Equality Bahamas

Promoting women's and LGBTQI+ rights as human rights through advocacy, community engagement, and public education. | End #MaritalRape:

[Equality Bahamas @Equality242]

#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

[Tribune242 @Tribune242]

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

[ISI @institute_si]

📚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.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

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

[Global Alliance to End Statelessness @EndStatelessns]

Families should not be divided by discriminatory nationality laws and be at risk of statelessness!
#InternationalDayOfFamilies @EQL_Nationality

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

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.

[ISI @institute_si]

📚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.

[Jerusa Léa Ali @AliJerusa]

Pleased to welcome members of the @commonwealthsec Election Observation Mission led by The Most Honourable Bruce Golding, Professor Michelle Scobie and Ms. Anita Collins.

#Democracy #RuleofLaw #ElectionObservation #Transparency #GeneralElections #TheBahamas

[GBX @GBX_Press]

UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:

The only legal thing Israel can do in the Palestinian territories is to get the hell out of there.

[Our News Bahamas @OurNewsRev]

The Parliamentary Registration Department issues a public notice for advanced poll participants on April 30th.

[ISHR @ISHRglobal]

🌸 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

[CREA @ThinkCREA]

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

[ISI @institute_si]

⚡️Vol. 7(2) of the #Statelessness & #Citizenship Review is out! The new issue features 3 #article, 2 #commentaries, 2 #casenotes & 3 #bookreviews, which are all #openaccess. Read the full issue here 👉🏼 https://t.co/Sscc6KEmgP

[ISI @institute_si]

🚀 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

[Equality Bahamas @Equality242]

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

[ISI @institute_si]

📄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

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

📢 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 @UNRWA]

➡️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

[United Nations @UN]

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

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

Francesca Albanese:

“There is no ceasefire in Gaza; the world has normalized the genocide of Palestinians.”

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

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.