From housekeepers and migrant workers to factory workers, farmers, and home-makers, working women’s lives have been torn apart by the economic crisis. www.sundaytimes.lk/250105/news/... #SriLanka

Sri Lankan Filmmaker Sulochona Peiris talks about her latest documentary, which explores how contested religious sites incite complex ethnic tensions between Sri Lanka's Buddhist Sinhalese and Hindu Tamil communities.

Israeli forces have released images of a large number of its combat tanks, armoured vehicles and heavily armed soldiers storming the Beit Hanoon area in northern Gaza once again.

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Sth Korea has been through some horrific brutality. Makes the defeat of the recent presidential coup attempt all the sweeter knowing they honour the legacy of their hard won democracy 💜

As 2024 ends, we asked a few friends to share their top three reads this year. Thank you @vindi-b.bsky.social; Neloufer de Mel; @kirankgrewal.bsky.social; Ramya Jirasinghe; Apsara Karunaratne; Vihanga Perera & @ruvaniranasinha.bsky.social. What were your favourites?

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Legal Analysis:👇🏽

“*Amnesty’s legal position is consistent with the terms of the Genocide Convention

*Amnesty’s legal position is also consistent with the case law of the ICTY and the ICJ.

*Finally, Amnesty’s understanding of existing law is shared by States”

www.justsecurity.org/105629/amnes...

Khaled Nabhan’s death & a tweet by Omar_Gaza making me think again about how Muslim-ish men are read as terrorists. It’s simultaneously true that dominant/hegemonic masculinity should always be mistrusted, including by men; & that brown folks who are also men are not slaughterhouse animals.

2 yr Post-doc, Edinburgh-- Leverhulme-funded, ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law, c.1750-present’. Collaboration betw Prof Chloë Kennedy (Edinburgh), Prof Katie Barclay (Macquarie) and Dr Alice Krzanich (Aberdeen). elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #skystorians 🗃️ #c18th #c19th

Just saw that the meeting to decide the future of Syria doesn’t include a single Syrian representative. WTAF??

Foxes are incredible creatures—playful, intelligent, and vital to our ecosystems. They deserve to thrive in the wild, free from fear and cruelty. 🦊

Killing them for sport is barbaric and senseless. Let’s protect their joy and beauty.

'We invite papers that carefully engage with the genocide in Gaza and other places experiencing war and genocide, and examine how we can learn through them to challenge injustice and envision alternative futures.' deadline for EoI 13/1/25. thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

Don’t have words anymore. The world is unfathomable to me at the moment. But I’m watching and learning and hoping.

That the legal system too often becomes a second round of violation, abuse, and bullying is well known and still worth repeating.

Tomorrow!

It’s quite something when an organisation as careful and conservative in making legal findings as Amnesty says this.

Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza @amnestyuk.bsky.social
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

P. Sainath (People's Archive on Rural India) is speaking in Colombo on Wednesday 4th December at the Social Scientists' Association on India's 'Agrarian Crisis in the Age of Inequality'.