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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · 21h

🚨Meet Isa Kahraman (NSC), the first of our speakers, who will join our fireside conversation to discuss his standpoints on rights-based politics!✊

Book your spot here 👉 shorturl.at/BDsMv to ask your burning questions to the panellists!

‼️See you on October 16th at The Hague Humanity Hub!

FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BIG BREAKING: Member of Parliament Danielle Hirsch @daniellehirsch.bsky.social (@gl_pvda ) will also join us on the 16th of October for our conversation on faith, freedom and fractured democracy !

🔥Join us and ask your burning questions! 🔥

Sign up here👉: shorturl.at/BDsMv!

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · 7d

🔥Join us for a fireside conversation with @mariekekoekkoek.voltnederland.org (Volt), Fatimazhra Belhirch (D66), and Isa Kahraman (NSC) on freedom of religion and civil rights ahead of Dutch elections!

Sign up here 👉https://shorturl.at/BDsMv !

#freedomofreligion #dutchelections #humanrights

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Join us for a powerful conversation with Marieke Koekkoek (Volt), Fatimazhra Belhirch (D66), & Isa Kahraman (NSC) on civil society, minority rights & polarization!

✊Let’s talk about the future of democracy and why it matters to all of us!

Sign up below and see you there!

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · 23d

Join us next week at The Hague Humanity Hub!

🤝Would you like to join MigraVoice as an expert in any field or journalist with a migration background? Are you from a global majority country and would you like to connect?

👉 Sign up to our networking sessions! We look forward to meeting you!

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 22

📧 Already a MigraVoice expert and want to contribute to our blog? Send an email to [email protected]!

FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 22

Are you an expert in any field with a migration background? Sign up for MigraVoice! 👨‍🦰 lnkd.in/eTuA2Bi4

FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 22

The next article in #MigraVoice blog series is live! Farai Hawthorn, whose name has been changed to protect their identity, describes displaced people's daily life in relief camps in #Manipur.

✴️ Read the full article here (may contain distressing content)➡️ thelondonstory.org/2025/08/22/m...

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 19

New blog post: The Karnataka High Court has reserved its judgment on the SAHYOG Portal, a little-known but powerful tool that enables mass online content takedowns.

In Part II of our series, we unpack the courtroom arguments:
Read here 👉 thelondonstory.org/2025/08/19/s...

SAHYOG Portal: Censorship and the Battle for Digital Due Process in India — Part II – The London Story

thelondonstory.org

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 9

Today, join us in breaking the silence, standing with Adivasis and demanding justice!
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #AdivasiLivesMatter #HumanRights #ClimateJustice #OperationKagar #FreeIndigenousDefenders #Bastar #India

FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 9

Today, we do more than honour Indigenous resilience. We demand an end to the systematic persecution of Adivasis, and accountability from the Indian government and security forces.

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 9

🛑 What’s more, resistance is met with arbitrary arrest, detention, torture and enforced disappearances. India’s Indigenous peoples are being silenced, dispossessed, and erased. AT TLS we have documented this systematic persecution in our reports: bit.ly/3UiiZHO; bit.ly/3UliTPC ; bit.ly/4mzHex2.

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 9

Bastar District, in the state of Chhattisgarh, is now one of the most militarised zones on Earth—villages have become open-air prisons. Women and children are subject to violence. Entire communities live under siege.

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 9

To clear the way for extraction, the Indian government has escalated militarised violence. Under the cover of a Maoist counterinsurgency, Adivasis are being arbitrarily arrested & detained, tortured, subjected to sexual violence, forcibly disappeared & executed through extrajudicial killings.

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 9

Instead, the Indian government is complicit in corporate land grabs which displace entire communities to make way for extractive industries and mining.

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 9

The Indian government has not ratified ILO Convention 169- the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention-and despite constitutional guarantees for Adivasis, does not recognise these communities as indigenous peoples. 2/8

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Aug 9

🌍 On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we raise our voices to remind the world that India’s indigenous Adivasi peoples face systematic persecution. 1/8
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #Adivasis #humanrights
@ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨Introducing our #Migravoice expert Elena Tacchini, part of the advocacy team at The London Story. Besides her research in political violence and hate speech, Elena has a strong passion for justice.

💪 Join Migravoice as an expert and contribute to a stronger, united voice: ➡️ lnkd.in/eTuA2Bi4

FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Jul 15

📰 Read the full article on why Karnataka’s bill is dangerous—and how India can do better:http://bit.ly/46aMhzh

FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Jul 15

India undoubtedly needs to combat the disinformation epidemic. But criminalised censorship isn't the answer.

❗We need platform accountability, public digital literacy, and independent fact-checking, not jail time for a misquoted tweet.

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Jul 15

Both the #EU and #India are facing a disinformation crisis. However, the EU’s #DSA doesn’t criminalise speech. It builds structural safeguards like risk assessments, transparency, and independent oversight, without making governments the arbiter of truth.

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Jul 15

⚖️ India's own courts have warned against such vague and sweeping laws.

In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India, the Supreme Court held that vague restrictions chill speech and violate constitutional freedoms.

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Jul 15

The bill also prohibits content that "disrespects Sanatan symbols."
❓ But what counts as a Sanatan symbol? Om? The militant Hanuman? A saffron flag?
This vagueness could shield majoritarian politics from any criticism.

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Jul 15

Enforcement would lie with a politically constituted authority chaired by the Minister for Information.

❌ No independent experts

❌ No legal safeguards

Just unchecked discretion.

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#Karnatakamisinformationbill

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FoundationTLS @foundationtls.bsky.social · Jul 15

🏛️ The bill defines “misinformation” so broadly that even partially inaccurate posts or satire taken out of context could lead to jail time of 2–5 years. Yes, just for a post.

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#misinformationbill #freedomofexpression #censorship

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