If your child attends school in NI please take a few minutes to help us understand the impact of these restrictions and push for better school environments by completing our survey. The survey closes on Friday 13 Feb at 5pm. Have your say here buff.ly/zy3R0sb

Parents—Have your say on restricted toilet access in our schools! Access to bathroom facilities is a human right, but too often we hear reports of bathroom access being restricted in schools across NI.

54 years ago today ,the British Parachute regiment invaded Derry's Bogside and murdered 14 men and boys .The murderers are protected by their government and the PPS. The murderers LIED to two inquires,still no justice.

Striking numbers which demonstrate, in spades, how tiny is the popular support for the culture of hate that Britain's institutions seem determined to impose on a kind and accepting majority. (Expect the BBC to ignore it or qualify it to oblivion.)

"Eleven primary schools have closed permanently since last June due to low enrolment making them unviable" Yet apparently there's a CRISIS of immigration numbers and we need to make refugees wait three years and show self-sufficiency to be joined by their children here 🤯 www.rte.ie/news/educati...

📢 The latest figures from #UKPoverty2026 reveal a picture of poverty hardening, not easing. The average person in poverty in 2021-24 was 29% below the poverty line. This is up from 23% in 1994-97. As people fall further into poverty, the impact on their lives worsens.

🎒 The UK Government is not supportive of a new proposed UN treaty that would support pre-primary education for kids globally. The UK needs to change its position and support these fundamental rights for all kids.

Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs!

We’re delighted to host the HRLC Annual Lecture today w/ keynote speaker Michael Fakhri, UNSR on the Right to Food. His lecture, The Right to Food and the Global Order, explores systems shaping the realisation of the right to food worldwide. Follow this thread for highlights of the lecture ⬇️

Today is the final day to register for our Annual Human Rights Lecture on 'The Right to Food and the Global Order' w/ keynote speaker Professor Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food. Join us online tomorrow (27 Jan) at 17:30 GMT. Register ➡️ hrlc-right-to-food.eventbrite.co.uk

🥀 When in opposition, Labour called housing people seeking asylum in military barracks “a failure.” Now it’s happening again.

You should read this thread about finding human bones. It's actually lovely. Honest. Cross my heart and hope to die...

🚸 Welcome progress on child poverty and scrapping the two-child limit, but strategies alone won’t lock change in. Our latest piece for LabourList makes the case for economic, social and cultural rights as the long-term solution. 🔗

🍲 Wales has already shown it can lead on embedding human rights in law. As Senedd member, Adam Price MS sets out, the right to food is recognised in international law – and the key levers are devolved. A right to food in Wales is both possible and necessary.

We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...

The New World asked me to speak to some British trans women about what life has been like for them over the past few years - here's what they had to say, in their own words: www.thenewworld.co.uk/marie-le-con...

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

Excited to launch this call for pitches. There is a wide scope in terms of working with freelance and newsroom journalists, multi-media projects, etc. Any questions get in touch!

One more, I am begging English commentators and journalists to remember what the UK did in Northern Ireland. Of course what's occurring in the US could happen in the UK! It already fecking did.

Remembering John Hume on his birthday with this textile by Deborah Stockdale. cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttext... @brandonhamber.bsky.social

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A difficult time for conservatives who are anti participation medals

🚸 Welcome progress on child poverty and scrapping the two-child limit, but strategies alone won’t lock change in. Our latest piece for LabourList makes the case for economic, social and cultural rights as the long-term solution. 🔗

172,000 children in England are growing up in temporary accommodation – overcrowded, unsafe and unstable. The Child Poverty Strategy is welcome, but without a rights-based approach to housing, these children remain at the mercy of politics, not protected by law. labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...

✊ Non-discrimination isn’t abstract. It shapes who gets housing, healthcare and dignity. At our latest London Communities Human Rights Programme meeting, community groups shared how a rights-based approach pushes back against division and builds collective strength. justfair.org.uk/non-discrimi...

Lily Allen’s West End Girl but it’s The Wild Rover

New research alert Next 2 wks, we’ll be sharing a blog series exploring children's rights implementation in Scotland Written by MSc Childhood Studies students @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social , on issues identified through #RightsOnTrack -linking academic work with lived experience & frontline expertise

It's a Christmassy story but in the depths of the longest, darkest January (for so many reasons), this gorgeous story by @phlaimeaux.bsky.social will warm you up. It's perfect.

In Hungary, almost half a million older people receive pensions that leave them living below the poverty line. In a new report, HRW shows how the Hungarian government is failing to ensure older people’s rights to social security and an adequate standard of living. Read more: https://bit.ly/4jBH4VG

Children’s rights should never depend on market conditions. Scrapping the two-child limit matters, but without a rights-based framework, child poverty policy remains fragile. My new op-ed in @labourlist.bsky.social makes the case 🔗 labourlist.org/2026/01/chil...

You want to watch this. And you want the sound on. Trust me on this.

🧒 The new Child Poverty Strategy is a welcome shift — lifting 550,000 children out of poverty matters. But child poverty is a human rights issue, not just an economic one. Without grounding the strategy in children’s rights, progress remains fragile. 👇 New blog justfair.org.uk/the-child-po...

THE MACHINE - BY DESIGN - IS ALLOWING PEOPLE TO REMOVE WOMEN'S CLOTHING WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT AND TO MAKE CSAM. How are we at 'good sides to it too, you know?'?

It has become increasingly clear that X - a platform now actively producing explicit and abusive material against women and children - is not an appropriate platform to be using for our comms. I will keep pushing for action from the govt & relevant authorities in this area.

My special Boxing Day post, which seems to have gone down well.

This is a really great story, I actually want it to be turned into a movie

Just as Clueless is the best adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, Muppet Christmas Carol is the best adaptation of anything by Charles Dickens.

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

The @nihrc.bsky.social is seeking to commission research on cross-border justice cooperation and human rights. Please share and consider tendering.

Cloudy ot not, using modern technology to allow us to continue to witness something the people who lived on our island built in connection with the seasons and the universe thousands of years ago is pretty cool, actually

My manifesto:

it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do

Every time I'm in a restaurant I remember Kevin McAleer's reply to a waiter who told him the Soup Of The Day. "Where there any other contenders?" "Um, no?" "A hollow victory, then".

We've got a very simple message this International Migrants Day. Migration is a basic part of the human experience, and all of our lives would be worse without it.

Folks, if you are going to jump on this thread to link this murderous attack to the horrific crimes of the State of Israel, or to somehow suggest it as a reaction to Zionism, please jog on. Jewish people as a group are not responsible for either of the above. Your bigotry is showing.

When it comes to trans rights, the BBC has been reversing through the marketplace of ideas, smashing into fruit carts. But it's interesting that its conservative critics still regard the broadcaster as a font of pro-trans propaganda. How odd! Perhaps a few more concessions will win them over?

Can't wait for Robin Ince to get as many column inches in the national press over his actual establishment silencing due to his stance on lgbt+ rights as phobes get over their former friends not wanting to hang out so much any more

“Poverty is a human rights violation. We cannot realise our own human rights until we address tax” Scotland’s human rights chief outlines why people have a right to food, housing, education and healthcare.