 2009
A🧵 on the necessity of protection as the most sustainable strategy at scale that we have to protect people at risk of being forced into #modernslavery.
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🚨Urgent Appeal from Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya This is an urgent appeal regarding the catastrophic situation in north Gaza. All hospitals in the north have completely collapsed, and there is no medicine, fuel, or any basic necessities available. Please amplify this message.
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Today, I met my dad’s friend on the street. I honestly didn’t recognize him; no one looks the same after a year of genocide. I asked him how he had been doing. He said he had four sons, and one after another, they were killed over the span of a year. His last son and wife were
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Today we released our 2024 Cost of Renting Report based on a survey of 1400+ renters earlier this year. We focused on affordability issues related to rental costs ... 🧵
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Today entering Gaza City. The ruins of life. A donkey laying dead attached to a cart with someone’s possessions. Clusters of people crossing to the South, with too much to walk with under the sun and given the length of the journey. A man carrying a white flag in front of his
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Gaza: absolutely heartbreaking to meet my NRC colleagues here, who have been through so much. One of them had 126 relatives killed, in a single Israeli attack, in Beit Lahia. Cousins, nieces, children... killed. Such attacks are the definition of disproportionate warfare.
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Unpopular opinion but social media sites are so egregiously unsafe and tech companies have dragged their feet on child protection for so long - I don’t think we can justify letting children onto these sites any more.
#BREAKING 🚨 Anthony Albanese has just announced the government will seek to ban teenagers under the age of 16 from social media The announcement confirms the exact age restrictions that will be imposed
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Returning to Gaza now, I see destruction that defies belief, from Rafah, via Khan Yunis, to Gaza City. This is destruction of an entire society of more than 2 million people, in a densely populated, small, confined territory. This is in no way “self-defence.”
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Ridiculous questions today for @FranceskAlbs from @BryanPassifiume Bryan was sent a couple months ago on an all expenses paid trip to Israel by the former ambassador of Canada to Israel @VivianBercovici for an outfit called Exigent Foundations.
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Shortly after the @WHO-led mission to Kamal Adwan Hospital yesterday, the facility's third floor was reportedly hit again, injuring six children who are patients there. One child sustained a critical injury. Water tanks were damaged. Heavy bombardment persisted very close to the
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Many QLD’ers worked hard to get a Truth & Healing process up & running. Imagine how heartbreaking it must be to have spent decades opening hearts & minds, achieving bipartisanship, only to have it ended by Crisafulli’s LNP’s choice to promote ignorance & lies instead.
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"How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not save? Why do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me." Habakkuk 1:2-3
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They were built to be places of healing. But once again, three hospitals in northern Gaza are encircled by Israeli troops and under fire.
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Eight Australian international counter slavery NGOs have come together under a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and align ahead of the 2025 Federal election.
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The first quarter of the 21st century has seen a host of Australian based (and often globally affiliated) agencies start up to provide a…
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With surging harm to people, and enormous profits going to exploiters, there is comparably very limited direct investment by Australia — both private and public sector — to counter slavery and human trafficking in our region and around the world.
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The first quarter of the 21st century has seen a host of Australian based (and often globally affiliated) agencies start up to provide a…
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The hits just keep coming: ABS says average loan in Oz has hit a new high of $642.1k in Sept (up 7.2% over year). NSW at $779k (but shy of its record). However, Qld hit a new high of $620k (up 15.2% over year) and WA back at $559k to be up 17.6% over year.
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Arundhati Roy, exceptional analysis.
Award-winning author Arundhati Roy strongly criticised the US and Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza and Lebanon in her acceptance speech for the PEN Pinter Prize at a ceremony in London earlier this month
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‘A Cartography of Genocide’
NEW: ‘A Cartography of Genocide’. Since October 2023, we have collected and analysed data related to Israel’s military campaign in Gaza. Our findings indicate that Israel has systematically targeted all aspects of civilian life. https://t.co/UUxYqpTF72
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One can thank God for the ICC.
#ICC President at #UNGA: “We are only bound by the law & we do not change the course of our actions due to threats, be them political or of another nature. We will continue abiding by our mandate undeterred, with integrity, determination, impartiality+independence at all times.”
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