Justin Winchester
@justinrw.bsky.social
DPhil candidate @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social — @rhodeshouse.ox.ac.uk scholar 🇿🇦 — researching (in)equality, poverty, & human rights duties — Blog editor @oxhrh.bsky.social
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We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.”
Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.
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Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.
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📣🏳️⚧️ Call for Papers
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
October 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.”
Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.
🏳️⚧️
Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.
🏳️⚧️
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“Like many others, we will continue to engage and, true to her spirit, also challenge her many ideas and insights.”
We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell.
You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell.
You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
“Like many others, we will continue to engage and, true to her spirit, also challenge her many ideas and insights.”
We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell.
You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
We are excited to share our new special issue which explores the work of late feminist scholar Drucilla Cornell.
You can read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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BREAKING: At least 51 Palestinians have been killed, including 27 aid seekers, in Israeli attacks across Gaza today.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lo8z7v
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lo8z7v
August 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
BREAKING: At least 51 Palestinians have been killed, including 27 aid seekers, in Israeli attacks across Gaza today.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lo8z7v
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lo8z7v
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A Saint Lucia court has struck down a law that criminalized same-sex relations.
Previously, same-sex activity was punishable with up to 10 years in prison.
Previously, same-sex activity was punishable with up to 10 years in prison.
July 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A Saint Lucia court has struck down a law that criminalized same-sex relations.
Previously, same-sex activity was punishable with up to 10 years in prison.
Previously, same-sex activity was punishable with up to 10 years in prison.
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BREAKING: The number of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-induced starvation in Gaza has risen to 147 people, including 88 children, says Gaza's health ministry.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ym2wr7
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ym2wr7
July 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
BREAKING: The number of Palestinians who have died from Israeli-induced starvation in Gaza has risen to 147 people, including 88 children, says Gaza's health ministry.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ym2wr7
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/ym2wr7
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I want to talk about disability & boundaries.
Last week I was being assisted by staff at a train station. We entered a lift, staff told me there was another dog in the lift & I said that was no problem.
Guide Dog Ava was a little sniffy & interested in the dog, so I gave the "leave it" command 1/
Last week I was being assisted by staff at a train station. We entered a lift, staff told me there was another dog in the lift & I said that was no problem.
Guide Dog Ava was a little sniffy & interested in the dog, so I gave the "leave it" command 1/
July 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I want to talk about disability & boundaries.
Last week I was being assisted by staff at a train station. We entered a lift, staff told me there was another dog in the lift & I said that was no problem.
Guide Dog Ava was a little sniffy & interested in the dog, so I gave the "leave it" command 1/
Last week I was being assisted by staff at a train station. We entered a lift, staff told me there was another dog in the lift & I said that was no problem.
Guide Dog Ava was a little sniffy & interested in the dog, so I gave the "leave it" command 1/
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BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 51 Palestinians, including 23 aid seekers, since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g6lam8
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g6lam8
July 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 51 Palestinians, including 23 aid seekers, since dawn, medical sources told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g6lam8
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/g6lam8
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This is called a concentration camp
NEW: Adults fighting kids for clean water, despondent toddlers and a child with swollen feet denied a medical exam - these first-hand accounts from immigrant families are offering a glimpse at conditions in TX detention centers. according to court filing.
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New insight into Texas family detention reveals adults fighting kids for clean water
A new court filing in an ongoing legal dispute with the federal government reveals the psychological and physical trauma endured by children and families held at Texas family detention centers.
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June 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This is called a concentration camp
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This is so cruel: literally targeting people doing their best to adhere to immigration procedure. We all know this has never been about 'security' or 'stopping bad guys'.
June 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This is so cruel: literally targeting people doing their best to adhere to immigration procedure. We all know this has never been about 'security' or 'stopping bad guys'.
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Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
Elbit Systems: war criminals and genocidaires face financial woes
“An unfortunate tendency to crash”
loom.ly
May 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Elbit systems is financially crashing internationally!
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
BDS pressure is the most direct way of depriving Israel’s genocidal military of the weapons it uses to massacre, maim, and forcibly displace Palestinians.
Read more: loom.ly/kzeePzo
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The UK Government has suspended UK-Israel free trade talks and committed to further restrictive measures — but it’s not enough.
The time for further action is now. End arms sales to Israel.
No weapons. No complicity. Not in our name.
#StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow
The time for further action is now. End arms sales to Israel.
No weapons. No complicity. Not in our name.
#StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow
May 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
The UK Government has suspended UK-Israel free trade talks and committed to further restrictive measures — but it’s not enough.
The time for further action is now. End arms sales to Israel.
No weapons. No complicity. Not in our name.
#StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow
The time for further action is now. End arms sales to Israel.
No weapons. No complicity. Not in our name.
#StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow
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🚨Who owns an AI-controlled company?
AI may soon create & run companies with no human involved. This raises urgent questions for transparency, accountability & #BeneficialOwnership laws.
Explore how rules must evolve 👉 bit.ly/4djoHBG...
AI may soon create & run companies with no human involved. This raises urgent questions for transparency, accountability & #BeneficialOwnership laws.
Explore how rules must evolve 👉 bit.ly/4djoHBG...
When AI runs a company, who is the beneficial owner? - Tax Justice Network
AI is likely being used to help register new companies and make company decisions, creating new challenges for beneficial ownership transparency
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May 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
🚨Who owns an AI-controlled company?
AI may soon create & run companies with no human involved. This raises urgent questions for transparency, accountability & #BeneficialOwnership laws.
Explore how rules must evolve 👉 bit.ly/4djoHBG...
AI may soon create & run companies with no human involved. This raises urgent questions for transparency, accountability & #BeneficialOwnership laws.
Explore how rules must evolve 👉 bit.ly/4djoHBG...
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BREAKING: At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
May 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
BREAKING: At least 140 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air attacks on the Gaza Strip since dawn on Sunday, medical sources have told Al Jazeera.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tgirl1
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A three-year study by Mining Affected Communities in Action has found that 11 mining companies have failed to meet the promises they made to their communities.
Read groundup.org.za/article/mini... by Magnificent Mndebele
Read groundup.org.za/article/mini... by Magnificent Mndebele
Mining companies are breaking their promises - and the state is doing nothing about it
MACUA report finds mining companies are not sticking to their Social and Labour Plans
groundup.org.za
May 15, 2025 at 7:09 AM
A three-year study by Mining Affected Communities in Action has found that 11 mining companies have failed to meet the promises they made to their communities.
Read groundup.org.za/article/mini... by Magnificent Mndebele
Read groundup.org.za/article/mini... by Magnificent Mndebele
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Fed up with electoralism? Looking for a better way to engage politically? This is an adaptation of an older subMedia zine that serves as a good introduction to direct action. 🧵1/10
March 5, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Fed up with electoralism? Looking for a better way to engage politically? This is an adaptation of an older subMedia zine that serves as a good introduction to direct action. 🧵1/10
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Judgment in IEJ case striking down the 🇿🇦 social relief of distress grant regulations, ordering the state to progressively increase the grant value & means threshold & remove barriers to access affecting millions of people, available 👇
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...
Institute for Economic Justice and Another v Minister of Social Development and Others (071891/2023) [2025] ZAGPPHC 29 (23 January 2025)
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February 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Judgment in IEJ case striking down the 🇿🇦 social relief of distress grant regulations, ordering the state to progressively increase the grant value & means threshold & remove barriers to access affecting millions of people, available 👇
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...
www.saflii.org/za/cases/ZAG...
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Unequal access to food - not food shortages - is the cause of #hunger in South Africa, say researchers, including IDS researcher Stephen Devereux.
They argue that the government must deliver on the constitutional right to food and explain how 👇
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/15-...
#FoodSecurity #G20
They argue that the government must deliver on the constitutional right to food and explain how 👇
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/15-...
#FoodSecurity #G20
15 million South Africans don’t get enough to eat every day: 4 solutions - Institute of Development Studies
At least 15 million South Africans suffer from food insecurity. That means they don’t have enough nutritious food to live healthy lives.
www.ids.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Unequal access to food - not food shortages - is the cause of #hunger in South Africa, say researchers, including IDS researcher Stephen Devereux.
They argue that the government must deliver on the constitutional right to food and explain how 👇
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/15-...
#FoodSecurity #G20
They argue that the government must deliver on the constitutional right to food and explain how 👇
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/15-...
#FoodSecurity #G20
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Renewed fighting around the city of Goma and across North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Without adequate access to water and basic resources, the risk of disease, is a threat.
A donation can help our teams respond: bit.ly/DRC__Appeal
Without adequate access to water and basic resources, the risk of disease, is a threat.
A donation can help our teams respond: bit.ly/DRC__Appeal
January 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Renewed fighting around the city of Goma and across North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Without adequate access to water and basic resources, the risk of disease, is a threat.
A donation can help our teams respond: bit.ly/DRC__Appeal
Without adequate access to water and basic resources, the risk of disease, is a threat.
A donation can help our teams respond: bit.ly/DRC__Appeal
"Where social and economic justice meet: South Africa’s SRD decision affirms a rights-based approach to poverty"
My latest blogpost for the Oxford Human Rights Hub (@oxhrh.bsky.social): ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/where-social...
My latest blogpost for the Oxford Human Rights Hub (@oxhrh.bsky.social): ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/where-social...
Where social and economic justice meet: South Africa’s SRD decision affirms a rights-based approach to poverty | OHRH
ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk
January 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
"Where social and economic justice meet: South Africa’s SRD decision affirms a rights-based approach to poverty"
My latest blogpost for the Oxford Human Rights Hub (@oxhrh.bsky.social): ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/where-social...
My latest blogpost for the Oxford Human Rights Hub (@oxhrh.bsky.social): ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/where-social...
My piece on #disability, #equality, and reasonable accommodation available in Constitutional Court Review XIV!
Inspired by David Graeber, that "the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently."
journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10....
Inspired by David Graeber, that "the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently."
journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10....
January 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
My piece on #disability, #equality, and reasonable accommodation available in Constitutional Court Review XIV!
Inspired by David Graeber, that "the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently."
journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10....
Inspired by David Graeber, that "the ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently."
journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10....
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An article I co-authored with Nomfundo Ramalekana on Rafoneke v Minister of Justice (arguably the worst judgement ever handed down by the Constitutional Court) has just been published. It's open access and can be accessed here: journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10....
January 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
An article I co-authored with Nomfundo Ramalekana on Rafoneke v Minister of Justice (arguably the worst judgement ever handed down by the Constitutional Court) has just been published. It's open access and can be accessed here: journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10....