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Chris Mommers
@chrismommers.bsky.social
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Advisor to Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights; mainly asylum/migration, also other human rights issues in UK, Netherlands and Slovakia.

Academic interest in 'voluntary' return: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3264310 (open access).

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nieuws.nos.nl
'Sudanese kinderen betalen de prijs voor eenzijdige focus EU op grensbewaking'
'Sudanese kinderen betalen de prijs voor eenzijdige focus EU op grensbewaking'
Dat zegt kinderrechtenorganisatie Save The Children. Onderzoekers spraken 66 Sudanese minderjarigen die voor de oorlog vluchtten naar Egypte, Libië en de EU.
nos.nl
November 26, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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cpaguk.bsky.social
We’re expecting the Child Poverty Strategy any day.

We asked children what they’d like to say to the PM about their hopes and concerns.

Robyn said: 'I’m writing to you since some families are going through something called poverty, which is not okay!'
Dear Prime Minister, I’m writing to you since some families are going through something called poverty, which is not okay! 1 out of 3 children in the UK live in poverty! If you make this change, then everyone can live happily, and for everyone to live happily then they must have drinkable liquids and healthy foods. Please please make this change for the country and for the people in poverty. For people to feel save should be treated equally and have a place to relax and sleep. Please ask the Government if this is possible. From Robyn in Year 3!
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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grabaranowska.bsky.social
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November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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commissionerhr.coe.int
Just had warm meeting with EU Commissioner @magnusbrunner.bsky.social. I look forward to further engaging on sensitive issues such as #migration. We must work to uphold human rights and ensure that asylum remains always accessible in the #EU.
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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commissionerhr.coe.int
Peace for #Ukraine must be anchored in human rights
Core issues to address:
🔹Accountability & reparations
🔹Protection of affected persons
🔹Reconstruction & recovery
🔹Inclusion
#HumanRights is the only universally agreed and the most reliable framework for #peace.
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
Peace for Ukraine should be anchored in human rights - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int
Strasbourg 24/11/2025
www.coe.int
November 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
chrismommers.bsky.social
Raad van Europa: bij vrede ook oog voor mensenrechten Oekraïne
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Raad van Europa: bij vrede ook oog voor mensenrechten Oekraïne
STRAATSBURG (ANP) - Een "alomvattende, rechtvaardige en duurzame vrede" in Oekraïne kan "alleen worden bereikt als deze verankerd is in het internationale mensenrechtenkader", stelt commissaris voor d...
nieuws.nl
November 24, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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katieschmuecker.bsky.social
Yes! @thetimes.com reporting the two child limit will go in full.

Every child should get a good start in life & families should have support to fall back on in tough times.

The result is lower child poverty and brighter futures.

Most of the kids benefitting (6 in 10) are in working families.
Excerpt from article, reads: Another source said the cost per child of ending the cap was actually cheaper than any of the other options modelled, as the long-term benefits would lead to significant savings. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has said abolishing the cap could take 630,000 children out of absolute poverty, defined as households with an income 60 per cent below the median average. Papers prepared for ministers before the publication of the child poverty strategy in the days after the budget suggest that the government will link the ending of the cap to improved educational outcomes for children, leading to greater earnings in adulthood, and ultimately meaning higher tax receipts.
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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profmarkelliott.bsky.social
New post

The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts

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The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
Proposals for radical reform of the UK’s asylum system raise a number of legal and constitutional issues, with respect both to the European Convention on Human Rights and the domestic principle of …
publiclawforeveryone.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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euobserver.com
How the UK and Denmark are pushing Europe to reinterpret the ECHR
How the UK and Denmark are pushing Europe to reinterpret the ECHR
Over the past decade, Copenhagen has pioneered a conditional model of asylum that blends temporary protection, strict family reunification rules, and incentives for return. What began as a national experiment has, over time, become a reference point for governments across Europe, including the UK’s Labour government.
euobserver.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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pace.coe.int
“Questioning the presence of #transgender persons in our societies is an attack on human rights” says PACE’s General Rapporteur on #LGBTI rights Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo, marking #TransgenderRemembranceDay today.

Her full statement:
pace.coe.int/en/news/10103/…
'Questioning the presence of transgender persons in our societies is an attack on human rights'
"The stigmatisation of transgender persons in political discourse, holding them responsible for many ills, is not only discriminatory but also contributes to an increase in transphobia and transphobic...
https://pace.coe.int/en/news/10103/…
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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cpaguk.bsky.social
We’ve joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit. Every child deserves the best start in life. By fully scrapping the two-child limit the government can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in the UK's potential.
As this government recognises, every child deserves the best start in life. But a record 4.5 million children live in poverty. Their life chances are being held back and their potential wasted. They deserve better. At the Budget, the Chancellor has a unique chance to change this. By fully scrapping the two-child limit she can deliver a decisive shift in children’s opportunities, and in our country’s future potential. We have come together as diverse organisations who recognise that turning the tide on child poverty is crucial for children, and also for wider ambitions on housing, education, health and national growth. Reducing child poverty will boost family budgets, and local economies. It will reduce household debt, and cut the huge future costs of poverty faced by our schools, hospitals and other public services. Every day the two-child limit remains, in any form, it pushes children into poverty. Now is not the time for half-measures. Now is the moment for the Prime Minister and Chancellor to hear the voices of the UK’s children and take this vital opportunity to do the right thing. Abolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of children’s lives on a path to a brighter future, and help to rebuild a stronger, fairer country and economy.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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singleparentrights.bsky.social
We’ve joined more than 100 organisations in calling on the government to scrap the two-child limit in full. Every child deserves the best start in life, yet this policy is pushing too many families into hardship.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

@cpaguk.bsky.social
Over 100 groups call for Labour to fully scrap two child benefit cap
‘Abolishing the two-child limit in full will set millions of children’s lives on a path to a brighter future’, major organisations say
www.independent.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
Keir Starmer hints two-child benefit cap will be scrapped at budget

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Starmer hints two-child benefit cap will be scrapped at budget
Rachel Reeves also signalled she will be lifting the cap, which means families can only claim child benefits for their first two children.
news.sky.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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infomigrants.net
The chief of the Greek coast guard and three other senior officers are set to face trial over the 2023 sinking of the Adriana trawler. A naval court of appeal has reopened the case after survivors pressed charges. www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6803...
Greece: Coast guard head faces charges for migrant shipwreck
The chief of the Greek coast guard and three other senior officers are set to face trial over the 2023 sinking of the Adriana trawler. A naval court of appeal has reopened the case after survivors pre...
www.infomigrants.net
November 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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chrismommers.bsky.social
This would be an important development. This summer, @commissionerhr.coe.int highlighted that the 2-child limit was "an outlier in Europe and beyond" and that scrapping it was "among the most effective and urgent steps to lift children out of poverty"
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
chrismommers.bsky.social
This would be an important development. This summer, @commissionerhr.coe.int highlighted that the 2-child limit was "an outlier in Europe and beyond" and that scrapping it was "among the most effective and urgent steps to lift children out of poverty"
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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resolutionfoundation.org
This is not the time for half measures.

@Alex__Clegg explains why the Government should fully repeal the two child limit on benefits, as part of their upcoming Child Poverty Strategy ⤵️
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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verfassungsblog.de
This week, the ECHR turns 75. A milestone – but these are tough times for human rights.

We spoke with Council of Europe Human Rights Commissioner MICHAEL O'FLAHERTY (commissionerhr.coe.int) about lasting achievements, present threats, and why not to lose hope.

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Quote from the interview with Michael O'Flaherty: “We must continue to believe in human rights as the only universally agreed roadmap for achieving human dignity.”
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 AM
chrismommers.bsky.social
"Without the Convention, we would still have progress, but not the same protection. We would still have institutions, but not the same trust. We would still have Europe, but not the same soul."
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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pace.coe.int
In a speech marking 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos has hailed the #ECHR as "the most powerful act of imagination in our continent's history".

More:
pace.coe.int/en/news/1009...

More on PACE and the #ECHR:
pace.coe.int/en/pages/eur...
A Convention born of ‘fire and sorrow’ that has protected Europeans for 75 years
In an address at a solemn ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of the signature of the European Convention on Human Rights, PACE President Theodoros Rousopoulos hailed the Convention as “the most pow...
pace.coe.int
November 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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icj-eca.bsky.social
Latvia’s planned withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention is a worrying step backwards
⚖️The @icjurists.bsky.social warns that a withdrawal would reverse protections for women & girls, undermine Latvia’s compliance with human rights obligations and contradict EU values
🔍 www.icj.org/latvias-plan...
Latvia’s planned withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention – a setback for the human rights of women and girls | ICJ
Latvia should not proceed with its planned withdrawal from the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women an
www.icj.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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gemattioli.bsky.social
Celebrating today 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights. Born of the ashes of WWII, the Convention affirms everyone‘s inalienable human #dignity & upholds everyone‘s #humanrights. Find out how the Convention defends your rights every day: www.coe.int/en/web/impac... #ECHR75
Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights - www.coe.int
European convention on human rights : How it changed the lives of many people across the continent.
www.coe.int
November 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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trillingual.bsky.social
Piece on how the British right has managed to convince a significant minority that it would be in their interests to get rid of the European Convention on Human Rights. My suggestion: rather than capitulate, make human rights part of a wider politics of equality.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How the European convention on human rights became a battleground between the centre and the right | Daniel Trilling
For 20 years, populists have been blaming the ECHR for endangering Britain by offering basic protections to immigrants, says author Daniel Trilling
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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folkertjensma.bsky.social
'Als Nederland kritiek heeft op de rechtspraak van Straatsburg moet het zich vaker voegen in individuele zaken om dat te bepleiten '.
www.trouw.nl/buitenland/a...
Als het gaat om mensenrechten hebben landen veel meer inspraak dan ze denken
Op deze 75ste verjaardag van de mensenrechten heeft Rick Lawson, voorzitter van het College voor de Rechten van de Mens, opvallend advies voor politici.
www.trouw.nl
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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coe.int
#OnThisDay, 75 years ago, the European Convention on Human Rights was opened for signature in Rome. 
 
The European Convention on Human Rights impacts over 700 million people in Europe, safeguarding our fundamental freedoms.

Happy anniversary, #ECHR!
November 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM