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Isabella Leroy
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Researcher / Economic Migrant / Islamo-Gauchiste • Postdoc at Gent University with the DISSECT project • Human rights, migration law and refugee camps 🍉
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🖋️ The Call for Papers for the "What Truth? Evidence as Politics in Human Rights Courts" conference is out!

📅 7-9 Sept 2026 in Tarragona (Spain).

📜 The conference examines the role of truth-seeking in international human rights adjudication.

🔗 More info: dissect.ugent.be/events/inter...
Call for Papers for the International Conference 'What Truth? Evidence as Politics in Human Rights Courts'. Full conference call for papers is available here: https://dissect.ugent.be/events/international-conference/
October 27, 2025 at 1:37 PM
isabellaleroy.bsky.social
Regularisation as an undocumented person has never been easy in France, but the Circulaire Retailleau has made it even more difficult, with absurd effects on the ground

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« On pêche pour vivre » : avec les pêcheurs informels du Vieux Port de Cayenne, entre débrouille et réglementation
Retrouvez sur StreetPress nos enquêtes & infos, sur Paris et en banlieue. Et découvrez chaque jour les lieux et les gens qui font l’actu urbaine en Île-de-France.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
isabellaleroy.bsky.social
Hard not to see the parallels with ICE decreasing the age of recruitment and offering attractive salaries... For people who want the thrill of "hunting" people on the move

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Chez France Travail, Frontex promet « de la chasse » de migrants pour recruter
Retrouvez sur StreetPress nos enquêtes & infos, sur Paris et en banlieue. Et découvrez chaque jour les lieux et les gens qui font l’actu urbaine en Île-de-France.
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October 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
isabellaleroy.bsky.social
Refusons d'oublier ce qu'il s'est passé à Paris il y a 62 ans jour pour jour, lorsque l'Etat a réprimé dans le sang la manifestation des indépendantistes algériens (100-200 morts).

Rassemblement aujourd'hui, à partir de 18h, sur le pont Saint-Michel à Paris.
sandeepbak.bsky.social Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · Oct 17
As we discuss how we remember & who we forget in regimes of memorialisation, might I point you to resources on 17 October 1961 - a significant date in French colonial history: French police drowned Algerian freedom fighters in the Seine. Lest we forget!
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October 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
isabellaleroy.bsky.social
⏰One day left to apply for this conference!
isabellaleroy.bsky.social Isabella Leroy @isabellaleroy.bsky.social · Aug 6
✍ Call for Papers: 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲

Please share within your networks and submit an abstract!

Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 September 2025.

🗒️ More info: dissect.ugent.be/call-for-pap...
CfP: “Evidence Matters Before Regional Human Rights Courts: The African Court in Critical and Comparative Perspective” (Pretoria, 11–13 May 2026) Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, this Conference investigates a key but understudied element of international human rights judicial proceedings – evidence. How is the factual basis of a human rights claim (to be) evidenced? Which party benefits when facts remain uncertain? Can the evidentiary inequality of arms between the parties be redressed? Is the purpose of evidence to find the truth – and if so, which truth? Although the Conference focuses on the African Court, we are also interested in studies which address the broader sphere of international human rights adjudication, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies. Organising Committee: Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Cornelia Klocker and Vera Wriedt (at Ghent University); Frans Viljoen and Mumbi Gichuhi (at the University of Pretoria). More information at: https://dissect.ugent.be/call-for-papers-for-our-pretoria-conference-11-13-may-2026-please-submit-your-abstract-by-30-september-2025/
September 29, 2025 at 11:29 AM
isabellaleroy.bsky.social
Two weeks left to apply!
humanrightshere.bsky.social Human Rights Here @humanrightshere.bsky.social · Aug 18
📣 Call for Papers: Evidence Matters Before the Regional Human Rights Courts

Marking 20 years of African Court, Ghent Uni & Uni of Pretoria invite abstracts (300) words on evidence in IHRL adjudication.

🗓️ 30 Sep 2025 to dissect.erc@ugent.be, info: lnkd.in/d-rKiJt3

#AfCHPR, #Evidence, #Conference
September 11, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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✍ Call for Papers: 𝗘𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗕𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝘀: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲

Please share within your networks and submit an abstract!

Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 September 2025.

🗒️ More info: dissect.ugent.be/call-for-pap...
CfP: “Evidence Matters Before Regional Human Rights Courts: The African Court in Critical and Comparative Perspective” (Pretoria, 11–13 May 2026) Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, this Conference investigates a key but understudied element of international human rights judicial proceedings – evidence. How is the factual basis of a human rights claim (to be) evidenced? Which party benefits when facts remain uncertain? Can the evidentiary inequality of arms between the parties be redressed? Is the purpose of evidence to find the truth – and if so, which truth? Although the Conference focuses on the African Court, we are also interested in studies which address the broader sphere of international human rights adjudication, including the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies. Organising Committee: Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, Cornelia Klocker and Vera Wriedt (at Ghent University); Frans Viljoen and Mumbi Gichuhi (at the University of Pretoria). More information at: https://dissect.ugent.be/call-for-papers-for-our-pretoria-conference-11-13-may-2026-please-submit-your-abstract-by-30-september-2025/
August 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…
July 21, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong.

This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
saulstaniforth.bsky.social Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · Jun 24
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.

Well said.
June 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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There are so many chilling lines in this piece but the one I can’t stop thinking about as a Black woman is, “Only after she was legally dead did doctors do everything in their power to keep her body alive”. Thank you @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social for speaking this painful truth.
audrelawdamercy.bsky.social Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · Jun 20
Adriana Smith was brushed off when she went to the hospital in pain

She was braindead within hours

That was in February. Doctors performed a c-section on her on Friday.

They kept her on life support for months in order to avoid violating Georgia's abortion ban

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Georgia’s Abortion Ban Just Forced a Brain-Dead Woman On Life Support to Give Birth
The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs upended decades of settled law. Adriana Smith and her family paid the price
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June 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM