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Fabien Goa
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Human rights researcher based in Marseille.
Work on migrants' rights, GCC migrants, sports & human rights. Also talk antiracism, borders, politics, MUFC
Diaspora Mauritian 🔴🔵🟡🟤
Cantona disciple 🔴⚪⚫ #Legacyfan SAF N2411 UTFR
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United! Top of the league! UNITED, UNITED top of the league 🇾🇪
Women's Super League table 14th September 2025 showing Manchester United in 1st position after 1-5 thrashing of London City Lionesses
September 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Salad Days
Minor Threat recreate iconic porch photo decades later
August 2, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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Sickening, yet fully on-brand for Starmer to recruit the editor under whose stewardship the Sun published a column calling for gunships to be deployed against drowning migrants & asylum seekers. A column the UN Human Rights Commissioner condemned as "inflammatory" & "reminiscent of Nazi propaganda"
Photo of Sun newspaper column from 2015 calling for gunships to be deployed against migrants and asylum seekers
July 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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On International Domestic Workers Day, human rights groups and trade unions demand end of domestic workers' exclusion from labour law protections in Saudi Arabia, abolishment of kafala and respect for migrants' human rights www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
We write to you on International Domestic Workers Day urging you to recognise and honour the vital role played by the 4M migrant domestic workers, including 1.2 million women, in sustaining economic, family and social life in Saudi Arabia, and helping to deliver Vision 2030. We call on you to take urgent, concrete measures to grant domestic workers equal protection under the labour law, as a first step towards ending their de facto segregation from Saudi society caused by tight restrictions on their freedom of movement and their resultant isolation. Many of our organizations support these women - they are our sisters, our friends and our neighbours - once they return from Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf. Too often we hear the same stories of extreme overwork and isolation, of degrading living conditions, and of cruel and criminal abuse – verbal, physical, and sexual – at the hands of private employers behind closed doors. Much of this abuse is rooted in negative stereotypes of Black African, South Asian and South-East Asian women. And these are patterns of abuse, not isolated incidents, as Amnesty International’s recent research has shown. We acknowledge the limited reforms your government has made to the kafala sponsorship system as part of Vision 2030. Nonetheless, many of those reforms did not apply to domestic workers owing to their exclusion from Labour Law protections guaranteed for other workers, so in reality most still need their employer’s permission to change jobs or leave the country, compounding the multiple human right risks this feminised workforce is routinely exposed to. Ultimately, the kafala system remains alive and well, directly enabling forced labour, fostering exploitation and perpetuating systemic racism. When women travel to Saudi Arabia for domestic work today, they enter a lottery hoping for the good fortune of being placed in a household where an employer is willing to show them fairness and respect for their work which exceeds what is currently guaranteed in law. And while the updated Regulations for Domestic Workers in 2023 do introduce higher standards on working hours and conditions, they still fall short of the labour law protections and without being effectively enforced through monitoring and inspection are likely to remain largely meaningless in practice. Despite previous outreach - including a letter from Amnesty International highlighting these patterns of abuse and requesting information on relevant legal reforms - no official response was received. The absence of a response is concerning and risks undermining public commitments to advancing the rights of women and migrant workers. 16th June 2025 marks 14 years since the adoption of ILO Domestic Workers Convention no. 189. It is long overdue that Saudi Arabia - which hosts one of the largest populations of migrant domestic workers - ratifies and implements this international standard. This failure demonstrates a lack of serious consideration for the exploitation of migrant domestic workers. The ratification and implementation of ILO Violence and Harassment Convention no. 190 is also fundamental to ensure comprehensive protection of domestic worker rights. While governments in migrants’ countries of origin must also do more to protect those who migrate and contribute so much to their country through remittances, the Government of Saudi Arabia bears primary responsibility for the treatment of everyone residing in the Kingdom. As a starting point and at a minimum, domestic workers must be afforded at least equal legal protection to all other workers, by being brought under the purview of the country’s labour law. Additionally, the Saudi government must send a strong message that abuse will no longer be tolerated and help to rebalance the power dynamic between domestic workers and their employers by enforcing strict monitoring and inspection measures and holding perpetrators accountable. Finally, we urge your government to fully abolish the…
June 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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L' OM, à jamais les premiers
Cantona, à jamais le Roi 👑
After Zidane et Basile Boli destroyed their reputations by saying they would be supporting PSG in the Champions League Final. OG Cantona confirmed his status as the greatest Marseillais wearing an Inter shirt making clear where his allegiance lies (as mentioned in this episode of Stadio, Inter shirts had sold out in Marseille two weeks ago)
May 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Same as it ever was
A. Sivanandan: "What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after"
May 14, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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It's been a minute (two decades?) since I felt obliged to begrudgingly respect anything Arsenal-related ... but, got to give credit where it's due, this #gunnersforpeace campaign is brilliant 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
ARSENAL IS A GREAT CLUB. WE HAVE STANDARDS. Which is why Visit Rwanda needs to end. This is the same regime that's funding a brutal militia committing atrocities against thousands of innocent victims in Eastern Congo.* We don’t want our club to sell its soul to the highest bidder. And we certainly don’t want to wear it on our sleeves. We think anything - literally anything - would be better than Visit Rwanda. Even TOTTENHAM. And what do we think of them? We’re Gunners for Peace, a group of proud gooners who want our club to hold itself to the values it claims. We’re part of this club. We know its history and its traditions. We love its work with young people and the local community. And this is why we believe that Visit Rwanda does not belong on our shirt. The Rwandan government is taking money away from its own people and giving it to a terrorist gang accused of brutal atrocities in the DRC, to make themselves rich and oppress their neighbours. They are also giving money to Arsenal in an effort to gain an appearance of respectability that they don’t deserve. The Visit Rwanda sponsorship is sportwashing in action, and it’s time for Arsenal to ditch it. We would rather wear anything else on our sleeves - even Tottenham. So we created the Visit Tottenham campaign to highlight just how wrong Visit Rwanda is. We want to make the board uncomfortable. We want to grab the attention of our fellow fans. We want to make some noise. There’s a difficult question that needs to be asked. Luckily the answer is very simple. End Visit Rwanda. Find somebody else.
April 24, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Besix subsidiary Six Construct, Q2022 Khalifa International Stadium (2015)
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
"While the abuses were under the direct supervision of Eversendai the main contractor, Midmac-Six Construct JV has overall responsibility for the World Cup site. Despite the provisions of the Workers’ Welfare Standards, which require the main contractor to ensure that sub-contractors are operating in line with the Standards, the Midmac–Six Construct JV did not examine the conditions in which Eversendai workers were living until months after the contract was agreed. Midmac-Six Construct was not aware of the labour supply company workers on the Khalifa site until Amnesty International raised the issue with them. Responding to the evidence that workers had been subjected to deceptive recruitment and delays in payment of salaries, the company said it asked companies to self-report on this issue. Although Amnesty International presented evidence that some of the men working for labour supply companies had been subjected to forced labour, and specifically that the powers given to employers under the sponsorship system to prevent workers leaving Qatar or, conversely, have them deported, had been used to threaten workers, Midmac-Six Construct JV did not respond to this issue"
March 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Besix, Six Construct, KSA2034 Aramco Stadium - "Besix said it had “made significant strides” in protecting workers’ rights wherever it operated, adding that sub-contractors were required to comply with welfare standards [...] It acknowledged that “some local contexts have proven challenging”.
"In a statement, Besix said it had “made significant strides” in protecting workers’ rights wherever it operated, adding that sub-contractors were required to comply with welfare standards that “encompassed the full spectrum of workers’ welfare, from safety and wages to living conditions”. It acknowledged that “some local contexts have proven challenging”, and had taken additional steps to improve these standards. “Our priority is to ensure that all workers are treated with dignity and fairness,” it said."
March 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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"but what about the railways ...?"
Picture of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer saying "there a famous slogan in the United Kingdom" at a press conference with US President Donald Trump
February 28, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Happy Cantona Day to all antifascists who celebrate.
30 years ago, my footballing hero came to town & gave us a lesson in how to deal with fascists, kung fu kicking a racist thug who'd assaulted an Asian man with a spanner & organised for the BNP & NF in my area.
Face au fascisme: contre attaque 👊🏾
Antifascist banner in Marseille with an image of Eric Cantona kung fu kicking a Nazi symbol, declaring "pas de terrain pour les racistes"
January 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Beautiful tradition #UTFR
the famous Brian McClair brawl between manchester united and arsenal Ryan Giggs peers disdainfully over a stricken Patrick Viera Garnacho, Mainoo and Ugarte deal with, as named by Harry Maguire, "cheating shithouse" Haavertz during the FA Cup victory over an apparently cultured team, otherwise known as Set Piece FC
January 13, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Utter contempt, dripping in racist colonial condescension
"France? Nothing good comes from it" Scene from classic film Touki Bouki
December 20, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way. Oh what fun it is to watch United win away!

Rejoice Reds, a saviour is born #UTFR
Rejoice! A saviour is born. Otherwise known as Amad Diallo, seen here celebrating his late minute winner over Manchester City
December 16, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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Saudi celebrations literally spelling it out for you in case you were under any illusions as to who runs FIFA, and football in 2024
Drone display at World Cup celebrations in Saudi Arabia forms the acronym of the MbS-tied Public Investment Fund, via which NUFC are owned and FIFA is largely funded
December 11, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Despite the 🇫🇷 gvmt's denialism, Nahel M’s killing cannot be divorced from the injustice of systemic racism in law enforcement, sustained by long-standing de facto impunity for
excessive use of force – including unlawful use of lethal force
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur21/6999/2023/en/
"Pour Nahel" graffiti in Marseill
July 13, 2023 at 10:04 PM