BREAKING: The government wins its appeal. The Court of Appeal has ruled today that the ban on Palestine Action is a lawful, justified and proportionate interference with individual rights.
India's 1 crore gig/platform workers betrayed by the Modi government which abstained from the ILO adoption of a new global treaty for decent working conditions in the gig economy, which aims at protecting the rights of millions of these workers.
https://t.co/2NIXwa7JTd
My article is out in the Industrial Law Journal. It discusses questions of strategy in relation to legal mobilisations by platform workers’ trade unions in India: https://t.co/MxHdzFSuns
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
The Hind Rajab Foundation said that New Delhi was obligated under the Geneva Conventions to detain Eitan Gilboa who is vacationing in the northern state.
https://t.co/oY86k187HS
Read one article submitted to a v good journal where every next sentence sounded like a declaration. I'm not so sure if it's AI-assisted, but surely no person writes like this?? 😭
It’s the first Monday of the month, so here’s a new issue of the Words for Worlds newsletter.
feat. writing about football, on the latest AI in literature controversy, reading the new Ann Leckie novel, and more.
Link in tweet below. 👇🏼
I worry that Wembanyama will get caught up in the distractions of New York City, like the Rose Reading Room at the public library or the upcoming conference on participatory futures at The New School
THE SAN ANTONIO SPURS ARE HEADED TO THEIR FIRST NBA FINALS SINCE 2014 🔥
The Spurs win Game 7 on the road to defeat OKC 4-3 in the Western Conference Finals, and advance to the NBA Finals for the 1st time in 12 years.
They will take on the Knicks in a rematch of the 1999 NBA Finals. Game 1 is in San Antonio on Wednesday, June 3 at 8:30pm/et on ABC!
South Africa's reply is due November 22, 2027.
Israel's rejoinder is due May 22, 2029.
As noted many times before, this case will take years to reach a final judgment.
The people of Gaza cannot wait.
States must act now.
The ICJ concludes by a 10-4 vote that "the right to strike of workers and their organizations is protected under the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention"