Aileen McColgan KC(@MccolganAileen) 's Twitter Profileg
Aileen McColgan KC

@MccolganAileen

Barrister at 11 KBW. Previously and occasional law professor. Personally and professionally occupied by feminism and human rights. Tweets express my views only

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linkhttps://www.11kbw.com/barristers/aileen-mccolgan/ calendar_today13-11-2017 09:17:56

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Prof Clare McGlynn KC (Hon)(@McGlynnClare) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is a tour-de-force from Helen Mort Tyke Films
So grateful to Helen for speaking out and sharing her experience to call for change. Should be compulsory watching for platforms and regulators Ofcom so that they are pro-active in demanding action
theguardian.com/technology/vid…

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Aileen McColgan KC(@MccolganAileen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

on science. Not a single woman witness. Male chair and 3/4 male panel members. Ash Sarkar the only female voice in an hour long programme. 🙄

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Aileen McColgan KC(@MccolganAileen) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Is it just me? All international stoppers pulled out to save 5 individuals on a pleasure trip costing £250k a head. Wall to wall coverage. Contrast with perhaps 600 people, many of them women and children, dying in a trawler last week while fleeing war and poverty.

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Dr Órfhlaith Campbell(@drorfh) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Toxic and abusive men terrifying a young mother while another woman tries to regain control of the situtation.

This is Northern Ireland.

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Shabnam Nasimi(@NasimiShabnam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢 'We will fight. We will die. But we will take back our rights.'

Despite Taliban's ruthless suppression of female protesters, the courageous women of Afghanistan took to the streets of Kabul today, demanding their basic human rights.

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Erin Elizabeth Health Nut News 🙌(@unhealthytruth) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.”
Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the

“When she applied to run in the Boston Marathon in 1966 they rejected her saying: “Women are not physiologically able to run a marathon, and we can’t take the liability.” Then exactly 50 years ago today, on the day of the marathon, Bobbi Gibb hid in the bushes and waited for the
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Auschwitz Memorial(@AuschwitzMuseum) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence.

It took time.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence. It took time. #GenocidePreventionDay
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