At #Pride some will lip-synch for their lives; others still have to fight for theirs. We’re proud to be alongside the #LGBT community to celebrate the progress that has been made and to call for the changes that still need to come. #LoveIsLove #LGBTRights #TransRights #LGBTQ

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(THREAD) 1/15 February is LGBT+ History Month, where we celebrate and promote the history, lives, experiences and achievements of the queer community. 2/15 Despite the pandemic, we wanted to make sure that we are able to commemorate, entertain and educate, so we have put together a Film Festival for our teams to watch from home.

A warm welcome to all attending our ur solicitor apprentice webinar! We're glad that you could make it. Our panel tonight consists of @GeneMatthewsLaw, @PoetryLawyer, @FrancesSwaine, and two of our current solicitor apprentices. We hope that by 7.30 tonight you'll have a good idea of who we are and why we want you to join us at Leigh Day.

THREAD: Monterrico, a UK mining company that established a mine in the pristine environment of an indigenous community in Peru and allegedly facilitated human rights abuses, including torture, of protesters by the police #CorporateAccountability #BizHumanRights 1/12 In August 2005, communities living near the Rio Blanco copper mine, in a remote and beautiful area of Peru near the Ecuadorian border, took part in an environmental protest against its development. 2/12

Thread: On history not taught in British schools about colonial rule, specifically the Kenyan Emergency in the 1950’s which involved rape and torture by British colonial guards in detention camps - acts which saw the British Government apologise in 2013 #MauMau 1/16 The ‘Kenyan emergency’ lasted from 1952 to 1960. The group resisting British colonial rule were known as the Mau Mau. The Governor of Kenya, Sir Evelyn Baring obtained authorisation from London to detain suspected Mau Mau members without trial #MauMau 2/16