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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · 18h

Why it is so hard to estimate the number of victims of modern slavery in the UK theconversation.com/why-it-is-so...

Why it is so hard to estimate the number of victims of modern slavery in the UK

Estimations from the last ten years range from 8,300 to 136,000.

theconversation.com

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · 22h

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · 22h

The number of people referred as potential victims of human trafficking in Northern Ireland has increased tenfold in just five years, exposing a growing crisis hidden in plain sight. www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/norther...

Inside Northern Ireland’s Secret Slave Trade: The Hidden Scale of Trafficking

Exclusive figures obtained by Belfast Live show that the number of people referred as potential victims of human trafficking in Northern Ireland has increased tenfold in just five years

www.belfastlive.co.uk

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · 1d

Some evidence of the infamous "delivering at pace". I've definitely noticed decision making speeding up over recent months and have not noticed a decline in quality.

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · 2d

Rats smell in stereo. Mind blown. www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Rats Smell in Stereo

It has been hypothesized that rats and other mammals can use stereo cues to localize odor sources, but there is limited behavioral evidence to support this hypothesis. We found that rats trained on an...

www.science.org

@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Sep 4

Headline writers have more fun.

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 31

Context.

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 30

hahaha

@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 30

soaring out of her lane

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 30

It's a lifestyle choice.

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Kien Tan @kientan74.bsky.social · Aug 28

🇵🇸 This is pretty cool - you'll be able to buy Palestinian lager in 1,600 Co-ops around the UK, with proceeds going to the brewery's West Bank community and the Disasters Emergency Committee group of 15 aid charities.
Look out for it!

The Grocer @thegrocer.bsky.social · Aug 28

NEW 🇵🇸 Lager

Palestine’s first microbrewery secures UK supermarket listing for new lager in partnership with Brewgooder

Taybeh Brewing Co's Sun & Stone Lager available from 10 September

🔗 See where to get it here: https://bit.ly/4mZODpw

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 27

@karaswisher.bsky.social I am going to call you Kara Svisher until you take note of this (there is a case for pronouncing Ghislaine with a softer g than the one you use but she is not French)

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Any risk assessment tool is only as good as the person who is using it" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tool used to assess domestic abuse risk doesn't work, Jess Phillips admits

The safeguarding minister says the Dash questionnaire has

www.bbc.co.uk

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Aug 24

Meanwhile, UK politicians continue their race to the bottom as to who can talk the most nonsense about immigration...

www.ft.com/content/8bfd...

Rich economies will need foreign workers to fuel growth, policymakers warn

Central bankers say low birth rates in world’s largest economies pose threat to productivity and prices

www.ft.com

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 20

should have gone fauna not flora

@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 14

Imagine if AI could remove bias and add context. Sigh.

@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 6

The plot thickens - "Unaccompanied children will not be eligible to come to the under this scheme, thereby creating an incentive for children to claim to be adults, in a reversal of the usual “concerns” raised by Tories/Reform." freemovement.org.uk/what-do-we-k...

What do we know about the UK-France agreement on asylum returns? - Free Movement

As announced in July, this week a treaty between the UK and France on asylum returns has been ratified and is now in force. The treaty provides for people who

freemovement.org.uk

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 2

Human trafficking is a technologically sophisticated, multi-layered, and profit-driven criminal network exploiting gaps in supply chains, irregular migration systems, and economic vulnerabilities. thereport.live/bangladesh/c...

Crime syndicates rake in $150 billion from human trafficking

Human trafficking has become one of the fastest-growing and most lucrative transnational crimes worldwide, generating a staggering $150 billion annually, according to the United Nations. The crime aff...

thereport.live

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Aug 1

At time of last census 16% of UK population was born outside the UK which would make them underrepresented in prisons in fact migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

Migrants in the UK: An Overview - Migration Observatory

This briefing provides an overview of the number, population share, geographic distribution and nationalities of migrants in the UK.

migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Jun 27

www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

(also - yesterday I heard someone state that Northern Ireland has no county lines issues, this can't be true?...)

UK response to county lines an ‘appalling failure’

Children across the UK are used to sell drugs, and the state appears more interested in arresting them than helping

www.opendemocracy.net

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Jun 15

a silent protest surely

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Jun 11

He aspired to forge a new moral philosophy that would be internalised not only by people of his empire but also by rulers and subjects of other countries, forming the foundation for his theory of international relations, in which practicing dharma would bring international conflicts to an end. 2/2

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · Jun 11

Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his vastly heterogeneous empire not by a cult of personality but by the cult of an idea―“dharma”―which served as the linchpin of a new moral order. 1/2

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@SduH @justsdh.bsky.social · May 20

Innit.

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Helen Bamber Foundation 🧡 @helenbamber.bsky.social · May 20

With @antislavery.org and 31 other organisations and survivor groups, we have written to the government calling for an end to the hostile narrative towards migrants and regressive policies that drive exploitation and deny survivors rights, safety and justice:

www.antislavery.org/reports/open...

Open letter on the UK Immigration White Paper

Open letter condemning the hostile rhetoric from the UK Government and expressing concern at the policy on immigration announced in the White Paper.

www.antislavery.org

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