Lucy Harry
lucyharry.bsky.social
Lucy Harry
@lucyharry.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Law & Society @ucalgary.bsky.social 🍁🏔️
Research associate @dpruoxford.bsky.social
📚death penalty, drug policy, migration & gender
📢 New article out where we examine bans on female migrant workers from Indonesia travelling abroad in response to executions in the Middle East. Spoiler alert - they are ineffectual & do not signal an abolitionist stance @dpruoxford.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
A Permanent Maid Moratorium: The Death Penalty in The Middle East and Female Migrant Workers From Indonesia
While existing research has examined travel bans as a result of the abuse of migrant workers, here they are analysed in relation to capital punishment. Focusing on female migrant workers travelling t...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Excited to see the final report published! It was great to work on this. With thanks to @benbradford.bsky.social @tobyseddon.bsky.social and others!

www.bbc.com/news/article...
London mayor backs report calling for cannabis decriminalisation - BBC News
The London Drugs Commission is calling for possession of cannabis for personal use to be decriminalised.
www.bbc.com
May 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reposted by Lucy Harry
At the time of this attached statement, the number of executed Canadians in China was unknown.

Recent statements from Global Affairs are that four Canadians have been executed in China this year.

The death penalty must be abolished.
Amnesty International Canada ‘devastated’ by reports of Canadians executed in China
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 19 March 2025
open.substack.com
March 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Reposted by Lucy Harry
On #InternationalWomensDay2025 Lucy Harry writes about foreign national women sentenced to death in #Malaysia

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/death-penalt...
International Women's Day: Foreign national women and the postcolonial death penalty
blogs.law.ox.ac.uk
March 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Looking forward to speaking at this event for #internationalwomensday @dpruoxford.bsky.social
Saturday @ 12:30PM EST, join us for a live webinar on women & abolition of the death penalty. Speakers include Sandra Babcock (of @cornelllaw.bsky.social ), Lucy Harry ( @lucyharry.bsky.social of @dpruoxford.bsky.social ) and Roja Fazaeli (of @uniofgalway.bsky.social ):

amnesty.ca/activism-gui...
March 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM