Chris Chapman
@spinachcharm.bsky.social
Indigenous Peoples' rights @ Amnesty. Prefer to think and act in terms of what brings us together than what separates us.
Has a UK university caved to China pressure not to research human rights of Uyghurs?
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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing
Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted
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November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Has a UK university caved to China pressure not to research human rights of Uyghurs?
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Amnesty new research - Europe: Human rights defenders excluded by discriminatory Schengen visa system
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Europe: Human rights defenders excluded by discriminatory Schengen visa system
Visa systems in Europe’s Schengen represent a obstacle course for human rights defenders, preventing many from participating in key decision-making forums.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Amnesty new research - Europe: Human rights defenders excluded by discriminatory Schengen visa system
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August 9 is the International day of Indigenous Peoples!
The right to self-determination is the cornerstone of Indigenous Peoples' rights. In this video, Indigenous leaders, activists and experts explain what it means.
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The right to self-determination is the cornerstone of Indigenous Peoples' rights. In this video, Indigenous leaders, activists and experts explain what it means.
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What does the right of self-determination mean for Indigenous Peoples?
YouTube video by Amnesty International
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August 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
August 9 is the International day of Indigenous Peoples!
The right to self-determination is the cornerstone of Indigenous Peoples' rights. In this video, Indigenous leaders, activists and experts explain what it means.
youtu.be/qptQMKhBvR8
The right to self-determination is the cornerstone of Indigenous Peoples' rights. In this video, Indigenous leaders, activists and experts explain what it means.
youtu.be/qptQMKhBvR8
Agreement between Mauritius and the UK fails to guarantee rights of Chagossians say UN experts
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Photo: David Holt via Flickr
June 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Agreement between Mauritius and the UK fails to guarantee rights of Chagossians say UN experts
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Photo: David Holt via Flickr
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Photo: David Holt via Flickr
👀⌛✍️ Deadline 16 June! To participate in UN Human Rights Council in Sept/Oct www.linkedin.com/posts/hernan...
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 : The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous… | Hernan Vales
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 : The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples (UNVFIP) is receiving applications for Indigenous Peoples seeking to participate in the 60th session of the Human Rights Cou...
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May 31, 2025 at 6:46 AM
👀⌛✍️ Deadline 16 June! To participate in UN Human Rights Council in Sept/Oct www.linkedin.com/posts/hernan...
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“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”
Does Kristi Noem even know what habeas corpus is?
The Homeland Security secretary's word salad raised even more questions about the administration's assault on fundamental rights.
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May 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”
Palestinian Trade Unions’ May Day Statement - 1 May 2025
No Labor For Genocide - No Complicity With Apartheid
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No Labor For Genocide - No Complicity With Apartheid
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May 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Palestinian Trade Unions’ May Day Statement - 1 May 2025
No Labor For Genocide - No Complicity With Apartheid
www.bdsmovement.net/news/no-labo...
No Labor For Genocide - No Complicity With Apartheid
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MA in human rights at @icws-sas.bsky.social - scholarships for applicants from Low and Middle Income Commonwealth States - do consider applying! www.linkedin.com/posts/corinn...
I am delighted to annouce we have five new scholarships for our MA Human… | Corinne Lennox
I am delighted to annouce we have five new scholarships for our MA Human Rights! For human rights practitioners (broadly understood) from low and middle income Commonwealth countries working for '...
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April 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
MA in human rights at @icws-sas.bsky.social - scholarships for applicants from Low and Middle Income Commonwealth States - do consider applying! www.linkedin.com/posts/corinn...
Racial borders in action
Hanno Hauenstein - Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens who have committed no crime
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Hanno Hauenstein - Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens who have committed no crime
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April 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Racial borders in action
Hanno Hauenstein - Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens who have committed no crime
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Hanno Hauenstein - Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens who have committed no crime
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I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking
Steven Donziger
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Steven Donziger
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March 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking
Steven Donziger
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Steven Donziger
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🇦🇪Ahmed Mansoor, known as the UAE’s “last human rights defender”, has had a 15 year prison sentence upheld. He was still serving time on another sentence when he was sentenced again in July 2024. Mansoor has spent much of his time in prison, since 2017, in isolation.
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UAE: Ahmed Mansoor’s 15-Year Sentence Upheld
An Emirati court upheld an abusive 15-year sentence on March 4, 2025, against the prominent Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, who was convicted following a fundamentally unfair trial.
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March 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🇦🇪Ahmed Mansoor, known as the UAE’s “last human rights defender”, has had a 15 year prison sentence upheld. He was still serving time on another sentence when he was sentenced again in July 2024. Mansoor has spent much of his time in prison, since 2017, in isolation.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
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I'll be speaking at this event. For those not in London, a recording will be available after the event. Register at: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
March 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I'll be speaking at this event. For those not in London, a recording will be available after the event. Register at: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Join us for this great event next week where I will be a panelist. Register commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... with @globalpluralism.bsky.social and @icws-sas.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Join us for this great event next week where I will be a panelist. Register commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... with @globalpluralism.bsky.social and @icws-sas.bsky.social
We have a launch event for these 3 publications tomorrow, please come! See event details at my LinkedIn post here www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
March 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM
We have a launch event for these 3 publications tomorrow, please come! See event details at my LinkedIn post here www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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In June 2023, #Nahel was shot at short range by a police officer in France. Today, the prosecutor requests a trial for murder.
The death of the French-Algerian teenager triggered massive protests & unrests against longstanding racist policing. This was met with heavy repression by the authorities.
The death of the French-Algerian teenager triggered massive protests & unrests against longstanding racist policing. This was met with heavy repression by the authorities.
Mort de Nahel : le parquet requiert un procès pour meurtre contre le policier qui a tiré sur l’adolescent
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/aK8
➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/aK8
March 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
In June 2023, #Nahel was shot at short range by a police officer in France. Today, the prosecutor requests a trial for murder.
The death of the French-Algerian teenager triggered massive protests & unrests against longstanding racist policing. This was met with heavy repression by the authorities.
The death of the French-Algerian teenager triggered massive protests & unrests against longstanding racist policing. This was met with heavy repression by the authorities.
[AMNESTY] Failure to consult Indigenous Peoples on future pandemics will further harm children’s education www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
February 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
[AMNESTY] Failure to consult Indigenous Peoples on future pandemics will further harm children’s education www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Danish "ghetto legislation", which requires public housing to be sold off as a "solution" to concentration of "non-Western" people in a particular area, is direct discrimination, Advocate General states. ECJ to rule on this at a future date
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February 14, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Danish "ghetto legislation", which requires public housing to be sold off as a "solution" to concentration of "non-Western" people in a particular area, is direct discrimination, Advocate General states. ECJ to rule on this at a future date
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Our new @amnesty.org report, ‘Canada has destroyed me’: Labour exploitation of migrant workers, exposes how Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Programme is a racist policy that facilitates shocking abuse and exploitation of migrant workers
Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
January 30, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Our new @amnesty.org report, ‘Canada has destroyed me’: Labour exploitation of migrant workers, exposes how Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Programme is a racist policy that facilitates shocking abuse and exploitation of migrant workers
Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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In a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, @amnesty.org joined 162 civil society organizations and trade unions in calling on the EU to ban trade and business with Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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www.amnesty.eu/news/israel-...
February 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
In a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, @amnesty.org joined 162 civil society organizations and trade unions in calling on the EU to ban trade and business with Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
www.amnesty.eu/news/israel-...
www.amnesty.eu/news/israel-...
As we see an unprecedented attack on the international rule of law by corrupt criminal billionaires, this initiative is to be celebrated!
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South Africa and Malaysia to launch campaign to protect international justice
Formation of Hague Group comes amid challenges to ICJ and ICC rulings
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February 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
As we see an unprecedented attack on the international rule of law by corrupt criminal billionaires, this initiative is to be celebrated!
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...
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