Armi Beatriz E. Bayot
@armibayot.bsky.social
Legal and Public Policy Director at Qoakay | DPhil Law, University of Oxford | Contributing Editor, CIL Dialogues-National University of Singapore | public international law, peace processes, indigenous peoples' rights | https://armibayot.com
Finally got my copy of this excellent volume. It's open access, and my chapter can be found here: academic.oup.com/book/62553/c...
I wonder what social media would be like if people were taught in k-12 school to name and identify logical fallacies
Justice Ben Caguioa's opinion ought to be taught in law schools not only for its legal clarity, but also for its moral clarity sc.judiciary.gov.ph/278747-concu...
Texting with my mom and comparing omelette recipes. I just realised I've forgotten the Tagalog word for "oyster", had to Google it 😳 the horror!
Philippines media now reporting that Bato dela Rosa has fled the Senate premises, continuing to evade ICC arrest for his role in Duterte's deadly "war on drugs" How could this have happened when he was supposed to have been under Senate protective custody? www.rappler.com/philippines/...
Bato dela Rosa no longer inside Senate premises – source
(1st UPDATE) Senator Ronald 'Bato' dela Rosa's exit comes after gunshots were fired inside the Senate premises
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Armi Beatriz E. Bayot@armibayot.bsky.social · 3mo agoAll eyes on the Philippine Senate today. Watching the news and yet to be confirmed whether Bato is even still inside the premises. The guy has been evading arrest re: ICC warrant of arrest www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
All eyes on the Philippine Senate today. Watching the news and yet to be confirmed whether Bato is even still inside the premises. The guy has been evading arrest re: ICC warrant of arrest www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Gunshots in Philippines senate where senator is holed up to evade arrest
Ronald dela Rosa, accused of crimes against humanity by international criminal court, in standoff with authorities
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ICC judges unseal arrest warrant against Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa for alleged crime against humanity in connection with the situation in the Philippines Meanwhile, he has been placed under the Philippines Senate protective custody www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
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Woke up to surprising news re: Philippines case in the ICC
An excellent example of feminist strategic litigation: ✅seeks to enhance gender equality ✅builds community involving local activists, NGOs & lawyers, plus an int'l NGO ✅while using a local forum, also uses international resources (IACHR Advisory Opinion 24/17) ✅tells a story of justice.
Peru's Supreme Court Ruled That Pathologizing Trans Identities Is Unconstitutional — and Invoked Happiness to Explain Why
outrightinternational.org
The Sick Times: 'We need masks in healthcare. Now.' Written by Tesla Bellina-Gustafson 'As a person with Long COVID, losing consciousness was a terrifying experience made worse by a potential exposure risk.' thesicktimes.org/2026/04/24/w...
We need masks in healthcare. Now. - The Sick Times
As a person with Long COVID, losing consciousness was a terrifying experience made worse by a potential exposure risk. I quickly put my mask back on and thankfully managed to escape unscathed. But thi...
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So apparently Johnson and Vance are Just War Theory experts now. As someone who used to lecture on this, I'd be interested in their detailed explanations of: jus ad bellum and the legitimacy of the attack on Iran in the absence of an imminent threat...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoMike Johnson on the Pope: "If you wade into political waters, you should expect some political response & the Pope has received some. Frankly I was taken a bit aback by him saying something about 'those who engage in war, Jesus doesn't hear their prayers' or something. There's 'just war' doctrine.'"
I'm in Barcelona for #CHI26, presenting my paper "Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social Media" Friday in the 9am "Community Governance and Moderation" session. @chi.acm.org dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Beyond Community Notes: A Framework for Understanding and Building Crowdsourced Context Systems for Social Media | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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I'm in Barcelona all week to attend CHI 2026 - the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Happy to meet up with anyone interested or doing work on tech and governance, public policy, and human rights. Send me a quick note here if you are around! chi2026.acm.org
Welcome to CHI 2026 in Barcelona! - ACM CHI 2026
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 will take place in Ba...
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Excited to finally see this out in the world! It's a fantastic collection, and I am proud to have contributed a chapter academic.oup.com/book/62553
From Protracted Conflict to Sustainable Peace?: The Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus and International Law
Abstract. Across the globe, the number of protracted armed conflicts is rising, with many societies enduring the consequences of violence and conflict-rela
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“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”
This law is a straightforward case of apartheid. Apartheid is an international crime. Every legislator who voted for it, every military police office who prosecutes a crime under it, every judicial officer who applies it, is committing an international crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Israel passes law to give death penalty to Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks
Knesset approves measure that has been criticised by European countries and rights groups
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We must all start calling out the absurd breaches of international law by the current US Government- this one clearly breaches UN obligations but few seem to call it out: Judge never reconsidered working at ICC despite sanctions www.rte.ie/news/2026/03...
Judge never reconsidered working at ICC despite sanctions
Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge sanctioned by the US, says she has never reconsidered working at the International Criminal Court, even though it has led to her being shut out from most of the intern...
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after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...
Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content
“In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”
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Maybe this is too international law of me, but you can’t liberate women by slaughtering school girls.
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 5mo agoBBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
okay, Ill bite. What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. Calculus Social, Economic, and Political Thought Performance for Radio Non-Western Literary Criticism Basic Lifesaving/Lifeguard Training
Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 6mo agoNever mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. Political philosophy Women’s studies Sociology of education Psychoanalysis Water polo
"All the stories about alien abduction and spaceships? They already happened. Entire mass populations moved; forcibly dematerialised. How much more alien do you think it gets than slavery?" Kodwo Eshun in The Last Angel of History
Looking for specialist medical negligence solicitors in the UK. Is there anyone here who could help or who could make a referral? Thank you!
"The present-day crisis of international law stems from the fact that states, especially the larger ones, do not regard its rules as binding upon them." Miodrag Sukijasović, American Journal of International Law 1971. Gentle reminder that international law is always in crisis.
