Lou Charbonneau

@loucharb.bsky.social

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UN director at @hrw.org. Native Detroiter, now in Queens, NYC. Recovering journalist, ex @reuters.com UN bureau chief. Formerly based in Prague, Vienna, Berlin, Hong Kong, UN HQ. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu PhD. Love to cook. And more…

Young people use wheelbarrows to carry debris out of their homes, which were damaged by criminal group violence, in the Solino neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, September 10, 2025. © 2025 AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph

A woman drives a herd of cattle to a river side in Adadle district, Biyolow Kebele in Somali region of Ethiopia, in this undated handout photograph. World Food Programme/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Destroyed Russian armored vehicles in the city of Bucha, northwest of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. © 2022 ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images

Salvadoran prison guards escort alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gang recently deported by the U.S. government to be imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, in Tecoluca, El Salvador April 12, 2025. Secretaria de Prensa de la Presidencia/Handout via REUTERS