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Image shows a copy of the Trans Lives Report 2025. Text reads: Of those that had experienced discrimination from their GP, 60% had been refused healthcare unrelated to transition - simply for being trans. Trans People of Colour are nearly 50% more likely to be refused care.

Image shows a copy of the Trans Lives Report 2025. Text reads: Almost every trans person surveyed (99%) says anti-trans media coverage has negatively impacted their mental health. 99% of trans people have heard politicians express transphobic views - and 87% heard it just in the last year.

Image shows a copy of the Trans Lives Report 2025. Text reads: Donate to support our work to push for the change that’s needed. tinyurl.com/DonateTransActual transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-25

A new report from TransActual shows that trans people in the UK are being catastrophically failed.

Read the full report here: transactual.org.uk/trans-lives-...

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#TransLives25 #TransLives #Trans

Devastating report into trans lives shows we are ‘stronger together’, says Green leader Zack Polanski Green party leader speaks out as devastating report makes clear why many Trans+ people might be feeling powerless right now

Such an important report from @transactualuk.bsky.social, reporting from @wearequeeraf.com and support from @zackpolanski.bsky.social.
Transphobia is everywhere, and it's exhausting. I refuse to believe we're powerless in the face of it, but it can feel that way
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Mass deportations but with Dignity and Respect

We're always looking for practical examples of how organisations have incorporated human rights into their work.

So, we look forward to reading @together-sacr.bsky.social's State of Children's Rights Report each year.

Check out the 2026 Report below 👇
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Imagine a party leader doing this, whereas the others are meeting GC groups, posing with them, hiring them as communication directors etc

If you care about our community at ALL, lend your vote to the Greens in every by-election, every council seat, and every other election - until 1/3

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

Another insightful observation from @deschuttero.bsky.social from the @theguardian.com

You know there is a problem when the UN Special Rapporteur on *Extreme Poverty* thinks Extreme Wealth is the real issue.

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Bring back shame.

Zack Polanski speaking in front of a Progress flag.

Great to hear @zackpolanski.bsky.social speaking at an event to launch @transactualuk.bsky.social’s Trans Lives report. When he talks about inclusion and solidarity he really means it.

This is important for everyone. We all need to support each other.

Toby Young literally sued a bunch of teenagers to stop them releasing the names of FSU donors. Free speech my arse.

UN experts urge UK to ensure equal protection for all women and girls and all transgender people GENEVA – The United Kingdom must ensure its ongoing review of statutory guidance under the Equality Act remains compatible with international human rights law and upholds equal protections for all tra...

“Frameworks permitting routine exclusion or discretionary verification of sex based on appearance or stereotypes would raise serious concerns under international human rights law…”

UN experts remind the UK that it must avoid gender policing and ensure trans folk can live with safety and dignity.

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UN CESCR, norm setting and country monitoring: General Comment No. 27 and the UK review | University of Essex UN CESCR, norm setting and country monitoring: General Comment No. 27 and the UK review.

🌎 This will be a great event with two members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Joo-Young Lee & Julieta Rossi) and ESCR Network member Koldo Casla, on the role of UN Treaty Bodies in norm setting & monitoring.
🗓️ 12 March
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What we have seen in Gorton and Denton is what we saw in Caerphilly in October.

A lot of people really don’t want the hateful politics of Reform and will work hard and smart to try and keep them out.

Labour must now listen to this and stop the grim attempts to mimic Farage.

After the one lesson I had on holiday, I discovered there no curling in NI, and I've to go to Scotland for it! Obvs immediately signed a petition. I have a demon that needs feeding!

I think it was the Scottish politics/curling crossover that brought you into my algorithm and I LOVE IT

shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere

Call to Action - A Defining Moment for Universal Human Rights YouTube video by British Institute of Human Rights

NHS backlogs, housing shortages and rising inequality are rights issues - they won't be solved by weakening human rights.

The real pressures people face require serious rights-based policy solutions, not scapegoating universal rights.

Please watch and share:

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Take a look at our new searchable caselaw summaries.

Our new online caselaw summaries include over a thousand cases and will be updated regularly with new cases added regularly, to help with your advice work.

Nicolson Report: Poverty Is a Political Choice Costing Britain £75bn a Year •             Taxpayers Against Poverty sets out bold economic blueprint to tackle long-term poverty•             Proposes major tax reforms to address structural poverty in UK•             Report named after Rev Paul Nicolson anti-poverty campaigner and pioneer of real living wageLondon 17 February 2026 - A new report exposing the scale and economic cost of poverty in the UK — and setting out simple, cost-effective steps the government could take to tackle it — has been published by Taxpayers A

Taxpayers Against Poverty launched The Nicholson Report: The Poverty Scandal, calling for urgent action to tackle poverty - including enshrining the right to adequate housing in law.
Housing is a human right, not a privilege. Making it real would be a step toward justice.

this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital halts mass eviction after London Centric uncovered what was going on. Hundreds of Londoners now receiving bizarre door-to-door visits blaming misinformation and being asked to record videos saying they don't want to be evicted. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

A good-sized portion of the British right has lobbied/ conspired with a foreign power to achieve this outcome.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Ah sure it’s them, they’re mental and they’re used to that - it’s different over there.”
Sorry no, we are human beings, people here deserve to have a decent quality of life - a minimum standard of that would mean that the government tackles terrorist organisations suffocating their own communities.

🏠 Andy Burnham says clearly and powerfully: housing should be a human right, enshrined in UK law.

When politicians talk about homes in terms of rights, not just markets, it shifts the conversation.

This is what a rights based approach to housing sounds like.

Together Alliance TOGETHER is an alliance of over 120 civil society organisations united against the far right.

🧭 We’re glad to have joined the Together Alliance.

At a time when division and scapegoating are being used to distract from broken systems, the Together Alliance brings people together to challenge far-right narratives and build a fairer, more inclusive society.

Further 22 sets of infant remains recovered at Tuam site A further 22 sets of infant remains have been recovered from the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway as excavation work continues there.

A further 22 sets of infant remains have been recovered from the site of the former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co Galway as excavation work continues there

BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.

🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding

Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted

*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it

Full story:
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UN CESCR, norm setting and country monitoring: General Comment No. 27 and the UK review | University of Essex UN CESCR, norm setting and country monitoring: General Comment No. 27 and the UK review.

Join us for a discussion with two members of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Joo-Young Lee & Julieta Rossi) on the role of UN Treaty Bodies in norm setting and country monitoring.
🗓️ 12 March
⏰ 13:00 - 14:30 (UK time)
Hybrid event
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Alongside CAJ and Migrant Centre NI, I was part of this painstaking work over 3 years for WRDA. Really all of this was kicked off by Luke's reporting and would not have happened at all without it. Proud and delighted to see it come to fruition on Monday.

PSNI curbs migrant victims’ data sharing with Home Office after ‘institutional racism’ concerns

NEW: Police in Northern Ireland will curb sharing data on migrant victims of crime with UK immigration enforcement, after admitting that routine sharing “could be perceived as constituting institutional racism”.