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Chris Chapman

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Indigenous Peoples' rights @ Amnesty. Prefer to think and act in terms of what brings us together than what separates us.

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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🔔 🔔 🔔 "We were just railroaded. Our Tribe is financially impoverished, I feel we were taken advantage of – our being so naïve to what was really happening at the time" www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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USA: Boom in lithium mining across Nevada is violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples
The US government is breaching international human rights standards by moving ahead with a series of new lithium mines across Nevada without the Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) of affected Ind...
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
105 civil society organisations wrote to express their utmost concern at the arbitrary detention of Indigenous leader and human rights defender Daria Egereva and human rights defender Natalia Leongardt, and demand their immediate and unconditional release climaterights.org/wp-content/u...
Photos of Daria and Natalia, with text taken from the joint statement
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It is seven years since the El Hiblu 3 were arrested in Malta for opposing their forced return to Libya, where they would be at risk of persecution, torture and other serious human rights violations www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
3 young Black men, backs turned to the camera, one with crutches, linking arms, looking down a sloping street lined with cars in Malta, colourful streamers are hung across the street
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Amnesty Business & Human Rights @amnestybhr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
📢Amnesty International launches Urgent Action on behalf of the people of Bille, Nigeria @amnesty.org calls on the Nigerian govt to urgently investigate the unexplained gas leaks in rivers & swamps near to Bille, so that they can be stopped & protect people from harm www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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Nigeria: Bille residents facing health emergency - Amnesty International
Thousands of people living in Bille, a fishing community in Rivers State, in Nigeria’s oil-producing Niger Delta region, are facing a health emergency. Since October 2025, methane gas has been bubblin...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.
Post from Amanda Gorman’s Instagram that says 

amandascgorman
Minneapolis, Minnesota
For Renee Nicole Good
Killed by ICE. on January 7, 2026
by Amanda Gorman
They say she is no more, That there her absence roars, Blood-blown like a rose.
Iced wheels flinched & froze.
Now, bare riot of candles, Dark fury of flowers, Pure howling of hymns.
If for us she arose,
Somewhere, in the pitched deep of our grief, Crouches our power,
The howl where we begin,
Straining upon the edge of the crooked crater Of the worst of what we've been.
Change is only possible, & all the greater, When the labour
& bitter anger of our neighbors
Is moved by the love
* better angels of our nature.
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"We will not grant bail in Kuki-Chin cases, go to another court." After 2 bank robberies, the Bangladesh security forces have exacted racist, collective punishment on the tiny Bawm Indigenous People, displacing more than 1/3 to India. interactive.netra.news/being-bawm-b...
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Has a UK university caved to China pressure not to research human rights of Uyghurs? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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China-critical UK academics describe ‘extremely heavy’ pressure from Beijing
Reliance on overseas students’ tuition fees under scrutiny as scholars describe chilling effect of being targeted
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Amnesty new research - Europe: Human rights defenders excluded by discriminatory Schengen visa system www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Europe: Human rights defenders excluded by discriminatory Schengen visa system
Visa systems in Europe’s Schengen represent a obstacle course for human rights defenders, preventing many from participating in key decision-making forums.
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
August 9 is the International day of Indigenous Peoples! The right to self-determination is the cornerstone of Indigenous Peoples' rights. In this video, Indigenous leaders, activists and experts explain what it means. youtu.be/qptQMKhBvR8
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What does the right of self-determination mean for Indigenous Peoples?
YouTube video by Amnesty International
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Agreement between Mauritius and the UK fails to guarantee rights of Chagossians say UN experts lnkd.in/eab5ZBQc Photo: David Holt via Flickr
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
👀⌛✍️ Deadline 16 June! To participate in UN Human Rights Council in Sept/Oct www.linkedin.com/posts/hernan...
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📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 : The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous… | Hernan Vales
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢 : The United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Peoples (UNVFIP) is receiving applications for Indigenous Peoples seeking to participate in the 60th session of the Human Rights Cou...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/05/2025
“Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires the government to provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people. If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.”
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Does Kristi Noem even know what habeas corpus is?
The Homeland Security secretary's word salad raised even more questions about the administration's assault on fundamental rights.
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Palestinian Trade Unions’ May Day Statement - 1 May 2025 No Labor For Genocide - No Complicity With Apartheid www.bdsmovement.net/news/no-labo...
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
MA in human rights at @icws-sas.bsky.social - scholarships for applicants from Low and Middle Income Commonwealth States - do consider applying! www.linkedin.com/posts/corinn...
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I am delighted to annouce we have five new scholarships for our MA Human… | Corinne Lennox
I am delighted to annouce we have five new scholarships for our MA Human Rights! For human rights practitioners (broadly understood) from low and middle income Commonwealth countries working for &#39...
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Racial borders in action Hanno Hauenstein - Germany is now deporting pro-Palestine EU citizens who have committed no crime lnkd.in/evH3hkuw
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking Steven Donziger www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Frank Conde Tangberg @frankctangberg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
🇦🇪Ahmed Mansoor, known as the UAE’s “last human rights defender”, has had a 15 year prison sentence upheld. He was still serving time on another sentence when he was sentenced again in July 2024. Mansoor has spent much of his time in prison, since 2017, in isolation. www.hrw.org/news/2025/03...
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UAE: Ahmed Mansoor’s 15-Year Sentence Upheld
An Emirati court upheld an abusive 15-year sentence on March 4, 2025, against the prominent Emirati human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor, who was convicted following a fundamentally unfair trial.
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
I'll be speaking at this event. For those not in London, a recording will be available after the event. Register at: commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Join us for this great event next week where I will be a panelist. Register commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... with @globalpluralism.bsky.social and @icws-sas.bsky.social
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
We have a launch event for these 3 publications tomorrow, please come! See event details at my LinkedIn post here www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
In June 2023, #Nahel was shot at short range by a police officer in France. Today, the prosecutor requests a trial for murder. The death of the French-Algerian teenager triggered massive protests & unrests against longstanding racist policing. This was met with heavy repression by the authorities.
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
[AMNESTY] Failure to consult Indigenous Peoples on future pandemics will further harm children’s education www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Danish "ghetto legislation", which requires public housing to be sold off as a "solution" to concentration of "non-Western" people in a particular area, is direct discrimination, Advocate General states. ECJ to rule on this at a future date curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/...
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Erika Guevara-Rosas @erikaguevararosas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Our new @amnesty.org report, ‘Canada has destroyed me’: Labour exploitation of migrant workers, exposes how Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Programme is a racist policy that facilitates shocking abuse and exploitation of migrant workers Read more: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...
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Rym Khadhraoui @rymkh.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In a joint letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, @amnesty.org joined 162 civil society organizations and trade unions in calling on the EU to ban trade and business with Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. www.amnesty.eu/news/israel-...
A message to the EU
Drawing of hands shaking with a yellow cross on it
Ban trade with Israel's settlements
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Chris Chapman @spinachcharm.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
As we see an unprecedented attack on the international rule of law by corrupt criminal billionaires, this initiative is to be celebrated! www.theguardian.com/law/2025/jan...
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South Africa and Malaysia to launch campaign to protect international justice
Formation of Hague Group comes amid challenges to ICJ and ICC rulings
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