'So when do I get a break? When does my life start again'

As the year comes to a close, we're looking back over season one - listen and watch the full episode of Baroness Doreen Lawrence's visit to the Speakeasy www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

#Campaigning #Hope #Resilience #ShamiChakrabarti

NEW EPISODE DROPS TOMORROW with the rather wonderful @michaelpedersen.bsky.social

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#MuckleFlugga #Makar #poetry #shamichakrabarti #friendship #HairGoals

'Hope is a human right' - Nicola Sturgeon

Shami’s Speakeasy is now open.

Episode 1. On Reflection with Nicola Sturgeon
Full episode – link in bio.

#ShamisSpeakeasy #NicolaSturgeon #PodcastLaunch #ConversationsFlowSpiritsRise #ShamiChakrabarti

...They should perhaps remember that we are all foreigners, almost everywhere, including in other member states, and there is no such thing as democracy without the rule of law. ' #ShamiChakrabarti at @coe.int

'It's one thing to be a threat to property..to be prosecuted & ..even imprisoned...but it's another thing altogether to proscribe a whole group and that means anyone..vaguely associated with it, to brand them terrorists' #ShamiChakrabarti on the proposed proscription #PalestineAction #TodayProgramme

29th May | Shami Chakrabarti – Human Rights in an Age of Crisis Join lawyer, parliamentarian and leading British human rights defender, Shami Chakrabarti for a powerful and urgent vindication of our human rights and freedoms.

Still tickets left for this How to Academy event with #ShamiChakrabarti on human rights in a time of crisis #CaseForTheDefence howtoacademy.com/events/shami....

In a week which has seen the (checks notes) ex-human rights lawyer #KeirStarmer vomit up anti-immigrant racism it was refreshing to go to #Bookmarksthesocialist bookshop and hear #ShamiChakrabarti defend universal human rights.

Record attendance at this year’s Guernsey Literary Festival A record 8,000 tickets were sold for more than 70 events at this year’s Guernsey Literary Festival.

Thank you so much to everyone who came along to #ShamiChakrabarti #CaseForTheDefence book event at the @guernseylitfest.bsky.social - the paperback is now out. Please support your local bookshop!

www.penguin.co.uk/books/452264...

guernseypress.com/news/2025/05...

Human Rights - The Case for the Defence - Events - Guernsey Literary Festival A powerful and urgent explanation and vindication of our human rights and freedoms from leading human rights lawyer and parliamentarian Baroness Shami Chakrabarti. Her new book outlines the historic n...

#ShamiChakrabarti will be talking about her new book 'Human Rights: the Case for the Defence' at @guernseylitfest.bsky.social on 25th April - get your tickets here! #CaseForTheDefence guernseyliteraryfestival.com/events/human...

In Aberdeen tomorrow and care about #HumanRights? #ShamiChakrabarti will be doing an event at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social on Thursday 17th April - contact Aberdeen Law School for more info #CaseForTheDefence

Surviving an Intemperate Climate - Amsterdam Centre for European Studies - ACES - University of Amsterdam Global warming is the existential threat facing our planet, but an increasingly challenging constitutional climate inflames it further. Drawing on her book Human Rights: The Case for the Defence (Penguin, 2024), Shami Chakrabarti will describe the challenges to human rights posed by the climate emergency alongside the ways in which these values may help us navigate our way to just transition.

#ShamiChakrabarti is speaking on the #ClimateCrisis on 23.4.25 at the University of Amsterdam. She'll be talking about the challenges to human rights posed by the climate emergency and how they can help us navigate it. Find out more #CaseForTheDefence aces.uva.nl/shared/uva-p...

#ShamiChakrabarti in the @coe.int debate "I am an Afghan, and I am a prisoner of the Gulag. I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am a Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.”

#ShamiChakrabarti will be speaking at the @coe.int today, as a member of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group, on the motion 'Putting an end to collective expulsions of aliens'...webcast should be available later this evening (and we'll share here too!) #CaseForTheDefence

We are so looking forward to this event on 5 March (13:00-17:00 GMT)! All welcome! Great speakers include #ShamiChakrabarti, @lselaw.bsky.social #ConorGearty, @tessakhan.bsky.social, @safepassageintl.bsky.social Wanda Wyporska
Please join us for our conference on #HumanRights under #Pressure!

Join us for this conference on #HumanRights under #Pressure -open to all- on 5 March (13:30-17:00). Brilliant speakers include Baroness #ShamiChakrabarti,
@lselaw.bsky.social Conor Gearty, @tessakhan.bsky.social, @safepassageintl.bsky.social Wanda Wyporska

#democracy
#climatejustice
#migrantrights

Human Rights: The Case for the Defence with Shami Chakrabarti - Southwark Cathedral Join us for a powerful discussion on defending human rights with Shami Chakrabarti in conversation with the Dean of Southwark

In London and looking for something human rights related to do tonight? There's still tickets left for this event with #ShamiChakrabarti and Very Rev Dr Mark Oakley at Southwark Cathedral - book here! cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/hum...

Human Rights: The Case for the Defence – review In Human Rights: The Case for the Defence, Shami Chakrabarti argues that the framework of universal human rights remains essential despite the difficulties of upholding it given individual states&#…

Is our current framework of universal #HumanRights functioning or failing to protect the most vulnerable around the world? 🗎🌎

Human Rights: The Case for the Defence by #ShamiChakrabarti argues that it's still essential, despite its flaws.

#Review by Samira Allioui 👇

‎Pod Save the UK: Scandal and cyber security in Westminster on Apple Podcasts ‎Show Pod Save the UK, Ep Scandal and cyber security in Westminster - 11 Apr 2024

If you have any interest in Human Rights you absolutely have to listen to this excellent episode of #PodSaveTheUK with guest #ShamiChakrabarti podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

Wondering why #ShamiChakrabarti has been putting herself through those horrific TV interviews recently?

This may help

#bbcpm @UKLabour

.@tom_watson and #ShamiChakrabarti on @UKLabour leadership and revising #Brexit

#Article50

Even if I hadn't done my research, knowing I'm on the same side as #StephenHawking & #ShamiChakrabarti in any debate would be enough

#EUref

With all due respect to @dontspyonusuk shouldn't #r4today be interviewing @BBW1984 or #ShamiChakrabarti about opposing the #IPBill?

#MarrShow : Papers & @AlexSalmond on #ShakerAamer with @toryboypierce @Colleen_Graffy #ShamiChakrabarti

#ShamiChakrabarti on why the #SnoopersCharter is a bad law #GCHQ #Tempora @LBC @LibertyHQ

First @VictoriaCoren on #bbcqt & now #ShamiChakrabarti on #bbctw - a good night for intelligent, strong & ethical women on the BBC.

#TheresaMay's #SnoopersCharter climb down's "just spin" #ShamiChakrabarti @Liberthq @DavidDavisMP

Well done #ShamiChakrabarti, that certainly told #MichaelPortillo where to stick his "nothing to hide nothing to fear" bullsh*t #bbctw