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@fromsaltintears.com

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on public international law’s iteration of the republic of conscience, its Yes to humanity, through stories that echo its meaning https://fromsaltintears.com; plus radical or root international justice for kids cahtreaty4kids.org #hope-walking

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · Nov 24

Something we hadn’t seen revealed. / Only the meaning [its radical intent & inherent limits] wasn’t revealed.
—Louise Glück’s Averno 4

Why I blend international #humanrights law’s reasoning mode & effective power with storytelling’s narrative mode & affective power fromsaltintears.com/about

In From Salt In Tears I blend international human rights law with storytelling: 1 to make its Yes to humanity more visible; 2 create meaning that arcs justice; & 3 support international law’s ground for resisting injustice. Learn more at fromsaltintears.com

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Connolly for President @catherinegalway.bsky.social · 7d

"We need a president who can give a voice to those who feel they don't have a voice, who can give a voice to the real challenges in our society, who can give a voice to the terrible injustice that's happening in our world right now." - @mariesherlock.bsky.social @labourpartyireland.bsky.social

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 1d

‘Domestic judges cannot undo the case law of the Strasbourg court that so irritates a section of the political class and its journalist outriders. But they are doing everything short of that to make human rights as much of a domestic legal irrelevance as possible.’

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Conor Gearty · Unwelcome Remnant: Erasing the Human Rights Act

The Supreme Court is quietly editing the Human Rights Act out of existence. In cases where human rights cannot be...

www.lrb.co.uk

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 2d

Ahhh *childish* is an insult to children, Alan.

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Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 3d

@equalitynow.bsky.social press release welcoming the decision of the African Commission on Human & People's Rights in relation to sexual violence committed by DRC military personnel in South Kivu
reliefweb.int/report/democ...

Landmark ruling finally brings justice for survivors of wartime sexual violence in DRC - Democratic Republic of the Congo

News and Press Release in English on Democratic Republic of the Congo about Gender and Protection and Human Rights; published on 6 Oct 2025 by Equality Now

reliefweb.int

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 3d

#Gaza: 2 years too long.

UNRWA’s photographers document the suffering of the people in #Gaza, and the work our dedicated teams continue to do.

International journalists are banned to enter Gaza and independently report.

See Gaza through their eyes.

#UNRWAworks

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 4d

"We need to look at the cost of genocide to our humanity."

@catherinegalway.bsky.social #twip #aras25

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 3d

Today I stood
and watched the trees let their leaves go.

War made me more sensitive to beauty.
Don’t wait for war to see it –
just look around.

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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 6d

Care as a human right?

The IACtHR recently recognised this right and specified respective state obligations.

MIRIAM L. HENRÍQUEZ VIÑAS & SABRINA RAGONE explain what this entails – and why we may soon witness a proliferation of norms at the domestic level.

verfassungsblog.de/right-to-car...

Quote from the piece by Miriam Henriquez Vinas & Sabrina Ragone: “The Court provided a comprehensive interpretation of the right to care as implicitly embedded in the Convention, connected to other conventional rights, and multifaceted in nature.”

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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 8d

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio.
It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply

card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?"

WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

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Caroline O'Doherty @codohertynews.bsky.social · 11d

'Sinister, criminal or reckless' Too many questions remain over Blackwater fish kill - concerned groups say inconclusive final report must not be last word on it
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

‘Some big polluter is breathing sigh of relief’: Questions remain over Blackwater fish kill

Inconclusive report must not be last word on devastating incident, say environmentalists

www.irishtimes.com

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 11d

‘The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.’ ✨

Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 11d

Silent Spring was published on this day in 1962, catalyzing the environmental movement. The deeply human story behind it: www.themarginalian.org/2017/01/27/r...

The Story Behind “Silent Spring”: How Rachel Carson’s Countercultural Courage Catalyzed the Environmental Movement

“It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to have the opportunity to speak out — to many thousands of people — on something so important.”

www.themarginalian.org

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Suzy Byrne @suzybie.bsky.social · 11d

I very much support the scrapping of the means test for carers allowance. If it happens it must not be allowed to continue to defray the states responsibility to support people to live independently (with supports as required). It can’t be the answer to the no vote to #CareRef.

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 12d

The International Criminal Court matters. For the most vulnerable it is a ‘small light’ in the darkness. When enkindled it protects us all from severe forms rights deprivation.

REDRESS Trust @redress.org · 16d

🚨 Joint Global Call to #SaveTheICC

The US is expected to sanction the ICC. Civil society urges States Parties to stop these sanctions before it’s too late.

📄 Read and endorse the joint statement here: redress.org/news/save-th...

#ICC #RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #JusticeForVictims

Joint Statement: Save the ICC and the Rule of Law

Global call to defend the ICC from US sanctions that threaten international justice, accountability, and victims of war crimes and atrocities.

redress.org

sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 12d

‘Parity of esteem is the foundation principle of the Belfast Agreement but, when it comes to electing a president, there is no equal regard for Irish citizens living on this island.’

sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 12d

‘Denying legions of potential voters [in the North] the right to choose their first citizen is an extreme exercise in gerrymandering.’

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Justine McCarthy: If Northerners had a vote, Catherine Connolly would be our next president

Northerners have a vested interest in an election portrayed as seminal for the abolition of partition. But they don’t have a vote

www.irishtimes.com

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Janina Dill @janinadill.bsky.social · 13d

In this post @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social & I trace how the Starmer Government's repeatedly misconstrues its obligations under the Genocide Convention in #Gaza, hiding behind a Court judgement that is years away with a position that we call "legally illiterate" and "morally indefensible".

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 13d

‘He is largely responsible because he’s supporting Prime Minister Netanyahu. The United States is complicit in this famine and unfolding genocide; it’s on his watch.’

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 13d

Mary Robinson brands Trump a "bully" after "incredibly stupid" comments www.irishcentral.com/news/mary-ro...

Mary Robinson brands Trump a "bully" after "incredibly stupid" comments

Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has hit out at ‘bully’ Donald Trump as she insisted he was ‘largely responsible’ for the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza.

www.irishcentral.com

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 16d

“While welcome, the recognition of a Palestinian State doesn’t mean much if there isn’t a ceasefire in #Gaza.

The recognition must be followed by a genuine commitment to a peace process in the region.

#CeasefireNow“

— UNRWA Commissioner-General

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhkX...

#UNGA80

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 19d

Unfortunate use of ‘blind’ in the headline.

Blindness (unconscious bias) is characteristic of every day discrimination, not severe forms of discriminations in which the hostility is conscious and purposive.

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 22d

"Women collapse into sobs as they contemplate the future & the elderly raise their hands to the sky, trembling & empty, to pray for overdue relief."

Sudan war: Torture, rape and forced starvation as paramilitaries suffocate besieged city: news.sky.com/story/sudan-... #KeepEyesOnSudan

Sudan war: Torture, rape and forced starvation as paramilitaries suffocate besieged city

Sky's Yousra Elbagir visits displacement camps in North Darfur, a region which has been virtually impenetrable to journalists for more than two years due to ruthless armed conflict.

news.sky.com

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 22d

‘219. The Commission therefore finds that the widespread and systematic targeting
of children is part of a strategy to destroy the biological continuity and future
existence of the Palestinian group in Gaza, thus part of the intent to destroy
Palestinians in Gaza.’

UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc.bsky.social · 23d

#Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza, theUN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel said in a new report, urging all States to fulfil their legal obligations to end it.

➡️ bit.ly/4mjBAi2

sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 23d

A Life That Doesn’t Know How to Live

By Fatena Abu Mostafa

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sarah field @fromsaltintears.com · 24d

A single bullet to a child’s brain or heart in my view is a strong indication not just of a war crime but of the seldom invoked crime against humanity of age persecution of children i.e., persecuting children as children: fromsaltintears.com/the-time-to-...