@profayebkarlsson
Professor of Intersectional Justice @ucl.ac.uk #violence #entrapment #immobility #humanrights #law #migration #climatechange #trafficking #children #women UCL profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/87069-sonja-ayebkarlsson
Being called “too much” for simply showing up as we are.
Equality is not a women’s issue.
It is everyone’s responsibility.
Change begins when we all step in, speak up, and refuse to stay silent.
Credit @unstoppablyher
The same questions women have been asked for decades are suddenly directed at men, and the discomfort says it all.
It’s not just about awkward questions.
It’s about what women still navigate every day.
Being judged by how we look.
Being asked to smile instead of speak.
These are all questions asked to women in leadership roles!
Repost @women_in_art__ @unstoppablyher
“If you observe something, you have to step in. You can’t just wait for someone else to solve it.”
in family courts, you can explore the research and advocacy assistant here:
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The more light we shine on these systems, the harder it becomes for injustice to hide.
To everyone in Sweden who is speaking up:
👉 We see you. We hear you. We stand with you.
🌍 #MeTooFamilyCourtSweden
🌍 #MeTooFamilyCourt
🇺🇳 #ShadowPandemic
#CoerciveControl #PublicHealthCrisis
If you want to learn more, research the issue, or help document systemic patterns
The voices coming out of Sweden are powerful and courageous. When survivors begin connecting across borders, something important happens - the truth becomes impossible to ignore.
This movement has always been about one thing: protecting children and supporting protective parents.
Repost @metoofamilycourt 🔥 MeTooFamilyCourt is global.
Survivors and protective mothers in Sweden are speaking out about the same patterns many of us have experienced in family courts around the world.
Different country.
Different courtrooms.
Same stories of mothers fighting.
Hej Alla Mina Familjerättsmammor och kämpar - jag är i Sverige! Missa inte viktiga uppdateringar…
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BIG NEWS #MeTooFamilyCourtSweden
#StayTuned
#ChangeFamilyCourt
#TheChildrenAreComing
#LegalEntrapment
“If she asks for protective measures, if she asks for a confidential address, if she tells the school about the violence the children experienced, she becomes an ‘alienator’.”
-Prof Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson (@profayebkarlsson)
#UnbreakableSoul #MeTooFamilyCourt #changefamilycourt #legalentrapment
MeTooFamilyCourtSweden - Here We Go!
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🎥 The Maid - Family Court Scene:
Inspired by Stephanie Land’s powerful “New York Times” best-selling memoir “Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive”,
#themaid #legalabuse #familycourt
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I mostly post about my research expertise; violences, #entrapment and intersectional #injustices including through our #legal systems such as the family and criminal #courts or in the context of human #trafficking and exploitation.
I am a core member of Hague Mothers, and the Council of Europe’s Network of Specialised lawyers and NGOs assisting women victims of violence.
At UCL, I am the founder and I lead the ‘Everyday Disasters and Violences Research Group’. Before joining UCL, I was a Senior Researcher at the United Nations University’s Migration Section. I also direct the mental health and intersectionality work of the Lancet Countdown…
…violence and the use of certain legal weapons, or lawfare, to entrap them in continued legal abuse (whether through the ‘alienation’ label, Hague Convention parental ‘abduction’ proceedings or beyond.
…and (legal) entrapment, and their overlaps with migration, refugees, trafficking, health and mental wellbeing.
I am increasingly interested in deepening our understanding of why women and children are failed by our legal and societal protection systems when seeking to escape…
Prof Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson is a Professor of Intersectional Justice and a world leading senior researcher at @ucl in London, UK.
Her research includes 100 publications whereof over 50 peer reviewed interdisciplinary articles with a particular focus on violence…
#HumanTrafficking
#modernslavery
#TheTrumpDoctrine
#venezuelastateintervention
#usirantensions
The article is open access, publicly available and free to read here:
Ayeb-Karlsson, S. and Valiquette, T. (2026). Trump claims Venezuela does not meet trafficking standards — but what about the USA? The Lancet doi.org/10.1016/S014...
To access the PDF: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
as “Venezuela does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so.” What is really behind these interventions - in a newly published article in The Lancet we analyze the Venezuela trafficking claims.
Yesterday the USA and Israel launched a military intervention into Iran. The 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, claims that he needs to “defend the American people” just like he considered that political intervention into Venezuela was necessary…
#aworldfreeofexploitation
#modernslavery
#venezuelastateintervention
Ayeb-Karlsson, S. and Valiquette, T. (2026). Trump claims Venezuela does not meet trafficking standards — but what about the USA? The Lancet doi.org/10.1016/S014...
To access the PDF: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#HumanTraffickingandExploitation
#TheTrumpDoctrine
Have a look at our dive into the trafficking and exploitation landscape in the USA, while posing the question; what else lingers behind the US State intervention into Venezuela?
The article is open access, publicly available and free to read here:
…and is not making significant efforts to do so.”
As research experts in the area of human trafficking and exploitation based at @ucl.ac.uk, co-author Tyler Valiquette and I ask; what about trafficking and exploitation in the USA?
Just out in The Lancet, the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump claims that political intervention into Venezuela was necessary considering that “Venezuela does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking…
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“I have said that this judgment is not ‘about Ms Gill’, and that is right. It is about those individuals who hold themselves out as ‘psychologists’ and are willing to be instructed in Family Court cases, but who are neither registered nor chartered as psychologists.”
The tragic murder of her sons, Jack and Paul Sykes, by their domestically abusive father is a sobering reminder of the fatal consequences of domestic violence.
#legalentrapment
#coercivecontrol
#changefamilycourt
#filicideawareness
#metoofamilycourt
…where children are at risk of known domestic abusers.
I will do so while thinking of Claire Throssell, a member of our constituency, and her tireless work to prevent domestic abusers having contact with their children.
