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Rossella De Falco

@rosselladefalco.bsky.social
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Human rights, health, global health and international development. Senior postdoc researcher at University of Antwerp

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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Come get my #job! As I am moving on to a new adventure, the great team at Just Fair is looking for a new Strategic Lead for the Right to Health Campaign. Deadline #30June please apply or #share widely!
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
here's a new blog about mental health and human rights
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Join us in one week for a free training on the right to health! Learn how to use the toolkit to campaign for health justice🏥✊ 🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30 🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
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Campaigning for the right to health: Tools to support civil society
Open session for civil society organisations and activists in England
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
How to campaign for the right to health? Learn our new publication to find out how to engage with policy-makers at all levels, from local to global, to defend the right to health in the #UK.
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
📃 Our new UN submission argues economic policy must serve human rights, not override them. From the 2-child limit to disability benefit reforms, current decisions are deepening poverty. A rights-based approach centred on dignity is urgently needed. 📚 Read our blog justfair.org.uk/we-m...
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We must ground policies in a rights-based approach | Just Fair
In our latest submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Just Fair argues that it’s time to flip the script: economic policy must be designed to support human rights, not override them.  At the heart of this is the need for a rights-based framework centred on social protection – one […]
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
🩺 Join us for a free training on the right to health! Learn how to use human rights tools to hold the UK Government accountable for health inequalities. Featuring our new toolkit, campaign tips & more. 🏥✊ 🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30 🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...
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Campaigning for the right to health: Tools to support civil society
Open session for civil society organisations and activists in England
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
excellent opportunity!
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
✊ In South West England, we’ve launched ‘Racial Justice through Human Rights’ with Black South West Network, to use human rights to tackle discrimination and disadvantage faced by Black and Minoritised communities 📚 Read more justfair.org.uk/racial-justi...
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Racial Justice through Human Rights | Just Fair
A new community programme working for positive social change with Black and Minoritised people in South West England. In January 2025, Just Fair submitted a report to the United Nations Committee on E...
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🌍 This week the head of our right to health campaign - @rosselladefalco.bsky.social is speaking at this webinar on climate change, health, & international law, looking at how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change. 📆 20 February, 4pm law.mpg.de/event/cli...
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Climate Change and Health - Max Planck Law
This webinar examines the intersection of climate change, health, and public international law, focusing on how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.
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MPIL Heidelberg @mpil.de · 12/02/2025
Featuring speakers: 🎤 Alicia Ely Yamin (@hls.harvard.edu/ @harvardchanschool.bsky.social) 🎤 Cecile de Villiers (Uni Cape Town) 🎤 @crisroseroa.bsky.social (@reprorights.bsky.social) 🎤 Nairita Roy Chaudhuri (Tilburg Law School & Oslo University) 🎤 @rosselladefalco.bsky.social (@justfairuk.bsky.social)
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MPIL Heidelberg @mpil.de · 12/02/2025
Organized by @mpil.de, @maxplancklaw.bsky.social, and Harvard Law School's @petrieflomcenter.bsky.social, this webinar brings together global perspectives on law, climate change, and public health. Don't miss it! 🌍⚖️
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MPIL Heidelberg @mpil.de · 12/02/2025
📢 Join us for the webinar "Climate Change & Health: Mobilizing Public International Law Into Action" on Feb 20, 2025, at 17:00 CET! Experts will discuss how international law addresses health vulnerabilities in the climate crisis. 🔗 Register by Feb 18: law.mpg.de/event/climat...
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Climate Change and Health - Max Planck Law
This webinar examines the intersection of climate change, health, and public international law, focusing on how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
We have written to the @theguardian.com w/ @hrw.org about the UN review of the UK’s human rights record tomorrow. The UN is grilling the UK on poverty, housing & workers’ rights—because the system is failing. It's time for our everyday rights to be in UK law. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Tackling child poverty in Britain must be made a priority | Letters
Letters: Andrew Forsey highlights a simple policy change that would provide much-needed meals, while Stewart Lansley says poverty and inequality are umbilically linked. Plus a letter from Jess McQuail...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The Laurel Prize is Open for Submissions! 📢 The Laurel Prize 2025 is now open until 1 May 2025 for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025. Judges: @kathleenjamie.bsky.social (Chair), Daljit Nagra & @carolinelucas.bsky.social. Find out more & submit here: laurelprize.com
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Laurel Prize for Poetry in Association with Poetry School
The Laurel Prize as an annual award for the best collection of nature or environmental poetry to highlight the climate crisis and raise awareness.
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
This week the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights will be reviewing the UK to assess how well our everyday rights are protected here at home. This review takes place every 5-7 years and is significant opportunity to shine a spotlight on our broken system. 🧵A thread #CESCR2025 1/6
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💙💙💙 @00-nature-girl.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Please join us on 20 February!!
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🚨 This Human Rights Day we are launching our new report on the right to health in the UK. This report could not be more timely; it looks at how the right to health has been eroded across the UK and proposes some solutions. 🧵 A thread 1/9 justfair.org.uk/the-right-to...
The right to health report launch
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Alicia Ely Yamin @aliciay.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/symposia/cli...
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Climate Change and Health: Mobilizing Public International Law into Action - Bill of Health
This digital symposium, Climate Change and Health: Mobilizing Public International Law into Action, by guest editors Thalia Viveros Uehara and Alicia Ely Yamin, makes clear that the stakes could not b...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/01/2025
Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?
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Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?
Research into the disease has never been more far-reaching, but there is little consensus as to what is causing the rocketing rates of diagnosis in young adults In 2022, around 16% of the 20 million people with cancer worldwide were under 50. Cancer has…
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Action for Global Health @afghnetwork.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
💬 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's @annamarriott.bsky.social: "Oxfam has been raising the alarm about the IFC’s investments in private healthcare for well over a decade. Their response, alongside the other development banks, has been inexcusably lackluster."
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Join us for an event to mark the UK's review by the UN and discuss what should happen next. Keynote speaker is Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on poverty. 📍 Friends House, London. 📆 Thu 13 Mar 13:00-17:00 🎟️ Get your free tickets now www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rights-for...
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I am very pleased to share this event in London!! Please come along, it would be amazing - including some health content
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Check out our new submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Right on the status of economic, social and cultural rights in the #UK!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/01/2025
Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution
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Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution
Campaigners say pollution levels in street in Herne Hill were far higher when private schools were open Parents driving children to private schools is associated with a 27% increase in air pollution and congestion in a south London street, according to…
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
🏥The right to health should be universal – where everyone has access to quality healthcare, housing, and a healthy environment. Yet in the UK, health inequalities are widening. It’s time to put rights at the centre of change. New blog by @rosselladefalco.bsky.social www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...
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The right to health and health inequalities: time for change
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Please take a look at my latest blog on #healthinequalities and human rights in the #UK
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🩺 The right to health means universal access to quality healthcare and the factors that improve physical and mental health—housing, nutritious food, green spaces, fair work, and a healthy environment. These aren’t privileges—they’re rights. Read more justfair.org.uk/the-right-to...
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The right to health in the UK: our new report | Just Fair
Achieving the right to health is about creating a world where everyone can access quality healthcare throughout their life, regardless of where they live, how much they earn, their gender, age, ethnic...
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Koldo Casla @koldocasla.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The price of the average London home is unaffordable (>5 times annual income) for all income deciles. Only the richest 10% of households can afford to buy an average-priced home in England. ONS data. www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d...
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Cost of buying average home in England now unaffordable, warns ONS
Only richest 10% can afford to buy as figures show average household needs 8.6 times disposable income to meet asking price
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
While these factors can potentially impact everyone, they are affecting some marginalised groups more than others, further compounding differences in health outcomes. This situation is unacceptable. 6/9
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
This #humanrightsday, I am pleased to share our new report on the right to health in the UK! It was a wonderful challenge to write this report, thanks to an amazing team at Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social @helstinki.bsky.social
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Last month I was in #Geneva at the Annual Conference of the Geneva Human Rights Platform, to speak on mainstreaming human rights across States' responses to public #health #emergencies. Read more about it here: shorturl.at/GuRRp @gvagrad-law.bsky.social @stefaniasds.bsky.social
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Stefania Di Stefano @stefaniasds.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Here’s one of the things that the fascist govt in my country is doing to LGBTQ+ and women’s rights. The same people who have also spent the last few days saying that violence against women is not a systemic issue but is directly linked to illegal immigration and that patriarchy is dead.
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🟰 Inequality is hurting us as a society. It is stopping us from enjoying our everyday rights. One way to start changing this is with the socio-economic duty, which is not yet enacted. 🗣️ Ask your MP to support Early Day Motion (EDM) 258 now actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Ask your MP to sign an Early Day Motion for equality!
It's time to make equality real: I've asked my MP to sign an Early Day Motion for the socio-economic duty using @equalitytrust's tool! Join me:
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Nigeria the most populous country in Africa has launched its Malaria vaccine initiative.The initial rollout will be targeted to highest incidence areas. They are using the R21 vaccine which in clinical trials was 75% effective in reducing Malaria cases in infants msmeafricaonline.com/nigeria-laun...
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Nigeria Launches Malaria Vaccination Program For Children - MSME Africa
The Nigerian federal government has officially commenced its malaria vaccination program, with Kebbi and
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Rossella De Falco @rosselladefalco.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Happy to share this new article I wrote on #health and #climatechange
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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🌍 From air pollution to inadequate housing, climate change worsens health disparities. The UK has legal and moral duties to act. Stronger measures are essential for a fairer, healthier future. More in our blog by @rosselladefalco.bsky.social: blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2024/11/25/t...
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The impacts of climate change on the right to health in the United Kingdom - Bill of Health
by Rossella De Falco Climate change is one of the most pressing threats to health in the U.K. While climate change impacts everyone, marginalized groups and those with pre-existing health conditions a...
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Space @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The Pillars of Creation taken by JWST
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ESIL-SEDI @esil-sedi.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
✨ We are happy to announce that ESIL has officially landed on Bluesky! 🌟 We're thrilled to be here and can't wait to connect, share, and grow with this vibrant community. 🦋🌊 Stay informed with the latest updates, insights, and conversations on international law – follow us! 🌐⚖
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