Senior International Affairs Correspondent for The Guardian & The Observer. London via Kabul, Beijing & Madrid. Lately in Ukraine. Opinions all my own.theguardian.com/profile/emma-g…Joined September 2010
"We often encourage human rights defenders, activists, and independent journalists to be heroes. Yet, we just as often fail to have their backs when they are inevitably pressed against the wall by their abusers in power."
Getting my nails done at a salon in Odessa today, which feels so delightfully normal that I’m giddy. After a month with no major attack here, a lot of businesses in the city are reopening. The zoo will be open tomorrow.
255K Followers 5K FollowingThinking about ALL AFGHANS who get up each morning and dont have the option of just walking away from it ALL. Ind Scholar @Middlebury 2010. AFGHAN. Journalist.
48K Followers 683 FollowingUN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan
#humanrights advocate with 30years experience
Retweets ≠ endorsement
HRC-sr-afghanistan@un
48K Followers 2K FollowingJournalist wt focus on global politics & security | Human Rights Researcher | LLM Int Human Right Law/MA IR MiddleEast | @CheveningFCDO alum.#EndGenderApartheid
25K Followers 281 FollowingFounder & President @penpath1 Human rights Defender Education activist: launching libraries & helping to re-open closed schools in rural Afg🇦🇫 #ILA30Under30
104K Followers 2K FollowingAdjunct Professor; Chair of KAI; Former Deputy Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the UN & Australia; Chair of UNGA73 3rd Committee |Tweets r personal
9K Followers 8K FollowingPeriodista @elconfidencial desde 2009. Profesor de Periodismo (UMA). "Hiroshima" (@kailaseditorial). Premio Chaves Nogales. En Zenda. #NiundíasinReporterismo.
200 Followers 597 FollowingAnalyzing European Hard Power | Defense Integration & Strategic Autonomy | War Studies - King's College London | Fmr DIA & US Navy | 🇭🇺🇪🇺🇺🇸
50K Followers 45K FollowingTop 20 Global AI Influencer by @thinkers360 | World's Top 20 AI Speaker in 2025 with @Sama | Advisor @HarvardBiz | Mentor @Techstars | Judge @TheWebbyAwards
2K Followers 1K FollowingAudience & digital strategy in news. Experience: Editorial, SEO, newsletters, social, video strategy. Ex: @MiddleEastEye, @TRTWorld, @AJTurk
255K Followers 5K FollowingThinking about ALL AFGHANS who get up each morning and dont have the option of just walking away from it ALL. Ind Scholar @Middlebury 2010. AFGHAN. Journalist.
48K Followers 683 FollowingUN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan
#humanrights advocate with 30years experience
Retweets ≠ endorsement
HRC-sr-afghanistan@un
48K Followers 2K FollowingJournalist wt focus on global politics & security | Human Rights Researcher | LLM Int Human Right Law/MA IR MiddleEast | @CheveningFCDO alum.#EndGenderApartheid
54K Followers 1K FollowingJournalist. Born in Kabul. Raised in Little Kabul. Declared independence in DC. Back in Kabul. Views my own (but if you like 'em, بفرمایید)
25K Followers 281 FollowingFounder & President @penpath1 Human rights Defender Education activist: launching libraries & helping to re-open closed schools in rural Afg🇦🇫 #ILA30Under30
42K Followers 5K FollowingProf of Middle East Politics @NYUAbuDhabi. Tunisia, Turkey, Gulf. PhD @StAntsCollege Oxford. Fulbright, Rhodes, @HarvardWCFIA. Words in NYT, WaPo, TIME & more.
28K Followers 1K FollowingPassionately Egalitarian. Professor, University of Maryland; Director, Critical Issues Poll; NR Senior Fellow, Brookings. Views are my Own. RT≠Endorsement
1K Followers 792 FollowingViews are strictly mine. Representative of Carter Center, Jerusalem based, Co-founder Right to Movement Palestine, Fulbright, Writer, and Ultra Marathoner.
71K Followers 1K FollowingBoth a human rights advocate and journalist, what's the difference anyway?| Head of Media @euromedhr| Objective but not neutral| I have a story to tell..
54K Followers 4K FollowingMSNOW ntl security contributor. “Eyes On Geopolitics” pod co-host. Once a USG alphabet soup intel guy. TBI/PTS survivor. Heavy metal nut. Unhinged RedSox fan.
60K Followers 277 FollowingI’m a Palestinian journalist and activist fighting to save my community, Masafer Yatta, from forced eviction. #SaveMasaferYatta
5K Followers 442 FollowingRaji Sourani is a Palestinian lawyer, based in the Gaza Strip and Director of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (@pchrgaza)
175K Followers 893 FollowingProf Operational Research @UCL_CORU, . Member of @independentsage. only posting now at chrischirp at bluesky. https://t.co/nNW5zMenx2
28K Followers 3K Following❤ A journalist from Syria ❤ 📸 In the ( @anadoluajansi ) And ( (@The_NewArab) ) 📸 Member in ( @IFJGlobal ) ( @SYJAssociation )
78K Followers 4K FollowingNos interesa cualquier aspecto relacionado con el patrimonio medieval español, especialmente con el arte románico.
Ig: romanicoespana
#PorUnRománicoAbierto
56K Followers 9K FollowingReporter. Author of To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right. Formerly HuffPost. Words: Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC. [email protected].
15K Followers 638 FollowingJournalist and broadcaster. Former BBC presenter. Author of 'Is Anything Happening?' (Biteback Publishing). Now also at https://t.co/e3jY5b2y5X.
11K Followers 2K FollowingActivist & Academic - Advisor to CARE International, Convenor of Centenary Action Group and GM4Women2028, Prof at MMU, Chancellor of UOS
22K Followers 2K FollowingAss. prof. Edinburgh. “The Human Right to Dominate” (2015). “Human Shields” (2020). “Palestine and Western Academe” (ed 2025). RT and likes are not endorsements
12K Followers 1K FollowingAuthor of Governance of a Party-state: Law, corruption and the modus operandi of the CCP. Teaching China studies @sinovienna. Alumna of @USALINYU @UniLeiden.
7K Followers 52 FollowingWe are Rabbis and Rabbinical students and at this moment of great moral reckoning, we are speaking out with one voice to save lives.
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