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Rumyana van Ark
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Senior Researcher @tmcasser.bsky.social/ @uvalawschool.bsky.social

#HumanRights #internationalLaw #Counterterrorism #Extremism. Mum 🐥🐣 tri-lingual ruminations and (re-)posts all my own.
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It is difficult to stay positive and find meaning or silver lining most days. Running helps and I want to do something more with it. Any and all support much appreciated ❤️

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Ik ren tegen kanker tijdens de TREK Singelloop Utrecht. Steun jij mij met een donatie? Dankjewel!
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Hoping for slightly better weather tomorrow in #Utrecht for the #Singelloop! acties.kwf.nl/fundraisers/...
October 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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- Organisatons: ASEAN
- Organisations: Commonwealth of Independent States
- Bulk personal data acquisition

If you would be interested in writing one of these entries for the encyclopaedia, please do get in touch. Entries should be 2,000 words long, with a deadline of 30th September.
July 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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- Defining terrorism: North and Central America
- Terrorist organisations: UN sanctions regime
- Police powers: comparative pre-charge detention
- Emergency Powers Paradigm
- The war response
- The role of rights in counter-terrorism: right to life
July 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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line-up of contributors that includes @leejarvis.bsky.social @jamesfitz2.bsky.social @davidwellsct.bsky.social @rvanark.bsky.social @broderickmcdonald.bsky.social @conorgearty.bsky.social @muniramustaffa.bsky.social and many others.

We have nine entries left to commission, on the following topics:
July 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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**Call for contributors to the Elgar Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law**

@jessieblackbourn.bsky.social, @drkatyvaughan.bsky.social and I are compiling a new Concise Encyclopaedia of Terrorism Law, to be published by Edward Elgar. So far we have commissioned over 100 entries with a fantastic
July 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It is difficult to stay positive and find meaning or silver lining most days. Running helps and I want to do something more with it. Any and all support much appreciated ❤️

acties.kwf.nl/fundraisers/...
Rumyana van Ark
Ik ren tegen kanker tijdens de TREK Singelloop Utrecht. Steun jij mij met een donatie? Dankjewel!
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July 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Lots of strength needed indeedto be this despicably selfish
July 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Fabulous as ever / Прекрасно написано както винаги
„Кацнах на летище „Кенеди“ в Ню Йорк в два часа през нощта, ненавършила двайсет години. Десетилетие по-късно съм част от тъканта на Америка, тя е част от моята. Ежедневно се опитвам да разбера как точно се живее с това, какво означава. Особено в настоящето.”

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Гласовете на Америка – брой 4
Честит рожден ден, Америка! Всичко, което искаме да ти пожелаем, може да си го прочетеш в дълбоко личния материал на Йоанна Елми.
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July 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Ще се радвам да се абонирате, да четете и да пишете с отзиви и въпроси, но най-вече ще се радвам този поглед да е полезен във време, в което новините ни объркват и отчайват повече, отколкото ни информират и ни носят разбиране. Единствено това би имало смисъл за мен. 3/3
July 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Преди около два месеца започнах бюлетина/рубриката „Гласовете на Америка” в @toest.bg Текстовете вътре са и ще бъдат най-различни: понякога смешни, понякога лични, понякога новинарски, понякога дълги, понякога къси… Но винаги опит да разберем ребуса на Америка. 2/
July 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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„Кацнах на летище „Кенеди“ в Ню Йорк в два часа през нощта, ненавършила двайсет години. Десетилетие по-късно съм част от тъканта на Америка, тя е част от моята. Ежедневно се опитвам да разбера как точно се живее с това, какво означава. Особено в настоящето.”

www.toest.bg/glasovete-na...
Гласовете на Америка – брой 4
Честит рожден ден, Америка! Всичко, което искаме да ти пожелаем, може да си го прочетеш в дълбоко личния материал на Йоанна Елми.
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July 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This x 10000s
“I have a hard time watching journalists high-five each other over books on [the White House] covering up for Biden,” wrote the political scientist and scholar Norman Ornstein. It’s “a diversion from their own deep culpability in Trump’s election”.
May 17, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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📢 Europe’s counter-terrorism laws were designed for urgency, but what happens after the emergency? Thousands remain detained abroad, stripped of rights, and forgotten. Join us for a powerful discussion on #law, #justice, and the path forward.🔗Free ticket: bit.ly/4iS31hn

#Geopolitics #HumanRights
May 6, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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April 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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🔴 Early bird applications are now open!
Join us today for the advanced summer programme on counter-terrorism and the rule of law.
⌛ Register before 31 May and enjoy the early bird fee.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Yup funny how isn't it....
April 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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We can't be sure all people in THAT group chat knew where Yemen is, either.
March 25, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This closes a week tomorrow.
The University of Glasgow School of Law is recruiting for a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Administrative Law: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
March 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
March 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM
What is a big loss for @tmcasser.bsky.social is a big win for EU institutions
Today, we interviewed Paula Rodríguez Padilla. She completed her internship in the ‘In the public interest: accountability of the state and the prosecution of crimes’ strand with @rvanark.bsky.social and Tarik Gherbaoui.

Read the full interview
March 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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It was offensive but unserious the first few weeks. Now that the US admin is aligning with Russia, the analogies in the Canada/Ukraine threats sound much more ominous
Asked a Canadian diplomat in late January how the "51st state" rhetoric was being received in Ottawa.

He responded that the Canadian government was laughing it off, but was very concerned about the possibility of tariffs.

Ottawa's threat assessment seems to have changed.
I reported this in mid-Feb. But I did not know that the threat came from Trump himself.

"He told Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border ... was valid &...wants to revise the boundary. He offered no further explanation." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...?
March 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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1/ 🌍 Can the AI Act & EU copyright law truly work together? Or are we creating more challenges than solutions? 🤖📝
🔍 In our latest TL;DR podcast, @jpquintais.bsky.social explains the delicate balance between #AI & #TDM.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/ff471e14
📺 youtu.be/RxLu-OPShGA
#GenerativeAI #Copyright
March 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Important to take the week as a whole. Statement from Dominic Grieve:
March 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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It's impressive yet unbearably upsetting to watch Zelenskyy hold himself up under extreme pressure against vile bullying and deliberate belittling. All in front of the world's media as he had to translate these exchanges internally before replying clearly in a second language, and staying calm.
February 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM