#Strike5ive to criminalize #MaritalRape via Sexual Offences Act.
- Amend the definition of rape in Section 3
- Repeal Section 15
- Include statutory definition of consent
- Include clause of non-immunity on the basis of marital relationship
More info: https://t.co/0TvuU8HIJB
ELECTION OBSERVERS CALL FOR INDEPENDENT VOTING AUTHORITY
The Bahamas still needs deeper reform in election management, electoral technology and the media environment, the Commonwealth Observer Group warned yesterday.
https://t.co/Gdzu3NceL1
📚Excited to announce that #StatelessnessEssentials will soon be available as a free, self-paced online course on Moodle. Bringing together global expertise and #LivedExperience to explore causes, impacts, and solutions. Registration opens 21 May. Available 15 June–15 September.
When the US sanctioned me for exposing corporate complicity, I trusted people would act. If after nearly a year @bookingcom & @Airbnb still profit from stolen Palestinian property, it’s because too many still use them.
Stop using them now & tell them why.
https://t.co/VAgI9fYzTn
I join Amnesty International in condemning #Eurovision and call everyone with a conscience not to watch it.
BIG THANK YOU to the 5 countries who withdrew from the competition:
Iceland!
Ireland!
Netherlands!
Slovenia!
Spain!
Put Apartheid out of our lives.
📚Coming soon to Moodle: #StatelessnessEssentials as a self-paced online course! Explore #statelessness through a global, justice-focused lens across 10 sessions covering law, migration, children's rights, and more. Registration opens 21 May. Available 15 June–15 September.
🌸 NEW! Special Procedures – Updated guide
ISHR is pleased to launch its updated guide to the #UNSpecialProcedures.
A practical tool for human rights defenders #HRDs and #CivilSociety to engage strategically with these experts — and drive real impact on the ground.
👉 Available on our website: https://t.co/z3qlDQtg3M
RECON Extended brings back some of the most powerful teach-ins, workshops, and films from RECONFERENCE 2025 as an online learning series from April to June 2026.
Open to all. No prior attendance needed. Free to attend.
Register now: https://t.co/3hNYwwC8yH
#ThinkCREA
🚀 2025 Year in Review is out! 🔦 In 2025, #HumanRightsDefenders increasingly faced threats to their #nationality as governments weaponised #citizenship laws to suppress dissent- chilling activism, shrinking civic space & risking #statelessness 👉🏽 https://t.co/t4gLXzA80v
We're reading Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark this month!
Join us for the discussion on Wednesday, February 18 at 6pm. We'll be at Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.
#FeministBookClub#BookClub#ReadingIsPolitical
📄ARC at the Asia School of Business & UNHCR Malaysia invite paper & poster submissions for REFCON 2026, with a focus on #stateless persons, alongside themes on protection, livelihoods, mobility, & public narratives. Deadline: 28 Feb 2026. Read more👉 https://t.co/iHDcUZqxwC
📢 The @UN Human Rights Council invites applications for:
Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression
🗓 Appointment: #HRC62 (15 June–10 July 2026)
⏰ Deadline: 24 March 2026, 12:00 Geneva time
🔗 https://t.co/A8V54SxeWR
➡️UNRWA’s humanitarian supplies — food, hygiene kits, medicines and shelter items — remain stuck in warehouses in Egypt and Jordan, banned from entering #Gaza since March 2025.
📦 Life-saving aid is ready to move. There is no time to lose.
UNRWA teams have never stopped providing essential support on the ground. Let us do even more.
#UNRWAworks
Female genital mutilation is a grave human rights violation rooted in gender inequalities, power imbalances and the social norms that uphold them.
On #EndFGM Day, hear survivors' testimonies and see what @UN_Women is doing to end this harmful practice: https://t.co/0Njgm5cQqf
Humanity never stops shining.
We are stronger that the authoritarianism that is threatening our rights and freedoms all over.
Think. Stand up. Act.
We are together.
With Love.