"Sadly, #GuineaBissau has allowed itself to become complicit in Israel’s deliberate #starvation, #illegalSiege and genocide of Palestinians in #Gaza. @israel is showing the world the extent to which it will go to deny Palestinians the aid they need to stay alive, in direct contravention of International #HumanitarianLaw, #UN Security Council resolutions, and two orders of the International Court of Justice #ICC@cij_icj . Israel is only allowed to get away with this because we have an international order where law does not apply equally, where people are not valued the same, and where might equals right. The US has hijacked #internationalLaw and is violating its own laws to protect Israel at every turn. A recently-leaked #USAID memo states that ' #famine in Gaza is inevitable,' and that 'changes could reduce but not stop widespread #civiliandeaths.' It also states that the government of Israel does not currently demonstrate necessary compliance with #USlaw required to receive #USmilitary aid. Nevertheless, last week, the #USCongress passed and Biden signed a $26 billion aid package for Israel. It is this kind of naked impunity, over decades, that has brought us to this point where Israel can carry out a #genocide "
📖 In a chapter of the book "Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975", Catarina Laranjeiro “considers the photographs collected from combatants who fought on the Guinean liberation movement and African combatants who belonged to the Portuguese Armed Forces as the objects of a memory elicitation exercise”.
📗 The book “Portuguese Colonialism and Islam. Mozambique and Guinea, 1930 –1974: From Repression to Religious Seduction”, authored by Mário Machaqueiro, will be presented by Susana Trovão (CRIA) and Pedro Aires Oliveira (IHC) on the 15th of November.
🆕 “Fogo no Lodo”, a #documentary directed by Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca, will premiere at the #Doclisboa on 22 October, in the Portuguese Competition.
The film is an engaging approach to a complex dynamic where religious forms and political turbulence intersect and merge to claim the future of a community in contemporary #GuineaBissau. 🇬🇼
📗 Liverpool University Press published the latest book authored by Mário Machaqueiro: “Portuguese Colonialism and Islam. Mozambique and Guinea, 1930 –1974: From Repression to Religious Seduction”.
In it, the author focuses on the ways Portuguese colonial administration dealt with Muslim communities in #Mozambique and #GuineaBissau.
🇬🇼 The internacional conferente "The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)" begins tomorrow, 22 September.
Those who are not able to join us in Lisbon, can participate via Zoom.
🇬🇼 The programme of the international conference "The Unilateral Proclamation of Independence of Guinea-Bissau: Fifty Years Later (1973-2023)", which we will host on 22 and 23 September, is now available on our website.