Irene Manganini
@irenemanganini.bsky.social
Fromerly self-appointed Francesca Albanese's official Bsky reposter (then I couldn't bear being on Twitter/X anymore)
international law PhD candidate @Geneva Graduate Institute /🌈 queer theory and migration law / əəə
international law PhD candidate @Geneva Graduate Institute /🌈 queer theory and migration law / əəə
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Israel will not agree to a two-state solution so the UK may as well recognize Palestine now.
Keir Starmer says UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution – UK politics live
Starmer says UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution – UK politics live
Downing Street has issues its readout of today’s cabinet meeting on Gaza.
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Israel will not agree to a two-state solution so the UK may as well recognize Palestine now.
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Reposted by Irene Manganini
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
July 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?
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Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to law.research@ncl.ac.uk by 7 July.
June 12, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to law.research@ncl.ac.uk by 7 July.
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please please please no one write or publish a blog post on whether (and under which circumstances) Israel has the right to attack this vessel
Freedom Flotilla’s Madleen reaches Egypt, organisers say
Israeli media says activists face detention if they fail to comply with Israeli army orders.
www.aljazeera.com
June 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
please please please no one write or publish a blog post on whether (and under which circumstances) Israel has the right to attack this vessel
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I fucked around (sent abstracts) and found out (that I now have to write things)
June 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I fucked around (sent abstracts) and found out (that I now have to write things)
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Whoever did that, knows academia far too well.
May 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Whoever did that, knows academia far too well.
We wrote a thing about academic silencing of Palestine within the (feminist/queer) refugee law community. Hope you enjoy the read 🍉
feministiqa.net/en/you-canno...
feministiqa.net/en/you-canno...
You cannot pinkwash genocide: Why the (queer) refugee law studies community should be talking about Palestine – and why it is not - Feministiqa
You cannot pinkwash genocide: Why the (queer) refugee law studies community should be talking about...
feministiqa.net
May 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
We wrote a thing about academic silencing of Palestine within the (feminist/queer) refugee law community. Hope you enjoy the read 🍉
feministiqa.net/en/you-canno...
feministiqa.net/en/you-canno...
And suddenly being in academia kinda makes sense again.
#judithbutler
"There is no aspect of queer liberation that cannot be coopted and turned against us. We have to be ready for reappropriation... [1/2]"
#judithbutler
"There is no aspect of queer liberation that cannot be coopted and turned against us. We have to be ready for reappropriation... [1/2]"
April 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
And suddenly being in academia kinda makes sense again.
#judithbutler
"There is no aspect of queer liberation that cannot be coopted and turned against us. We have to be ready for reappropriation... [1/2]"
#judithbutler
"There is no aspect of queer liberation that cannot be coopted and turned against us. We have to be ready for reappropriation... [1/2]"
Francesca Albanese's mandate as "UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967" has been renewed 💥
April 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Francesca Albanese's mandate as "UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967" has been renewed 💥
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If you share our concerns about travelling to the LSA in the current climate, please considering signing and sharing this open letter to the LSA Executive Committee.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1O2F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1O2F...
docs.google.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If you share our concerns about travelling to the LSA in the current climate, please considering signing and sharing this open letter to the LSA Executive Committee.
docs.google.com/forms/d/1O2F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/1O2F...
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Biggest thing I will not miss about the global realignment away from the US: the whims of floating voters in swing states deciding the lives and deaths of villagers in South Sudan.
March 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
👇👇👇
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In response to Poland's disproportionate, unnecessary & unlawful decision to temporarily suspend asylum,
@ec.europa.eu's silence speaks volumes.
@adrianatidona.bsky.social tells @euobserver.com the law does nothing to address border security, only penalizing refugees & migrants.
@ec.europa.eu's silence speaks volumes.
@adrianatidona.bsky.social tells @euobserver.com the law does nothing to address border security, only penalizing refugees & migrants.
EU cites security in semi-endorsement of new Polish anti-asylum law
The European Commission appears to be endorsing a new Polish law that strips away the right to asylum for most people entering in from Belarus.
euobserver.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In response to Poland's disproportionate, unnecessary & unlawful decision to temporarily suspend asylum,
@ec.europa.eu's silence speaks volumes.
@adrianatidona.bsky.social tells @euobserver.com the law does nothing to address border security, only penalizing refugees & migrants.
@ec.europa.eu's silence speaks volumes.
@adrianatidona.bsky.social tells @euobserver.com the law does nothing to address border security, only penalizing refugees & migrants.
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In the past months, I have been thinking a lot about the systematic suppression of freedom of expression worldwide.
Thanks to the NQHR for the opportunity to further elaborate some thoughts originally shared in a post published by the Geneva Graduate Institute
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thanks to the NQHR for the opportunity to further elaborate some thoughts originally shared in a post published by the Geneva Graduate Institute
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
March 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
In the past months, I have been thinking a lot about the systematic suppression of freedom of expression worldwide.
Thanks to the NQHR for the opportunity to further elaborate some thoughts originally shared in a post published by the Geneva Graduate Institute
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Thanks to the NQHR for the opportunity to further elaborate some thoughts originally shared in a post published by the Geneva Graduate Institute
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I had not posted a quote by Francesca Albanese in a while, so here it is, this time for the bureaucrats.
Primo Levi, incidentally, was a Holocaust survivor who committed suicide because of survivor's guilt and because of what he saw as indifference to the horrors his people had gone through.
Primo Levi, incidentally, was a Holocaust survivor who committed suicide because of survivor's guilt and because of what he saw as indifference to the horrors his people had gone through.
March 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I had not posted a quote by Francesca Albanese in a while, so here it is, this time for the bureaucrats.
Primo Levi, incidentally, was a Holocaust survivor who committed suicide because of survivor's guilt and because of what he saw as indifference to the horrors his people had gone through.
Primo Levi, incidentally, was a Holocaust survivor who committed suicide because of survivor's guilt and because of what he saw as indifference to the horrors his people had gone through.
HANG IT IN THE LOUVRE.
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
(President of Mexico on International Women’s Day)
March 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Absolutely brilliant piece by @marinavelickovic.bsky.social on the current crisis in the discipline of international law (and many other things). I liked it so much that I even left what was surely the first and hopefully the last public comment in a blog.
Also, free Palestine.
Also, free Palestine.
This could have been a Tweet, or: On the politics of signing things
In the wake of the Iraq war, a group of international lawyers published an open letter in the Guardian, framing their opposition to the invasion in
criticallegalthinking.com
March 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Absolutely brilliant piece by @marinavelickovic.bsky.social on the current crisis in the discipline of international law (and many other things). I liked it so much that I even left what was surely the first and hopefully the last public comment in a blog.
Also, free Palestine.
Also, free Palestine.
Absolutely can't get over the fact that Alice Wiedel is married to a Sri Lankan woman, has two kids and lives outside of Germany.
Oh yes, but no to migration, to non-traditional families, yes to nationalism.
Contradictions and hypocrises do no longer matter if you are a white fascist populist.
Oh yes, but no to migration, to non-traditional families, yes to nationalism.
Contradictions and hypocrises do no longer matter if you are a white fascist populist.
February 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Absolutely can't get over the fact that Alice Wiedel is married to a Sri Lankan woman, has two kids and lives outside of Germany.
Oh yes, but no to migration, to non-traditional families, yes to nationalism.
Contradictions and hypocrises do no longer matter if you are a white fascist populist.
Oh yes, but no to migration, to non-traditional families, yes to nationalism.
Contradictions and hypocrises do no longer matter if you are a white fascist populist.
This (and all the rest of the thread).
I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.
February 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This (and all the rest of the thread).
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❗Update: The Polish Parliament approved the law allowing the temporary suspension of the right to asylum under the current government's "new migration strategy".
February 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I pointed out that evoking the world’s most notorious criminal organization in the context of Israel might spark yet another diplomatic uproar. “Oh, yeah,” she replied. “Let me stir controversy. It’s good. People pay attention.”
Ancora una volta, signore e signori e signor3, Francesca Albanese🔥
Ancora una volta, signore e signori e signor3, Francesca Albanese🔥
In other words, Go to your room, Donald.
newrepublic.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I pointed out that evoking the world’s most notorious criminal organization in the context of Israel might spark yet another diplomatic uproar. “Oh, yeah,” she replied. “Let me stir controversy. It’s good. People pay attention.”
Ancora una volta, signore e signori e signor3, Francesca Albanese🔥
Ancora una volta, signore e signori e signor3, Francesca Albanese🔥
One more powerful quote from Francesca Albanese to be assured once again that somebody out there is still brave enough to speak up 🌳
February 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
One more powerful quote from Francesca Albanese to be assured once again that somebody out there is still brave enough to speak up 🌳
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Must-read for anyone considering attending ESIL this year at FU Berlin👇
"International Law is being dismantled before our eyes, [...] Let us put aside, for a moment, the unfinished writings and applications and make sure that Francesca Albanese is allowed to speak in Germany!"
"International Law is being dismantled before our eyes, [...] Let us put aside, for a moment, the unfinished writings and applications and make sure that Francesca Albanese is allowed to speak in Germany!"
February 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Must-read for anyone considering attending ESIL this year at FU Berlin👇
"International Law is being dismantled before our eyes, [...] Let us put aside, for a moment, the unfinished writings and applications and make sure that Francesca Albanese is allowed to speak in Germany!"
"International Law is being dismantled before our eyes, [...] Let us put aside, for a moment, the unfinished writings and applications and make sure that Francesca Albanese is allowed to speak in Germany!"
Meanwhile in Germany the police prevents a debate between Amnesty International and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese from happening.
Amnesty International.
UN Special Rapporteur.
Rendiamoci conto.
Amnesty International.
UN Special Rapporteur.
Rendiamoci conto.
February 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Meanwhile in Germany the police prevents a debate between Amnesty International and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese from happening.
Amnesty International.
UN Special Rapporteur.
Rendiamoci conto.
Amnesty International.
UN Special Rapporteur.
Rendiamoci conto.
Francesca Albanese is not on Bluesky yet, so here is a recently published article meant to illustrate the importance of the newly established The Hague Group: www-thenation-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.then...
The Hague Group Must Become a Global Initiative
www-thenation-com.cdn.ampproject.org
February 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Francesca Albanese is not on Bluesky yet, so here is a recently published article meant to illustrate the importance of the newly established The Hague Group: www-thenation-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.then...