We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.”
Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.
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“Like many others, we will continue to engage and, true to her spirit, also challenge her many ideas and insights.”
We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell.
You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
BREAKING: At least 51 Palestinians have been killed, including 27 aid seekers, in Israeli attacks across Gaza today.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lo8z7v
A Saint Lucia court has struck down a law that criminalized same-sex relations.
Previously, same-sex activity was punishable with up to 10 years in prison.
BREAKING: The number of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-induced starvation in Gaza has risen to 147 people, including 88 children, says Gaza's health ministry.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ym2wr7
I want to talk about disability & boundaries.
Last week I was being assisted by staff at a train station. We entered a lift, staff told me there was another dog in the lift & I said that was no problem.
Guide Dog Ava was a little sniffy & interested in the dog, so I gave the "leave it" command 1/
BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 51 Palestinians, including 23 aid seekers, since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g6lam8
This is called a concentration camp
This is so cruel: literally targeting people doing their best to adhere to immigration procedure. We all know this has never been about 'security' or 'stopping bad guys'.
Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
The UK Government has suspended UK-Israel free trade talks and committed to further restrictive measures — but it’s not enough.
The time for further action is now. End arms sales to Israel.
No weapons. No complicity. Not in our name.
#StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow
🚨Who owns an AI-controlled company?
AI may soon create & run companies with no human involved. This raises urgent questions for transparency, accountability & #BeneficialOwnership laws.
Explore how rules must evolve 👉 bit.ly/4djoHBG...
BREAKING: At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
A three-year study by Mining Affected Communities in Action has found that 11 mining companies have failed to meet the promises they made to their communities.
Read groundup.org.za/article/mini... by Magnificent Mndebele
A dim sepia tone photograph of an arrangement of different zines with semi-transparent neon pink text overlayed which reads: What is direct action?
Fed up with electoralism? Looking for a better way to engage politically? This is an adaptation of an older subMedia zine that serves as a good introduction to direct action. 🧵1/10
Judgment in IEJ case striking down the 🇿🇦 social relief of distress grant regulations, ordering the state to progressively increase the grant value & means threshold & remove barriers to access affecting millions of people, available 👇
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...
Unequal access to food - not food shortages - is the cause of #hunger in South Africa, say researchers, including IDS researcher Stephen Devereux.
They argue that the government must deliver on the constitutional right to food and explain how 👇
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/15-...
#FoodSecurity #G20
Renewed fighting around the city of Goma and across North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Without adequate access to water and basic resources, the risk of disease, is a threat.
A donation can help our teams respond: bit.ly/DRC__Appeal
"Poverty is as much a human rights issue as it is one of economic policy. The conclusion is ... to recognise the interplay between rights and policy, allowing rights to help inform and enforce the aims of policy. Only then can the projects of social and economic justice meet."
"Where social and economic justice meet: South Africa’s SRD decision affirms a rights-based approach to poverty"
My latest blogpost for the Oxford Human Rights Hub (@oxhrh.bsky.social): ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/where-social...
Screenshot of front page of article, titled "Making the World Differently: A Transformative Approach to Reasonable Accommodation, by Justin Winchester". Abstract reads: "The aim of this article is to articulate and apply a transformative conception of substantive equality to the adjudication of disability equality cases invoking reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998 (EEA). I canvass debates which have modelled disability to describe the historical discrimination that persons with disabilities have experienced and the lessons relevant to a rights-based approach to disability justice. Using transformative substantive equality as a normative underpinning to promote the redistribution of resources, powers and gainful opportunities to disabled persons, I consider reasonable accommodation under the EEA as a promising site for this. Using the Constitutional Court’s decision in Damons as a reflective springboard, I construct what a transformative adjudicative approach to reasonable accommodation under the EEA ought to look like, showing that the tools to achieve transformative equality are available under existing law if only courts dare to reach for them." KEYWORDS: right to equality, transformative substantive equality, disability discrimination, reasonable accommodation, Employment Equity Act, Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities AUTHOR: DPhil in Law candidate, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Email: justin.winchester@magd.ox.ac.uk ORCiD: 0000-0003-4222-2085
My piece on #disability, #equality, and reasonable accommodation available in Constitutional Court Review XIV!
Inspired by David Graeber, that "the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently."
journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10....
An article I co-authored with Nomfundo Ramalekana on Rafoneke v Minister of Justice (arguably the worst judgement ever handed down by the Constitutional Court) has just been published. It's open access and can be accessed here: journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10....