Natalie Sedacca
@nataliesedacca.bsky.social
Legal academic at Durham University, researching labour law and human rights with a focus on domestic workers, other marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. Trustee for migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan. She / her
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Modern slavery and human rights: migrant workers in the agricultural and care sectors in the UK - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
Please join us for this webinar on 28 October, 1-2pm UK time, on 'Modern Slavery and Human Rights: Migrant Workers in the Agricultural and Care Sectors in the UK,' with Prof Tomoya Obokata, the current UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery since 2020
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Israel is still killing Palestinians.
Since October 10th’s ceasefire:
- Israel has violated the agreement at least 393 times.
- Israel continues to block vital humanitarian aid and demolish homes and infrastructure.
Since October 10th’s ceasefire:
- Israel has violated the agreement at least 393 times.
- Israel continues to block vital humanitarian aid and demolish homes and infrastructure.
November 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Israel is still killing Palestinians.
Since October 10th’s ceasefire:
- Israel has violated the agreement at least 393 times.
- Israel continues to block vital humanitarian aid and demolish homes and infrastructure.
Since October 10th’s ceasefire:
- Israel has violated the agreement at least 393 times.
- Israel continues to block vital humanitarian aid and demolish homes and infrastructure.
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The proposed settlement changes are really difficult to understand and very stressful if you or someone you know is a migrant. Read our explainer below so you can stay up to date with what's happening.
Last week the Government announced changes to settlement, turning the lives of millions of people upside down. Here's what we know so far 👉 www.praxis.org.uk/news/explain...
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
Created with @gmiau.bsky.social
Explainer: statement and consultation on “earned settlement” — Praxis
On Thursday 20th November, the government published a statement and a consultation on their planned changes to settlement in the UK (also known as indefinite leave to remain or ILR). In sh...
www.praxis.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The proposed settlement changes are really difficult to understand and very stressful if you or someone you know is a migrant. Read our explainer below so you can stay up to date with what's happening.
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This Thursday we're celebrating the work of Honorary Professor Lord Hendy in our event 'Class Struggle and the Law'. Join us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
Class Struggle and the Law: An evening in conversation with Lord Hendy KC
A joint UCL Labour Rights Institute - Institute of Employment Rights (IER) event
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This Thursday we're celebrating the work of Honorary Professor Lord Hendy in our event 'Class Struggle and the Law'. Join us.
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
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"The case of a woman who was denied indefinite leave to remain in the UK even though her father and brothers were granted the status under the Windrush scheme must be reconsidered by the Home Office, the court of appeal has said" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Woman denied indefinite leave to remain in UK under Windrush scheme wins appeal
Home Office ordered to reconsider case of Jeanell Hippolyte, whose father and brother were granted ILR
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"The case of a woman who was denied indefinite leave to remain in the UK even though her father and brothers were granted the status under the Windrush scheme must be reconsidered by the Home Office, the court of appeal has said" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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📔: “The spirit and gist of a gathering of people who worked closely with Drucilla…”
Thrilled to announce the publication of our new special issue, “Limit, Transformation, Imagination — Honouring the Legacy of Drucilla Cornell” edited by Karin van Marle.
Read here: link.springer.com/journal/1069...
Thrilled to announce the publication of our new special issue, “Limit, Transformation, Imagination — Honouring the Legacy of Drucilla Cornell” edited by Karin van Marle.
Read here: link.springer.com/journal/1069...
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📔: “The spirit and gist of a gathering of people who worked closely with Drucilla…”
Thrilled to announce the publication of our new special issue, “Limit, Transformation, Imagination — Honouring the Legacy of Drucilla Cornell” edited by Karin van Marle.
Read here: link.springer.com/journal/1069...
Thrilled to announce the publication of our new special issue, “Limit, Transformation, Imagination — Honouring the Legacy of Drucilla Cornell” edited by Karin van Marle.
Read here: link.springer.com/journal/1069...
Southern California federal district court rules that case of a group of Indonesian fishers who sued US tuna brand Bumble Bee under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, alleging years of forced labor while catching fish sold by the brand, can move forward
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
Landmark US ruling allows Indonesians to proceed with lawsuit against Bumble Bee for forced labor on fishing boats, Greenpeace comment - Greenpeace International
"This gives me hope for justice for me and my fellow plaintiffs as we struggle for justice and change for the better. Our fight and sacrifice are not in vain in order to get justice for all of the fis...
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November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Southern California federal district court rules that case of a group of Indonesian fishers who sued US tuna brand Bumble Bee under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, alleging years of forced labor while catching fish sold by the brand, can move forward
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...
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The glorious future which we must trash data protection and copyright for
November 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The glorious future which we must trash data protection and copyright for
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This focuses on politics. But we should also care about *outcomes*.
In the UK, migrants (both from EU and elsewhere) are more likely to have a job than the UK born. In Denmark, there's a gap of 15-20%. Similarly for education outcomes.
Why would we want to copy that?
In the UK, migrants (both from EU and elsewhere) are more likely to have a job than the UK born. In Denmark, there's a gap of 15-20%. Similarly for education outcomes.
Why would we want to copy that?
After more than 10 years of “the Danish Model”, nativism is hegemonic in the country, the far right polls near level highs again, and the Social Democrats lost Copenhagen and poll at historic low.
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
European Social Democrats should look at the facts, not the myths!
Me in @theguardian.com
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
This focuses on politics. But we should also care about *outcomes*.
In the UK, migrants (both from EU and elsewhere) are more likely to have a job than the UK born. In Denmark, there's a gap of 15-20%. Similarly for education outcomes.
Why would we want to copy that?
In the UK, migrants (both from EU and elsewhere) are more likely to have a job than the UK born. In Denmark, there's a gap of 15-20%. Similarly for education outcomes.
Why would we want to copy that?
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If the system worked properly and fairly, this man would have been recognised years ago, been able to bring his family here and be a British citizen. Instead, he now faces being caught up in the Home Secretary's plans to switch refugees into what seems to be a minimum 20 year route to settlement.
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 AM
If the system worked properly and fairly, this man would have been recognised years ago, been able to bring his family here and be a British citizen. Instead, he now faces being caught up in the Home Secretary's plans to switch refugees into what seems to be a minimum 20 year route to settlement.
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"Greenlandic parents in Denmark are 5.6 times more likely to have children taken into care than Danish parents, according to the Danish Centre for Social Research, a government-funded research institute" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
"Greenlandic parents in Denmark are 5.6 times more likely to have children taken into care than Danish parents, according to the Danish Centre for Social Research, a government-funded research institute" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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‘“I have a few simple words to say to the Home Office: you destroyed my life,” he says. “How can they hold on to a person for 17 years who has done nothing wrong? Being an asylum seeker here is like living in an open prison.’
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
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:59 AM
‘“I have a few simple words to say to the Home Office: you destroyed my life,” he says. “How can they hold on to a person for 17 years who has done nothing wrong? Being an asylum seeker here is like living in an open prison.’
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Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
‘If asylum is framed as illegality, and settlement is reshaped into a privilege that must be endlessly earned, then our understanding of equal membership – the idea that those lawfully in the UK should enjoy stability and a clear path to full inclusion – is fundamentally altered.’
Asylum is not "illegal migration"
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...
Asylum is not illegal migration – why the UK government shouldn’t conflate the two
The new proposals transform settlement into something that must be continually earned. The path has become longer, more conditional and far more easily disrupted.
theconversation.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:47 AM
‘If asylum is framed as illegality, and settlement is reshaped into a privilege that must be endlessly earned, then our understanding of equal membership – the idea that those lawfully in the UK should enjoy stability and a clear path to full inclusion – is fundamentally altered.’
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On Wednesday, Na'amodnik Max Hammer will join a panel of experts in Geneva to introduce the 5th annual Don't Buy Into Occupation report, which examines financial & corporate involvement in Israel's violations of international law in Palestine.
Register to join online/in-person: tinyurl.com/4v9cderz
Register to join online/in-person: tinyurl.com/4v9cderz
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
On Wednesday, Na'amodnik Max Hammer will join a panel of experts in Geneva to introduce the 5th annual Don't Buy Into Occupation report, which examines financial & corporate involvement in Israel's violations of international law in Palestine.
Register to join online/in-person: tinyurl.com/4v9cderz
Register to join online/in-person: tinyurl.com/4v9cderz
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Trans folk endure political violence that negates their identities, strips away their healthcare and excludes them from public life. They’re trashed as an “ideology.” But they’re people. They deserve to live in a world that unconditionally nurtures their existence.
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance. Trans folk endure political violence that negates their identities, strips away their healthcare and excludes them from public life. They’re trashed as an “ideology.” But they’re people. They deserve to live in a world that unconditionally nurtures their existence.
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OPEN ACCESS: Bringing Governance Home: Feminists, Domestic Violence, and the Paradoxes of Rights in India
This article offers a rich account of feminist legal strategy in India, tracing how domestic violence came to be codified, contested, and reframed within feminist and global legal frameworks.
This article offers a rich account of feminist legal strategy in India, tracing how domestic violence came to be codified, contested, and reframed within feminist and global legal frameworks.
Bringing Governance Home: Feminists, Domestic Violence, and the Paradoxes of Rights in India - Feminist Legal Studies
Feminists have had spectacular successes transnationally in shifting the norms governing family life through legislation proscribing domestic violence. This article looks at the case of India and asks...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
OPEN ACCESS: Bringing Governance Home: Feminists, Domestic Violence, and the Paradoxes of Rights in India
This article offers a rich account of feminist legal strategy in India, tracing how domestic violence came to be codified, contested, and reframed within feminist and global legal frameworks.
This article offers a rich account of feminist legal strategy in India, tracing how domestic violence came to be codified, contested, and reframed within feminist and global legal frameworks.
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Legal briefing: UN Security Council resolution 2803, which endorses the ‘peace plan’ accompanying the often-violated ceasefire in Gaza, appears concerningly disconnected from securing fundamental human rights for Palestinians and ultimately achieving sustainable peace
lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...
lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Legal briefing: UN Security Council resolution 2803, which endorses the ‘peace plan’ accompanying the often-violated ceasefire in Gaza, appears concerningly disconnected from securing fundamental human rights for Palestinians and ultimately achieving sustainable peace
lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...
lphr.org.uk/latest-news/...
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📢📢📢 Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration
📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency)
Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!!
@regulariseuk.bsky.social
📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency)
Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!!
@regulariseuk.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
📢📢📢 Migrant Workers’ Rights – National Emergency Demonstration
📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency)
Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!!
@regulariseuk.bsky.social
📌Saturday 13 December, 12PM
📌Birmingham City Centre (Shabana Mahmood’s constituency)
Stand up for our neighbours - your salary DOES NOT define your contribution to the UK!!
@regulariseuk.bsky.social
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A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality.
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A few weeks ago this Reform rising star went on LBC & said young people were being paid too much,citing his experience in hospitality.
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
So we looked into his companies & found 3 tribunal judgments for failure to pay wages, holiday pay & provide contracts
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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The delays are caused by decades of underfunding of the criminal justice system. Blaming it on defendants is obscene.
Telling the quotes here referring to 'criminals' etc. presuppose the accused are guilty & the trial process an inconvenience standing in the way of locking them up.
Telling the quotes here referring to 'criminals' etc. presuppose the accused are guilty & the trial process an inconvenience standing in the way of locking them up.
“No one is being served in the case that we saw.. More victims and witnesses are pulling out of the process because they cannot wait that long. That is compelling illustration of justice delayed being justice denied.”
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The delays are caused by decades of underfunding of the criminal justice system. Blaming it on defendants is obscene.
Telling the quotes here referring to 'criminals' etc. presuppose the accused are guilty & the trial process an inconvenience standing in the way of locking them up.
Telling the quotes here referring to 'criminals' etc. presuppose the accused are guilty & the trial process an inconvenience standing in the way of locking them up.
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Court of Appeal definitively rejects government's "compliant environment" term in favour of "hostile environment"
(from RAMFEL judgment)
(from RAMFEL judgment)
November 20, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Court of Appeal definitively rejects government's "compliant environment" term in favour of "hostile environment"
(from RAMFEL judgment)
(from RAMFEL judgment)
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'Nursing leaders told the Guardian the plans were “immoral” and treated highly skilled migrants as “political footballs”. They said a mass exodus of nurses would threaten patient safety'.
Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....
Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
'Nursing leaders told the Guardian the plans were “immoral” and treated highly skilled migrants as “political footballs”. They said a mass exodus of nurses would threaten patient safety'.
Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....
Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....
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Mahmood is getting comprehensively owned by Reform over on the other place.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Mahmood is getting comprehensively owned by Reform over on the other place.
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The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
The i Paper is reporting that once the changes are brought in, the 20 year route will be applied to refugees who are already here.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
I can't over emphasise the level of terror this will cause to our refugee population, and the lack of detail and timescale will make it very difficult to calm nerves.
‘if, as appears to be the case, the govt aims through these proposals to steal the clothes of the two major right-wing political parties… then perhaps the likelihood of provoking a showdown with the courts is a feature of the white paper, rather than a bug’ publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
Proposals for radical reform of the UK’s asylum system raise a number of legal and constitutional issues, with respect both to the European Convention on Human Rights and the domestic principle of …
publiclawforeveryone.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:40 AM
‘if, as appears to be the case, the govt aims through these proposals to steal the clothes of the two major right-wing political parties… then perhaps the likelihood of provoking a showdown with the courts is a feature of the white paper, rather than a bug’ publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/11/17/t...