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Shami's Speakeasy @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

'I was obsessed with friendship. I was obsessed with emotionally vulnerable friendships....I wanted a piece of that friendship pie' @michaelpedersen.bsky.social talks about the most delicious kind of pie, that we all deserve a generous slice of. Full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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Shami's Speakeasy @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

'Using AI..you can take any woman's photograph..and create a sexually explicit image..without her consent' NEW EPISODE! Baroness Charlotte Owen visits the Speakeasy to talk about AI, consent & the need for law to catch up with technology. Listen to the full episode podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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Shami's Speakeasy @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

'It's a very selfish industry...everyone is pulling the ladder away...and I have to say women who have got Michelin Stars or powerful female head chefs do interpret success in male terms.' Asma Khan calls out misogyny in the restaurant industry - listen now! www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

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Shami's Speakeasy @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

On Far Right mentality: 'It's like guys that used to be bodybuilders and then they're 80....you can either keep charging about like you're a 20 year old in your prime and get knocked out or you can just accept nature's run its course.' Full Darren McGarvey episode here! podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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Shami's Speakeasy @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

'I was spied on by the police...they did not like to think of the influence I was carrying' NEW EPISODE RELEASE: In the last week of #BlackHistoryMonth, Baroness Doreen Lawrence joins Shami in the Speakeasy for a wide-ranging - and rare - conversation. listen here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Shami Chakrabarti shared the following on the sad passing of former Victims' Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove 1/2 "The brave and wonderful soul and much-loved Victims’ Commissioner Baroness Helen Newlove has passed away. She was an instinctive rights campaigner..

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Shami's Speakeasy @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

'..the reason people are really struggling is because too much of the wealth and influence has been hoarded by a tiny, tiny percentage of people at the top' Nicola Sturgeon. Listen to our two launch episodes & sign up now to receive an artistic treat in the coming days.... www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

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Shami's Speakeasy @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

'Nobody in America would say, we had nothing to do with slavery...even Donald Trump wouldn't say that...whereas here, all of that happened abroad, or most of it.' Gary Younge Listen to our two launch episodes & sign up to receive an artistic treat in the coming days.... www.shamisspeakeasy.co.uk

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

looking for a new podcast? Today Shami launches @shamisspeakeasy.bsky.social a refuge for honesty, resistance, and reflection in difficult times. Double episode released today with Nicola Sturgeon and Gary Younge. Follow it on socials and listen to it here podfollow.com/shamis-speak...

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Shami's Speakeasy

In the world outside, dark forces rise and trouble brews - but here in the Speakeasy, we are building a refuge for honest conversation, activism and critical thinking. Hosted by Shami Chakrabarti. Pl...

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This was Conor Gearty only a week or so ago at @prospectmagazine.co.uk on ECHR withdrawal and the Palestine Action ban.

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 12/09/2025

Very sad to hear of the untimely death of Conor Gearty, a lovely individual, one of our finest legal academics, and a central figure in promoting human rights worldwide.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Awful news about the death of the great Conor Gearty. Perhaps the kindest and most encouraging law professor imaginable. A dreadful loss to the study of civil liberties and constitutional law.

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Conor Gearty was one of the UK’s foremost legal scholars and public intellectuals. A true human rights defender and great friend, he lived the values that so many talk about. His loss is devastating to our community. Sending all love and solidarity to his partner Aoife and entire family.

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rak @raksky.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

"The superinjunction is smelly... that's legalese" Shami Chakrabarti comments on the Afghan data leak superinjunction on Politics Live. 🔗 Shami's new book "Human Rights: The Case for the Defence" @caseforthedefence.bsky.social

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

'...today's debate seems more about the challenge from those, even perhaps amongst us who seek to diminish convention rights, not enhance them. They want to clip the wings of the court and refuse rights to non-citizens...

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

'It's one thing to be a threat to property..to be prosecuted & ..even imprisoned...but it's another thing altogether to proscribe a whole group and that means anyone..vaguely associated with it, to brand them terrorists' #ShamiChakrabarti on the proposed proscription #PalestineAction #TodayProgramme

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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

So excited to see #IAHRE2025 get going with a critique of academic human rights sceptics by by @Shami Chakrabarti on the right and left #HumanRightsTheCasefortheDefence

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

What’s at stake when human rights are under attack? Join Shami Chakrabarti this Thursday, 5 June 📍 Anglia Ruskin University 🎟️ £12 / £10 concessions Don't miss this important conversation (and Shami will be signing books too!) #CaseForTheDefence 👉 essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/human-rights

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Events - Essex Book Festival

Join leading British human rights lawyer and campaigner, Shami Chakrabarti for a powerful discussion on Human Rights: The Case for the Defence. This urgent, powerful book demonstrates why human rights...

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Iron_Horse @chris-collis.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Great line from Shami Chakrabarti on #BBCNewsnight. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social needs to put a "song in the heart" of the electorate... "a song of hope"

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Jen Baird @jenbaird.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Couldn’t be prouder of these brilliant archaeologists who graduated from our MA yesterday! I love Birkbeck grad so much. They’re already on to such wonderful things, and an honour to be there on the first day of ceremonies for our new President, Shami Chakrabarti (!)

Birkbeck archaeology graduates, in robes, smiling

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Shami is speaking to Pam Cox, MP for Colchester, about her book Human Rights: The Case for The Defence at Anglia Ruskin University on 5 June as part of the @essexbookfest.bsky.social - get your tickets here! essexbookfestival.org.uk/event/human-... www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g6zp724zpo

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Essex Book Festival announces Shami Chakrabarti in its line-up

The month-long festival is featuring about 250 writers and artists at venues across the county.

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 09/04/2025

(1/2) The UK's Baroness Shami Chakrabarti at the Council of Europe yesterday: “Treating asylum seekers, refugees – indeed, all migrants - with a modicum of dignity was non-partisan for most of the post-war period…” 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ye... (from 3:33:43) @coe.int @pace.coe.int #ECHR

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PACE spring session 2025 – 13th sitting – 8 April

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 10/04/2025

The UK’s Baroness Shami Chakrabarti at @pace.coe.int: “We should champion the European Court of #HumanRights, even, and perhaps especially, when we disagree with it. "It’s not designed to make us comfortable. It was built to keep us free.” 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDqe... (from 4:20:30) #ECHR

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PACE spring session 2025 – 15th sitting – 9 April

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In Aberdeen tomorrow and care about #HumanRights? #ShamiChakrabarti will be doing an event at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social on Thursday 17th April - contact Aberdeen Law School for more info #CaseForTheDefence

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

#ShamiChakrabarti in the @coe.int debate "I am an Afghan, and I am a prisoner of the Gulag. I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am a Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism.”

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

#ShamiChakrabarti will be speaking at the @coe.int today, as a member of the Socialists, Democrats and Greens Group, on the motion 'Putting an end to collective expulsions of aliens'...webcast should be available later this evening (and we'll share here too!) #CaseForTheDefence

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Andrew Sparrow @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Government should have 'pushed back' against 'two-tier justice' claims, says Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Pleased to announce the three keynote speakers for the 2025 International Association for Human Rights Education conference Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, Professor Kate Nash (LSE) & Professor Uvanney Mallory (Bedfordshire) Check out details & registration here

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2025 IAHRE Conference & Call for Papers- 12-13 June 2025 – London

Human Rights Education and Youth Empowerment Thursday 12 June from 12.30pm and Friday 13 June 2025 9.30 – 16.00 Venue: IOE UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0…

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

✅Excited to announce 2025 IAHRE keynotes 12-13 June London ✅Baroness Shami Chakrabarti Human Rights: the case for the defence ✅Professor Uvanney Maylor Is ‘relatable’ art a student’s human right? ✅Prof Kate Nash feature films & human rights ✅check out & register global-iahre.org/research/

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2025 IAHRE Conference & Call for Papers- 12-13 June 2025 – London

Human Rights Education and Youth Empowerment Thursday 12 June from 12.30pm and Friday 13 June 2025 9.30 – 16.00 Venue: IOE UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0…

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The Stage @thestage.co.uk · 19/03/2025

Gate Theatre board chair Shami Chakrabarti has called on the arts to be the place where people can have constructive disagreements in "polarised times" as she discussed President Trump’s interventions in America’s arts sector 👇

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Shami Chakrabarti: Trump is proof the arts need to speak up

Gate Theatre board chair Shami Chakrabarti has called on the arts to be the place where people can have constructive disagreements in ‘polarised times’ as she discussed President Trump's interventions in America's arts sector

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Wren 💙 @wrenkh.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

How do you defend the indefensible?!

"You never improves anyone's mental health by pushing them into poverty"
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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Shami on welfare reforms @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social (nb it's important to remember & use the names of those with lived experience who generously share their stories...) full interview here including with @ellenclifford.bsky.social & Alicia Cartwright shorturl.at/0pMZe #CaseForTheDefence

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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

“Shame on those people playing politics, those spin doctors and special advisors who’ve been playing this game at the expense of people’s mental health” Labour's Shami Chakrabarti responds to briefings about the Government’s planned welfare reforms. #Newsnight

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Victoria Derbyshire, "Is it the right thing to do in principle?" Shami Chakrabarti, "It is wrong in principle.. It is not a Labour thing to do.. It's not even a human thing to do.. To cut from people who are in trouble"

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Superbly put Shami Chakrabarti 👏 BBCNewsnight

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Open Rights Group @openrightsgroup.org · 13/03/2025

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 ORG, Big Brother Watch and @indexoncensorship.org call for the secret Tribunal into the Home Office's encryption-breaching order against Apple to be held in PUBLIC 🧑‍⚖️ The privacy and security of millions is on the line! Read our joint letter ⬇️ www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

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Make the Investigatory Powers Tribunal on Apple Encryption a Public Hearing

Rights groups call for Apple’s closed appeal against the Home Office’s encryption-breaching order to be opened to the public.

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A throwback to last year's #InternationalWomensDay Solidarity and thank you. We have work to do #IWD2025

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

In London and looking for something human rights related to do tonight? There's still tickets left for this event with #ShamiChakrabarti and Very Rev Dr Mark Oakley at Southwark Cathedral - book here! cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/whats-on/hum...

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence with Shami Chakrabarti - Southwark Cathedral

Join us for a powerful discussion on defending human rights with Shami Chakrabarti in conversation with the Dean of Southwark

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Human Rights: The Case for the Defence @caseforthedefence.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Are you thinking what we're thinking? If you care about the things that make life better for people and think that trashing them generally turns out badly for everyone, then welcome to our new bluesky! We're here to connect, amplify, commiserate, celebrate and occasionally...

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