Ciara Bottomley

🎙️ Out now! Ep. 9 of the #RECLAIM podcast "Post-truth be told"

🔊 From EU media–institution ties to new business models shaping policy.

🎤 Host: @alvarooleart.bsky.social | Guests:
@ciarabottomley.bsky.social, @paolatamma.bsky.social, @jameskanter.bsky.social

🎧: open.spotify.com/episode/3Q9W...

"The #media should pick up on the divisive language that we are seeing coming out of the EU institutions. Rather than critiquing this vocabulary, the media often repeats it"

- @ciarabottomley.bsky.social (Media Manager, @amnesty.org) at our live podcast recording 🎙️

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This year @amnesty.org is launching its global report on human rights in Brussels!

Press conference not to be missed.

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Is the EU creating migration policy based on feelings rather than facts? YouTube video by Jack Parrock

Is the EU creating migration policy based on feelings rather than facts? @ciarabottomley.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYtY...

Today, @ec.europa.eu will announce new return proposals – paving the way for ‘return hubs’ or deportation centres outside the EU & widescale detention in Europe.

Unworkable, expensive and inhumane – here's why these proposals won’t work & what the EU should do instead🧵

EU: Return proposals a “new low” for Europe’s treatment of migrants Today, the European Commission introduced a proposed revision to the 2008 Return Directive, amending the EU legal framework on returns or deportations outside of the EU. Following pressure from certai...

Today's EU proposals on return are a "new low", says @amnestyeu.bsky.social.

The @ec.europa.eu has caved to unworkable and inhumane demands of a few anti-migration govts.

Beyond return hubs, it sets out a disproportionate and punitive approach to returns that ignores all evidence.

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Mainstreaming Islamophobia: When an editor goes rogue, the publisher cannot hide behind a disclaimer – European Institutions Office In an open letter to the editor of Euractiv, Amnesty International responded to the ‘The Brief – Never again?‘ published on 27 January 2025. Dear sir, It is with shock but not surprise that we at Amne...

Re: "The Brief – Never again?" published in @euractiv.com

Matthew Karnitschnig makes baseless & racist accusations which stoke anti-Muslim fear & hatred.

We cannot support a publication that promotes Islamophobic tropes & fails to learn from its mistakes. www.amnesty.eu/news/mainstr...

Apple hit by Belgian probe over ‘blood minerals’ from Congo [FREE TO READ] Lawyers for DRC allege iPhones and other electronics use minerals supplied by armed groups behind atrocities

Apple hit by Belgian probe over ‘blood minerals’ from Congo on.ft.com/42lzGHn

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Bhutanese refugees in Nepal: 'We want to return home' – DW – 12/19/2024 Thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were forced to flee their homeland in the 1990s. Decades later, many remain in limbo, torn between dreams of repatriation and the harsh realities of statelessnes...

Thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese were forced to flee their homeland in the 1990s. Decades later, many remain in limbo, torn between dreams of repatriation and the harsh realities of statelessness.

Latest from Damak, Nepal with Rojita Adhikari: www.dw.com/en/bhutanese...

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