The Mirror: News, Sport, Celebrity & EntertainmentInside the Tour Guide murder and how a TikTok post solved the case
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/inside-tour-guide-murder-how-36890420
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The Bonaire Climate Case
Climate injustices are often interlinked with other historical injustices related to colonization, slavery, and their remnants which manifest in different forms of disadvantage in the lives of present and future people. The case of Greenpeace Netherlands v The State of the Netherlands (Bonaire Case) is a reminder of this. On January 28, 2
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The Bonaire Climate Case
Climate injustices are often interlinked with other historical injustices related to colonization, slavery, and their remnants which manifest in different forms of disadvantage in the lives of present and future people. The case of Greenpeace Netherlands v The State of the Netherlands (Bonaire Case) is a reminder of this. On January 28, 2
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Redefining Family?
‘Gravity of Tenderness’ by The Fabler.
Legal traditions are formed by deeply rooted assumptions about social realities. Who legally counts as a parent and what relationships count as kin are primary examples of how law embeds those assumptions. Yet social practices have always varied, and de facto fam
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What Makes a Lawyer a Lawyer?
What makes a lawyer a lawyer? The question sounds elementary, yet legal systems rarely confront it directly. Ordinarily, they need not to: the role is constituted through a familiar constellation of duties, privileges, and institutionalized relationships that cohere without requiring explicit theorisation.
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Matt HodgkinsonFact check: Suella Braveman didn't say "The working class has had it too good for too long".
I have no time for her politics or Reform, but the fake quote stems from a tweet that puts those words into her mouth while sharing an interview she had with Jeremy Kyle. She discussed how the ECHR stops deportations and "doesn't serve the national interest", among other complaints, but she doesn't talk about the working class.
The tweet: https://x.com/OWS1892/status/2021919041976500541/mediaviewer
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Mystery as body of ice hockey star who claimed to be CIA agent found stuffed in glacier
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/mystery-body-ice-hockey-star-36697758
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Fast-Tracking and Fundamental Rights
In recent years, the European Union has placed unprecedented emphasis on accelerating its green and industrial transitions. Two flagship instruments, the revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) and the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA), now require Member States to fast-track the authorisa
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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/fast-tracking-and-fundamental-rights/
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Intersectionality in International Human Rights Law
In an earlier contribution, I analysed the European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) usage of the concept of intersectionality to address claims of multidimensional discrimination. The main conclusion of that post was that intersectionality might be gaining ground in inte
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https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/intersectionality-in-international-human-rights-law/
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Clashing Stereotypes
The judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in A.R. v. Poland has recently complemented the growing international jurisprudence on women’s reproductive rights, specifically on the access to abortion. The judgment dealt with the widely criticized restriction of Polish abortion legislation following a decision of the
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