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Dr Nelly Ali

@nellyali.bsky.social
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☮️ Hippie at heart ☮️ Children’s Rights & Childhood Studies Lecturer UCL London Research: Violence in the lives of marginalised children | Sociology | Homelessness | Poverty | Street Children | Youth Justice | Voice | Participation | Human Rights.

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Www.instagram.com/therightscompass
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Week 3 Meet the Compass 🧭 out today!!! Follow on www.instagram.com/therightscompass and here!
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Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
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UCL Social Research Institute @sriucl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How do we move children’s rights from documents into everyday practice? @nellyali.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social created the www.therightscompass.org.uk to make children’s rights accessible, actionable and relevant for children (and the adults).Free learning resources🔗 #ChildrensRights #Education
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therightscompass.bsky.social @therightscompass.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For 15 years, I've taught children's rights, and I keep returning to the gap between having rights and understanding what those rights mean in everyday life. So I created The Rights Compass: a space for making children's rights accessible, practical & useful for children & the adults around them.
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Content note: This post discusses sexual violence, coercive control, and non fatal strangulation. I have written with care and without graphic detail, but please read in the way that feels right for you. #VAWG #Safeguarding #VAWG #PublicHealth #Policy www.nellyali.com/post/safety-...
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Safety should not be luck: How care becomes a pathway for women and girls
Content note: This post discusses sexual violence, coercive control, and non fatal strangulation. I have written with care and without graphic detail, but please read in the way that feels right for y...
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hi 🖐🏼 How are you? 🥰 I've not been on here for ages... but feel like this is the "paddle boarding" peaceful happy place of social media and I'm missing out on that vibe.. 🥰 so how are you?
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Very exciting to be working on this with @islington-council.bsky.social and @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
First week back and my students literally light up my world!! ♥️♥️♥️
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Student walking out of the class @ucl.ac.uk :"Nelly, you're my G.O.A.T" (she turns around horrified to explain) "You know that means Greatest of All Time?!" Me: Lily, my Spotify listening age is 22. I know what the GOAT is and I am very honoured to be yours 😂 Thank you @spotify lol
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Sometimes start of term is a little overwhelming and then you get this and you remember how much you really love your job 🥹🥹❤️❤️ @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
What a wonderful way to start the new term! ♥️♥️♥️ 👩🏻‍🎓 🎓🎓🎓 LOVVVEEE my students so much! @sriucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @ioe.bsky.social
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
URGENT CALL - Egypt-based OBGYNs & Psychologists specialists experienced in paediatric SGBV & psychologists to support a number of children in Egypt. Most girls are between 1–17 years old & need: - Medical checks (required for police reports) - Psychological support after experiences of abuse
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Lilly asked we support the wonderful charity Choose Love for her 10th Birthday... 🥰 please donate by clicking the link below tinyurl.com/3mp7ykc6
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Egypt Lawyer friends: I need ur help I’ve been contacted about 2 girls: 4&12 yo - Indonesians Mum was deported & left girls in Cairo..If I can’t find a way to protect them.. they will end up on the street & will be trafficked. What are my options to help them at this point? #help #Childrensafety
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This blog explores the power of language, the danger of othering, and the possibility of naming with care. Do read it. Share it. Reflect on the words we use — and what they say about us. #StreetChildren #YouthStudies #ChildRights #SociologyOfChildhood #Othering #GlobalJustice
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The Dust of Life: On Street Children and the Language of Othering
There is a quiet power in language — a stealthy force that can humanise or erase, uplift or condemn, draw people in or cast them out. One of the most dangerous things we do, often without realising, i...
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
💔 “When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.” L Eden This post is about abuse, love, class, and survival—and who gets the right to heal. www.nellyali.com/post/licking... #ChildProtection #Intersectionality #LaamShamsiya #SocialJustice #SurvivorStories
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Licking Love Off Knives: When Survival Isn’t a Choice, but a Class Privilege
One of the most powerful things about Laam Shamsiya is its fearless willingness to confront social issues that so many have been aching to speak about aloud. It feels as though the series has handed p...
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Well this is a sight that needs to be documented for history ….
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Bassam Khawaja @khawaja.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Egyptian government must immediately lift the arbitrary travel bans and asset freezes imposed upon three directors of EIPR, a prominent Egyptian human rights organization, solely for their legitimate human rights work www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Egypt: Lift punitive measures against EIPR staff - Amnesty International
The Egyptian government must immediately lift the arbitrary travel bans and asset freezes imposed upon three directors of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a prominent Egyptian human...
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
In the US women’s healthcare continues to come under attack, over 500 hospitals have closed their labor and delivery departments since 2010, leaving most rural hospitals and more than a third of urban hospitals without obstetric care, according to a new study. #opdeatheaters 🧵
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Most Rural Hospitals Have Closed Their Maternity Wards, Study Finds (Gift Article)
Labor and delivery units are losing money and struggling to find staff, in rural areas and large cities alike.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hard reading.. even harder truths. 😔 The report Dr. Lee Mordechai has compiled online constitutes the most methodical and detailed documentation in Hebrew (there is also an English translation) of the war crimes Israel is perpetrating in Gaza www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Massive database of evidence, compiled by a historian, details Israel's war crimes in Gaza
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Dr Ally Dunhill @allyad.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
It’s fantastic that the @eurochild-org.bsky.social report “Children’s Realities in Europe: Progress & Gaps” has gained recognition among EU decision-makers! The focus must now shift to ensuring tangible actions are taken to address the lived experiences of children. eurochild.org/resource/chi...
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
1 of the things I’ve advocated 4 was that money isn’t the solution, creating alternative communities was Shoutout to the Irish Rugby Club in Cairo who wanted to offer the shelter a monetary donation but let me negotiate access on the day of the week they were closed to take in&train the street kids
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“Those who say things cannot be done, should not interrupt those who are doing it” I can’t tell you how many times I was saved remembering this and how much change I have been honoured enough to be part of because I didn’t listen to all the “whys” something wouldn’t work. #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/12/2024
Two-child benefit cap ‘will be scrapped’ in Scotland, vows SNP
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Two-child benefit cap ‘will be scrapped’ in Scotland, vows SNP
Scotland’s finance secretary, Shona Robison, reveals plans in budget to end ‘pernicious’ policy The Scottish government has unveiled plans to scrap Westminster’s controversial two-child benefit cap to lift thousands of “children out of poverty”.…
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
I got to wear my silly hat!! I mean the PhD hat 😂 Graduation Ceremony day… and it finally feels official!
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
🍽️ It’s time to demand that food be recognised as an undeniable right, not a privilege. The right to food is fundamental, yet in the UK children are going hungry. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Milton Keynes children 'pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes'
More than one in three children in Milton Keynes are living in poverty, an organisation says.
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
London ♥️♥️
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Listening to this today, I want to give a big shoutout to @southbanklondon.bsky.social for getting over 2000 kids (our group included) involved in co writing this wonderful, inclusive and fun story!
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Wonderful point by @lauralundy.bsky.social re children also raising us … reminded me when Lilly was 5 and point blank refused to do the “which is the odd one out” exercise in a workbook.. but also it’s ok to learn from them while remembering they have the right to learn to be tolerant, empathic etc
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Attending this… Horrible to learn in the uk 11% of children living with a disability and only 3.4% of children in books have a child with a disability… children need better #representation
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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
We helped evaluate @mayorofldn.bsky.social universal primary free school meal policy. What did we learn about the effect on children, families & schools? ➕ Positive effect on health & wellbeing 💰 Improved family finances 🤝 Strengthened school communities 🟰 More to do to ensure equitable access
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A wonderful resource #ChildParticipation #ChildrensRights
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Marieke Hopman @mariekehopman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
👀 New #ChildrensRights Research blog & vlog by Lola, Marotta & Gutiérrez, reflecting on their study on #accesstojustice for adolescents in care homes in Buenos Aires. "The realities that some children experience cannot be tackled with a law."❤️ 👉 www.childrensrightsresearch.com/stories/?vie...
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My love❤️🔐 @selamtigray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
More than a million children are out of school in Tigray, according to the regional education bureau. the future for #ChildrenOfTigray is concerning. @hrw.org #FutureGenerations #ChildrensRights #ProtectingYouth #GenerationalDebt #HopeForTheFuture www.thereporterethiopia.com/42613/
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Over A Million Children Out Of School In Tigray: Regional Education Bureau
Eritrean occupation in Irob, Zelambessa continues unchallenged
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Dr. Samantha Cocco-Klein @scoccoklein.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Looking for a Sunday night film? #Blitz (on #Apple) beautifully captures the experience of #children, women and everyone else behind the frontlines of #war. And it touches on key contributions to our understanding of childhood trauma 🧵1/4
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The best sort of email to receive on a Sunday evening to fuel me for the next week of teaching 🥰🤗 thank you @kirrilypells.bsky.social for giving me the opportunity to meet these wonderful students!
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Getting all nuanced over here… 😂 This is a starter pack for us folk who are involved in Youth Justice - a separate one to the children’s rights and childhood studies starter pack … Give me a shout if you’d like me to add you to this 💪🏼 ☮️ ⚖️
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Welcome to all the folks who gave me a follow recently! Here’s a wonderful starter pack on some brilliant humans interested in Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights. Let me know if you’d like to be added to this 🎈
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Jocelyn Leitzinger @jocelynl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The social movements scholars starter pack has hit 100 members! Thanks to all who recommended additions. Lots of new people to follow if you have not looked at it in a while. There's still space and many new folks have joined Bluesky - who else should be added? go.bsky.app/59uZyEy
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
@sonjamarzi.bsky.social - I just came upon such a kind and wonderful review you wrote about my chapter on violence in the everyday lives of street connected girls in Egypt. I can't tell you in words how grateful I am and how timely finding this was. thank you!!
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Homelessness: Record 14,966 in emergency accommodation, including 4,645 children jrnl.ie/6556879
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Homelessness: Record 14,966 in emergency accommodation, including 4,645 children
It is the tenth consecutive month that the number of people in emergency housing has risen.
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 29/11/2024
🏠Safe shelters ⚖️Legal support 👭Psycho-social support 🏥Health services for survivors Survivor-centred services are essential, life-saving and a top priority for UNHCR. But we need more resources and funding to keep forcibly displaced women and girls safe. #16Days
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
WTAF is "Post" Constitutional?!
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Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) @uon-hrlc.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Join us next week for the upcoming @ACRiSL_Project event on 'Child Rights Strategic Litigation: The politics of settlement' with @caoilfhionn.bsky.social, Karabo Ozah, Ann Skelton and Andrea Rodgers. 🗓️ 3 December, 5-6pm (GMT) 📌 Online 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/3OsFQgV
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Child Rights Strategic Litigation: The politics of settlement
Join us to discuss the use of settlements in child rights strategic litigation.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/11/2024
Girl, two, who drowned in bin in London was failed by council, coroner finds
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Girl, two, who drowned in bin in London was failed by council, coroner finds
Social workers declined to provide short-term foster care for Mazeedat Adeoye whose mother had overstayed visa A two-year-old girl who drowned in a bin containing 9cm of water in a back garden in east London was a victim of “gross failures” largely by…
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This is children’s hospital in Kyiv after russian drone attack tonight. The sign says ‘room for baby strollers’. But hey, probably those baby strollers were real dangerous
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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Welcome to all the folks who gave me a follow recently! Here’s a wonderful starter pack on some brilliant humans interested in Childhood Studies and Children’s Rights. Let me know if you’d like to be added to this 🎈
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