Instituto Vero's Caio Machado will join our 22 October panel on Rights and Security in Latin America. Machado is the executive director and co-founder of Instituto Vero, an organisation that advocates for digital rights in Brazil. Join our webinar here: tinyurl.com/ctu7z3ae

We welcome the news that #Denmark and #Germany brought home 11 women and 37 children from camps in northeast Syria on Wednesday aljazeera.com/news/2021/10/7…

📍BREAKING: RSI calls on UK and other States to end​ conditions of torture ​for children and women in Syrian detention camps. States must stop abandoning their children and women to torture and death. Read our new report here: rightsandsecurity.org/assets/downloa…

RSI's new report in The Guardian: UK 'colluding in torture'. theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…

Read more in our full report, #AbandonedtoTorture, which can be found here: rightsandsecurity.org/assets/downloa…

Thank you to all who joined our digital rights and security in Latin America webinar! This is the first webinar in a series as part of our newly launched #RiseCoalition.

Thank you to our speakers and panel, including Carolina Botero Caio C. V. Machado Veridiana Alimonti, Dr. Carlos Solar, Supreme Court Justice Luis Roberto Barroso, Fernanda Farina, PhD (Oxon) and @Sarah_StVincent for all your valuable contributions.

"Civil society groups are critical to understanding these actual human impacts of both violence and the measures States and the UN take in the name of preventing it." Find more of our speech delivered to the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee here: rightsandsecurity.org/impact/entry/r…

On Monday we will host a conversation with Prof. Fernanda Pirie for the launch of her book "The Rule of Laws". We will meet on Zoom on 22 November at 4:30 pm. More info👇

Register at: events.zoom.us/ev/AJbM_VE9ebh…

Violence and Stigmatization in Papua - an Indonesian perspective on racial justice and national security. Don't miss it next Friday 3/12 at 2pm (GMT). Register at events.zoom.us/ev/AJbM_VE9ebh…

Please join us next Friday, 03/12 at 2pm GMT, for our Racial Justice and National Security. We will hear from specialists from Brazil (Anielle Franco), Indonesia (Elvira Rumkabu), Colombia (Hugo Tovar), Kenya (Omondi Okwany) and the UK (tufyal choudhury).

Malia Bouattia on Priti Patel's citizenship bill: "The use of citizenship deprivation, which is now going to be rolled out even more viciously and comprehensively by the British state, has to be fought and understood as an assault on all our rights." english.alaraby.co.uk/opinion/why-pr…

Introducing our second panelist for next Friday's webinar, Clifford Omondi Okwany. Clifford is an expert in foreign policy and national security, with a wider focus on the Horn of Africa. Join us for the event by signing up here: events.zoom.us/ev/AJbM_VE9ebh…

Our fourth webinar panellist is tufyal choudhury , who is speaking about 'The radicalisation of religion in European Counter-Terrorism policies'. Don't miss his talk this Friday, 3rd, 2-3:30 pm (GMT) time.

Registrations are free at the link eventbrite.com/e/is-national-…

Starting in 30min: Is national security a racial justice issue? youtu.be/G2AOWEmB-yk via YouTube

RISE COALITION RESEARCH GRANT - CALL FOR PROPOSAL: we are seeking proposals from registered charities in Brazil for new research on the impact of security laws on civil society or movements for justice. Complete call and application documents in the link: rightsandsecurity.org/impact/entry/c…

Complete disregard of British Airways to its customers! I have vouchers which they only allow to be redeemed via telephone. However, it's impossible to contact them! I've been trying for two weeks to call, only to be disconnected and told to call later! Every time! 😡

AMANHÃ VAI SER OUTRO DIA: DIA DE #BrazilForumUK2022! Com o evento prestes a começar, organizamos um resumão de informações importantes para você considerar nos seus preparativos. Segue o fio!