Rossella De Falco
@rosselladefalco.bsky.social
Human rights, health, global health and international development. Ph.D. in Human Rights (Uni Padova), Head of Right to Health Campaign at Just Fair (UK). I also play the harp and sing but that's another story
Come get my #job! As I am moving on to a new adventure, the great team at Just Fair is looking for a new Strategic Lead for the Right to Health Campaign. Deadline #30June please apply or #share widely!
Could you be our new Strategic Lead for our Right to Health campaign?
We are seeking a dynamic strategic lead to drive the next phase of our campaign and advance the right to health in the UK.
📍Home based (near London)
💷 £43,000 - £45,000
⏰ 30 June
Apply now 👇
justfair.org.uk/about-us/vac...
We are seeking a dynamic strategic lead to drive the next phase of our campaign and advance the right to health in the UK.
📍Home based (near London)
💷 £43,000 - £45,000
⏰ 30 June
Apply now 👇
justfair.org.uk/about-us/vac...
Vacancies | Just Fair
Vacancies at Just Fair!
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June 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
here's a new blog about mental health and human rights
🗣️ It’s the start of #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek. Our new blog explores how poverty, insecurity, and policy failures are harming mental health — and why only a rights-based approach can deliver real change.
🔗 justfair.org.uk/mental-healt...
🔗 justfair.org.uk/mental-healt...
Mental health - It’s time to talk about rights | Just Fair
This Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re focusing on mental health as a human rights issue. Good mental health doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It is deeply influenced by people’s access to secure housing, ...
justfair.org.uk
May 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
here's a new blog about mental health and human rights
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Join us in one week for a free training on the right to health! Learn how to use the toolkit to campaign for health justice🏥✊
🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Campaigning for the right to health: Tools to support civil society
Open session for civil society organisations and activists in England
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Join us in one week for a free training on the right to health! Learn how to use the toolkit to campaign for health justice🏥✊
🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
How to campaign for the right to health? Learn our new publication to find out how to engage with policy-makers at all levels, from local to global, to defend the right to health in the #UK.
🩺 Today we launch our new ‘right to health toolkit’ — a practical guide to help individuals and organisations campaign for health justice across the UK. Explore how rights can support your work
justfair.org.uk/the-...
justfair.org.uk/the-...
May 7, 2025 at 2:45 PM
How to campaign for the right to health? Learn our new publication to find out how to engage with policy-makers at all levels, from local to global, to defend the right to health in the #UK.
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📃 Our new UN submission argues economic policy must serve human rights, not override them.
From the 2-child limit to disability benefit reforms, current decisions are deepening poverty. A rights-based approach centred on dignity is urgently needed.
📚 Read our blog
justfair.org.uk/we-m...
From the 2-child limit to disability benefit reforms, current decisions are deepening poverty. A rights-based approach centred on dignity is urgently needed.
📚 Read our blog
justfair.org.uk/we-m...
We must ground policies in a rights-based approach | Just Fair
In our latest submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Just Fair argues that it’s time to flip the script: economic policy must be designed to support human rights, not override them. At the heart of this is the need for a rights-based framework centred on social protection – one […]
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May 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
📃 Our new UN submission argues economic policy must serve human rights, not override them.
From the 2-child limit to disability benefit reforms, current decisions are deepening poverty. A rights-based approach centred on dignity is urgently needed.
📚 Read our blog
justfair.org.uk/we-m...
From the 2-child limit to disability benefit reforms, current decisions are deepening poverty. A rights-based approach centred on dignity is urgently needed.
📚 Read our blog
justfair.org.uk/we-m...
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🩺 Join us for a free training on the right to health! Learn how to use human rights tools to hold the UK Government accountable for health inequalities.
Featuring our new toolkit, campaign tips & more. 🏥✊
🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Featuring our new toolkit, campaign tips & more. 🏥✊
🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Campaigning for the right to health: Tools to support civil society
Open session for civil society organisations and activists in England
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🩺 Join us for a free training on the right to health! Learn how to use human rights tools to hold the UK Government accountable for health inequalities.
Featuring our new toolkit, campaign tips & more. 🏥✊
🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
Featuring our new toolkit, campaign tips & more. 🏥✊
🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
excellent opportunity!
Check out our CfP for our first ESIL pre-conference workshop! As we are the youngest IG, we would be grateful for your support and interest in our events, so please consider submitting your 🔥 abstracts (and share the call 🤭)
Friends, we are happy to share our CfP for the ESIL pre-conference workshop, which will take place in September in Berlin. This event will mark the official launch of our IG. We would be delighted to see many of you there 🥳
Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL
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Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL
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April 2, 2025 at 9:24 AM
excellent opportunity!
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✊ In South West England, we’ve launched ‘Racial Justice through Human Rights’ with Black South West Network, to use human rights to tackle discrimination and disadvantage faced by Black and Minoritised communities
📚 Read more justfair.org.uk/racial-justi...
📚 Read more justfair.org.uk/racial-justi...
Racial Justice through Human Rights | Just Fair
A new community programme working for positive social change with Black and Minoritised people in South West England. In January 2025, Just Fair submitted a report to the United Nations Committee on E...
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March 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
✊ In South West England, we’ve launched ‘Racial Justice through Human Rights’ with Black South West Network, to use human rights to tackle discrimination and disadvantage faced by Black and Minoritised communities
📚 Read more justfair.org.uk/racial-justi...
📚 Read more justfair.org.uk/racial-justi...
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🌍 This week the head of our right to health campaign - @rosselladefalco.bsky.social is speaking at this webinar on climate change, health, & international law, looking at how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.
📆 20 February, 4pm
law.mpg.de/event/cli...
📆 20 February, 4pm
law.mpg.de/event/cli...
Climate Change and Health - Max Planck Law
This webinar examines the intersection of climate change, health, and public international law, focusing on how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.
law.mpg.de
February 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🌍 This week the head of our right to health campaign - @rosselladefalco.bsky.social is speaking at this webinar on climate change, health, & international law, looking at how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.
📆 20 February, 4pm
law.mpg.de/event/cli...
📆 20 February, 4pm
law.mpg.de/event/cli...
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Featuring speakers:
🎤 Alicia Ely Yamin (@hls.harvard.edu/ @harvardchanschool.bsky.social)
🎤 Cecile de Villiers (Uni Cape Town)
🎤 @crisroseroa.bsky.social (@reprorights.bsky.social)
🎤 Nairita Roy Chaudhuri (Tilburg Law School & Oslo University)
🎤 @rosselladefalco.bsky.social (@justfairuk.bsky.social)
🎤 Alicia Ely Yamin (@hls.harvard.edu/ @harvardchanschool.bsky.social)
🎤 Cecile de Villiers (Uni Cape Town)
🎤 @crisroseroa.bsky.social (@reprorights.bsky.social)
🎤 Nairita Roy Chaudhuri (Tilburg Law School & Oslo University)
🎤 @rosselladefalco.bsky.social (@justfairuk.bsky.social)
February 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Featuring speakers:
🎤 Alicia Ely Yamin (@hls.harvard.edu/ @harvardchanschool.bsky.social)
🎤 Cecile de Villiers (Uni Cape Town)
🎤 @crisroseroa.bsky.social (@reprorights.bsky.social)
🎤 Nairita Roy Chaudhuri (Tilburg Law School & Oslo University)
🎤 @rosselladefalco.bsky.social (@justfairuk.bsky.social)
🎤 Alicia Ely Yamin (@hls.harvard.edu/ @harvardchanschool.bsky.social)
🎤 Cecile de Villiers (Uni Cape Town)
🎤 @crisroseroa.bsky.social (@reprorights.bsky.social)
🎤 Nairita Roy Chaudhuri (Tilburg Law School & Oslo University)
🎤 @rosselladefalco.bsky.social (@justfairuk.bsky.social)
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Organized by @mpil.de, @maxplancklaw.bsky.social, and Harvard Law School's @petrieflomcenter.bsky.social, this webinar brings together global perspectives on law, climate change, and public health.
Don't miss it! 🌍⚖️
Don't miss it! 🌍⚖️
February 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Organized by @mpil.de, @maxplancklaw.bsky.social, and Harvard Law School's @petrieflomcenter.bsky.social, this webinar brings together global perspectives on law, climate change, and public health.
Don't miss it! 🌍⚖️
Don't miss it! 🌍⚖️
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📢 Join us for the webinar "Climate Change & Health: Mobilizing Public International Law Into Action" on Feb 20, 2025, at 17:00 CET! Experts will discuss how international law addresses health vulnerabilities in the climate crisis.
🔗 Register by Feb 18: law.mpg.de/event/climat...
🔗 Register by Feb 18: law.mpg.de/event/climat...
Climate Change and Health - Max Planck Law
This webinar examines the intersection of climate change, health, and public international law, focusing on how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.
law.mpg.de
February 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
📢 Join us for the webinar "Climate Change & Health: Mobilizing Public International Law Into Action" on Feb 20, 2025, at 17:00 CET! Experts will discuss how international law addresses health vulnerabilities in the climate crisis.
🔗 Register by Feb 18: law.mpg.de/event/climat...
🔗 Register by Feb 18: law.mpg.de/event/climat...
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We have written to the @theguardian.com w/ @hrw.org about the UN review of the UK’s human rights record tomorrow.
The UN is grilling the UK on poverty, housing & workers’ rights—because the system is failing. It's time for our everyday rights to be in UK law.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The UN is grilling the UK on poverty, housing & workers’ rights—because the system is failing. It's time for our everyday rights to be in UK law.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Tackling child poverty in Britain must be made a priority | Letters
Letters: Andrew Forsey highlights a simple policy change that would provide much-needed meals, while Stewart Lansley says poverty and inequality are umbilically linked. Plus a letter from Jess McQuail...
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
We have written to the @theguardian.com w/ @hrw.org about the UN review of the UK’s human rights record tomorrow.
The UN is grilling the UK on poverty, housing & workers’ rights—because the system is failing. It's time for our everyday rights to be in UK law.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The UN is grilling the UK on poverty, housing & workers’ rights—because the system is failing. It's time for our everyday rights to be in UK law.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The Laurel Prize is Open for Submissions! 📢
The Laurel Prize 2025 is now open until 1 May 2025 for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025.
Judges: @kathleenjamie.bsky.social (Chair), Daljit Nagra & @carolinelucas.bsky.social.
Find out more & submit here: laurelprize.com
The Laurel Prize 2025 is now open until 1 May 2025 for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025.
Judges: @kathleenjamie.bsky.social (Chair), Daljit Nagra & @carolinelucas.bsky.social.
Find out more & submit here: laurelprize.com
Laurel Prize for Poetry in Association with Poetry School
The Laurel Prize as an annual award for the best collection of nature or environmental poetry to highlight the climate crisis and raise awareness.
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February 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Laurel Prize is Open for Submissions! 📢
The Laurel Prize 2025 is now open until 1 May 2025 for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025.
Judges: @kathleenjamie.bsky.social (Chair), Daljit Nagra & @carolinelucas.bsky.social.
Find out more & submit here: laurelprize.com
The Laurel Prize 2025 is now open until 1 May 2025 for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025.
Judges: @kathleenjamie.bsky.social (Chair), Daljit Nagra & @carolinelucas.bsky.social.
Find out more & submit here: laurelprize.com
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This week the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights will be reviewing the UK to assess how well our everyday rights are protected here at home.
This review takes place every 5-7 years and is significant opportunity to shine a spotlight on our broken system.
🧵A thread #CESCR2025 1/6
This review takes place every 5-7 years and is significant opportunity to shine a spotlight on our broken system.
🧵A thread #CESCR2025 1/6
February 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This week the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights will be reviewing the UK to assess how well our everyday rights are protected here at home.
This review takes place every 5-7 years and is significant opportunity to shine a spotlight on our broken system.
🧵A thread #CESCR2025 1/6
This review takes place every 5-7 years and is significant opportunity to shine a spotlight on our broken system.
🧵A thread #CESCR2025 1/6
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Please join us on 20 February!!
🌍 Join the head of our right to health campaign, @rosselladefalco.bsky.social for this webinar examining the intersection of climate change, health, and law, focusing on how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.
📆 20 February, 4pm
law.mpg.de/event/cli...
📆 20 February, 4pm
law.mpg.de/event/cli...
Climate Change and Health - Max Planck Law
This webinar examines the intersection of climate change, health, and public international law, focusing on how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.
law.mpg.de
February 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Please join us on 20 February!!
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🚨 This Human Rights Day we are launching our new report on the right to health in the UK.
This report could not be more timely; it looks at how the right to health has been eroded across the UK and proposes some solutions.
🧵 A thread 1/9
justfair.org.uk/the-right-to...
This report could not be more timely; it looks at how the right to health has been eroded across the UK and proposes some solutions.
🧵 A thread 1/9
justfair.org.uk/the-right-to...
December 10, 2024 at 12:00 PM
🚨 This Human Rights Day we are launching our new report on the right to health in the UK.
This report could not be more timely; it looks at how the right to health has been eroded across the UK and proposes some solutions.
🧵 A thread 1/9
justfair.org.uk/the-right-to...
This report could not be more timely; it looks at how the right to health has been eroded across the UK and proposes some solutions.
🧵 A thread 1/9
justfair.org.uk/the-right-to...
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Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?
Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?
Research into the disease has never been more far-reaching, but there is little consensus as to what is causing the rocketing rates of diagnosis in young adults
In 2022, around 16% of the 20 million people with cancer worldwide were under 50. Cancer has…
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?
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💬 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's @annamarriott.bsky.social:
"Oxfam has been raising the alarm about the IFC’s investments in private healthcare for well over a decade. Their response, alongside the other development banks, has been inexcusably lackluster."
"Oxfam has been raising the alarm about the IFC’s investments in private healthcare for well over a decade. Their response, alongside the other development banks, has been inexcusably lackluster."
💬 "Some families said that corpses of relatives were held at IFC-backed hospitals until they could pull together sufficient funds."
Shocking revelations in @bloomberg.com regarding patients’ rights abuses in IFC-funded private hospitals.
MUST READ 🚨⬇️
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Shocking revelations in @bloomberg.com regarding patients’ rights abuses in IFC-funded private hospitals.
MUST READ 🚨⬇️
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Patients Detained, Denied Care at Hospitals Funded by World Bank
Billions of taxpayer dollars invested in for-profit facilities from Africa to Asia were supposed to improve access to healthcare. But stories of abuses have piled up.
www.bloomberg.com
January 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
💬 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's @annamarriott.bsky.social:
"Oxfam has been raising the alarm about the IFC’s investments in private healthcare for well over a decade. Their response, alongside the other development banks, has been inexcusably lackluster."
"Oxfam has been raising the alarm about the IFC’s investments in private healthcare for well over a decade. Their response, alongside the other development banks, has been inexcusably lackluster."
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Join us for an event to mark the UK's review by the UN and discuss what should happen next.
Keynote speaker is Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on poverty.
📍 Friends House, London.
📆 Thu 13 Mar 13:00-17:00
🎟️ Get your free tickets now
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rights-for...
Keynote speaker is Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on poverty.
📍 Friends House, London.
📆 Thu 13 Mar 13:00-17:00
🎟️ Get your free tickets now
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rights-for...
January 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join us for an event to mark the UK's review by the UN and discuss what should happen next.
Keynote speaker is Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on poverty.
📍 Friends House, London.
📆 Thu 13 Mar 13:00-17:00
🎟️ Get your free tickets now
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rights-for...
Keynote speaker is Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on poverty.
📍 Friends House, London.
📆 Thu 13 Mar 13:00-17:00
🎟️ Get your free tickets now
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rights-for...
I am very pleased to share this event in London!! Please come along, it would be amazing - including some health content
Join us for an event to mark the UK's review by the UN and discuss what should happen next.
Keynote speaker is Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on poverty.
📍 Friends House, London.
📆 Thu 13 Mar 13:00-17:00
🎟️ Get your free tickets now
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rights-for...
Keynote speaker is Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on poverty.
📍 Friends House, London.
📆 Thu 13 Mar 13:00-17:00
🎟️ Get your free tickets now
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rights-for...
January 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I am very pleased to share this event in London!! Please come along, it would be amazing - including some health content
Check out our new submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Right on the status of economic, social and cultural rights in the #UK!
🚨PUBLISHED TODAY🚨Our new submission to the UN on the state of everyday rights across the UK – points to a broken system, with the situation only getting worse. 1/5
justfair.org.uk/submission-t...
justfair.org.uk/submission-t...
January 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Check out our new submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Right on the status of economic, social and cultural rights in the #UK!
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Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution
Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution
Campaigners say pollution levels in street in Herne Hill were far higher when private schools were open
Parents driving children to private schools is associated with a 27% increase in air pollution and congestion in a south London street, according to…
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution