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Feb 3 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Hi, my name is Zoe & I'm a Men's Rights Activist now, apparently. Send help.

Actually I'm just tired of hearing the lie that being a man means you are not a refugee.
Of course you can be a man & a refugee.

The govt has no right to deny men protection.

#MensRightsAreHumanRights
At the same time, we must fight attempts to use women's rights as a shield for the government's heinous #NationalityAndBordersBill.

The Bill will harm men, it will harm women, it will harm children. The Bill is designed entirely to harm all refugees. refugeewomen.co.uk/legal-opinion-…
That is why women's groups are standing up against the cruel and unworkable #NationalityAndBordersBill

@rapecrisisscot are the latest to speak bravely out about how the Bill will harm survivors of sexual violence and trafficking who are seeking protection rapecrisisscotland.org.uk/news/news/the-…
The Bill takes away family reunion rights from those male refugees who make desperate journeys to safety: that means their wives & children have the safe route to join them stripped away.

Women's rights orgs will not let our cause be used to justify this endviolenceagainstwomen.org.uk/52-womens-orga…
The patriarchy harms women and it harms men.
And Priti Patel's patriarchal nonsense is just a cover for her cruel and unworkable Bill. Which, by painting women as weak and passive and men as invulnerable threats, throws everybody's rights away. Don't buy it.

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Feb 1
We are presented with a false dichotomy between borders that kill the desperate & poor, or overwhelmed chaos.

Don’t believe it: we can manage global mobility.

Thank you @NadiaWhittomeMP for being brave enough to imagine with me a world of free movement opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocra…
“Our rich societies would not function without immigration, so we must not see it purely as something that ‘happens to us’, but as a complex and natural process in which we are a disproportionately powerful player and have the levers to manage it in a way that benefits us all.”
These levers are something I discussed as well in my here last week - we pay countries all around the world to violently close their borders, stifling the benefits that mobility would bring to those parts of the world novaramedia.com/2022/01/24/the…
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Dec 10, 2021
Fun fact -

The principle in UK law that it is not a crime to enter through irregular means to seek asylum goes back way before the Refugee Convention.

You can find it in the 1905 Aliens Act.

That's the British history this govt is tearing up this week with its #AntiRefugeeBill
History nerds, there's a fun one for you.

In the mean time, the government will be in court again next week, trying to lock another man up for exercising that very right.

Thanks to the big legal brain that gave me this tidbit when we were discussing the case this morning :)
Priti Patel's attitude to refugees is, in the most literal sense, practically Victorian.

Throw the whole woman away.
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Dec 9, 2021
Of COURSE it makes sense to say work from home if you can but to still allow Christmas parties

It's about REDUCING contact. Prioritising our social gatherings over sitting at a desk unnecessarily is obviously preferable. What is this inane puritan streak in this country #r4today
Sajid Javid is "not quite sure" why Allegra Stratton resigned for laughing at a party that supposedly didn't happen LOL #r4today
Of course the "investigation" by Simon Case is the get out clause that allows them to say "I'm not going to preempt the findings" ffs. What a slippery, duplicitous lot. #r4today
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Dec 8, 2021
Horrible report of how rights of women have been ripped up by the Taliban in the months since it took over.

No surprise Afghanistan has now overtaken Syria as the biggest country of origin for asylum seekers in Europe. Meanwhile our govt voted yesterday to push them out #r4today
If when Donald Trump was president he had enacted a law to allow him to push back refugees at sea *explicitly* without regard for international maritime law, every one in the country would know about it & be outraged.

Happens here in our own government? Tumbleweed. #r4today
They have explicitly refused to put in law that they must not endanger lives at sea.

27 people drowned & they declared themselves “horrified” & we’re supposed to buy it?

They have the actual gall to say their approach is about saving people from “dangerous journeys” #r4today
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Dec 7, 2021
There are genuinely so many ways in which the #AntiRefugeeBill is going to ruin people's lives. It wont even be possible for me to cover half of it.

The list of new clauses & amendments they will debate in parliament today, only on ONE section out of 7 barely fits on my screen. Image
British democracy: Where our parliamentary representatives get about five minutes per life-ruining, justice-denying, cruel, ineffective, barbaric measure in the #AntiRefugeeBill.
For those interested in why 51 is highlighted up there, it's one of the government's new ones. Snuck in last week so most wont even hear about it, yet it's one of the worst of them.

It imposes a four year prison sentence on anybody who is unable to renew their immigration status
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Nov 22, 2021
They're going to be banging on about Channel crossings in parliament all afternoon.

Brace for a bad time. Small comfort is that the government will have a bad time too. I'd imagine the opposition will largely hate it and come out pretty badly as well.

A bad time for all. Great.
Home Office orals followed by a UQ on Channel crossings brought by Labour's Shadow Home Sec. I may tweet along a bit if I can bare to. No guarantees. Anyway what could there possibly be that's new to say about this whole nasty mess?
Andrew Gwynne asks why decision making on asylum claims has become so much more slow? Just 20% made within 6 months, while in 2014 87% were made within 6 months.

Patel lies saying that there are solutions to speed up the system in her Anti-Refugee Bill. There are not.
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