Lauren Dobson-Hughes
@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social
I run an organisation that designs policy and campaigns on foreign policy, gender, health and rights. Used to work in two Parliaments. Mancunian in Canada
Superb summary of the Global Fund replenishment, and why it holds a mirror up to broader geopolitical shifts. "The rhetoric of shared responsibility persists but the financial backbone that sustains it is weakening"
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November 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Superb summary of the Global Fund replenishment, and why it holds a mirror up to broader geopolitical shifts. "The rhetoric of shared responsibility persists but the financial backbone that sustains it is weakening"
aidspan.org/Blog/view/32...
aidspan.org/Blog/view/32...
Harrowing account of how Denmark uses cod psychology and general knowledge tests to remove Greenlandic children from their mothers www.bbc.com/news/article...
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Harrowing account of how Denmark uses cod psychology and general knowledge tests to remove Greenlandic children from their mothers www.bbc.com/news/article...
Off to buy my nephew a computer game for Christmas (AKA terrible immigrant remittances flowing to the marginalized community of Stockport)
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Off to buy my nephew a computer game for Christmas (AKA terrible immigrant remittances flowing to the marginalized community of Stockport)
Blanket ban on sending money abroad is antithetical to liberal democracy, would upend trade, and, given remittances are larger than development aid, would cause serious harm to vulnerable people around the world bsky.app/profile/sund...
Trevor Phillips proposes banning "remittances" (ie: imposing currency/exchange controls on international cash transfers by foreign nationals from Britain). He says this would disincentivise immigration, in a Times piece saying the Home Secretary needs to go [much] further
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November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Blanket ban on sending money abroad is antithetical to liberal democracy, would upend trade, and, given remittances are larger than development aid, would cause serious harm to vulnerable people around the world bsky.app/profile/sund...
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
Trevor Philips in the Times, calling for a Trump/Miller-style of random deportations based on skin colour.
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November 24, 2025 at 11:05 PM
UK now at the point where the former Chair of the Racial Equalities Commission is calling for campaigns of terror against people of colour on the streets of the UK
My sense is Trudeau asked early on, and GAC had continual struggles to meet political needs. But then as the grind of govt went on and energy went out of FFP, they settled into an uneasy truce of policy in name but not in writing
November 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My sense is Trudeau asked early on, and GAC had continual struggles to meet political needs. But then as the grind of govt went on and energy went out of FFP, they settled into an uneasy truce of policy in name but not in writing
Translation: the last govt actively did not want a written feminist foreign policy. It benefitted from Schrodinger's policy that was flexible. I assume Carney asked for something written when he came in, and got a half-baked 'maybe this ???' cause it was the first time anything had been written
November 24, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Translation: the last govt actively did not want a written feminist foreign policy. It benefitted from Schrodinger's policy that was flexible. I assume Carney asked for something written when he came in, and got a half-baked 'maybe this ???' cause it was the first time anything had been written
Th irony of all this is that feminist analysis is the best way to understand current geopolitics and shifts in and between many countries
Nobody understands raw power and how it gets (mis)used like feminists nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/24/g...
Nobody understands raw power and how it gets (mis)used like feminists nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/24/g...
MPs swipe at Carney's claim that Canada has no feminist foreign policy
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Th irony of all this is that feminist analysis is the best way to understand current geopolitics and shifts in and between many countries
Nobody understands raw power and how it gets (mis)used like feminists nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/24/g...
Nobody understands raw power and how it gets (mis)used like feminists nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/24/g...
Mr Beast and Rockefeller: The most unlikely partnership but somehow it works www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/beast-p...
Beast Philanthropy and Rockefeller Foundation Launch Strategic Partnership
GREENVILLE, NC; NEW YORK | November 24, 2025 — Beast Philanthropy, the charitable organization founded by Jimmy Donaldson, the world’s #1 creator known
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November 24, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Mr Beast and Rockefeller: The most unlikely partnership but somehow it works www.rockefellerfoundation.org/news/beast-p...
Supporting generic production of vaccines, so we can lower the price of a malaria vaccine by 25%, is a good use of donor aid money
That's 7 million more children who won't get malaria
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
That's 7 million more children who won't get malaria
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Supporting generic production of vaccines, so we can lower the price of a malaria vaccine by 25%, is a good use of donor aid money
That's 7 million more children who won't get malaria
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
That's 7 million more children who won't get malaria
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
A direct result of hostility to refugees and underfunding of the safeguarding system
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A direct result of hostility to refugees and underfunding of the safeguarding system
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
More than 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
A direct result of hostility to refugees and underfunding of the safeguarding system
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
A direct result of hostility to refugees and underfunding of the safeguarding system
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Canada's 2025 G7 leadership had the lowest number of gender equality commitments in 12 years. Only four other G7s in the last 20 years have had lower
How times have changed g7.canada.ca/en/g7-inform...
How times have changed g7.canada.ca/en/g7-inform...
November 24, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Canada's 2025 G7 leadership had the lowest number of gender equality commitments in 12 years. Only four other G7s in the last 20 years have had lower
How times have changed g7.canada.ca/en/g7-inform...
How times have changed g7.canada.ca/en/g7-inform...
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Honestly crazy how no man has ever had any problem that oppressing women couldn’t solve.
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Honestly crazy how no man has ever had any problem that oppressing women couldn’t solve.
Reposted by Lauren Dobson-Hughes
really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)
November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
really is incredible how often "men are having a problem, let's fix it using someone else's entire life" comes up. does the institute for family studies understand that children are whole complete human beings whose existence cannot be used as a coping mechanism for their fathers' anxieties? (no)
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Tomorrow (Nov 25) is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of #16Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
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November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Tomorrow (Nov 25) is the UN's International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the start of #16Days of Activism on Gender-Based Violence
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
Learn community care with me. Sign up! ⬇️
I'm offering 2 FREE bystander intervention webinars to mark the date: 1 in English et un en français
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Young men are particularly at risk from online sports betting
72% of sports betters are men. They bet more often in larger amounts. They're three times as likely to be problem gamblers. They're twice as likely to bet while drunk or high
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
72% of sports betters are men. They bet more often in larger amounts. They're three times as likely to be problem gamblers. They're twice as likely to bet while drunk or high
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
November 23, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Young men are particularly at risk from online sports betting
72% of sports betters are men. They bet more often in larger amounts. They're three times as likely to be problem gamblers. They're twice as likely to bet while drunk or high
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
72% of sports betters are men. They bet more often in larger amounts. They're three times as likely to be problem gamblers. They're twice as likely to bet while drunk or high
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/j...
If Canada's (non-existent) Feminist Foreign Policy is dead, then what happens to its actual Feminist International Assistance Policy?
It's already under-funded, and the government is cutting another $2.7bn out of it
It's already under-funded, and the government is cutting another $2.7bn out of it
November 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
If Canada's (non-existent) Feminist Foreign Policy is dead, then what happens to its actual Feminist International Assistance Policy?
It's already under-funded, and the government is cutting another $2.7bn out of it
It's already under-funded, and the government is cutting another $2.7bn out of it
Trudeau had a Schrodinger's Feminist Foreign Policy. There were rhetorical, normative and some funding wins, but because there was no written policy, it could be everything to everybody. It was very difficult to hold the govt to account for actual actions
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Trudeau had a Schrodinger's Feminist Foreign Policy. There were rhetorical, normative and some funding wins, but because there was no written policy, it could be everything to everybody. It was very difficult to hold the govt to account for actual actions
Carney is just saying what we've known since March. Dangerous times call for Big Boys in Suits. There's no room for the soft lady feelings
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
No more feminist foreign policy, Carney says
Prime Minister, who made the comments at the G20 summit in Johannesburg, has placed less emphasis on feminist policies than the Trudeau government
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Carney is just saying what we've known since March. Dangerous times call for Big Boys in Suits. There's no room for the soft lady feelings
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Ramaphosa showing a path forward for multilateralism that doesn't depend on the US. Progress is possible if you stop being dragged off track by every US whim or tantrum www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-...
How the US tried to undermine the G20 summit in South Africa
NEWS ANALYSIS. Washington is boycotting the event taking place in Johannesburg. Yet despite intimidation from Trump, South Africa has pushed ahead with its agenda.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ramaphosa showing a path forward for multilateralism that doesn't depend on the US. Progress is possible if you stop being dragged off track by every US whim or tantrum www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-...
Imagine if this man’s refugee claim were accepted quickly, and he and his family settled and contributed as productive citizens to British life
Instead we put him through 17 years of hell for no point other than cruelty www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Instead we put him through 17 years of hell for no point other than cruelty www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
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November 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Imagine if this man’s refugee claim were accepted quickly, and he and his family settled and contributed as productive citizens to British life
Instead we put him through 17 years of hell for no point other than cruelty www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Instead we put him through 17 years of hell for no point other than cruelty www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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People love to pretend like pastel QAnon and RFK and anti-vaxx moms are just a function of bored privilege and ignorance, but the reality is much more complex.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
November 22, 2025 at 2:40 PM
People love to pretend like pastel QAnon and RFK and anti-vaxx moms are just a function of bored privilege and ignorance, but the reality is much more complex.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
These anti-medical birth movements cross class and race lines and exploit very real gendered trauma from medical sexism related to birth.
Reposted by Lauren Dobson-Hughes
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Please hear me when I say that
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
1) these anti-medical woo birth movements have been a primary feeder into anti-vaxx eugenic movements
2) they pre-date the age of social media
3) they exist because we have not addressed medical sexism and specifically obstetric violence
The UK is totally unprepared for hot weather in the summer. And embarrassingly bad at cold weather in winter too. Famously, there are two (2) entire snow ploughs in Manchester (population 2 million)
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The UK is totally unprepared for hot weather in the summer. And embarrassingly bad at cold weather in winter too. Famously, there are two (2) entire snow ploughs in Manchester (population 2 million)
Every time I laugh at the UK preparing for -2 C and an inch of snow, I remind myself I had to stop my dad shovelling the drive with a garden spade last time it snowed
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Every time I laugh at the UK preparing for -2 C and an inch of snow, I remind myself I had to stop my dad shovelling the drive with a garden spade last time it snowed