Shona Macleod

Research Fellow in Forced Child Begging @rightsbeacon | Interested in development discourses, NGOs, child rights | Tweets my own

[Shona Macleod @ShoMacleod]

Popping in to share my new article! I explore the limits of NGO approaches grounded in rights vernacularisation for tackling child begging in traditional Qur'anic schools in Senegal. Available open access https://t.co/1qmTiWlKGo #childrights #Senegal #globaldevelopment

[Chisomo Kalinga, PhD @ChisomoWrites]

If one of the first acts your “decolonial hero” does is to regulate sexuality, then he’s just playing by the colonial handbook. Buckle up on this road to nowhere.

[SOAS Development Studies @SOASDevelopment]

A Trump victory means the re-instatement of the Global Gag: devastating for women’s health and rights across the world. Dev Studies colleague @mikejennings101 shares some thoughts and a call for action

https://t.co/nbvdsulj9o

[Shona Macleod @ShoMacleod]

So excited to see my friend Hassan Ould Moctar's @aloueimin book 'After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania' published and available open access! Can't wait to read it! https://t.co/wOV0iAe7uf

[Ingrid H. Kvangraven @ingridharvold]

Surbhi & I were contracted to study the role of UK INGOs in the context of contemporary decolonization narratives. We argue that INGOs were born to support Empire & largely continue to support a Eurocentric framework for economic development. @SurbhiKesar https://t.co/yBNzvfU4tP

[Children's Rights Innovation Fund @crifund1]

2/2
decolonize!:
https://t.co/7M4m58zadY

What’s Possible:
https://t.co/Mt8bSUb7Dq

[Stan's Account @tristandross]

keep thinking about how incendiary it was that we just had a general election where both of britain's main political parties ran competing 'stop the boats' campaigns

[Hannah Hoechner @HannahHoechner]

Thanks to @TC_Africa for publishing our piece on how former members of #BokoHaram think about Western education & thanks to Ali Galadima & @SalisuSadisu for their assistance in the research! https://t.co/75SYrzwQkq

[Shona Macleod @ShoMacleod]

@ambyk123 BRILLIANT NEWS! Huge congrats!

[Shona Macleod @ShoMacleod]

@mikejennings101 Looking forward to it!

[Shona Macleod @ShoMacleod]

@dj_kere Happy birthday!

[Shona Macleod @ShoMacleod]

@thelauram16 @BritishAcademy_ @NottsPolitics Congratulations!

[Benny Hunter @BennnyH]

It's sickening. I have no words. He's just a kid.

[Africa Is a Country @africasacountry]

Fermée depuis juin 2023, l’université de Dakar est devenue le symbole de l’effondrement de la démocratie sénégalaise, écrit @flotok

#FreeSenegal

https://t.co/9zX44NSZfb

[Papa Ismaila DIENG @aliamsi]

J'ai co-écrit un papier (en anglais) dans le dernier numéro de @thecontinent_ sur la situation actuelle du #Senegal et les perspectives.

Telecharger le PDF ici : https://t.co/YR9ykQ1RkV

[CSIS Africa Program @CSISAfrica]

"Security forces in Senegal have killed at least three people, including a 16-year-old boy, during protests in recent days..."

Read more: https://t.co/NgW6EBREE5

[Monisha Rajesh 🍉 @monisha_rajesh]

You lost my vote and I’m not Muslim. It’s not a Middle East situation, it’s a British situation. Our leaders shouldn’t be supporting a genocide.

[Kerry Sinanan @kerry_sinanan]

Horrors we could not in our darkest thoughts have imagined a few months ago are a now daily reality deliberately and admittedly inflicted by our gvts on Palestinian children and people. 💔💔💔

[Nicola Kelly @NicolaKelly]

🧵Today Ibrahima Bah, the 19-year-old accused of piloting a dinghy across the Channel, will be hauled through the courts, held up as an example of what happens to anyone who has their hand on the tiller.

If convicted, he could receive a life sentence.

https://t.co/HXkpO7wPr7