Marisa McVey
@marisamcv.bsky.social
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Academic at QUB School of Law • human rights • corporate accountability for human rights • (She/her)✨Views/hot takes unfortunately all my own✨
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klamberg.bsky.social
The UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel: Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. Absent a court judgment, findings of UN COIs are the most conclusive, thus we should read these findings thoroughly.
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
"Sinn Féin and the DUP have stalled the nutrients action programme over fears of a farmer backlash."

The *only* thing they'll unite on: ensuring the largest lake ecosystem in Ireland or Britain, Lough Neagh, continues to die of pollution.

What a f**king disgrace.
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‘It’s dying in front of our eyes’: how the UK’s largest lake became an ecological disaster
Signs tout a natural paradise, but pollution from over-farming has left Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh choked by toxic algae
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enddbelfast.bsky.social
ITV have this headline 100% correct. It was an attempted lynching in broad daylight at a preannounced white supremacist mobilisation.

Despite being MLA for the area, the Justice Minister doesn’t engage with victims of white supremacist terror in her own constituency.

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patrick-corrigan.bsky.social
For context: Policy Exchange is among the least transparent think tanks in the UK regarding its funding sources.

Co-founder and first chairman Michael Gove wrote a pamphlet in 2000 comparing the Good Friday Agreement to the appeasement of the Nazis in the 1930s.
Headline from Belfast Telegraph: Claims NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR ‘entirely groundless’ – think tank
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saraita101.bsky.social
People from Northern Ireland listening to English flag discourse
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seamas.bsky.social
Perhaps, one day, schoolkids will study this squalid little chapter in British terror-panic history. When they do, I hope these two headlines from today are printed side by side, with clear annotation of which individual faced more outrage and condemnation.
Headline: BBC under pressure to pull Sally Rooney dramas over vow to fund Palestine Action Headline: Tory minister Robert Jenrick pictured with former Nazi terror chief at far right protest.
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elainecrory.bsky.social
The whole article is worth reading!
marcdefaoite.bsky.social
Sally Rooney putting her money where her mouth is (figuratively of course). Bravo.
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aljazeera.com
Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces.

#JournalismIsNotACrime
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shanedarcy.bsky.social
“The leaked Microsoft files suggest that a large proportion of the unit’s sensitive data may now be sitting in the company’s datacentres in the Netherlands and Ireland.”

A deadly serious allegation that requires urgent investigation.

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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe
www.theguardian.com
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marisamcv.bsky.social
Yet another blog on the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on climate change - with a slight twist!

Below, myself and Annalisa Savaresi share reflections specifically on the implications for human rights-based corporate responsibility 👇
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brendanjharkin.bsky.social
A sit down protest by Palestinian solidarity groups has been blocking the road in front of City Hall for 2 hours now
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..."

Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food
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adhaque.bsky.social
"Four-year old Razan Abu Zaher gave up her fight for life on Sunday."

"She died at a hospital in central Gaza from complications brought on by hunger and malnutrition, according to a medical source. Her skeletal body was laid out on a slab of stone."
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lrb.co.uk
‘Given the size of Palestine Action and the breadth of support so far expressed for it, proscribing it could lead to a significant proportion of civil society being criminalised, including MPs, journalists and NGOs.’

New on the blog: Daniella Lock on Palestine Action. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
Daniella Lock | Heavy Power
During a parliamentary debate on the Terrorism Bill in 2000, MPs asked whether the legislation could be used to...
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nihrc.bsky.social
Drs Ciara Hackett and @marisamcv.bsky.social introduced the second day of our Business and Human Rights workshops, taking us through the context in Northern Ireland and sharing the Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Index.
Drs Ciara Hackett and Marisa McVey presenting.
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brendanjharkin.bsky.social
Northern Ireland has changed massively over the past 60 years in a lot of ways but certainly not in others
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miketqub.bsky.social
Queen's University Belfast no longer investing in Israeli companies "as of yesterday"
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adhaque.bsky.social
"The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and also consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations”, more than 800 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, including former supreme court justices, have said."
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saulstaniforth.bsky.social
UN's Tom Fletcher: "The situation is dire.. we have thousands of trucks ready to go.. we are demanding that the world back us in pushing Israel to let us in.. [5 trucks is] a drop in the ocean.. there are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them"