Laura Gamez

@lauramgamez

Feminist. Migrant. Humanitarian. Optimist. Like lists & dogs. Tweets on forced displacement, dev/hum, peace, & sometimes science; often random. Views=mine

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Joined October 2010
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  1. Jun 18

    BBC News - A battle to save Indonesia's orangutans

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    Jun 16

    Separating children from their families leaves them more vulnerable to exploitation & abuse. Regardless of immigration status, children are children first. They must be protected. More via ⬇️

    348 replies . 4,121 retweets 6,270 likes
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    Jun 16

    Like my grandfather, he fled a civil war to come here and make a home. ‘I can see that here in Newfoundland I've got a good chance to grow.’ More immigrants means more jobs, more prosperity, more good neighbours. ⁦⁩

    7 replies . 39 retweets 178 likes
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    Jun 8

    One cool thing Bourdain hammered home was that poor people's food culture is dominant. The food every culture is known for is it's working class food, and that's true everywhere all the time. There was a joyfulness in that. Life might suck, but we got tacos

    236 replies . 15,545 retweets 81,136 likes
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    Jun 8

    today I learned that there is a word for the fear of palindromes (aibohphobia) and that it was deliberately constructed to itself be a palindrome. this is truly the worst thing about the English language since whoever decided the word “lisp” should have an s in it.

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    Jun 9

    Eritreans who enter Europe illegally usually get automatic asylum, owing to the extremely repressive conditions they have fled at home. ICE, however, deported one back to Eritrea. He killed himself en-route.

    16 replies . 605 retweets 444 likes
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    Jun 2

    Shocked and saddened to learn that one more paramedic, Razan, lost her life in yesterday in the line of duty. The use of live ammunition against people not presenting immediate threat is unjustifiable.

    16 replies . 305 retweets 389 likes
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    Jun 2

    The Racial Wealth Gap explains exactly why "all men created equal" is still just an ideal and not a reality. Check out "Explained" on Netflix w

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    May 29

    Read newest piece for , about why it is so important for her, as a female journalist, to travel to the places deemed too dangerous for women.

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    May 29

    good migrants vs bad migrants

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  11. May 27

    Friends, colleagues, twitter. If you work with or for or just interested in the subject matter this is a great/must listen. It is a call to action for an alternative model to the current refugee regime and leading up to the

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    May 26

    SOAS has just launched this year's Sanctuary Scholarships Appeal. We are raising money to fund 7 displaced students who would not otherwise be able to access the necessary finance to pursue their studies. Check out this amazing appeal here, and contribute!

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    May 25

    Not much would get me out of bed after having a homebirth 24 hours ago but my son wanted to get in some historic suffrage. we voted together for yes to pregnany/birth autonomy and consent, yes to a more equal society, yes to the 36th amendment.

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  14. May 25

    Early this year CARE stated that the humanitarian crisis in the Central African Republic remains one of the most underreported in the world. just released this. Really interesting look at spiralling violence and peacekeeping inside :

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    May 25

    Nine months after Myanmar's violent Rohingya purge, aid groups in Bangladesh’s refugee camps are rushing to reach pregnant rape survivors. But many women and girls don’t want to be found. More on the looming “child protection crisis”:

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    May 23

    Oh, it's you say? Did you know that sea turtles navigate using earth’s magnetic field?

    9 replies . 190 retweets 405 likes
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    May 20

    By age 35, you should have at least 150 tabs open with articles you're GOING to read, you SWEAR, but you just don't have the time right now and you'll get to it as soon a—

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  18. May 17

    "No one knows how many gay, transgender or bisexual refugees live on Manus, but what is clear is that the suffering they experienced in their countries has been repeated on Manus in a disastrous way"

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  19. May 17

    For a good laugh/5-minute break: When Artificial Intelligence meets jargon: () Personal Fav AI generated Humanitarian Title: Sneak Specialist

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    May 15

    “A translator always makes choices.” Classicist Dr Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate The Odyssey into English - and she found that many men before her added sexist or misogynist terms that never existed in the original Greek.

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