Help to Buy is taxpayer’s money mobilised to favour some while those who needed support the most were left behind by austerity-obsessed policies. It speaks volumes about political priorities.
Right to housing and right to property are two very different things.
📬 Everyday rights—like housing, health, education, and social security—are fundamental human rights. If you care about dignity, justice, and equality, sign up to our newsletter and stay informed on how to protect these rights for all.
New on Strathclyde Law Blog, a post by our Professor Francesco Sindico, where he considers what international law has done for climate change. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...
Koldo Casla’s Appointment as UN Special Rapporteur Highlights New Research on Property, Housing and Social Rights cc @universityofessex.bsky.social & @elgarpublishing.bsky.social www.essex.ac.uk/blog/posts/2...
Strathclyde research on digital political campaigning & disinformation - by Dr Gabriela Borz, Dr Anna Longhini & Thomas Montgomerie - has been cited in a new UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee report on how hostile actors undermine democracy.
committees.parliament.uk/work/8818/di...
On #WorldHealthDay, we’re reminded that health is more than healthcare.
It’s about whether people can afford food, live in safe housing, and access support when they need it.
Health is a human right. Systems can be designed to make that a reality for everyone.
I’m currently in Northern Iraq where these photos of Iranian Kurdish women fighters of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) were taken. Some are recent arrivals from Iran and fled brutal crackdowns. Almost daily they are now under Iranian drone attacks in their mountain bases.
I loathe Meta, or whatever it is now. I came off FB + Insta, but use Messenger and WhatsApp because that is 'what everyone uses' where some family and friends live (Asia is big on WhatsApp).
LinkedIn is rubbish but it's all there is professionally.
Europe, please deliver ethical alternatives!
Abortion is essential healthcare.
#WomensHealth
Human rights are not add ons.
Warning against development approach that assumes inevitability of HR violations, @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social Elisa Morgera urges to take time & rethink #ClimateAction undertaken towards #JustTransition, incl. through meaningful engagement with communities.
In response to some governments' insistence on keeping Article 3 ECHR for some undefined 'most serious issues', Rishika Sahgal writes about why and how the widespread and systematic destruction of homes (domicide) is a form of inhuman and degrading treatment. strasbourgobservers.com/2026/04/03/a...
Writing for the Strasbourg Observers Blog, our Dr Elaine Webster takes a trip down memory lane to look back at the 1978 case of Tyrer v UK on Article 3 of the ECHR and reflects on parallels and lessons for today. strasbourgobservers.com/2026/04/02/h...
Hey world, I have a new book!
The Social Right to Property: Social Function and Human Rights.
With @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
#OpenAccess here www.elgaronline.com/monobook-oa/...
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💡 Still time to register & participate remotely in @durham.ac.uk Conference on #Defossilization #HumanRights on 19-20 March, co-organized with UNHumanRights & #Brazil #COP30 Special Envoy DeniseDora
in support for #SantaMarta Conference led by #Colombia #Netherlands
🔗https://tinyurl.com/ypubknra
📽️ The recording from our Human Rights Day event, the future of human rights and justice in the UK, is now live.
Hear from practitioners, academics and authors on the barriers to enforcing everyday social rights and what must change.
Watch now 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMON...
In a non trivial way the #climate_crisis is reducible to shortcomings in human intelligence. This idea is behind my new release with the Natural Philosophers with Attitude: "Hot Summer Nights". Please check it out!
Spotify
open.spotify.com/album/0Tju52...
Soundcloud
soundcloud.com/npwa/sets/ho...
EVENT - The 8th Strathclyde Annual Postgraduate Law Conference will take place on 26 and 27 May 2026 (online on the first day, on campus on the second day). Its theme is "The (Un)Makers of Law: How Resistance is Shaping Legal Thought and Practice" www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...
An exciting new initiative based at @strathclydehass.bsky.social.
Tomorrow's wrap-around front page of The National.
This is the human cost.
As the UK Government talks a big game of being ready to join the US and Israel in war, over 150 families are mourning their children.
Their little girls were mostly aged 7-12.
"We need to talk about housing as a human right and not as a commodity."
Hear from Yolander Hendler, Secretary-General of Habitat International Coalition, on why housing, migration, and the future of our cities are inseparable.
Join us at #WUF13 👉: https://loom.ly/Kb6rUFk
Excited to share the front and back of my new book:
THE SOCIAL RIGHT TO PROPERTY: SOCIAL FUNCTION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Out next month.
With @elgarpublishing.bsky.social
With support from @universityofessex.bsky.social
It will be #OpenAccess here: lnkd.in/e-FzjY_t
In a new post on the Strathclyde Law Blog, our Roddy Cairns has returned to the topic of Heraskevych's helmet to consider the CAS decision around his exclusion from the Winter Olympics. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...
🌎 This will be a great event with two members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Joo-Young Lee & Julieta Rossi) and ESCR Network member Koldo Casla, on the role of UN Treaty Bodies in norm setting & monitoring.
🗓️ 12 March
⏰ 1-2:30
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NHS backlogs, housing shortages and rising inequality are rights issues - they won't be solved by weakening human rights.
The real pressures people face require serious rights-based policy solutions, not scapegoating universal rights.
Please watch and share:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEpU...
🪸 🏵️ Looking forward to hearing from #children & #youth about #HumanRights #Food systems on #Land and in the #Ocean and #ClimateChange! 🐝 🐡
🔗 inspiringchildrensfutures.org/blog/call-fo...
🙏 Scottish Government #ClimateJustice Fund & Institute for Inspiring Children's Futures 🙏
Last week I was in #Geneva to support the preparations of a new report on #SeaLevelRise & #HumanRights to be presented in 2027 by the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuFl...
New on the Strathclyde Law Blog, a post by our Roddy Cairns, on the treatment of a Ukrainian athlete who insisted on wearing a particular helmet. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l... #StrathLawBlog
News - A report examining what UK Supreme Court decisions mean for devolved law-making in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland has been published. This was co-written by our Dr @chrismccork.bsky.social. www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/l...
“The report findings are very much welcomed by the victims and campaigners who agree that the national apology falls short of international standards" Roseanna McPhee, campaigner
Read our blog on SHRC's call for "transformative reparations" for victims: makingrightsreal.org.uk/transformati...
