Journalist/sports writer, formerly AFP and CGTN, roaming the globe from Switzerland to China via Singapore, LA, London and Vienna. Views my own etc...
Vienna, Austria
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Could the next UN secretary-general be a woman? I'm a hopeless optimist
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“The gender gap is impossible to miss: all five women candidates range from credible to genuinely compelling, while the men could be auditioning for a job description from the past century” - Andreas Sieber of 350.org @SieberAndreas
Every woman's reaction upon hearing the authorities' oh-so-original advice given to South African women.
theguardian.com/global-devel…
In defence of reading.
#educateyourself #education #history #news #facts
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Austria's national women's ice hockey team have been fighting for equality and respect. My piece in @LeTemps.
#icehockey #öehv #austria
letemps.ch/sport/hockey/pour…
The IOC has spoken. Alpine snowboard stays, Nordic combined is out. Yikes.
#ioc #olympics #nordiccombined #snowboard
The #IOC's statement is all about #genderequality. Then why not add women's #Nordiccombined to the programme as the athletes have been pushing for for years? Instead, they're completely removing a discipline that has featured at #WinterOlympics from the very start. Mind-boggling.
These are the changes to the Olympic programme for Alpes 2030 in France. Freeride has been added 👍, and several team events.
#winterolympics #ioc #freeride #nordiccombined
Outgoing FIS President Johan Eliasch is not prepared to go quietly.
"I did hear from many that outside organisations - I'll be straight to the point, the #IOC - tried to influence the outcome of today's vote", he said right after the vote.
#FIS #Olympics #alpineskiing #Belgrade
That was close!! The election for the new FIS president came down to the wire:
- 65 votes for Liechtenstein's Alexander Ospelt
- 64 votes for incumbent Johan Eliasch
#FIS #alpineskiing #snowsports
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Meanwhile, some Western journalists and outlets reinforce the worst colonial traditions of legacy media, which view Western (often meaning White) journalists as the sole arbiters of truth who can provide full and impartial news coverage out of Gaza:
More journalists have been killed in Gaza than in the US civil war, both world wars, the Korean war, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the US war in Afghanistan combined
#brown #cpj #Gaza #israel #JournalismIsNotACrime #MediaCoverage
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Interesting point by @BazziNYU. Calls for foreign media to be allowed back in Gaza are important but also problematic, assuming local reporters can't report fairly or accurately, and only Western journalists can do so (while relying heavily on local fixers+ interpreters...)
Gaza 2025. Hiroshima 1945.
Humanity has learnt nothing.
Powerful images from @guardian
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#Hiroshima80 #Gaza
#DRCongo is one of the 5 poorest nations in the world, acc. to @WorldBank. 73.5% of Congolese live on less than $2.15/day, millions displaced, violence, insecurity. But let's spend €40 million on sponsorship of @FCBarcelona. And also @AS_Monaco + @acmilan.
#sportswashing
Shocking, frankly.
fcbarcelona.com/en/club/news…
One week after the school shooting in #Graz, the Austrian govt passed new restrictions on accessing firearms. Among others:
- age raised for certain weapons
- longer waiting times
- time limit for permits
- better checks + data exchange with authorities
(1/2)
Also, gun registration only via authorised vendors, and bans on possession in case of suspicious activity and in cases of domestic abuse.
Just goes to show, it *is* possible to do something. Might be a small step, but it's a step.
#Graz #schoolshooting #gunlaws #Austria