Megan Denise Smith
@megandenisesmith.bsky.social
Humanitarian practitioner & independent consultant based in BCN (She/Her) | Posting on borders, migration, gender, violence, and sometimes music 🤘 | Personal account - views not those of any employer or client | RTs≠endorsements | megandenisesmith.com
On the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, LCW reaffirms that migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers in Libya continue to face systematic human trafficking. LCW urges the Libyan authorities to end these violations, ensure accountability, and guarantee justice for victims and survivors.
Bangladesh has been hosting over a million Rohingya refugees for nearly a decade, with expanding families crammed into shelters on hillsides that are highly vulnerable during the monsoon season. Concerned governments need to act. Read more: https://bit.ly/3SVDZXn
Why does #AntiTrafficking keep failing the people it's meant to protect? That's the question behind our new book, Disrupting Anti-Trafficking Norms, out this Sept. 50% off in July, code BUP07 for preorder policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/disrupting-anti-trafficking-norms 💙📚 #BookSky #AcademicSky
Disrupting Anti-Trafficking Norms
Disrupting Anti-Trafficking Norms - Survivors, Practitioners and the Future of Global Interventions; This critical volume explores why anti-trafficking efforts continue to fail, highlighting structura...
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The funding cuts to GBV and child protection aren't an abstraction, they're measurable, and the cost is being paid by children. One year on: alliancecpha.org/en/technical... #childprotection #humanitarian #GBV
The Impact of Funding Cuts on Children and their Protection in Humanitarian Contexts: An Analysis One Year On | Alliance CPHA
This global brief examines how sustained humanitarian funding cuts since early 2025 are affecting children’s safety, access to protection services, and the overall capacity of child protection systems...
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Emergency relief items airlifted to Lebanon as 1 million remain displaced since the March 2026 escalation. www.iom.int/news/emergen...
Emergency Relief Items Airlifted to Lebanon as 1 Million Remain Displaced
Geneva/Beirut, 11 May 2026 – More than 4,500 emergency shelter and household items were airlifted from Maastricht to Beirut today through an EU Humanitarian Air Bridge, as humanitarian needs continue ...
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Iron Maiden Talks Rock Hall Induction, Upcoming Documentary: ‘Let’s Do This the Hard Way’
Iron Maiden Talks Rock Hall Induction, Upcoming Documentary: ‘Let’s Do This the Hard Way’
Iron Maiden talks Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in Class of 2026.
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Pakistan-Afghanistan: Tempering the Deportation Drive | International Crisis Group
Islamabad has been forcing hundreds of thousands of Afghan refugees to leave Pakistan, as tensions rise with Kabul. In this excerpt from the Watch List 2025 – Spring Update, Crisis Group looks at how ...
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45% of the women journalists and media workers who participated in a survey for a new UN Women report said they self-censor in response to online violence. That’s 50% more than in 2020. Read the study conducted in partnership with ICFJ: www.icfj.org/sites/defaul... #WPFD
BBC World Service on the children born near #BATUK in Kenya, and the DNA and legal process identifying their fathers. bbc.com/news/article... #PSEA #Accountability #Kenya
'They told me he was dead': Children born near Kenyan army base learn truth about UK soldier dads
A DNA and legal project has identified the fathers of 20 children born near a military base in Kenya.
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why is apple maps deleting town labels in southern lebanon?
‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again
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Some respite reading amidst the chaos. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, still a perfect album. www.kerrang.com/iron-maidens...
Iron Maiden’s Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son remains an unimpeachably…
“If Number Of The Beast brought heavy metal properly into the 1980s, then with Seventh Son we’ve shown the way for heavy metal in the 1990s…” The story…
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Lebanon says 254 killed in Israeli strikes across country - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/msf-reports-massive-influx-wounded-beirut-hospital-after-strikes
Lebanon says 254 killed in Israeli strikes across country
<article data-history-node-id="437777" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/msf-reports-massive-influx-wounded-beirut-hospital-after-strikes" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/msf-reports-massive-influx-wounded-beirut-hospital-after-strikes" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Lebanon says 254 killed in Israeli strikes across country</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 254 people have been killed and 1,165 wounded in Israeli attacks across Lebanon today, according to Civil Defence.</p> <p>Beirut recorded 92 deaths and 742 injuries, while the southern suburbs saw 61 killed and 200 wounded.</p> <p>In Baalbek, 18 people were killed and 28 injured, with 9 killed and 6 wounded in Hermel.</p> <p>Nabatieh reported 28 killed and 59 injured, while Aley district recorded 17 deaths and 6 injuries.</p> <p>In Sidon, 12 people were killed and 56 wounded, and in Tyre, 17 were killed and 68 injured.</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Israel's campaign against Unrwa could set precedent to dismantle other UN agencies, chief warns - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/unrwa-chief-warns-israel-campaign-could-set-precedent-dismantle-un-agencies
Israel's campaign against Unrwa could set precedent to dismantle other UN agencies, chief warns
Philippe Lazzarini says failure to protect the UN’s main lifeline for Palestinians may have far-reaching consequences
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Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini
I bow out of my role for the organisation at a perilous time for the international law. There are consequences not just for Palestinians, but the wider Middle East, says Unrwa commissioner-general Phi...
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I've been tracking every ICE detention death under Trump and publishing the data publicly. Read the full breakdown, including the searchable table of all 42 deaths, at: austinkocher.substack.com/p/as-predict...
Eid marks a time of joy, reflection and community — and an important moment of giving. As Ramadan comes to an end, support #Palestine Refugee families in need through Zakat al-Fitr. Give now: 🔗 Link in bio
Displaced but uncounted: The people aid is leaving behind in Lebanon’s war: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
Displaced but uncounted: The people aid is leaving behind in Lebanon’s war
Bombs don’t discriminate between categories like citizen, refugee, and migrant. The aid system does.
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MOTÖRHEAD Guitarist PHIL CAMPBELL Dead At 64
Former MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell has died at the age of 64. His passing was announced earlier today (Saturday, March 14) in a social media post on the social media of his band PHIL CAMPBELL AN...
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UN experts warn against the irreversible ‘de-Palestinisation’ of Jerusalem www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN experts warn against the irreversible ‘de-Palestinisation’ of Jerusalem
GENEVA – Irreparable harm is being inflicted on Jerusalem, as violence engulfs the region, and genocide continues in Gaza and spills into the West Bank, UN experts* warned today.“Under the cover of an...
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The Kyiv cat colony: A cautionary tale for the entire aid sector: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2026... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social)
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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Death toll in Iran protests over 3,000, rights group says reut.rs/3YJLu3f
Death toll in Iran protests over 3,000, rights group says
More than 3,000 people have died in Iran's nationwide protests, rights activists said on Saturday, while a "very slight rise" in internet activity was reported in the country after an eight-day blackout.
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NOFX Set Feature-Length Documentary Exploring 40 Years of Punk, Excess and Survival
NOFX Set Feature-Length Documentary Exploring 40 Years of Punk, Excess and Survival
NOFX are opening the vault on four decades of chaos, excess and survival with a new feature-length documentary.
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Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw' www.rawstory.com/ice-agents-d...
Whistleblower drops 'largest ever' ICE leak to unmask agents: 'The last straw'
A Department of Homeland Security whistleblower has released the identities of about 4,500 ICE and Border Patrol employees Tuesday in what has been called potentially the largest agency data breach fo...
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