Ciara Bottomley
@ciarabottomley.bsky.social
Human rights in the EU. Media manager @amnesty.org
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🎙️ Out now! Ep. 9 of the #RECLAIM podcast "Post-truth be told"
🔊 From EU media–institution ties to new business models shaping policy.
🎤 Host: @alvarooleart.bsky.social | Guests:
@ciarabottomley.bsky.social, @paolatamma.bsky.social, @jameskanter.bsky.social
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/3Q9W...
🔊 From EU media–institution ties to new business models shaping policy.
🎤 Host: @alvarooleart.bsky.social | Guests:
@ciarabottomley.bsky.social, @paolatamma.bsky.social, @jameskanter.bsky.social
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/3Q9W...
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
🎙️ Out now! Ep. 9 of the #RECLAIM podcast "Post-truth be told"
🔊 From EU media–institution ties to new business models shaping policy.
🎤 Host: @alvarooleart.bsky.social | Guests:
@ciarabottomley.bsky.social, @paolatamma.bsky.social, @jameskanter.bsky.social
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/3Q9W...
🔊 From EU media–institution ties to new business models shaping policy.
🎤 Host: @alvarooleart.bsky.social | Guests:
@ciarabottomley.bsky.social, @paolatamma.bsky.social, @jameskanter.bsky.social
🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/3Q9W...
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"The #media should pick up on the divisive language that we are seeing coming out of the EU institutions. Rather than critiquing this vocabulary, the media often repeats it"
- @ciarabottomley.bsky.social (Media Manager, @amnesty.org) at our live podcast recording 🎙️
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- @ciarabottomley.bsky.social (Media Manager, @amnesty.org) at our live podcast recording 🎙️
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June 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
"The #media should pick up on the divisive language that we are seeing coming out of the EU institutions. Rather than critiquing this vocabulary, the media often repeats it"
- @ciarabottomley.bsky.social (Media Manager, @amnesty.org) at our live podcast recording 🎙️
/19
- @ciarabottomley.bsky.social (Media Manager, @amnesty.org) at our live podcast recording 🎙️
/19
This year @amnesty.org is launching its global report on human rights in Brussels!
Press conference not to be missed.
Details 👇
Press conference not to be missed.
Details 👇
📢Journalists!
@amnesty.org will hold its global launch of the State of the World’s Human Rights Report in Brussels.
🗓️April 28
🕐12:00 PM (CET)
📍The Press Club, Brussels Rue Froissart 95, 1040
RSVP: In-person ✉️secretary@pressclub.be
Online: amnesty-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
@amnesty.org will hold its global launch of the State of the World’s Human Rights Report in Brussels.
🗓️April 28
🕐12:00 PM (CET)
📍The Press Club, Brussels Rue Froissart 95, 1040
RSVP: In-person ✉️secretary@pressclub.be
Online: amnesty-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
April 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This year @amnesty.org is launching its global report on human rights in Brussels!
Press conference not to be missed.
Details 👇
Press conference not to be missed.
Details 👇
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Is the EU creating migration policy based on feelings rather than facts? @ciarabottomley.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtY...
Is the EU creating migration policy based on feelings rather than facts?
YouTube video by Jack Parrock
www.youtube.com
March 15, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Is the EU creating migration policy based on feelings rather than facts? @ciarabottomley.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtY...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtY...
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Today, @ec.europa.eu will announce new return proposals – paving the way for ‘return hubs’ or deportation centres outside the EU & widescale detention in Europe.
Unworkable, expensive and inhumane – here's why these proposals won’t work & what the EU should do instead🧵
Unworkable, expensive and inhumane – here's why these proposals won’t work & what the EU should do instead🧵
March 11, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Today, @ec.europa.eu will announce new return proposals – paving the way for ‘return hubs’ or deportation centres outside the EU & widescale detention in Europe.
Unworkable, expensive and inhumane – here's why these proposals won’t work & what the EU should do instead🧵
Unworkable, expensive and inhumane – here's why these proposals won’t work & what the EU should do instead🧵
Reposted by Ciara Bottomley
Today's EU proposals on return are a "new low", says @amnestyeu.bsky.social.
The @ec.europa.eu has caved to unworkable and inhumane demands of a few anti-migration govts.
Beyond return hubs, it sets out a disproportionate and punitive approach to returns that ignores all evidence.
bit.ly/3DyuTbB
The @ec.europa.eu has caved to unworkable and inhumane demands of a few anti-migration govts.
Beyond return hubs, it sets out a disproportionate and punitive approach to returns that ignores all evidence.
bit.ly/3DyuTbB
EU: Return proposals a “new low” for Europe’s treatment of migrants
Today, the European Commission introduced a proposed revision to the 2008 Return Directive, amending the EU legal framework on returns or deportations outside of the EU. Following pressure from certai...
www.amnesty.org
March 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today's EU proposals on return are a "new low", says @amnestyeu.bsky.social.
The @ec.europa.eu has caved to unworkable and inhumane demands of a few anti-migration govts.
Beyond return hubs, it sets out a disproportionate and punitive approach to returns that ignores all evidence.
bit.ly/3DyuTbB
The @ec.europa.eu has caved to unworkable and inhumane demands of a few anti-migration govts.
Beyond return hubs, it sets out a disproportionate and punitive approach to returns that ignores all evidence.
bit.ly/3DyuTbB
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Re: "The Brief – Never again?" published in @euractiv.com
Matthew Karnitschnig makes baseless & racist accusations which stoke anti-Muslim fear & hatred.
We cannot support a publication that promotes Islamophobic tropes & fails to learn from its mistakes. www.amnesty.eu/news/mainstr...
Matthew Karnitschnig makes baseless & racist accusations which stoke anti-Muslim fear & hatred.
We cannot support a publication that promotes Islamophobic tropes & fails to learn from its mistakes. www.amnesty.eu/news/mainstr...
Mainstreaming Islamophobia: When an editor goes rogue, the publisher cannot hide behind a disclaimer – European Institutions Office
In an open letter to the editor of Euractiv, Amnesty International responded to the ‘The Brief – Never again?‘ published on 27 January 2025. Dear sir, It is with shock but not surprise that we at Amne...
www.amnesty.eu
January 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Re: "The Brief – Never again?" published in @euractiv.com
Matthew Karnitschnig makes baseless & racist accusations which stoke anti-Muslim fear & hatred.
We cannot support a publication that promotes Islamophobic tropes & fails to learn from its mistakes. www.amnesty.eu/news/mainstr...
Matthew Karnitschnig makes baseless & racist accusations which stoke anti-Muslim fear & hatred.
We cannot support a publication that promotes Islamophobic tropes & fails to learn from its mistakes. www.amnesty.eu/news/mainstr...
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Apple hit by Belgian probe over ‘blood minerals’ from Congo on.ft.com/42lzGHn
Apple hit by Belgian probe over ‘blood minerals’ from Congo
[FREE TO READ] Lawyers for DRC allege iPhones and other electronics use minerals supplied by armed groups behind atrocities
on.ft.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Apple hit by Belgian probe over ‘blood minerals’ from Congo on.ft.com/42lzGHn
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Hello Bluesky! 👋
We are AmnestyEU & we advance human rights through our work with the EU institutions, the Council of Europe & their member states. If human rights in Europe is what you're into, follow us to keep up to date with it all!
We are AmnestyEU & we advance human rights through our work with the EU institutions, the Council of Europe & their member states. If human rights in Europe is what you're into, follow us to keep up to date with it all!
January 20, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Hello Bluesky! 👋
We are AmnestyEU & we advance human rights through our work with the EU institutions, the Council of Europe & their member states. If human rights in Europe is what you're into, follow us to keep up to date with it all!
We are AmnestyEU & we advance human rights through our work with the EU institutions, the Council of Europe & their member states. If human rights in Europe is what you're into, follow us to keep up to date with it all!
Or they could stop committing war crimes?
IDF restricts media coverage of soldiers to protect them from risk of legal action
IDF restricts media coverage of soldiers to protect them from risk of legal action
Israeli military’s new rules intended to protect reservists travelling overseas from facing allegations of war crimes
The Israeli military has placed new restrictions on media coverage of soldiers on active combat duty because of growing concern about…
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Or they could stop committing war crimes?
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Thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were forced to flee their homeland in the 1990s. Decades later, many remain in limbo, torn between dreams of repatriation and the harsh realities of statelessness.
Latest from Damak, Nepal with Rojita Adhikari: www.dw.com/en/bhutanese...
Latest from Damak, Nepal with Rojita Adhikari: www.dw.com/en/bhutanese...
Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: 'We want to return home' – DW – 12/19/2024
Thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were forced to flee their homeland in the 1990s. Decades later, many remain in limbo, torn between dreams of repatriation and the harsh realities of statelessnes...
www.dw.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were forced to flee their homeland in the 1990s. Decades later, many remain in limbo, torn between dreams of repatriation and the harsh realities of statelessness.
Latest from Damak, Nepal with Rojita Adhikari: www.dw.com/en/bhutanese...
Latest from Damak, Nepal with Rojita Adhikari: www.dw.com/en/bhutanese...
Already tired from creating *another* online personality.
January 8, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Already tired from creating *another* online personality.