#Rights

Taisu Zhang

ZhangTaisu

To restate the obvious: there’s no necessary connection between democracy, and liberalism/civil rights (Aung San Suu Kyi), nor any necessary connection between raging against an incumbent autocrat and being committed

Maya Forstater

MForstater

Women spending their own money in pursuit of justice and clarity about the law.Its a scandal says AidanAidan says you must only give your money to official women's rights organisations

Sharon Yam (任萃言)

sharonyamsy

1/ Have been thinking a lot about how the US right mobilized their support for Hong Kong protesters and the Uyghur people as a trope to foster their anti-China agenda,

Luke Savage

LukewSavage

I was legitimately surprised during the primaries how little it seemed to matter that Biden said things that were completely untrue. We're supposedly in the age of fact-checking, when the

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

Scaremongering votes by demonizing is a long-standing practice. Notably, many of the transphobic talking points (bathrooms! locker rooms! harming our children!) are the same ones they used against gay, lesbian

Miroslav Imbrisevic

Miroandrej

1/5 'trans-exclusionary' is a loaded term. Philosopher Justin Weinberg @DailyNousEditor adopts it without the necessary philosophical scrutiny - this is actually our job. His reasoning is that he rejects the

shon faye.

shonfaye

the phrase 'sex based rights' was invented on Twitter circa 2015 - it isn't a phrase found in any legal textbook or statute. There's not, to my knowledge, reference to

Camino Mortera

CaminoMortera

All right, folks, I'm doing a back-of-the-envelope analysis on what's been published on the Brexit police and judicial co-operation deal and then will go and wrap some presents (will pop

Noura Erakat

4noura

I just finished a call with a journo wanting to ask about #Pompeo's moves to recognize colonial settlements as part of Israel, to decry #BDS, and to collapse anti #Zionism

Stuart Lau

stuartklau

From : One of the three German politicians vying to lead Merkel’s CDU party became the first major European voice to link today’s mass arrests in Hong Kong with the

justdad7

justdad7

On Nov 20, 1989 the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. (Unlike the Yogyakarta Principles this is a binding convention.) Consider how gender ideology

President-Elect SirWilliamOfGoats

goats_sir

Our past year, like the previous 4 years were riddled with controversy beyond comprehension. Our Democracy has been trampled upon for not just only this past year but for decades.

Rene Denfeld

ReneDenfeld

When I worked at the public defenders I was often asked to go to the jail to take pics of people beaten by the police. When I say often I

Read The Signs

Semiogogue

I keep seeing/hearing mention of rubber bullets, but I can't find any recent use of rubber bullets. Only pepper balls, sponge rounds, & bean bags. 1/8 Here, 'rubber bullets' are

Defense News Nigeria

DefenseNigeria

We are looking at a potential civil war in the United States. That national identity that once held the nation together is long gone. When Trump was declared winner thousands

rabia O'chaudry

rabiasquared

It's #HumanRightsDay2020 and I just finished up my remarks on the concerning influence of the Turkish government over American Muslim orgs/leaders/communities.Here, I'll do a thread covering my remarks.https://twitter.com/silencedtu

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