Virginia Mantouvalou
vmantouvalou.bsky.social
Virginia Mantouvalou
@vmantouvalou.bsky.social

Professor of Human Rights& Labour Law at UCL; Articles Editor, Modern Law Review; Co-Editor, UK Labour Law Blog; Chair of Kalayaan

https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/22589

Political science 57%
Sociology 19%
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And in relation to it, much looking forward to this event in Oxford tonight:

www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Symposium on 'Human Rights at Work: Reimagining
About the event Employment today is marked by deepening tensions: between worker autonomy and
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Join UCL Laws for an upcoming UCL Labour Rights Institute event:

📢 Class Struggle and the Law: An evening in conversation with Lord Hendy KC

📅 27 November 2025 | ⏰ 6pm | 🏛️ UCL Laws

🔗 Book for free www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Join us at UCL on Monday 17/11, 1-2pm, for an exciting event on 'Cities and Human Rights', with Marius Pieterse as a speaker, and Elena de Nictolis as commentator. I'm very much looking forward to chairing it.

www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Cities and Human Rights
Organised by the Human Rights Institute and the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.
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Join us for symposium on our book Human Rights at Work (with @thebigbogg.bsky.social, H Collins, ACL Davies) on 5 November, at the Bonavero Institute, Oxford, with Jeremias Adams-Prassl, Claire Darwin KC & Kate O' Regan. Chaired by @marijajovanovic.bsky.social

www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
Symposium on 'Human Rights at Work: Reimagining
About the event Employment today is marked by deepening tensions: between worker autonomy and
www.law.ox.ac.uk
Very proud of Joy* a long-standing member of Kalayaan's campaign group, winning the Human Trafficking Foundation Award for Best Opinion Piece on Modern Slavery in parliament earlier this week.

Read Joy's story here:

metro.co.uk/2025/04/07/t...

#AntiSlaveryDay #ModernSlavery #SurvivorLeadership

A typically powerful and very alarming piece by Conor Gearty on domestic courts and the Human Rights Act:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act
The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...
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A true honour that my monograph, Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights, is shortlisted for the Inner Temple Book Prize 2025, a triennial book prize for outstanding authorship.

It is shortlisted with three other outstanding books by Sean Coyle, @aileenkavanagh.bsky.social &Liron Shmilovits

Do you want to help transform the lives of migrant domestic workers? Kalayaan is recruiting for 6 types of volunteer roles this autumn. If you are passionate about justice and human rights, we want to hear from you: www.kalayaan.org.uk/get-involved...
Volunteer for Kalayaan | Kalayaan
Kalayaan is a small London based charity which works to provide practical advice and support to, as well as campaign with and for, the rights of migrant domestic workers in the UK.
www.kalayaan.org.uk

Grateful for such a thoughtful review of my monograph on Structural Injustice and Workers' Rights, together with Robert Goodin's and @maevemckeown.bsky.social's books on structural injustice, by Ashley Dodsworth in the European Journal of Political Theory.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
New approaches to structural injustice - Ashley Dodsworth, 2025
This piece seeks to explore three recent works on structural injustice: Virgina Mantouvalou’s Structural Injustice and Worker’s Rights (2023); Robert Goodin’s P...
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Last month @kalayaan.org.uk had a special event in Parliament, "Breaking the Silence". Domestic workers under the Overseas Domestic Worker Visa shared their experience on the effects of the visa and the need for change. Grateful to all speakers and to Lord German who opened the afternoon.
We're hiring at @laws.ucl.ac.uk: full rank search in corporate and financial law, from lecturer (assistant prof) to associate and full prof. Multiple posts. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Great to see the Overseas Domestic Worker visa and the work of Kalayaan covered in ITV news with such a powerful clip.

Very grateful also to Baroness Helena Kennedy for her support.
Powerful footage from @itvnews.bsky.social shows exploitation suffered by migrant domestic workers inLondon due to the terms of their visa. Thanks to Ronke Phillips for highlighting scale of injustice & Helena Kennedy for explaining how amendments to Govts Borders Bill would create much neededchange
Powerful footage from @itvnews.bsky.social shows exploitation suffered by migrant domestic workers inLondon due to the terms of their visa. Thanks to Ronke Phillips for highlighting scale of injustice & Helena Kennedy for explaining how amendments to Govts Borders Bill would create much neededchange

Today I donated to MamaSuze to honour the memory of Annabel Rook, who dedicated her life to helping others.

MamaSuze support survivors of displacement and domestic violence through workshops.

Read about Annabel Rook and donate if you can:

www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...
Donate to For MamaSuze: In Memory of Annabel Rook, organized by Alex Bloom
Annabel was a shining light who dedicated her life to supporting others. She spent … Alex Bloom needs your support for For MamaSuze: In Memory of Annabel Rook
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Watch this video by @zoejardiniere.bsky.social to learn more about migrant domestic workers in the UK and the work of @kalayaan.org.uk

Thank you for you support, Zoe.

Thanks so much for joining us today, Zoe, and for making this video.

Happy International Domestic Workers Day!

Thank you so much for joining us at today’s event to mark #DomesticWorkersDay, Hina.
Great to be at House of Lords today for #DomesticWorkersDay. Migrants who enter legally for work often face illegal exploitative employment with no path to identity recognition. Lord German's amendment on right to work is crucial - we need government to show humanity and care.
Happy International Domestic Workers Day
to @kalayaan.org.uk @voiceofdws.bsky.social ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=J19w...
Did Labour FORGET about domestic workers?
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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Great to be at House of Lords today for #DomesticWorkersDay. Migrants who enter legally for work often face illegal exploitative employment with no path to identity recognition. Lord German's amendment on right to work is crucial - we need government to show humanity and care.
We've had a wonderful afternoon celebrating #InternationalDomesticWorkersDay with our community and allies @focusonlabour.bsky.social @effat.org @zrinka.bsky.social & others. Stay tuned for more from us this week as we continue our work to restore rights to this workforce 💪
📗 Hot off the UCL Press! This week marked their 20 millionth download, and it was 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘐𝘯𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘸 co-edited by UCL Laws' @vmantouvalou.bsky.social along with @jowolff.bsky.social.
🔓 The book is available via Open Access @uclpress.bsky.social: uclpress.co.uk/book/structu...
Structural Injustice and the Law
In developing her conception of structural injustice, Iris Marion Young made a strict distinction between large-scale collective injustice that results from the normal functions of a society, and the ...
uclpress.co.uk
Some lovely news. @uclpress.bsky.social has just had its 20 millionth open access download. And the download in question was Structural Injustice and the Law, edited by @vmantouvalou.bsky.social and myself.

uclpress.co.uk/book/structu...
Structural Injustice and the Law
In developing her conception of structural injustice, Iris Marion Young made a strict distinction between large-scale collective injustice that results from the normal functions of a society, and the ...
uclpress.co.uk

We had an excellent @laws.ucl.ac.uk event on the Report on the labour rights of incarcerated people with the UN Special Rapporteur Professor Tomoya Obokata.

Thanks very much to the Rapporteur and contributors Mario Guido, @hadassanoorda.bsky.social and Marija Jovanovic.
Tomorrow: @ucl.ac.uk online event with the UN Special Rapporteur Prof Tom Obokata on contemporary slavery affecting incarcerated people.

Speakers incl. Mario Guido, @vmantouvalou.bsky.social, @hadassanoorda.bsky.social, and chaired by Dr Marija Jovanovic.
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www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
ONLINE | UN Special Rapporteur on ‘Contemporary Forms of Slavery Affecting Incarcerated People'
Exploring the affects on Currently and Formerly Incarcerated People
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Important investigatory journalism on working conditions in immigration detention in Denmark reveals asylum seekers may be working in conditions of forced labour, contrary to international standards.

Glad to have discussed findings for article below (in Danish).

www.information.dk/indland/2025...
Eksperter: Forholdene på Udrejsecenter Ellebæk minder om tvangsarbejde
Frihedsberøvede udlændinge arbejder for en løn ned til seks kroner i timen, så de kan ringe til deres familier. Eksperter sætter spørgsmålstegn ved arbejdets frivillighed. Kriminalforsorgen afviser kr...
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Final Version:

225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right

Text & signatories here -

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer
OPEN LETTER: 225 UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer
New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right
www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com