UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Alice J Edwards UN Special Rapporteur Torture, condemns the latest allegation of sexual assault by #Israeli soldiers against a Palestinian man in their custody. “There are no circumstances in which sexual torture or sexualised inhuman & degrading treatment can be justified."

In failing to address institutional racism, the UK is neglecting its international human rights obligations. Glad to see the UN support key policy recommendations we and Amnesty UK submitted to the Committee against Racial Discrimination as part of #CERD. ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

No no no. Let’s correct that headline… The Tories tried to distract the public from poverty, homelessness, collapse of the NHS & public services, with a phantom ‘migrant crisis’ by growing an asylum backlog, refusing safe routes & declaring an ‘invasion’.

Wes Streeting MP The Labour Party This is the trans children's message which has been delivered to the Secretary of State for Education. "We are humans too. <...> We deserve to feel at home in school just like every student" We will transcribe the full letter asap in the replies. #TransKidsDeserveBetter

SELF-DEFENSE? Israel claims that what it is doing in the West Bank is justified under the law of self-defence. This claim has no validity. Twenty years ago the CIJ_ICJ determined that Israel could not invoke self-defence under article 51 of the UN Charter to justify its Wall in

Sending my babies into new classrooms tomorrow and thinking about this 👇 so much.

Baffling that an actual politician would launch her bid to lead the Tories by saying she’s unafraid of Doctor Who. Any other fictional children’s characters she thinks the government should tackle? What about the grinch, or the Tim Curry smog monster from Ferngully?

Because... it isn't?? Wierd how this article locates the problem w parents as opposed to systemic problems across the industry....

🧵This clip is circulated as example of how low Israeli discourse sunk during the war, but imo its other way round: "Radio Rwanda" has been our background noise for decades. It's a cause, not consequence, of Israeli wanton cruelty in Gaza. Here's my journal entry from Nov 2007..

Teams of prominent scientists and ethicists have called for the end of medically unnecessary nonconsensual surgeries on intersex children in two new papers — hrw.org/news/2024/09/0…

eu.tennessean.com/story/news/cri… US indictment shows that online Western far right influencers heavily funded by russian government and Russian nationalists.

Good. Now an elected second chamber pls. And electoral reform....ooh and effective press regulation etc etc etc Ministers introduce plans to remove all hereditary peers from Lords theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Australia's investigation into trans youth healthcare similar to the Cass review finds puberty blockers are "safe, effective and reversible". Scientists looking at the same evidence outside of the UK keep coming to a very different conclusion to Cass. abc.net.au/news/2024-09-0…

Genuinely cannot wait to watch this 👇🧡

Going to repeat this; gender reassignment is a protected characteristic. It is NOT a belief, though belief can be a protected characteristic. Your employer is NOT obliged to treat someone's gender reassignment and your belief about said gender reassignment as equivalent.

Mona Eltahawy Women are safer out having fun with their friends, shopping, going to the cinema, going for dinner, pub, clubbing, much safer out & about enjoying themselves than curfewed in the place they are statistically most at risk. But those aren't the public safety messages we see, hmm.

Trans trailblazer Annie Wallace set to leave #Hollyoaks after nine years 💔 diva-magazine.com/2024/09/09/ann…

“The UK is one of the most unequal societies in the world" Nancy Kelley spoke to Kirsty Blackman about the big issues that need fixing for the LGBTQIA community over the next four years 🌈 Read now ⬇️ diva-magazine.com/2024/09/09/in-…

“The level of suffering we are witnessing in Gaza is unprecedented in my mandate as secretary-general of the United Nations. I’ve never seen such a level of death and destruction as we are seeing in Gaza in the last few months.” -- Antonio Guterres apnews.com/article/un-gut…

"A country that holds itself up as a beacon of the rule of law, bound by international commitments to freedom of expression and the right to assembly, is taking draconian steps to curb protest activities." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…