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Rights Empowered: Children’s Access to Justice Project - Clan Childlaw This work will further develop both organisations’ legacies of working to achieve incorporation of the UNCRC and forging the establishment of children's

📣We’re delighted to work with @together-sacr.bsky.social on Rights Empowered: Children’s Access to Justice Project.

We’ll work to support the sector to challenge decision making, and establish a new model to use strategic litigation to address UNCRC rights breaches in Scotland

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

Perhaps the top person at The Atlantic was added to the Signal chat because those on the chat believed there was a person in charge of the Atlantic.

Marco Rubio removes LGBTQ+ people & women from annual human rights report - LGBTQ Nation He also removed sections on people with disabilities and government corruption.

The State Department human rights report “will remove all sections covering the rights of women, LGBTQ+ people, and the disabled as well as sections dedicated to discrimination against indigenous people and corruption in government”. Marco Rubio erasing minorities www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/marc...

Will your MP support 'Change' and back safe routes? Take two minutes to email your local MP and ask them to attend the launch of Care4Calais' new safe routes report.

With no safe routes available to ppl fleeing danger, irregular journeys to the UK will continue.

Our MPs must understand there are realistic, humane alternatives to REGULATE the arrival of asylum seekers.

🙏 Pls email your MP to attend this important event help.care4calais.org/page/168077/...

WE ARE NEWCASTLE UNITED

CARABAO CUP WINNERS

#wedontdoquiet

The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB

Holy crap. The DOJ is arguing that the President can unilaterally deport anyone he wants without ANY statutory authority, just on his inherent authority as President over national security.

That is a terrifying claim to make and not one that has ever been recognized before in US history.

The ultimate power of any court is in its coercive orders - and a machinery to readily enforce those orders.

But once those coercive orders are defied without sanction, there is nothing left.

That’s it: game over.

Just pieces of paper with fancy words and writing.

A tree - possibly an ent - with legs, arms and an unusually large bellybutton.

Had to clamber over a barbed wire fence, rip my coat and trespass to get a photo of this folkloric monster pretending half-successfully to be a tree. I have no regrets.

This rally is being livestreamed here (h/t @kakalenaaleka.bsky.social‬)

Holocaust-Überlebender schreibt an Merz: „Bleiben Sie Mensch, Herr Merz“

Leon Weintraub (99) hat Auschwitz überlebt. Nun wendet er sich mit einem dringenden Appell an den CDU-Kanzlerkandidaten Friedrich Merz.

I'm a big fan of scilly flowers narcissi!

Valentine flowers - scented narcissi v roses. A good bid by Scilly Flowers for their "campaign to make yellow the new red" with their sustainably grown narcissi instead of the conventional roses.

www.scillyflowers.co.uk/farm-news/su...

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

Sometimes self-government just means elections. And sometimes it means recognizing the deeper dignity and meaning of what it means to be a people. That means speaking up, standing out, and protesting. We can only be free together.
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There has never been a larger gap in my (admittedly quite short) professional life between how lay folks and law profs are talking about what is happening in government right now. So much of what Trump is doing is just blatantly illegal — often in several ways at once.

Once again I am begging journalists to learn the difference between "smuggling" and "trafficking". This is very clearly a case of human trafficking. The two words are not interchangeable, and the outcomes of each can be very different. This also goes for #r4today, who get it wrong more than most.

Al Mezan Rejects Any Proposal for Forced Population Transfer from Gaza; Reaffirms Rights of Return for Palestinian IDPs and Refugees

Al Mezan unequivocally rejects any proposal or notion of forcibly transferring the Palestinian population out of Gaza and reaffirms rights of return for Palestinian IDPs and refugees mezan.org/en/post/46642

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

"A woman who became the first person in her family to read and write, after her parents fled the Taliban in Afghanistan, has graduated with a masters in human rights law from Bristol University"

And "she also founded the Taylor Swift Appreciation Society". Lovely story!

Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

At National Prayer Service, a plea to Trump: ‘Have mercy’ An Episcopal bishop urged him to show compassion toward immigrants. Trump called her “not compelling or smart.”

True bravery, genuine faith.

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Today we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."

Was thinking the same.

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The coming battle between social media and the state

Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

By me, in todays @financialtimes.com

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YouTube video by Zoe Gardner GBNews’ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis

It is good to know that my takedown video really did get to him. He's absolutely never acknowledged me before.

If you want to see what's getting him so mad, here it is (I'd really love it to reach 10k views so consider sharing, liking, etc if you'd be so kind) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...

it's another screenshot of Matthew Goodwin quote tweeting me like a twat.

This is the third day that Goodwin has quote tweeted me deliberately misrepresenting me on teh grooming stuff and sent a bunch of rabbid racist twats on me.

Yes, it is getting a bit old. I'll be real with you.