There is no longer any excuse for the inaction of governments. 153 states that have signed or acceded to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The states have an obligation to both prevent and punish the crime of genocide.
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

"Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today."
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Now published: My book review of Sealy, Thomas, Uberoi, Varun and Meer, Nasar (eds.) 2024. The resilience of multiculturalism. A Festschrift engaged with the work of Tariq Modood. Open access in Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 16(1): 2, pp. 1–4. DOI: doi.org/10.33134/njm...

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Join the 3rd Annual Online CharterXchange!

A chance to exchange EU #FundamentalRights Charter knowledge, experience with experts, policymakers and stakeholders.

📅8-9 December

🔗Find out more: europa.eu/!4g7Gvg

✍🏽Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cbdb44...

Across 142 routes in Europe, trains are on average twice as expensive as flights

On some routes, they are 26 times the price

Low-cost airlines profit from unfair tax exemptions, but trains are burdened with VAT, energy taxes and high track fees

Governments and the EU must stop rewarding polluters

Minding the gap or missing the gaps?​ 🧵

Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford) draws on his policymaking experience to explain why migration research frequently struggles to have real-world impact.

migrationresearchtopolicy.eu/2025/06/19/t...

A long-overdue Finnish government proposal for an update of the law on the Sámi Parliament of Finland. It is a small but important step towards recognition of the right to self-determination of the Sámi people, including its right of group representation. yle.fi/a/74-20165747

📣 Upcoming!

'Remote and Roaming: Practices, Meanings, and Politics of Digital Nomadism' by Mari Toivanen draws from extensive #ethnographic fieldwork across the globe and explores the practices, meanings, and politics of #digital #nomadism.

Find all our upcoming books at: hup.fi/catalogue

Joakim Medin, a Swedish journalist, was arrested in Turkey while covering anti-government protests. Accused of insulting the president and alleged terror links, his case has sparked diplomatic tensions. Sweden now seeks clarity at the upcoming Nato summit.

📢 App Version 1.98 is rolling out now, including: (1/5)

• a new option for who can reply to your posts
• search posts by a user
• lots of little improvements to make the app feel better!

EU/EEA students can now apply for the #Master 's in #Human_Rights and #Multiculturalism at the University of South-Eastern Norway. Deadline April 15th 2025.
www.usn.no/english/acad...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=N87w...

People on Mastodon can follow you on Bluesky, and vice versa. Here are instructions how to create the bridge: lifehacker.com/tech/use-bri...

”Nobody understands why people that have no right to stay in the European Union are not returned…”
Sorry, but there are people who do understand why returns are often difficult, and they could explain. How about asking them (ideally before launching new proposals)?

Kurdish communities in Europe well-established and can no longer be considered #immigrant_communities, as argued in my new article on the future of the #Kurdish_diaspora. The new issue of the journal Études kurdes focuses on the #diaspora, now available online: www.etudeskurdes.org/ouvrage/n-17...

Welcome immigrants from X interested in science to the friendlier skies of @bsky.app, as documented by a new @nature.com survey (but you already knew that 😉)
"Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...