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We urgently need a pro bono barrister or IAA Level 3 Advisor to represent our Family team client at a remote bail review hearing tomorrow at 11.30 am.
If you can help, please email familyteam@biduk.org.
Image is a screenshot of a headline from The Guardian reading: No evidence of genocide in Gaza, UK lawers say in arms export case
Jan 2024: The International Court of Justice orders Israel to protect Palestinians from the risk of genocide
Dec 2024: @amnesty.org finds sufficient evidence to conclude that Israeli authorities’ conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide
May 2025: The UK government ⬇️
I wonder if people realise that Labour's new level for English language proficiency testing would exclude roughly two thirds of the population, UK born that is, across classes, across sectors and across regions. It's a ridiculous level to claim is needed.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Armed reprisals are illegal.
Armed reprisals between nuclear States are insane.
Shut it down.
From last week: Asylum Aid wins High Court challenge to the statelessness family reunion rules | Djamilla Hitchins
Time to see this sort of thing for what it is - a concerted and deeply sinister attempt to intimidate and delegitimise lawyers standing up for powerless and marginalised people
Do you know why it was determined that States should not intercept people while they are in the water? Because it significantly increases the risk of people drowning. That's it. It was meant to preserve life, and now Cooper is celebrating getting that changed.
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LPHR Logo Title: LPHR statement on the crimes of starvation, persecution, extermination and genocide being on a continuum as UN food stocks run out in Gaza Date: 28 April 2025 Text: Last Friday's announcement by the UN World Food Programme that its food stocks in the Gaza Strip have run out under Israel's eight-week-old complete ban on the entry of food, fuel and medicine or any other life-sustaining supplies, is profoundly alarming. We urge all relevant actors to clearly recognise that the exceptionally serious international crimes of starvation, persecution, extermination and genocide are on a continuum. And that each of these crimes is actually or potentially engaged by Israel's imposition of a total siege on a destroyed Gaza with no end in sight. The UK government, and other third states with possible influence, must urgently eradicate the pervasive impunity that has been allowed to thrive within the Israeli government, and apply real consequences to compel the immediate end of the punitive starvation of Gaza's trapped civilian population. A step-change in action is manifestly required and far too long overdue.
Following the UN World Food Programme's alarming announcement that stocks in the Gaza Strip have run out, we urge all relevant actors to clearly recognise that the international crimes of starvation, persecution, extermination and genocide are on a continuum - statement lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...
“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
“We are being depleted.”
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for an eighth week.
"This week, John and seven other Brazilian workers – all identified simply as John Doe 1-8 for fear of retaliation – filed a civil lawsuit in the US against Starbucks, with the support of International Rights Advocates (IRA), seeking financial compensation." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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We are in urgent need of a probono immigration barrister / IAA Level 3 advisor to represent our client at Yarl’s Wood in person at 10am on Friday 25 April.
If you are able to help please email familyteam@biduk.org.
The Home Office is recording an average of 10 assaults a day on asylum seekers in its care, according to internal government data obtained using freedom of information laws www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility ... to help the needy, to fight hunger and to encourage initiatives that promote development. These are the “weapons” of peace: weapons that build the future, instead of sowing seeds of death!"
May he rest in peace.
Almost 250 people have been imprisoned for breaching antisocial behaviour injunctions since 2020, with people jailed for sleeping rough, begging, feeding birds & making a noise and 57% lacking legal representation at hearing leading to imprisonment, research finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“The Palestinian-Christian community that has been there for 2,000 years cannot go there to celebrate and mark this where it all happened.”
Israeli restrictions this year have been the toughest, says Palestinian pastor Mitri Raheb.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/43r4oe
I want to say this again, and clearly.
I spoke to three KCs, and we were formally advised by two, at Premier League sets who said FWS's case was clearly wrong, and one said not even arguable. 1/2
In just under a decade in the UK, we have witnessed increased hostile reporting of trans folk, a rise in anti-trans hate crimes, blocks on health care for youth wanting to transition and judicial decisions that curtail trans people’s freedoms in public. We can and must do better to challenge it all.
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
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A thread in which I try to show some of the harmful practical effects on the quality of its analysis of the Supreme Court's appalling and delegitimating decision to exclude all trans voices from a judgment with profound effects on trans people's lives.
Solidarity with trans and non-binary folk today and everyday.
We will continue to fight for a world where trans and non-binary lives flourish without condition.
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So much anti-trans litigation is not about the legal outcome. The litigation instead is a political strategy designed to foster a public atmosphere of hostility and anxiety for trans people and frame trans rights as an abstract debate. We must keep resisting this institutionalisation of transphobia.
Yesterday I was emailed by a barrister: "In my network I have on average one trans suicide per month. Its devastating and a genoicde of a whole group of people."
Those in the trans community know this is true. Wes Streeting's vigorous attempts to suppress this reality is unforgiveable.
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Please share in your networks. Goldsmiths, UoL are offering 5 scholarships in Undergrad & MA courses for Palestinian students. The scholarships include: tuition fee waiver, £19,550 allowance, return trip to & from the UK.
Eligibility details & further info at link👇🏽
www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...
An important read on the digital exclusion of many elderly and sight impaired people from
@workplaceinsights.co.uk. If you have elderly relatives, you will know. If you work in digital technologies, please read this because just saying "it's easy" isn't true.
workplaceinsights.co.uk/digital-incl...
THREAD: Israel bombed a church-run hospital on Palm Sunday.
Israel has bombed al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, forcing its final evacuation and complete shutdown.
This hospital was one of the last functioning in the north.
If you hear of visa revocations for international students, please contact @wearehighered.bsky.social. We're maintaining a tracker and coordinating with other folks tracking and helping.