#Today is the Launch of the Report of the High Commisioner: Protecting HHRR defenders in the digital age. The event will be held in Geneva and transmited online: Time: 14:00-15:00 Location: Room III, Palais des Nations Online: www.youtube.com/live/mCQTTV-...

Gina Romero / Special Rapporteur FoAA@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social · 4w ago

#Surveillance and HRD. The High Commisioner just released his new report on Protecting HHRR defenders in the digital age, to which @daragh.bsky.social and @petefussey.bsky.social and I had the pleasure to contribute. Report: www.ohchr.org/en/documents... Inputs: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

#Surveillance and HRD. The High Commisioner just released his new report on Protecting HHRR defenders in the digital age, to which @daragh.bsky.social and @petefussey.bsky.social and I had the pleasure to contribute. Report: www.ohchr.org/en/documents... Inputs: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

A/HRC/63/52: Protecting human rights defenders in the digital age - Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Summary The present report, submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 58/23, assesses risks to human rights defenders arising from the use of digital technologies, and highlights initiativ...

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We have also written a detailed legal explainer about why we think the code of practice gets the law wrong.

How the Code of Practice gets the law wrong | Good Law Project

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the government’s transphobic statutory guidance – here’s why

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🚨 BREAKING We are supporting a legal challenge to the Code of Practice. And we need your help. Join us in fighting back 👇

We’re supporting a legal challenge against the code of practice | Good Law Project

The government’s transphobic statutory guidance is now up and running – we’re fighting back

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📚Join Jeremy Corbyn, Neve Gordon and Shahd Hammouri at Foyles in London on Tuesday 4 August to discuss 'The Gaza Tribunal', a brand new book on last year's inquiry into British complicity in war crimes in Gaza. 🎟️Tickets: foyles.co.uk/events/the-gaza-tribunal-neve-gordan-shahd-hammouri-jeremy-corbyn

Did you know actor & activist @markruffalo.bsky.social has joined forces with @hrw.org, @nowheremedia.bsky.social & @weareagog.bsky.social as narrator of Solwata? This new documentary shows the human consequences of the climate crisis in the Solomon Islands. Want to know more?⤵️ www.solwata.com

Change. What change? This is very disappointing. And very indicative of what’s to come.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Same old Labour

in september 2024 @ucirvinelaw.bsky.social hosted a symposium asking whether int'l law would survive (we toyed with 'thrive', too optimistic). the journal is out & i've been meaning to direct ppl to it & my foreword. escholarship.org/uc/jitcl & my foreword here: escholarship.org/uc/item/2jx4...

Autonomous Weapons Kill. Facial Recognition Becomes Routine. And AI in the Public Sector. New AI & Human Rights newsletter. Fresh. Off. The. Press. #AI #HumanRights aihumanrights.blog/2026/06/30/3...

30 June 2026

Greetings all, and I hope ye are well. Its an absolutely gorgeously fresh and warm day in East London. Which is just beyond nice after the furnace that was last week. And is a nice reprieve before …

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I saw this earlier and thought it can’t be real. In a government of bad ideas this really is quite something.

Kate Leader@leader-kate.bsky.social · 3mo ago

More info on the Mahmoud asylum hearing proposals - paid part time and full time volunteer laypersons to replace judges and adjudicate in new immigration appeals body - ⬇️⬇️ www.thetimes.com/article/ae1c...

I’m so excited to finally make this public! Teaching a four-day Online OSINT Summit with the incredible Haley Willis (former Visual Investigations at the NYT) We’ll cover how to investigate bombings, disinfo and cartels Info and registration here 👉🏼 gisela-perez-de-acha.mykajabi.com/osint_summit

FactFinder OSINT Summit

Four days of live OSINT training for journalists, lawyers, and researchers who already know the basics. War, conflict, and disinformation. July 14–17.

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I have to say, it's making me feel a little insane hearing commentators say Ed Miliband shouldn't be chancellor because of his "ideological zeal" for Net Zero, in a week where temperatures are so extreme that my kids are being sent home early every day and it's regularly 30 degrees inside my house

Here are some thoughts on the new Court of Appeal Palestine Action ruling, written with @alangreene.bsky.social and @colinmurray.bsky.social for @verfassungsblog.de verfassungsblog.de/palestine-ac...

Call for papers on "protection of civilians and international humanitarian law in the age of artificial intelligence" - International Review of the Red Cross - deadline for abstracts 1 September 2026

Call for Papers: "Protection of Civilians and International Humanitarian Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"

Call for Papers: “Protection of Civilians and International Humanitarian Law in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 September 2026 Decision whether abstract has...

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Powerful piece. We should all be angry and demand change. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trans people like me are facing segregation now. We need parliament to restore our rights | Alexandra Parmar-Yee

Hard-won, vital legal protections have been upended – ultimately our lawmakers must fix this, says director of Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, Alexandra Parmar-Yee

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Fantastic work on protest and public order offences from my @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social colleagues www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

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Delighted to have been part of this study, an in-depth global study analysing the chilling effects of digital surveillance. Looking at impacts on assembly and association rights, and their exercise in practice.

Gina Romero / Special Rapporteur FoAA@unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/ www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/ www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Today at University of Galway: Remarkable human rights defender Shawan Jabarin will give a first-hand account of the deteriorating human rights situation in the West Bank and speak on the impact of United States sanctions against ‎Al-Haq and the International Criminal Court. 5pm, A.M. Building

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

New research ‘points to an increase in anti-protest legislation in England and Wales, police powers and civil law injunctions brought by corporations and public bodies as well as judges removing legal defences and “exceptionally long” sentences’ www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

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High Court quashes £585k 'free speech' fine against Sussex University, which was imposed due to allegations that the university broke the law re 'gender critical' Prof Kathleen Stock www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Sussex University overturns £585,000 fine as high court rejects free speech breach claim

Ruling is blow to Office for Students after it issued record fine for allegations over professor’s trans rights views

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Whatever you think about predictive policing, working with Palantir - in light of their CeO’s public statements - should be a redline. Contrary to London’s values indeed.

HJA Civil Liberties@hjacivillibs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Sadiq Khan may oppose Met Police using Palantir’s AI systems to process criminal intelligence, as part of contract that could run into tens of millions of pounds, because of “concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sadiq Khan may oppose Met Police using Palantir’s AI systems to process criminal intelligence, as part of contract that could run into tens of millions of pounds, because of “concerns about using public money to support firms who act contrary to London’s values” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sadiq Khan may try to stop Scotland Yard signing Palantir contract

Exclusive: Mayor raises concerns about using public money to support firms ‘who act contrary to London’s values’

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Initial thoughts on Thompson & Carlo v the Met - live facial recognition case handed down yesterday. Tl;dr - huge PR win for the Met. No questions. But the key human rights issues unaddressed. Police LFR not arbitrary. But no comment on whether it is necessary. aihumanrights.blog/2026/04/22/2...

22 April 2026

Good morning friends, colleagues, everyone else! Its an absolutely gorgeous spring morning in London (for now at least). The big news this week, in the UK at least, is the judgment in Big Brother W…

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This article is devastating. And a damning indictment both of UK government policy on universities (or lack thereof) and of university management. www.theguardian.com/education/ng...

‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

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New AI & Human Rights newsletter. All content. No craic. #AI #HumanRights aihumanrights.blog/2026/03/26/2...

26 March 2026

Greetings friends, and happy Thursday. I’m afraid i’m a bit under the weather today, so no craic all content. I am very much (and I guess quite unexpectedly) enjoying this though. Its ‘Thinking Bou…

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No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant

Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

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An FOI clampdown would be the perfect signal to officials that they will be even less accountable, and even more able to act for private rather than public interests. UK considers FOI clampdown as requests soar - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

UK considers FOI clampdown as requests soar

Moves to tighten system likely to be met with resistance from campaigners

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How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...