On Leonard’s death ‘Workers on the vessel, moored at Portland, Dorset, joked that there was 'one less Muslim mouth to feed'

One of the most sickening things I’ve read.

Bibby Stockholm staff 'laughed and joked' over asylum seeker death bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

My local ICB NHS North East London continues to fall short of the Women's Health Strategy by requiring lesbian couples like my partner and I to self-fund SIX rounds of fertility treatment before they can access NHS care. Please support me in challenging this endless postcode lottery

📣Make #IVFforAll this #LesbianVisibilityWeek !

LGBTQ+ people face barriers to growing their families – especially lesbians, bi women and trans people trying to access NHS IVF.

24,000+ LBQ+ women age out of the system every year.

✉️Email your MP: bit.ly/3Jkx5CK.…

Quite apart from how deeply infantilising this is to people who can get married, have kids, join the armed services, take on thousands in student debt, work as lawyers, doctors, teachers, but still not understand their own gender identity: Shamima Begum isn't yet 25 years old.

Academic colleagues who work in areas concerned with research methodologies have a duty to speak up here. The Cass Review's methods are horrendously flawed. Yet it is being passed off as an 'independent report' that should be taken seriously. Integrity matters.

As the Cass review is published, my thoughts are with the trans community.

Young trans people already face huge barriers to healthcare, including years-long waiting lists.

Their health and wellbeing should not be a front in a toxic culture war.

Naturally, this question came from a German journalist working for a major Berlin newspaper. Watch Francesca P. Albanese's response.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child #UNCRC delivers its strongest statement. Gaza: Halt the war now to save children from dying of imminent famine. #childrensrights Philip D. Jaffé

UNICEF says that many babies in Gaza are so malnourished, they don’t even have the energy to cry.

This mass starvation isn’t some natural disaster. It’s a war crime, and our government is complicit.

Canada has decided to stop all arms sales to the IDF. The UK must do the same.

1/4 The system designed to deal with criminally exploited children is not fit for purpose, our newly released Jay Review of Criminally Exploited Children reveals.

We're calling for a new offence of criminally exploited children & a national strategy to preventing exploitation.

Six fire engines and around 40 firefighters are attending a fire on Newick Road in #Hackney .

More information to follow.

What an wonderful, replenishing day in Geneva 🌟 Anna spoke at the Human Rights Council, and Ivan was on the panel of an event on Education in Armed Conflicts. They were both such powerful advocates for the rights of children in the most vulnerable situations 📢👏🥳 Lumos

'I don't dream of an ideal world, but I want to live in a fair one where children live and grow in harmony and their rights are respected'

Powerful speech from Lumos Youth Advocate, Anna, at the UN HRC Annual Day on the Rights of the Child. Child Rights Connect

#ADRC2024

'I don't dream of an ideal world, but I want to live in a fair one where children live and grow in harmony and their rights are respected.' - SO proud of the wonderful Anna, Lumos Youth Advocate who just absolutely smashed her speech at the Human Rights Council for the #ADRC2024

📢 Sheyla, Child #activist from #Peru 🇵🇪:
#SocialJustice is an absolute necessity in today's world! We need to achieve #unity and full basic respect of everyone's #rights '

#ADRC2024 #inclusivesocialprotection #HRC55

There are currently 🚨244 million children🚨 out-of-school worldwide, with a significant portion of them in street situations!
📢 Like any others, these children have the right to access free and quality education.
#InternationalDayforStreetChildren
#IDSC24
#InclusiveEducation