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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Apr 30

Podcast about writing a family memoir, new historical insights, Britishness, favourite books and a lot more….

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OurShelves with special guest Audrey Osler

OurShelves with Audrey Osler Audrey Osler is Professor Emerita of Citizenship and Human Rights Education at the University of Leeds. Her latest book, Where Are You From? No, Where Are You Really Fr…

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 26d

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · 27d

Deeply saddened to learn of the death of Conor Gearty
His contribution as a human rights scholar has been immense
His readiness to speak up for justice is one more human rights educators need to emulate

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‘Inspirational’ human rights lawyer Conor Gearty dies aged 67

President Michael D Higgins leads tributes for Longford-born law professor and author

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Browse the latest articles and research from Human Rights Education Review

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Sep 10

⭐️Really appreciate @drtoddlandman.bsky.social review of our edited book ‘Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education’ doi.org/10.1080/1891...

⭐️ @beategold.bsky.social & I are grateful for the support of a wonderful team of authors from #Denmark #Finland #Iceland #Norway #Sweden #Canada #US #UK

Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education: Research and Practice for Social Justice

Published in Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · Aug 21

GENDER PERSPECTIVES
⭐️ @sadiyaosman.bsky.social University of #Leicester explores the intersectional experiences by #gender #ethnicity & #religion of Black Muslim women in #UK #HigherEducation
⭐️Must-read for all working to enable equity & inclusion
⭐️Check it out
#academicsky
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Navigating academia: the intersectional experiences of Black Muslim female students in UK higher education

This article critically explores the structural and cultural exclusions faced by Black Muslim women (BMW) in higher education HE in the UK. It addresses the persistent elitism and growing awareness...

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Aug 14

And this in Washington DC, where I have always felt safe to walk and which has perhaps the best public transit system in the US where you can move across the city safely and efficiently 😢

Amnesty International @amnesty.org · Aug 14

We have documented human rights violations from past deployments of military forces for law enforcement in the U.S. and we will keep fighting for human rights, no matter what this administration throws our way.

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Amnesty International @amnesty.org · Aug 14

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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · Aug 14

‘No country is safe’: Deadly Nordic heatwave supercharged by climate crisis, scientists say

Historically cool nations are now seeing hospitals overheating, surge in wildfires and toxic algal blooms

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Aug 12

You can read Christina Johnson’s review of ‘Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education’ here doi.org/10.1080/2535...
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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · Aug 6

🎉Congratulations to HRER Guest Editors @beategold.bsky.social & Sevda Clark

🎉HRER 8(2) Gender Perspectives in #HumanRights Education now published

🎉New research from #Algeria #Germany #Norway #Pakistan #Britain #UnitedStates

🎉Check it out
#academicsky

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Human Rights Education Review

Gender perspectives in human rights education. Volume 8, Issue 2 of Human Rights Education Review

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Aug 5

International student Yeonsoo Go, from South #Korea arrested when she went to renew her US visa
Who would opt to study in a #UnitedStates university in this climate?
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 4

Go, a college student, has a dependent visa (her mother, an Episcopal minister, is here on a religious worker visa), which doesn't expire until Dec. But when she tried to renew it early, ICE nabbed her and sent her halfway across the US to a detention center.
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Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility

Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · Aug 4

Purdue student detained by ICE and taken to troubled Louisiana holding facility

Yeonsoo Go, 20, was detained after her immigration hearing in Manhattan and taken away by ICE agents.

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Jul 29

‘’ The unbearable suffering of the people of Gaza is already clear for the world to see. Waiting for official confirmation of famine to provide life-saving food aid they desperately need is unconscionable.” Cindy McCain, World Food Programme

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Famine under way in Gaza, UN-backed experts say

IPC alert reports mounting evidence of widespread starvation and says ‘worst-case scenario’ is playing out

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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · Feb 12

At #7 in our countdown of most cited articles is Carole Hahn’s analysis of teaching about, for and through #HumanRights in #Denmark, #Germany, #Netherlands & UK
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Human Rights Teaching: Snapshots from Four Countries

This article examines how some schools with ethnically diverse student populations are teaching about, for, and through human rights. The author conducted a secondary analysis of qualitative data f...

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mneesha-gellman.bsky.social @mneesha-gellman.bsky.social · Feb 14

My article "Public education and language rights: youth identity in the United States and Mexico" in Human Rights Education Review is temporarily open access, free to download! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Public education and language rights: youth identity in the United States and Mexico

Both the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 29) and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 26) articulate education for self-actualisation as a shared goal for humanity. But...

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Association for Citizenship Teaching @acitizenshipt.bsky.social · Apr 9

Encouraging to hear #PrimeMinister Keir Starmer speak in support of #CitizenshipEducation at yesterday’s Liaison Committee.

In response to a question on political education in schools, he highlighted Citizenship as important and that he was pleased to see it as part of the national curriculum.

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sr_toliver @srtoliver.bsky.social · Apr 28

New op-ed in the Chicago Sun Times

“When someone accepts bureaucratic terms for human displacement, they become desensitized, seeing figures instead of faces, cases instead of lives being upended.”

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Dehumanizing language used on America's enslaved is still spoken today

The words Donald Trump and his underlings use for immigrants strip away their humanity and reduce them to dangerous caricatures worthy of fear rather than constitutional protection.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Apr 29

is this DEI

New independent press to focus on male writers

Conduit Books will not ‘seek an adversarial stance … but the emphasis at first will be on ambitious, funny, political and cerebral fiction by men that is being passed by’

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Jul 27

Just learned that ‘Human Rights & Schooling’ is selected by National Academy of Sciences Republic of #Korea as an Excellent Academic Book
I’m greatly honoured by this prestigious award
Warm thanks to translators Drs Sunun Park & Jihye Park for their work and commitment to #HumanRightsEducation

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · Jul 23

Gaza’s “last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing,” according to the United Nations.

Children are starving. In recent weeks, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians seeking food aid, per the UN.

Learn more:

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Jul 18

It’s a special week when you get to celebrate the lifetime achievements of someone you deeply respect. Warm thanks to @dmu.ac.uk VC & EDI team for hosting 80th birthday celebration for Prof Gus John, recognising 60 years’ leadership for human rights, & educational, social & racial justice in the UK

L to R: Audrey Osler. Gus John Claudia Crawley on DMU rooftop terrace, Leicester

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Jul 14

As #SouthAsianHeritageMonth begins, I look forward to great events & share my family story from South India: ‘Where are you from? No where are you really from?’
From 18th century ancestors were migrants in each generation
Journeys prompted by war, economic crisis, enslavement, love
#RootstoRoutes

Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries. Whether o...

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Jul 8

1/11 History Reclaimed is still trying to invalidate the Church of England’s Project Spire reparative justice investment fund on historical grounds, with letters to the TLS and this rebuttal of the work of historians who examined the Church's complicity in slave-trading:

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Jun 30

⭐️My presentation at #IAHRE2025 addressing how hope (not blind optimism) can enhance human rights even in the most difficult times, drew on this contribution to Human Rights Education Review 8(2) @hrer.bsky.social
⭐️Do check it out!
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Education for hope and human rights in a turbulent world

Published in Human Rights Education Review (Vol. 8, No. 1, 2025)

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Jun 25

🎉Delighted that Christine Johnsson’s @mau.se review of ‘Nordic Perspectives on Human Rights Education’ (2025) is now free to read /download
🎉The review in @hrer.bsky.social is book’s first
🎉Check it out!
@tandfresearch.bsky.social
@beategold.bsky.social

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Nordic perspectives on human rights education: research and practice for social justice

Published in Human Rights Education Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

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John Morgan @johnmorgan3.bsky.social · Jun 25

At least nine research projects at Russell Group universities sent stop notices by Trump administration.

Includes study on forced child begging in Niger.

UK impact from Trump's science turmoil spotlighted by @francesjones.bsky.social FoI request.

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Trump administration axes UK university research projects - Research Professional News

More than 20 projects at Russell Group institutions halted, freedom of information requests reveal

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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · Jun 13

At #IAHRE2025 Prof Uvanney Maylor inviting us to think about how art can be made more relatable to global majority students
Is relatable art a student’s human right?

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Audrey Osler @audreyosler.bsky.social · Jun 13

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Human Rights Education Review @hrer.bsky.social · Jun 12

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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