Cynthia ☁️
@mcynthiaf.bsky.social
Aspiring barrister and academic, currently @ the Inns of College of Advocacy. LLM Public International Law (LSE), BA Law (Cambridge University). Interested in decolonial critique of International Law & indigenous rights. All views my own. ☕️ Free 🇵🇸
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
📣 Urgent, please share 📣
We urgently need a pro bono barrister or IAA Level 3 Advisor to represent our Family team client at a remote bail review hearing tomorrow at 11.30 am.
If you can help, please email familyteam@biduk.org.
We urgently need a pro bono barrister or IAA Level 3 Advisor to represent our Family team client at a remote bail review hearing tomorrow at 11.30 am.
If you can help, please email familyteam@biduk.org.
June 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📣 Urgent, please share 📣
We urgently need a pro bono barrister or IAA Level 3 Advisor to represent our Family team client at a remote bail review hearing tomorrow at 11.30 am.
If you can help, please email familyteam@biduk.org.
We urgently need a pro bono barrister or IAA Level 3 Advisor to represent our Family team client at a remote bail review hearing tomorrow at 11.30 am.
If you can help, please email familyteam@biduk.org.
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
Jan 2024: The International Court of Justice orders Israel to protect Palestinians from the risk of genocide
Dec 2024: @amnesty.org finds sufficient evidence to conclude that Israeli authorities’ conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide
May 2025: The UK government ⬇️
Dec 2024: @amnesty.org finds sufficient evidence to conclude that Israeli authorities’ conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide
May 2025: The UK government ⬇️
May 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Jan 2024: The International Court of Justice orders Israel to protect Palestinians from the risk of genocide
Dec 2024: @amnesty.org finds sufficient evidence to conclude that Israeli authorities’ conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide
May 2025: The UK government ⬇️
Dec 2024: @amnesty.org finds sufficient evidence to conclude that Israeli authorities’ conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide
May 2025: The UK government ⬇️
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
I wonder if people realise that Labour's new level for English language proficiency testing would exclude roughly two thirds of the population, UK born that is, across classes, across sectors and across regions. It's a ridiculous level to claim is needed.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Husband fears missing childbirth due to Labour’s new English proficiency test
Immigration plans to increase language requirement could prevent Armenian man from joining British wife
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I wonder if people realise that Labour's new level for English language proficiency testing would exclude roughly two thirds of the population, UK born that is, across classes, across sectors and across regions. It's a ridiculous level to claim is needed.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
Armed reprisals are illegal.
Armed reprisals between nuclear States are insane.
Shut it down.
Armed reprisals between nuclear States are insane.
Shut it down.
Breaking News: India said it had conducted strikes on Pakistan, two weeks after militants killed more than 24 civilians in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
India Says It Struck Pakistan Two Weeks After Terrorist Attack
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Armed reprisals are illegal.
Armed reprisals between nuclear States are insane.
Shut it down.
Armed reprisals between nuclear States are insane.
Shut it down.
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
From last week: Asylum Aid wins High Court challenge to the statelessness family reunion rules | Djamilla Hitchins
Asylum Aid wins High Court challenge to the statelessness family reunion rules - Free Movement
Asylum Aid’s legal challenge to the lawfulness of the statelessness family reunion rules has been comprehensively upheld. The judgement was handed down by the
freemovement.org.uk
May 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
From last week: Asylum Aid wins High Court challenge to the statelessness family reunion rules | Djamilla Hitchins
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
Time to see this sort of thing for what it is - a concerted and deeply sinister attempt to intimidate and delegitimise lawyers standing up for powerless and marginalised people
Where would you find “arguably the most radically effective cell of left-wing activists in Britain”? A trade union? An undercover protest group?
No. The answer, according to Ross Clark in today’s Spectator, is Garden Court Chambers, a set of London barristers. rozenberg.substack.com/p/a-cell-of-...
No. The answer, according to Ross Clark in today’s Spectator, is Garden Court Chambers, a set of London barristers. rozenberg.substack.com/p/a-cell-of-...
A cell of left-wing activists?
Or a group of professionals representing their clients
rozenberg.substack.com
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Time to see this sort of thing for what it is - a concerted and deeply sinister attempt to intimidate and delegitimise lawyers standing up for powerless and marginalised people
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
Do you know why it was determined that States should not intercept people while they are in the water? Because it significantly increases the risk of people drowning. That's it. It was meant to preserve life, and now Cooper is celebrating getting that changed.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
We’ve persuaded France to change rules to stop migrants reaching Britain, Cooper says
France has agreed to intervene to stop migrants boarding dinghies in French waters in change of policy, UK home secretary says
www.independent.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Do you know why it was determined that States should not intercept people while they are in the water? Because it significantly increases the risk of people drowning. That's it. It was meant to preserve life, and now Cooper is celebrating getting that changed.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
Following the UN World Food Programme's alarming announcement that stocks in the Gaza Strip have run out, we urge all relevant actors to clearly recognise that the international crimes of starvation, persecution, extermination and genocide are on a continuum - statement lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...
April 28, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Following the UN World Food Programme's alarming announcement that stocks in the Gaza Strip have run out, we urge all relevant actors to clearly recognise that the international crimes of starvation, persecution, extermination and genocide are on a continuum - statement lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
April 26, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
“We are being depleted.”
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for an eighth week.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for an eighth week.
UN says its food stocks in Gaza completely ‘depleted’ amid Israeli blockade
More than 400,000 people who rely on UN-supplied meals will be affected, WFP warns.
aje.io
April 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“We are being depleted.”
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for an eighth week.
The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says its food stocks in Gaza are completely depleted, as Israel’s aid blockade continues for an eighth week.
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
"This week, John and seven other Brazilian workers – all identified simply as John Doe 1-8 for fear of retaliation – filed a civil lawsuit in the US against Starbucks, with the support of International Rights Advocates (IRA), seeking financial compensation." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘Morally repugnant’: Brazilian workers sue coffee supplier to Starbucks over ‘slavery-like conditions’
Brazil has been the world’s leading coffee producer due to the forced labour of enslaved Africans and Afro-Brazilians
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"This week, John and seven other Brazilian workers – all identified simply as John Doe 1-8 for fear of retaliation – filed a civil lawsuit in the US against Starbucks, with the support of International Rights Advocates (IRA), seeking financial compensation." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
🚨 Urgent call out please share 🚨
We are in urgent need of a probono immigration barrister / IAA Level 3 advisor to represent our client at Yarl’s Wood in person at 10am on Friday 25 April.
If you are able to help please email familyteam@biduk.org.
We are in urgent need of a probono immigration barrister / IAA Level 3 advisor to represent our client at Yarl’s Wood in person at 10am on Friday 25 April.
If you are able to help please email familyteam@biduk.org.
April 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🚨 Urgent call out please share 🚨
We are in urgent need of a probono immigration barrister / IAA Level 3 advisor to represent our client at Yarl’s Wood in person at 10am on Friday 25 April.
If you are able to help please email familyteam@biduk.org.
We are in urgent need of a probono immigration barrister / IAA Level 3 advisor to represent our client at Yarl’s Wood in person at 10am on Friday 25 April.
If you are able to help please email familyteam@biduk.org.
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
The Home Office is recording an average of 10 assaults a day on asylum seekers in its care, according to internal government data obtained using freedom of information laws www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ten assaults a day on asylum seekers in Home Office care, figures reveal
Exclusive: There were 380 safeguarding referrals of victims of hate crimes from January 2023 to August 2024
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
The Home Office is recording an average of 10 assaults a day on asylum seekers in its care, according to internal government data obtained using freedom of information laws www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
"I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility ... to help the needy, to fight hunger and to encourage initiatives that promote development. These are the “weapons” of peace: weapons that build the future, instead of sowing seeds of death!"
May he rest in peace.
May he rest in peace.
April 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"I appeal to all those in positions of political responsibility ... to help the needy, to fight hunger and to encourage initiatives that promote development. These are the “weapons” of peace: weapons that build the future, instead of sowing seeds of death!"
May he rest in peace.
May he rest in peace.
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
Almost 250 people have been imprisoned for breaching antisocial behaviour injunctions since 2020, with people jailed for sleeping rough, begging, feeding birds & making a noise and 57% lacking legal representation at hearing leading to imprisonment, research finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Concern over asbis after report finds people jailed for sleeping rough and feeding birds
Exclusive: Analysis of antisocial behaviour injunctions found 57% of people had no legal representation at breach hearings that led to imprisonment
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Almost 250 people have been imprisoned for breaching antisocial behaviour injunctions since 2020, with people jailed for sleeping rough, begging, feeding birds & making a noise and 57% lacking legal representation at hearing leading to imprisonment, research finds www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
“The Palestinian-Christian community that has been there for 2,000 years cannot go there to celebrate and mark this where it all happened.”
Israeli restrictions this year have been the toughest, says Palestinian pastor Mitri Raheb.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/43r4oe
Israeli restrictions this year have been the toughest, says Palestinian pastor Mitri Raheb.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/43r4oe
April 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“The Palestinian-Christian community that has been there for 2,000 years cannot go there to celebrate and mark this where it all happened.”
Israeli restrictions this year have been the toughest, says Palestinian pastor Mitri Raheb.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/43r4oe
Israeli restrictions this year have been the toughest, says Palestinian pastor Mitri Raheb.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/43r4oe
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
I want to say this again, and clearly.
I spoke to three KCs, and we were formally advised by two, at Premier League sets who said FWS's case was clearly wrong, and one said not even arguable. 1/2
I spoke to three KCs, and we were formally advised by two, at Premier League sets who said FWS's case was clearly wrong, and one said not even arguable. 1/2
April 18, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I want to say this again, and clearly.
I spoke to three KCs, and we were formally advised by two, at Premier League sets who said FWS's case was clearly wrong, and one said not even arguable. 1/2
I spoke to three KCs, and we were formally advised by two, at Premier League sets who said FWS's case was clearly wrong, and one said not even arguable. 1/2
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
In just under a decade in the UK, we have witnessed increased hostile reporting of trans folk, a rise in anti-trans hate crimes, blocks on health care for youth wanting to transition and judicial decisions that curtail trans people’s freedoms in public. We can and must do better to challenge it all.
April 17, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In just under a decade in the UK, we have witnessed increased hostile reporting of trans folk, a rise in anti-trans hate crimes, blocks on health care for youth wanting to transition and judicial decisions that curtail trans people’s freedoms in public. We can and must do better to challenge it all.
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010
The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country
www.wearequeeraf.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010
www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
Update: we are just over $900 away from closing out this emergency! Please, if you have it in your hearts and wallets, contribute!
Otherwise please share wherever you think it will help!
#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan #mutualaid
Otherwise please share wherever you think it will help!
#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan #mutualaid
April 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Update: we are just over $900 away from closing out this emergency! Please, if you have it in your hearts and wallets, contribute!
Otherwise please share wherever you think it will help!
#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan #mutualaid
Otherwise please share wherever you think it will help!
#KeepEyesOnSudan #Sudan #mutualaid
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
A thread in which I try to show some of the harmful practical effects on the quality of its analysis of the Supreme Court's appalling and delegitimating decision to exclude all trans voices from a judgment with profound effects on trans people's lives.
Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.
April 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A thread in which I try to show some of the harmful practical effects on the quality of its analysis of the Supreme Court's appalling and delegitimating decision to exclude all trans voices from a judgment with profound effects on trans people's lives.
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
Solidarity with trans and non-binary folk today and everyday.
We will continue to fight for a world where trans and non-binary lives flourish without condition.
🏳️⚧️
We will continue to fight for a world where trans and non-binary lives flourish without condition.
🏳️⚧️
No government or court ruling can legitimately decide who I am - or, indeed, who I am not.
April 16, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Solidarity with trans and non-binary folk today and everyday.
We will continue to fight for a world where trans and non-binary lives flourish without condition.
🏳️⚧️
We will continue to fight for a world where trans and non-binary lives flourish without condition.
🏳️⚧️
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
So much anti-trans litigation is not about the legal outcome. The litigation instead is a political strategy designed to foster a public atmosphere of hostility and anxiety for trans people and frame trans rights as an abstract debate. We must keep resisting this institutionalisation of transphobia.
The United Kingdom's top court will issue a ruling on the legal definition of a woman under equality laws, a case that could have far-reaching implications for the fractious debate over transgender rights reut.rs/3Y3J3IR
UK's highest court to rule on definition of 'woman' under equality laws
The United Kingdom's top court will issue a ruling on Wednesday on the legal definition of a woman under equality laws, a case that could have far-reaching implications for the fractious debate over transgender rights.
reut.rs
April 16, 2025 at 6:50 AM
So much anti-trans litigation is not about the legal outcome. The litigation instead is a political strategy designed to foster a public atmosphere of hostility and anxiety for trans people and frame trans rights as an abstract debate. We must keep resisting this institutionalisation of transphobia.
Reposted by Cynthia ☁️
Yesterday I was emailed by a barrister: "In my network I have on average one trans suicide per month. Its devastating and a genoicde of a whole group of people."
Those in the trans community know this is true. Wes Streeting's vigorous attempts to suppress this reality is unforgiveable.
Those in the trans community know this is true. Wes Streeting's vigorous attempts to suppress this reality is unforgiveable.
April 16, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Yesterday I was emailed by a barrister: "In my network I have on average one trans suicide per month. Its devastating and a genoicde of a whole group of people."
Those in the trans community know this is true. Wes Streeting's vigorous attempts to suppress this reality is unforgiveable.
Those in the trans community know this is true. Wes Streeting's vigorous attempts to suppress this reality is unforgiveable.