The Spectator’s theatre critic has written a piece about how a female professional peer’s appearance made him so horny that he had to go pay for sex with a “buxom” Chinese woman near the train station.

I have made a last-minute decision to run this Sunday’s TCS London Marathon for Sobell House Hospice.

I visited the hospice this week, and was inspired by their amazing work.

Here’s my JustGiving page:

justgiving.com/page/alexander…

Six months into the war on Gaza, over 10,000 women have been killed, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers, leaving 19,000 children orphaned | UN Women – Headquarters unwomen.org/en/news-storie…

Fabulous Oxford Brookes Think Human event last night, bringing together practitioners & academics across Oxford to work together for an inclusive City/County for refugees. Well done Dr. Alex Powell & Tamsin Barber

Palestinians in Gaza: do they have a right to seek asylum elsewhere? Jeff Crisp explains here against-inhumanity.org/2024/04/16/pal…

Have a look at the call out here migration.web.ox.ac.uk/article/call-o…

The call out for the next season of The Migration Oxford Podcast co-hosted by Jacqui Broadhead and Rob Mc Neil Rob McNeil and produced by Delphine Boagey is now open! We encourage all, based in Oxford or internationally, to share ideas for upcoming episodes!
COMPAS

Resisting Domestic Violence academic.oup.com/ijrl/article/d….
Arguing that a philosophical account of domestic violence and a jurisprudentially rooted approach to the political may ground more coherent decision making on discrimination, persecution, and the Refugee Convention reasons.

PRESS RELEASE: the #ICJ indicates additional provisional measures following South Africa’s request of 6 March 2024 in the case #SouthAfrica v. Israel bit.ly/3IVfOjp

UN Human Rights Committee expresses deep concern over UK’s asylum legislation and calls for Rwanda bill to be withdrawn ein.org.uk/news/un-human-…

“Following nearly 6 months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied #Gaza , it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of & to present my findings: 'the Anatomy of a Genocide'.”

— Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt at United Nations Human Rights Council.

#HRC55

Important commentary and analysis from RefugeeStudiesCentre MSc student Amala Karri.

Texas’ SB4 & The Rights of Asylum Seekers rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2024/03/27/tex…

Prof. Shazia Choudhry is a fantastic scholar--rigorous, original, and insightful. Her scholarly excellence combined with her committment to women's rights make her an excellent nominee. CEDAW committee will be lucky to have her.

Excited that Nikita Sud & Diego S-A's article 'Southern Discomfort: Interrogating the Category of the Global South' was one of the most cited & downloaded in Development and Change last year!

Read their blog post summarising the article ⬇️

qeh.ox.ac.uk/blog/southern-…

📚(Belated) Publication Alert🚩Thrilled our International Journal of Law in Context Special Issue on #Law , #Migration & #Vulnerability is out👉shorturl.at/rxFY7‼️Thx to contributors Dr Malak Benslama-Dabdoub, Dr Maja Grundler (she/her), Dr Ben Hudson, Moritz Baumgärtel, Sarah Ganty, F Ippolito🙏Intro Art is OA 👉shorturl.at/fvyT2

CONGRATULATIONS Prof. Shazia Choudhry
Faculty of Law is lucky to have you
and he UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)
would be lucky to have you.

Prof Shazia Choudhry has been named as the UK's candidate for the United Nations’s Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for the term 2025 to 2028.

Congratulations, Prof. Shazia Choudhry 👏
ox.ac.uk/news/2024-03-2…

I will present my report to the United Nations Human Rights Council at 14:30 CET. It will be broadcast here: webtv.un.org/en