Maria Serrano

51 killed in Khan Younis as they queued for food distribution outside the "humanitarian" compound

Every. Day

A candle in the dark: the CJEU rules against criminalising parents for smuggling their children Professor Steve Peers , Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit : Bologna, taken by  Ввласенко , via Wikimedia Commons Introd...

The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration.

My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...

Please read or watch OCHA head Tom Fletcher’s remarkable and damning UNSC briefing.

For four Venezuelan friends, Alien Enemies Act cuts short an American dream President Donald Trump used the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members. Relatives of men sent to El Salvador deny the allegation.

Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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My 3-year-old daughter:
- says 'lovely' for everything.
- refuses to put her gloves on whatever the weather.
- loves 'pudding' after 'tea'.
- corrects my pronunciation.
- assures me I'm 'most welcome'.

Her parents were not born in the UK.

My daughter is English.

And Suella Braverman is wrong.

🧵UK immigration department culture

I’ve litigated against the dept for most of last 33 years, reading civil service files & witness statmts, sometimes talking confidentially to them. For almost 8 yrs, I sat on Gov Committee that writes rules for immigrt’n appeals & so consults directly with them 1/

Please take the time to support one of the most important and inspiring leaders in the human rights movement, Tirana Hassan (by sharing and supporting her statement)
www.linkedin.com/posts/tirana...

Good character guidance amended to block refugees from naturalisation - Free Movement There have been some important additions to pages 50 and 51 of the Good Character guidance (a comparison of the new and old versions is here) that have the

This should be changed asap.

If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

On June 2023 , the Adriana, a fishing trawler, capsized, leading to the death of more than 600 people.

In its investigation, the Greek Ombudsman has concluded that Greek authorities acts and omissions to rescue constitute criminal offences.

Survivors are still waiting for justice & accountability.

Border Technologies Under Trump 2.0 With few safeguards to govern AI deployment, high-risk experimentation at the border will likely continue during Trump's second term.

"An already multi-billion dollar #border and #surveillance industry is set to profit under #Trump’s plans for new border enforcement spending, #immigration surveillance and mass #deportation".

By @petramolnar.com

www.justsecurity.org/105662/borde...

A graphic illustration of the Palestinian grandfather, embracing his martyred granddaughter with the cute ponytails, and it says in graphic text “the soul of our souls. “

The Spanish Minister of Home Affairs rejects the suspension of asylum processing for Syrians.

He argued that the situation in #Syria is unclear. He cautioned against the adoption of measures that could undermine the right of Syrians to seek #asylum.

🧵 It is incredulous that within just days of the Assad regime's fall, a number of European countries, including Germany, Austria, Denmark, and others have announced pauses in the processing of asylum applications. (1)

Europe: Safety of Syrians in Europe must not be sacrificed to political interests Responding to the decision of several European governments to suspend asylum applications of Syrians following the ousting of President Bashar al-Assad, Director of Amnesty International’s European In...

Amnesty International firmly rejects current calls to forcibly return Syrians, cease or review their #refugee status or restrict or suspend their family reunification procedures.

#Syria

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/pr...

1/ Some general points about how asylum and immigration law applies when an appalling dictatorship is ousted in another country. #Syria 🇸🇾

Truly hope the images of starved & tortured freed detainees, some of whom can’t recall their name or haven’t had news from outside world in decades, haunt those who kept claiming Syria was safe / pushed for refugees’ return. Though that would assume baseline for morality / expectation of remorse.

#Sednaya — all who were murdered and tortured there must be accounted for. International fact-finding and forensic capacity must be deployed with urgency and speed. If international criminal justice was meant for anything — it was meant for this.

YouTube video by Amnistía Internacional España Próxima parada: Stop Genocidio

Hoy, Día Internacional Contra el Genocidio, hemos renombrado junto a @redretro.bsky.social cinco estaciones de metro en Madrid, Barcelona y Ciudad de México con mensajes contra el genocidio de Israel el Gaza. ¡No en nuestro nombre! #StopGenocidioIsrael www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDxD...

Amnesty urges the international community to center Syrian voices in the transition.

Victims deserve truth, justice and reparations.

#Syria

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Thinking about those slaughtered, imprisoned, tortured; those who were made disappear; those who were forced to flee, those whose lives were shattered by the regime, who had to endure the separation of family members.
Whatever the future holds, the future belongs to Syrians.
#FreeSyria

Quote from Budour Hassan, Amnesty International researcher: "If there is any country that has the capacity, the power and the tools to stop this genocide, it's the United States. It has consistently continued to flout the United States’ own laws in order to continue giving Israel the weapons — the very same weapons that are used by Israel to commit the genocide in Gaza."

“If there is any country that has the capacity, the power and the tools to stop this genocide, it’s the United States." www.democracynow.org/2024/12/6/am...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty report finds Report says Israel has acted with “genocidal intent” to destroy Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, a landmark report from Amnesty International published today concluded, the organization’s first such determination during an active armed conflict.

Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza Israel rejected the charge — the first of its kind by a major human rights organization — saying it was “based on lies.”

Amnesty International on Thursday became the first major international human rights organization to accuse Israel of carrying out genocide in Gaza, drawing a rebuke from Israeli officials who denied the claim.

Una investigación de Amnistía Internacional concluye que Israel ha cometido genocidio en Gaza La organización señala por primera vez este delito en el contexto de un conflicto armado tras 14 meses de recabar pruebas y espera que los tribunales internacionales lo investiguen

Una investigación de Amnistía Internacional concluye que Israel ha cometido genocidio en Gaza

elpais.com/internaciona...

More by Amnesty on the genocidal intent in its #GazaGenocide report. Usually, the special intent / dolus specialis part is hardest to establish in court because it has to be inferred from conduct: genocidaires seldom state their intent explicitly. It may be different this time.

Amnesty International concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza Amnesty International’s research has found sufficient basis to conclude that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip.

It is #genocide.

The conclusion of a new @amnesty investigation.
#Gaza

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Talking of immigration as a "failure" is a dangerous move, which has been shown to stoke hostility against migrants. It is insulting to those of us who have made our lives here, and is akin to the same hostile rhetoric which helped stoke the riots we saw earlier this year.

Is the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on granting asylum to Afghan women an implication of qualification of gender apartheid in Afghanistan? Introduction From a feminist perspective, international law has frequently failed to adequately address gender issues, primarily due to the challenges posed by a male-centric discourse reflected in…

ECJ found that the discriminatory measures imposed on women deliberately & systematically denies them fundamental rights solely because of their gender, reflecting "the establishment of a social structure based on a regime of segregation & oppression" #Afghanistan

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La crisis de la vivienda nos exige que repensemos el derecho a la propiedad. Acabo de publicar este working paper en la Cátedra de Vivienda de Barcelona - Càtedra BCN d'Estudis d'Habitatge. Comentarios bienvenidos. 🏘️🧵 cbeh.cat/es/workingpa...