Kate McInnes

Principal @ArendtChambers | MSc International Human Rights Law @UniofOxford | international law & disability rights

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

It was a real honour to appear with Bill Browder, Vladimir Kara-Murza, and Marcus Kolga before the @HoCCommittees #FAAE yesterday to discuss Bill C-219's approach to Magnitsky sanctions and transnational repression. 🇨🇦

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

Worth a very early Monday morning here in Vancouver! Thanks to the @ICCBA_ABCPI for this great training session on Rule 74 duty counsel.

[UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett @SR_Afghanistan]

I endorse this statement by @volker_turk regretting a new EU regulation allowing speedy deportations. Respect for human rights and refugee law is imperative. #Afghans must not be returned to an unsafe situation. A meeting with Taliban in Brussels would insult #Afghans esp. women.

[Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights @TheRWCHR]

The RWCHR's Brandon Silver and @KateMcInnesLaw argue in @just_security that the significant gap in the scholarly and jurisprudential record on #TransnationalRepression must be addressed.

"Dissidents around the world continue to adjust their routines, triple check their locks, and look over their shoulder, because the officials who ordered these campaigns have learned that they will never be held personally to account."

Indeed, the cost of silence is human, and the architects of transnational repression can and should face international criminal accountability.

https://t.co/kq2HLqG3Zv

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

So happy to share my master's dissertation on Nuremberg's treatment of atrocities against persons w/ disabilities & enduring gaps of protection under the Rome Statute has been published with the Journal of International Criminal Justice (@OUPAcademic). ⚖️

https://t.co/9ypWUcWhng

[Gordon Brown @GordonBrown]

As the Taliban continue their war on women and girls, it is clear that appeasement has failed
https://t.co/3JJL1XM89l

[EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk]

Beyond Residual Functions: The IRMCT, the ‘Stateless Eight’, and the Human Rights Obligations of Security Council Subsidiaries | by Kate McInnes

https://t.co/4tvfh5Mbr5

[dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ @DahliaKurtz]

This is one of the most beautiful moments you will ever witness.

Sir Nicholas Winton helped 669 children — most of them Jewish — escape the Holocaust.

His humanitarian accomplishments would remain unknown and unnoticed by the world for nearly 50 years.

Then in 1988 he was invited to the BBC TV show That's Life!.

There he sat — unknowingly — as part of the studio audience, surrounded by the children he had rescued. They were now adults.

Then they surprised him with one of the greatest gifts of all time. Their presence.

They were there, all alive — because of him.

Not only was he reunited with dozens of children he had saved, but he was also introduced to many of their children and grandchildren.

Please remember Sir Nicholas Winton, for his humanitarian operation known as the Czech Kindertransport.

Sir Nicholas George Winton, a British stockbroker, and a gift to this planet, left us on July 1, 2015, at the age of 106.

May his memory forever be a blessing and inspiration to all.

Please share. International Holocaust Day cannot be forgotten. But many are working to make that happen.🕯️♥️

[UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett @SR_Afghanistan]

Extremely concerned about reported ongoing detention of Nazira Rashidi in #Kunduz and Khadija Ahmadazada in #Herat and I call for their immediate release and safety. #Afghanistan

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

More here: https://t.co/PpGADRkKGJ

And here on @ArendtChambers website: https://t.co/ODGgS6EiIO

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

At 8 am on Tuesday, 6 January 2026, Ms. Nazera Rashidi — a 24-year-old ethnically Uzbek journalist from Kunduz, Afghanistan — was arrested by the Taliban.

I was very happy to prepare an urgent appeal to the @UN_SPExperts on behalf of Ms. Rashidi’s family and @HRDPlusNetwork

[AccuWeather @accuweather]

The clock face of Big Ben was barely visible as thick fog covered London on Thursday morning.

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

Few moments in life compare to fresh sheets, a cat’s steady purr on your shoulder, and nothing planned for a cold December evening but driving into a long book from a beloved author. 🤍

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The tycoon’s trial speaks to the state of Hong Kong’s civil liberties https://t.co/FH1b3cvNIt

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

Christmas in London ✨🎄

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

The same piece is also on Wikipedia but whoever added it got @ArendtChambers name wrong... https://t.co/cB6TXgwr7L

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

One of my favourite ‘firsts’ yet: my @opiniojuris piece on the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine being listed on @uw poli sci syllabus 🇺🇦 https://t.co/FwysPgDEGz

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

November in Berlin 🇩🇪🌧️

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

Closing such a fulfilling chapter would have been harder if I wasn't in Germany and the UK immediately following my degree ceremony, meeting with @ArendtChambers clients and translating the lessons of this degree into meaningful action. ⚖️🍁

[Kate McInnes @KateMcInnesLaw]

I was so happy to have graduated with distinction from my master’s in international human rights law at @OxfordLawFac on November 8. ⚖️