Marisa McVey
@marisamcv.bsky.social
Academic at QUB School of Law • human rights • corporate accountability for human rights • (She/her)✨Views/hot takes unfortunately all my own✨
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Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Sheffield Hallam University complied with Beijing demand to halt research about human rights abuses in China, leading to a major project on supply chains and forced labour being dropped. It was reinstated after threat of legal action but chilling effect remains www.theguardian.com/education/20...
🇪🇺 📣 Is everyone bored of Brexit yet? 📣 🇪🇺
📖 If not, I have a forthcoming article in the Modern Law Review on the divergent approaches to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights post-Brexit.
📖 If not, I have a forthcoming article in the Modern Law Review on the divergent approaches to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights post-Brexit.
October 29, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🇪🇺 📣 Is everyone bored of Brexit yet? 📣 🇪🇺
📖 If not, I have a forthcoming article in the Modern Law Review on the divergent approaches to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights post-Brexit.
📖 If not, I have a forthcoming article in the Modern Law Review on the divergent approaches to implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights post-Brexit.
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After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
October 22, 2025 at 7:55 AM
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
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A day where law and justice feel far apart. But criminal law really struggles to function at 53 years of remove, when so many witnesses are dead. Injustice was assured when it took this long for the state to recognise its wrongdoing and start proceedings:
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
Not guilty: Soldier F cleared in Bloody Sunday murder trial
A former paratrooper has been cleared of two murders during the Bloody Sunday shootings in 1972.
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:55 AM
A day where law and justice feel far apart. But criminal law really struggles to function at 53 years of remove, when so many witnesses are dead. Injustice was assured when it took this long for the state to recognise its wrongdoing and start proceedings:
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/courts/...
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“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.”
Gift link:
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From Mexico to Ireland, Fury Mounts Over a Global A.I. Frenzy
www.nytimes.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
“In Ireland, data centers consume more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity. In Chile, precious aquifers are in danger of depletion. In South Africa, where blackouts have long been routine, data centers are further taxing the national grid.”
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
Gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...
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Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk
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The UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel: Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Absent a court judgment, findings of UN COIs are the most conclusive, thus we should read these findings thoroughly.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
www.ohchr.org
September 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel: Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Absent a court judgment, findings of UN COIs are the most conclusive, thus we should read these findings thoroughly.
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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"Sinn Féin and the DUP have stalled the nutrients action programme over fears of a farmer backlash."
The *only* thing they'll unite on: ensuring the largest lake ecosystem in Ireland or Britain, Lough Neagh, continues to die of pollution.
What a f**king disgrace.
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The *only* thing they'll unite on: ensuring the largest lake ecosystem in Ireland or Britain, Lough Neagh, continues to die of pollution.
What a f**king disgrace.
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‘It’s dying in front of our eyes’: how the UK’s largest lake became an ecological disaster
Signs tout a natural paradise, but pollution from over-farming has left Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh choked by toxic algae
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September 14, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"Sinn Féin and the DUP have stalled the nutrients action programme over fears of a farmer backlash."
The *only* thing they'll unite on: ensuring the largest lake ecosystem in Ireland or Britain, Lough Neagh, continues to die of pollution.
What a f**king disgrace.
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The *only* thing they'll unite on: ensuring the largest lake ecosystem in Ireland or Britain, Lough Neagh, continues to die of pollution.
What a f**king disgrace.
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It's ok to be a Luddite!
Does the AI skeptic have nothing else to fall back on than an enumeration of mankind’s shortcomings? Are our worst qualities the best we can do? www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
It's ok to be a Luddite!
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ITV have this headline 100% correct. It was an attempted lynching in broad daylight at a preannounced white supremacist mobilisation.
Despite being MLA for the area, the Justice Minister doesn’t engage with victims of white supremacist terror in her own constituency.
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Despite being MLA for the area, the Justice Minister doesn’t engage with victims of white supremacist terror in her own constituency.
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September 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
ITV have this headline 100% correct. It was an attempted lynching in broad daylight at a preannounced white supremacist mobilisation.
Despite being MLA for the area, the Justice Minister doesn’t engage with victims of white supremacist terror in her own constituency.
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Despite being MLA for the area, the Justice Minister doesn’t engage with victims of white supremacist terror in her own constituency.
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For context: Policy Exchange is among the least transparent think tanks in the UK regarding its funding sources.
Co-founder and first chairman Michael Gove wrote a pamphlet in 2000 comparing the Good Friday Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.
Co-founder and first chairman Michael Gove wrote a pamphlet in 2000 comparing the Good Friday Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.
September 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For context: Policy Exchange is among the least transparent think tanks in the UK regarding its funding sources.
Co-founder and first chairman Michael Gove wrote a pamphlet in 2000 comparing the Good Friday Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.
Co-founder and first chairman Michael Gove wrote a pamphlet in 2000 comparing the Good Friday Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.
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People from Northern Ireland listening to English flag discourse
August 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
People from Northern Ireland listening to English flag discourse
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Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
August 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
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The whole article is worth reading!
Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
August 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
The whole article is worth reading!
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Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
August 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.
#JournalismIsNotACrime
#JournalismIsNotACrime
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“The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland.”
A deadly serious allegation that requires urgent investigation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
A deadly serious allegation that requires urgent investigation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland.”
A deadly serious allegation that requires urgent investigation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
A deadly serious allegation that requires urgent investigation.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Yet another blog on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on climate change - with a slight twist!
Below, myself and Annalisa Savaresi share reflections specifically on the implications for human rights-based corporate responsibility 👇
Below, myself and Annalisa Savaresi share reflections specifically on the implications for human rights-based corporate responsibility 👇
The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: A Business and Human Rights Perspective
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The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: A Business and Human Rights Perspective
[Marisa McVey is a lecturer in law at Queen’s University Belfast. Annalisa Savaresi is professor of international environmental law at the Centre for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental …
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August 4, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Yet another blog on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on climate change - with a slight twist!
Below, myself and Annalisa Savaresi share reflections specifically on the implications for human rights-based corporate responsibility 👇
Below, myself and Annalisa Savaresi share reflections specifically on the implications for human rights-based corporate responsibility 👇
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A sit down protest by Palestinian solidarity groups has been blocking the road in front of City Hall for 2 hours now
July 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A sit down protest by Palestinian solidarity groups has been blocking the road in front of City Hall for 2 hours now
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“Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
Gaza extermination: Hasan should have turned three. Instead, he starved to death
Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed
www.middleeasteye.net
July 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“Israel is using starvation as a weapon of genocide in Gaza. The death of one child is not an accident, but the death of many is a crime the world has allowed.” www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...
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"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..."
Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
July 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..."
Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
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"Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday."
"She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."
"She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."
July 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
"Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday."
"She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."
"She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."
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‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’
New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Daniella Lock | Heavy Power
During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to...
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June 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’
New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
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Human Rights and Legal Organizations Warn Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and Partners of Legal Liability for Complicity with Serious International Law Violations: ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... @ccrjustice.org
Human Rights and Legal Organizations Warn Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and Partners of Legal Liability for Complicity with Serious International Law Violations
June 23, 2025, New York/Geneva - Today, a group of 15 leading human rights and legal organizations released an open letter urging an end to the current privatized, militarized aid delivery model opera
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June 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Human Rights and Legal Organizations Warn Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and Partners of Legal Liability for Complicity with Serious International Law Violations: ccrjustice.org/home/press-c... @ccrjustice.org
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Drs Ciara Hackett and @marisamcv.bsky.social introduced the second day of our Business and Human Rights workshops, taking us through the context in Northern Ireland and sharing the Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Index.
June 18, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Drs Ciara Hackett and @marisamcv.bsky.social introduced the second day of our Business and Human Rights workshops, taking us through the context in Northern Ireland and sharing the Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Index.