#Rights

It’s seems from my mentions that I seemed to have riffled the feathers of the ‘suffragentlemen’ brigadeLet me try use this opportunity explain why ‘National embarrassment’ is I feel rather
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Wow, this rings so true. I’ve noticed this about academia too. There is definitely a ‘type’ - 30s, white, middle class, usually without any real work experience outside academia. Hums
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Rest in power to Charles Evers! In addition to being radical voice for racial justice, Evers was the central figure in probably the most important case (even more than Brandenburg)
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Why so many European media report a “coup” is understandable: Unlike the US, most European countries don’t have constitutional structures and institutions that would survive a populist taking over the
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1. Gowher Rizvi, Bangladesh government's foreign advisor given a very hard time by @dwnews on @AJIunit film and corruption and human rights allegations in general. He said some interesting things
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#OnThisDay 1987 civil rights activist Septima Poinsetta Clark died on St. John's Island, SC. Who was Septima Clark?Glad you asked. Source: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/clark-septima-poinsette The daughter of formerly
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Proud to see my fellow barristers fighting for rule of law. But attacking international treaties isn’t just about principles & rights. It’s damaging UK’s ECONOMY. Thread for people who care
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"The way to defeat bad ideas is by exposure, argument, and persuasion, not by trying to silence or wish them away. We refuse any false choice between justice and freedom,
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Lawyers for Uyghur Rights Calls on Conservative MPs to Back Genocide Amendment@Conservatives votes needed for Tuesday's historic vote to allow High Court to determine Genocide and prevent trade deals with
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This won’t be a popular take, probably, but: if Biden wins, it will be an achievement. The campaign will have (barely) overcome the most sustained assault on voting rights in
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I have never in my life believed in conspiracy theories, but when foreign Govts and multilateral institutions, who pussyfoot around #genocide in #Pakistan & #China, start supporting #vested #interests, #opposing
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URGENT: @metpoliceuk has issued misleading and chilling statements ahead of today's demonstrations in London, denying our rights to organise and attend protests under current Coronavirus laws.We have sent an urgent
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The ideas of the French Revolution were the beginnings of democracy, and yet you are told to hate Robepierre for being a “radical”. This is by design because conservatives have
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We did not get to deliver our #HRC44 statement this morning during the dialogue with @cvoule, SR on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. Read it
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Well it turns out a huge amount of news info about the Uyghurs's (very real) persecution in China is coming from this guy, who's also one of those "Communism death
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In the past week:-Twitter censors a sitting president -YouTube blocks election-related videos -Eventbrite cancels Trump events -GoFundMe deletes data researchers-Facebook bans protest groupsThey are deliberately disenfranchising conservativ
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