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Image of University of Bergen professor, Kyle Marquardt, in a poster for a discussion about V Dem's work on Bahrain. To be held 2 December at 16:00 UK time.

🎈Is #Bahrain a democracy? What does @vdeminstitute.bsky.social's work indicate about democracy there?
Join @salam-dhr.bsky.social discussion with Kyle Marquardt, Prof, Bergen Uni, Norway to discuss this:
🗓️ Tues, 2 Dec 2025
🕰️ 16h UK/17h CET/19h Bah.
📮Arabic

Register:
us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Image of UN Special Rappoerteur on Human Rights Defenders, reading from her address to the UN General Assembly, citing UAE lawyer, Dr Mohamed al-Roken, unfairly imprisoned by the UAE in 2012.

In July 2012, #UAE government arbitrarily imprisoned lawyer Dr Mohamed al-Roken. In July 2013 UAE sentenced him to 10 yrs' imprisonment. UAE found new charges; will only release him after they break him. UAE cruelty.
@miraalhussein.bsky.social
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
@dooleydooley.bsky.social

Had a closer look. The Med & Black Sea’s are Bahr-Sefid & Siyah, resp. - Persian style. But legend is Anadolu haritası & Marmara is Denizi. So why use Persian for the big bodies or water but Osmanlica for the smaller ones? Can’t read the rest.

It’s in Persian - at least the bits I can read.

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

It's what @salam-dhr.bsky.social & partners @humena.bsky.social @civicusalliance.bsky.social & others reported; and about which @dooleydooley.bsky.social wrote, to remind the authorities that accountability tends to catch up sooner or later.

@bahrain-news.bsky.social
@jongambrell.bsky.social

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2025 Checkout out this list on Bookshop

The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation will be awarded at a ceremony this evening in London. Browse the titles on the shortlist and longlist in 2025 - and all years - on our @bookshop.org page: uk.bookshop.org/lists/warwic.... The winner will be announced at 7.30pm!

Yanis is always a joy to listen to.

Clear, visionary (and funny!)

Our conversation 👇🏼

Who holds power over knowledge?
In our new #EUIUpFront episode, Kalypso Nicolaïdis @eui-stg.bsky.social and Elias Dinas @eui-sps.bsky.social reflect on how knowledge is created and questioned.

🔗 https://loom.ly/S_8SllE

Hi @amberinzaman.bsky.social - very sorry to see this at the other place.
@heissenstat.bsky.social
@cplaisant.bsky.social
@amnesty.org
@hrw.org
@salam-dhr.bsky.social
@euatun.bsky.social

Really interesting conversation!

Can't wait to read the book!

It should be a no brainer but in the Trump-influenced context; where US officials appear all to willing to bow to Russian objectives, this is a powerful reminder that being true to what matters is what should be most important.

Thank you Moudhy. Re the centre producing 702 sandals etc, makes me wonder if the assertion was made in response to tetchy government/customer/supplier complaints, showing, as ever, humans everywhere have never changed.

So, ordering enforced disappearance—an international crime.

Germany would make a capable host for the Olympic / Paralympic Games. Why can't these 4 centres all take part: with investment in rail links, can't travel between at least 2/3 of them become considerably faster? When London hosted 2012, group stage women's football was in Manchester, for example.

Berk Esen, politologue : « En Turquie, le pouvoir est devenu autoritaire et hégémonique » Arrestations massives, destitutions de maires, répression des manifestants et des médias indépendants… Depuis mars, le gouvernement turc s’emploie à éliminer toute forme de compétition politique, esti...

Il faut lire @berkesen.bsky.social : "La consolidation [autoritaire] est inachevée, malgré les efforts du pouvoir et de l’administration. La Turquie n’est pas encore la Russie, la Biélorussie ou l’Azerbaïdjan. Le régime est du même type, mais il demeure instable"
www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%"

Read the Stanford report:
siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

YouTube video by Avi Lewis My message to Quebeckers | Avi Lewis

No matter where we live or what language we speak, we’re in the same boat: trying to get by in an impossible economy.

Quebeckers are hungry for progressive solutions: bold, clear, and based on solidarity.

Join the movement: LewisforLeader.ca

youtu.be/ZmmD3vExGmg?...

Today, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, UPR Info is proud to take part in the #16DaysofActivism campaign.

The 2025 campaign focusses on ending digital violence against women and girls.

#OrangetheWorld #NoExcuse #UNiTE #16Days

Parfois les ressources geniales de notre gouvernement me surprendent.

Egypt: Reverse sweeping controls over independent civil society organizations Egyptian authorities should amend the associations law to lift tight restrictions over independent civil society organizations, hindering the right to freedom of association and other rights and putti...

@amnesty.org : Egypt authorities must reverse sweeping controls over independent civil society organizations www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:

-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout

Whatever ecological resiliency and redundancy that previously existed has been lost, such that a single disturbance event can now wipe out most or all of an irreplaceable ecosystem...🌎

#OtD 23 Nov 1890 revolutionary constructivist Jewish artist El Lissitzky was born in Pochinok, Russia. During the 1917 revolution he helped design propaganda posters for the revolutionaries. We have reproduced some of his work, available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

The Resurgence of Large-scale Deprivation of Nationality: The Case of Kuwait [Eric Fripp is a Barrister at 36 Public & Human Rights, part of the 36 Group, Gray’s Inn, London and Senior Visiting Fellow for the Refugee Law Initiative, School of Advanced Study, University …

Eric Fripp @opiniojuris.bsky.social on deprivation of nationality in Kuwait #citizenshipdeprivation opiniojuris.org/2025/10/21/t...

Carney et l’alliance répugnante avec les Émirats Il y a quelque chose de scandaleux à voir Mark Carney, ex-gouverneur de la Banque du Canada, se rendre en visite officielle aux Émirats arabes unis.

[OPINION] Carney et l’alliance répugnante avec les Émirats | Lisez le billet de Loïc Tassé

By mimicking Reform to win back support, the Labour government is making a serious mistake. This race to the bottom emboldens Farage, punishes vulnerable people, amplifies racism, and undermines those working to hold communities together.

Having consulted barrister, Eric Fripp’s book on the international law of refugee status, I conclude that the policy is mostly bark, little bite. It is for show. Yes, the integration point is germane, alongside ‘effective nationality’ of people they want to remove after, eg, 10-15 years. Woof.