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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

Thanks so much for sharing! Week 3 out now 🧭

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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 · 08/08/2026

Such a delightful bunch we become there as a wonderful colleague commented 😂

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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 · 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 · 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...

amnesty.org

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 🧵

nytimes.com

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/...

haaretz.com

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

I have tens of other examples I’ll share in the blog. I’m not naive enough to not realise money facilitated lots of this.. but it takes more than that… it takes the foolishness of hope to the n’th degree and faith in the good left inside us all & the anger to roar in the face of violation of rights.

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout to those who worked with me on the case of the girl who was refused emergency care for 3rd degree burns on 90% of her body & wouldn’t be seen without ID. We campaigned till the law was changed (only a small change to 1st 48 hours, but still!) #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout to those I worked with on changing the law so that doctors & nurses could report abuse and not just attempted murder #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout to the doctors & friend who worked with Omer (the boy who burnt 90% of his hand so badly every hospital wanted to amputate it becoz how could a street boy pay for reconstruction & we managed over the year to give him back his fingers! Pro bono! #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout to A.A who drove up & down Egypt across districts & cities & towns to find medical equipment and meds for the “lost cause” baby I fought so hard 2 get a shunt done when no 1 wanted to give him a chance at life. We lost this one but gained a team of medics & friends #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Thank you to A.B who on reading the blog about the girl sexually abused by her step father & the mum having to split her girls over a number of shelters & live on the street, set her up with a 20 year rent contract & a full kiosk to start earning her own money #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shout out to Sally Toma, well known Egyptian psychiatrist who offered her time, therapy dogs and clinic pro bono to help one of our girls, 3 yr old, pulled out of a rubbish dump, so abused and stunned she would not talk. #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout to Mahienour - the human rights lawyer that had just come out of prison at midnight for protesting, & 6am accompanying a 3 year old street girl to have brain surgery after abuse so her abusive father couldn’t forcibly take her bcoz I was in London by then. #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout to the wonderful Julia who had no money to give but came to the shelter every Monday to do the girls hair and train them to do it so they had a skill to earn their own money from #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout to the (still) anonymous friend who when reading the blog about baby Nada who died because her street kid mum couldn’t afford the ambulance w/the oxygen tank, made it her life’s work to provide an incubator at the university hospital dedicated 2 street kids babies #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout out 2 the farm owner who read over 100 of my desperate status pleas trying to find temporary shelter for two 17 year old street girls who were turned away from all institutions 4 bureaucratic reasons & welcomed her them in her home - 8yrs later they’re still there! #CreatingPocketsOfUtipia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout to the reconstructive surgeon who worked with the stars who, when I refused his monetary donation, opened up the surgery to offer his skills to remove the girls rape scars, to heal the cigarette butt burns and reconstruct burnt fingers - for free #creatingPocketsOfUtopia

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Dr Nelly Ali @nellyali.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Shoutout 2 the teenage kids in the USA who on reading the blog about the teens in the shelters stealing their own kids nappies 2 use as period pads, volunteered their labour over 1 summer & made sanitary care packs with their earnings & shipped them to the shelter in Cairo #creatingPocketsOfUtopia

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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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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...

bbc.com

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

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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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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