Chloe Trew
@chloeht.bsky.social
Director, Participation and the Practice of Rights, @ppr-org.bsky.social
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We wanted to share some more updates following April’s Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010, and some ways that you can help.
Read our full update here: www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...
Read our full update here: www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We wanted to share some more updates following April’s Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act 2010, and some ways that you can help.
Read our full update here: www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...
Read our full update here: www.scottishtrans.org/supreme-cour...
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Applications for the School for Everyday Democracy CLOSE on Sunday!
🎓 This is a UK-wide programme that empowers people with the skills, connections and opportunities they need to bring about positive change
locally and beyond.
🔗 Find out more and apply here: everydaydemocracy.org.uk
🎓 This is a UK-wide programme that empowers people with the skills, connections and opportunities they need to bring about positive change
locally and beyond.
🔗 Find out more and apply here: everydaydemocracy.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Applications for the School for Everyday Democracy CLOSE on Sunday!
🎓 This is a UK-wide programme that empowers people with the skills, connections and opportunities they need to bring about positive change
locally and beyond.
🔗 Find out more and apply here: everydaydemocracy.org.uk
🎓 This is a UK-wide programme that empowers people with the skills, connections and opportunities they need to bring about positive change
locally and beyond.
🔗 Find out more and apply here: everydaydemocracy.org.uk
Responding to Gavin Robinson’s decision to back Rupert Lowe’s Early Day Motion calling for ‘mass deportation’ on today’s @stephennolan.bsky.social: x.com/stephennolan...
Stephen Nolan on X: ""Extremely disappointing" and "political posturing" that risks real harm for people who are here legally Chloe Trew reacts as DUP leader backs motion for mass deportation of illegal immigrants from the UK https://t.co/LggIbjzY4J" / X
"Extremely disappointing" and "political posturing" that risks real harm for people who are here legally Chloe Trew reacts as DUP leader backs motion for mass deportation of illegal immigrants from the UK https://t.co/LggIbjzY4J
x.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Responding to Gavin Robinson’s decision to back Rupert Lowe’s Early Day Motion calling for ‘mass deportation’ on today’s @stephennolan.bsky.social: x.com/stephennolan...
It’s actually very refreshing to see two independent pieces in different newspapers in support of maintaining the UK’s membership of the Council of Europe & adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights in one week, one by @stephengethins.bsky.social and the other by @peatworrier.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It’s actually very refreshing to see two independent pieces in different newspapers in support of maintaining the UK’s membership of the Council of Europe & adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights in one week, one by @stephengethins.bsky.social and the other by @peatworrier.bsky.social
“The same people who routinely contend that the UK isn’t protecting freedom of expression are proposing to abolish the only scant protection in law currently available for it- and apparently haven’t noticed the glaring contradiction in their position.”
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
Andrew Tickell: Scrapping the ECHR would be a threat to our freedom of expression
I LIKE to think of them as Messiah policies: always promised but never appearing. The art of a good Messiah policy is that it should always be just…
www.thenational.scot
October 12, 2025 at 8:35 AM
“The same people who routinely contend that the UK isn’t protecting freedom of expression are proposing to abolish the only scant protection in law currently available for it- and apparently haven’t noticed the glaring contradiction in their position.”
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
“The Council of Europe is a lynchpin of the defence of democracy & rule of law in Europe & beyond.
To sell out one’s rights to the snake-oil salespeople who claim leaving will solve the UK’s woes is a dash to the bottom”
Good piece by @stephengethins.bsky.social
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
To sell out one’s rights to the snake-oil salespeople who claim leaving will solve the UK’s woes is a dash to the bottom”
Good piece by @stephengethins.bsky.social
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
As UK flirts with leaving European Convention on Human Rights, SNP must stand by the rule of law
The quest for Scottish independence must adhere to democratic norms and Europe’s rules-based system – international recognition matters
www.scotsman.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
“The Council of Europe is a lynchpin of the defence of democracy & rule of law in Europe & beyond.
To sell out one’s rights to the snake-oil salespeople who claim leaving will solve the UK’s woes is a dash to the bottom”
Good piece by @stephengethins.bsky.social
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
To sell out one’s rights to the snake-oil salespeople who claim leaving will solve the UK’s woes is a dash to the bottom”
Good piece by @stephengethins.bsky.social
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
80% of women murdered between 2007-2019 in Northern Ireland were killed at home by someone they knew.
Of the 29,000 cases of domestic abuse prosecuted, 66% of perpetrators received a non-custodial sentence.
Since 2020 28 women were murdered by their partners or former partner.
Of the 29,000 cases of domestic abuse prosecuted, 66% of perpetrators received a non-custodial sentence.
Since 2020 28 women were murdered by their partners or former partner.
October 3, 2025 at 9:32 AM
80% of women murdered between 2007-2019 in Northern Ireland were killed at home by someone they knew.
Of the 29,000 cases of domestic abuse prosecuted, 66% of perpetrators received a non-custodial sentence.
Since 2020 28 women were murdered by their partners or former partner.
Of the 29,000 cases of domestic abuse prosecuted, 66% of perpetrators received a non-custodial sentence.
Since 2020 28 women were murdered by their partners or former partner.
Gosh I wonder what the implications of this are for the way that far-right, racist activity is policed? 🤔
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Secret BBC filming exposes hidden culture of racism and misogyny inside Met Police
Panorama undercover investigation captures evidence that
www.bbc.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Gosh I wonder what the implications of this are for the way that far-right, racist activity is policed? 🤔
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Good grief. 🫠
As A3 torture carries an absolute prohibition not just at ECHR level, there is in interpretation a deliberately high threshold to show cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Starmer vows rethink on international law to tackle migration www.bbc.com/news/article...
As A3 torture carries an absolute prohibition not just at ECHR level, there is in interpretation a deliberately high threshold to show cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Starmer vows rethink on international law to tackle migration www.bbc.com/news/article...
Starmer vows rethink on international law to tackle migration
The PM gives the clearest sign yet the government wants to reform how human rights laws are applied in immigration cases.
www.bbc.com
October 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Good grief. 🫠
As A3 torture carries an absolute prohibition not just at ECHR level, there is in interpretation a deliberately high threshold to show cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Starmer vows rethink on international law to tackle migration www.bbc.com/news/article...
As A3 torture carries an absolute prohibition not just at ECHR level, there is in interpretation a deliberately high threshold to show cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
Starmer vows rethink on international law to tackle migration www.bbc.com/news/article...
In a week where civil society organisations @cajni.bsky.social @ppr-org.bsky.social @colinmurray.bsky.social responded to claims that the ECHR was not integral to the Good Friday Agreement, it’s perhaps worth hearing directly from one of many women who fought hard to get those protections and why:
September 5, 2025 at 7:53 AM
In a week where civil society organisations @cajni.bsky.social @ppr-org.bsky.social @colinmurray.bsky.social responded to claims that the ECHR was not integral to the Good Friday Agreement, it’s perhaps worth hearing directly from one of many women who fought hard to get those protections and why:
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Significant intervention from some of NI's leading civil society groups working on rights and peacebuilding in response to today's Policy Exchange report claiming that the GFA does not restrict the UK's from withdrawing from the ECHR and on the importance of the ECHR for NI:
The ECHR is deeply embedded within the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement. This commitment does not allow the UK Government to formulate some version of what it regards as ECHR-equivalent protections.
Read our joint statement 👇
@ppr-org.bsky.social & Human Rights Consortium NI
Read our joint statement 👇
@ppr-org.bsky.social & Human Rights Consortium NI
September 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Significant intervention from some of NI's leading civil society groups working on rights and peacebuilding in response to today's Policy Exchange report claiming that the GFA does not restrict the UK's from withdrawing from the ECHR and on the importance of the ECHR for NI:
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Friends and neighbours.
Chefs and makers.
Grafters and campaigners.
Mums and Dads.
Students and teachers.
We are the #KindEconomy and our currency is kindness.
We stand every day in solidarity against those who seek to tell us that anyone is less than human.
Chefs and makers.
Grafters and campaigners.
Mums and Dads.
Students and teachers.
We are the #KindEconomy and our currency is kindness.
We stand every day in solidarity against those who seek to tell us that anyone is less than human.
June 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Friends and neighbours.
Chefs and makers.
Grafters and campaigners.
Mums and Dads.
Students and teachers.
We are the #KindEconomy and our currency is kindness.
We stand every day in solidarity against those who seek to tell us that anyone is less than human.
Chefs and makers.
Grafters and campaigners.
Mums and Dads.
Students and teachers.
We are the #KindEconomy and our currency is kindness.
We stand every day in solidarity against those who seek to tell us that anyone is less than human.
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Thanks to @belfasttelegraph.co.uk for covering the struggle for support by shopkeepers whose businesses were destroyed by violent racists in last year's organised August attacks.
To lend them your solidarity, sign up to our Take Action now: www.nlb.ie/take-action/unkept-promises
To lend them your solidarity, sign up to our Take Action now: www.nlb.ie/take-action/unkept-promises
June 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Thanks to @belfasttelegraph.co.uk for covering the struggle for support by shopkeepers whose businesses were destroyed by violent racists in last year's organised August attacks.
To lend them your solidarity, sign up to our Take Action now: www.nlb.ie/take-action/unkept-promises
To lend them your solidarity, sign up to our Take Action now: www.nlb.ie/take-action/unkept-promises
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In August 2024, two Black and Minority Ethnic owned businesses were destroyed in August racist violence in Belfast.
May 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
In August 2024, two Black and Minority Ethnic owned businesses were destroyed in August racist violence in Belfast.
They went on to state that Irvine “is a trusted interlocutor who has directly engaged with loyalist paramilitaries”, omitting to mention that this is because he is a paramilitary leader.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...
Winkie Irvine’s host of top-level referees, some of whom wanted to hide their identity from the public
There’s a question that has long enraged and dismayed law-abiding citizens: why do the police almost never arrest known paramilitary commanders?
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
May 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
They went on to state that Irvine “is a trusted interlocutor who has directly engaged with loyalist paramilitaries”, omitting to mention that this is because he is a paramilitary leader.
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...
m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/colu...
These amazing young people launched ‘Stranded Dreams’ yesterday, their proposal for a flexible rolling programme of English and other subjects in Northern Ireland.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wait to enter education 'frustrating' for teenage asylum seekers
A report calls for a specialist education programme for those aged 16-24 who come to NI as asylum seekers and refugees.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 7:25 AM
These amazing young people launched ‘Stranded Dreams’ yesterday, their proposal for a flexible rolling programme of English and other subjects in Northern Ireland.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A surprising duo argue for the repatriation of Shamima Begum.
Alf Dubs &Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish
Let’s hold Rhys Mogg to his new found understanding of rights: ‘Defence of our rights cannot be abandoned simply because it is politically convenient.’
Alf Dubs &Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish
Let’s hold Rhys Mogg to his new found understanding of rights: ‘Defence of our rights cannot be abandoned simply because it is politically convenient.’
May 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A surprising duo argue for the repatriation of Shamima Begum.
Alf Dubs &Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish
Let’s hold Rhys Mogg to his new found understanding of rights: ‘Defence of our rights cannot be abandoned simply because it is politically convenient.’
Alf Dubs &Jacob Rees-Mogg: citizenship stripping is fundamentally unBritish
Let’s hold Rhys Mogg to his new found understanding of rights: ‘Defence of our rights cannot be abandoned simply because it is politically convenient.’
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Along with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social, we've published our reaction to the judgement in the UK Supreme Court today.
There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath.
www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...
There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath.
www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...
April 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Along with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social, we've published our reaction to the judgement in the UK Supreme Court today.
There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath.
www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...
There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath.
www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...
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Disabled people have urged the government to fund “welfare not warfare,” after the chancellor confirmed plans for benefits cuts alongside an uptick in defence spending at the Spring Statement. 🚫 💷
Advocates have warned that the “cruel” cuts will harm the most vulnerable. ⬇️
buff.ly/ptK7c9O
Advocates have warned that the “cruel” cuts will harm the most vulnerable. ⬇️
buff.ly/ptK7c9O
March 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Disabled people have urged the government to fund “welfare not warfare,” after the chancellor confirmed plans for benefits cuts alongside an uptick in defence spending at the Spring Statement. 🚫 💷
Advocates have warned that the “cruel” cuts will harm the most vulnerable. ⬇️
buff.ly/ptK7c9O
Advocates have warned that the “cruel” cuts will harm the most vulnerable. ⬇️
buff.ly/ptK7c9O
So very sad to hear of the passing of @christinasnp.bsky.social. She was kind, approachable and cared so much about furthering human rights and equality in Scotland. A tremendous loss.
Christina McKelvie MSP (@christinasnp.bsky.social)
MSP for Hamilton Larkhall & Stonehouse
Scottish Government Minister for Drugs & Alcohol Policy.
Promoted by Christina McKelvie MSP at Barncluith Business Centre Townhead St Hamilton ML3 7DP
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christinasnp.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
So very sad to hear of the passing of @christinasnp.bsky.social. She was kind, approachable and cared so much about furthering human rights and equality in Scotland. A tremendous loss.
It’s nice to see Tunnock’s Teacakes sponsoring the return it earth of those stranded NASA astronauts.
They’ve no doubt been hankering after one for a while.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYt...
They’ve no doubt been hankering after one for a while.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYt...
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 Re-Entry and Splashdown
YouTube video by NASA
m.youtube.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
It’s nice to see Tunnock’s Teacakes sponsoring the return it earth of those stranded NASA astronauts.
They’ve no doubt been hankering after one for a while.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYt...
They’ve no doubt been hankering after one for a while.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDYt...
It’s almost like the last 15 years of austerity, cuts to public services, underfunding of councils and the NHS, poor and unregulated housing, minimal regulation of ultra processed food, pollution, the pandemic and lack of opportunities might be taking their toll on people. But let’s blame them.
March 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It’s almost like the last 15 years of austerity, cuts to public services, underfunding of councils and the NHS, poor and unregulated housing, minimal regulation of ultra processed food, pollution, the pandemic and lack of opportunities might be taking their toll on people. But let’s blame them.
Fascinating to read the account of Harriet Blessley, one of the NUWSS members who walked from Portsmouth to Hyde Park in 1913 demanding the right to vote, courtesy of Portsmouth University.
All the tensions of being part of a movement set out in her diary- combating misogyny, managing the police
All the tensions of being part of a movement set out in her diary- combating misogyny, managing the police
March 9, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Fascinating to read the account of Harriet Blessley, one of the NUWSS members who walked from Portsmouth to Hyde Park in 1913 demanding the right to vote, courtesy of Portsmouth University.
All the tensions of being part of a movement set out in her diary- combating misogyny, managing the police
All the tensions of being part of a movement set out in her diary- combating misogyny, managing the police
Wonderful to see recognition of Inez and all the badass women she inspired recognised in the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk yesterday. Although not sure about this @ppr-org.bsky.social “supported” malarkey. @ppr-org.bsky.social “supports” marginalised communities actively and enthusiastically to this day!
March 8, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Wonderful to see recognition of Inez and all the badass women she inspired recognised in the @belfasttelegraph.co.uk yesterday. Although not sure about this @ppr-org.bsky.social “supported” malarkey. @ppr-org.bsky.social “supports” marginalised communities actively and enthusiastically to this day!