Rossella De Falco

Come get my #job! As I am moving on to a new adventure, the great team at Just Fair is looking for a new Strategic Lead for the Right to Health Campaign. Deadline #30June please apply or #share widely!

here's a new blog about mental health and human rights

Campaigning for the right to health: Tools to support civil society Open session for civil society organisations and activists in England

Join us in one week for a free training on the right to health! Learn how to use the toolkit to campaign for health justice🏥✊

🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

How to campaign for the right to health? Learn our new publication to find out how to engage with policy-makers at all levels, from local to global, to defend the right to health in the #UK.

We must ground policies in a rights-based approach | Just Fair In our latest submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Just Fair argues that it’s time to flip the script: economic policy must be designed to support human rights, not override them.  At the heart of this is the need for a rights-based framework centred on social protection – one […]

📃 Our new UN submission argues economic policy must serve human rights, not override them.

From the 2-child limit to disability benefit reforms, current decisions are deepening poverty. A rights-based approach centred on dignity is urgently needed.

📚 Read our blog
justfair.org.uk/we-m...

Campaigning for the right to health: Tools to support civil society Open session for civil society organisations and activists in England

🩺 Join us for a free training on the right to health! Learn how to use human rights tools to hold the UK Government accountable for health inequalities.

Featuring our new toolkit, campaign tips & more. 🏥✊

🗓️ May 14 - 15:00-16:30
🎟️ Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

excellent opportunity!

Racial Justice through Human Rights | Just Fair A new community programme working for positive social change with Black and Minoritised people in South West England. In January 2025, Just Fair submitted a report to the United Nations Committee on E...

✊ In South West England, we’ve launched ‘Racial Justice through Human Rights’ with Black South West Network, to use human rights to tackle discrimination and disadvantage faced by Black and Minoritised communities

📚 Read more justfair.org.uk/racial-justi...

Climate Change and Health - Max Planck Law This webinar examines the intersection of climate change, health, and public international law, focusing on how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.

🌍 This week the head of our right to health campaign - @rosselladefalco.bsky.social is speaking at this webinar on climate change, health, & international law, looking at how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.

📆 20 February, 4pm
law.mpg.de/event/cli...

Featuring speakers:
🎤 Alicia Ely Yamin (@hls.harvard.edu/ @harvardchanschool.bsky.social)
🎤 Cecile de Villiers (Uni Cape Town)
🎤 @crisroseroa.bsky.social (@reprorights.bsky.social)
🎤 Nairita Roy Chaudhuri (Tilburg Law School & Oslo University)
🎤 @rosselladefalco.bsky.social (@justfairuk.bsky.social)

Organized by @mpil.de, @maxplancklaw.bsky.social, and Harvard Law School's @petrieflomcenter.bsky.social, this webinar brings together global perspectives on law, climate change, and public health.

Don't miss it! 🌍⚖️

Climate Change and Health - Max Planck Law This webinar examines the intersection of climate change, health, and public international law, focusing on how legal frameworks address health vulnerabilities exacerbated by climate change.

📢 Join us for the webinar "Climate Change & Health: Mobilizing Public International Law Into Action" on Feb 20, 2025, at 17:00 CET! Experts will discuss how international law addresses health vulnerabilities in the climate crisis.

🔗 Register by Feb 18: law.mpg.de/event/climat...

Tackling child poverty in Britain must be made a priority | Letters Letters: Andrew Forsey highlights a simple policy change that would provide much-needed meals, while Stewart Lansley says poverty and inequality are umbilically linked. Plus a letter from Jess McQuail...

We have written to the @theguardian.com w/ @hrw.org about the UN review of the UK’s human rights record tomorrow.

The UN is grilling the UK on poverty, housing & workers’ rights—because the system is failing. It's time for our everyday rights to be in UK law.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Laurel Prize is Open for Submissions! 📢

The Laurel Prize 2025 is now open until 1 May 2025 for collections published 1 June 2024 – 1 May 2025.
Judges: @kathleenjamie.bsky.social (Chair), Daljit Nagra & @carolinelucas.bsky.social.

Find out more & submit here: laurelprize.com

This week the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights will be reviewing the UK to assess how well our everyday rights are protected here at home.

This review takes place every 5-7 years and is significant opportunity to shine a spotlight on our broken system.

🧵A thread #CESCR2025 1/6

Please join us on 20 February!!

The right to health report launch

🚨 This Human Rights Day we are launching our new report on the right to health in the UK.

This report could not be more timely; it looks at how the right to health has been eroded across the UK and proposes some solutions.

🧵 A thread 1/9
justfair.org.uk/the-right-to...

blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/symposia/cli...

Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s? Research into the disease has never been more far-reaching, but there is little consensus as to what is causing the rocketing rates of diagnosis in young adults In 2022, around 16% of the 20 million people with cancer worldwide were under 50. Cancer has…

Ultra-processed food? Forever chemicals? Declining birth rates? What’s behind rising cancer in the under-50s?

💬 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's @annamarriott.bsky.social:

"Oxfam has been raising the alarm about the IFC’s investments in private healthcare for well over a decade. Their response, alongside the other development banks, has been inexcusably lackluster."

Join us for an event to mark the UK's review by the UN and discuss what should happen next.

Keynote speaker is Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on poverty.

📍 Friends House, London.
📆 Thu 13 Mar 13:00-17:00
🎟️ Get your free tickets now
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rights-for...

I am very pleased to share this event in London!! Please come along, it would be amazing - including some health content

Check out our new submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Right on the status of economic, social and cultural rights in the #UK!

Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution Campaigners say pollution levels in street in Herne Hill were far higher when private schools were open Parents driving children to private schools is associated with a 27% increase in air pollution and congestion in a south London street, according to…

Private school run in south London linked to 27% rise in air pollution

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The right to health and health inequalities: time for change

🏥The right to health should be universal – where everyone has access to quality healthcare, housing, and a healthy environment.

Yet in the UK, health inequalities are widening. It’s time to put rights at the centre of change.

New blog by @rosselladefalco.bsky.social
www.rcp.ac.uk/news-and-med...

Please take a look at my latest blog on #healthinequalities and human rights in the #UK

The right to health in the UK: our new report | Just Fair Achieving the right to health is about creating a world where everyone can access quality healthcare throughout their life, regardless of where they live, how much they earn, their gender, age, ethnic...

🩺 The right to health means universal access to quality healthcare and the factors that improve physical and mental health—housing, nutritious food, green spaces, fair work, and a healthy environment. These aren’t privileges—they’re rights.

Read more
justfair.org.uk/the-right-to...

Cost of buying average home in England now unaffordable, warns ONS Only richest 10% can afford to buy as figures show average household needs 8.6 times disposable income to meet asking price

The price of the average London home is unaffordable (>5 times annual income) for all income deciles.
Only the richest 10% of households can afford to buy an average-priced home in England.
ONS data.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d...