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How Chagos islanders are fighting to keep their culture alive in exile @ConversationUK article with many thanks to Olivier Bancoult & Sabrina Jean @CRGmauritius @yandangael @UKCRG @RebeccaRotter @ahrcpress @EdinUniCAHSSres @uoessps @AnthroEdinburgh theconversation.com/how-chag…
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Inaugural lecture by Professor Laura Jeffery:
'Anthropology, advocacy, and action: Reclaiming Chagos after displacement'
Wednesday 26 April
5.15pm - 7.30pm
Meadows Lecture Theatre
Register: edin.ac/3ZKHON5
ALT tEXT: Inaugural lecture by Professor Laura Jeffery: 'Anthropology, advocacy, and action: Reclaiming Chagos after displacement' Wed 26 April 5.15pm - 7.30pm Meadows Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Doorway 4, Teviot Place. Eventbrite: edin.ac/3ZKHON5
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🔹As part of #16DaysOfActivism, this #webinar is part of Madar's efforts in seeking to shed light on the violence encountered by #women in the context of #migration and forced #displacement, within the #Maghreb region.
🔸Link :
➡ shorturl.at/hST26
#MadarNetworkPlus
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Recap: Day 5 of #16Days22 with 2 insightful blogs from @gcrf_disoco on #sexualviolence faced by displaced women and their strategies and pathways of care they undertake for their needs, all on 16daysblogathon.blog @UEAOfficielle @PGRNScotland @LSEGenderTweet @migrants_rights
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More from @gcrf_disoco for Day 5 of #16Days22 on the different pathways of care that sexual violence victim-survivors take for their needs. Data based on the displacement project in Somalia and DRC @SIDRAInstitute @UEAOfficielle @IASH_Edinburgh
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“It’s not just the war that displaces these people”: care and containment for displaced survivors of sexual and gender-based violence
#16DaysofActivism2022
@lucyjlowe @ProfJeffery @ARQintrntnl @AnthroEdinburgh 16daysblogathon.blog/2022/11…
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Delighted to see our contributions on #sgbv and protracted displacement in this excellent @UoE_genderED series for #16DaysofActivism2022
@ProfJeffery @SIDRAInstitute @uoessps @ACMSWits @ARQintrntnl @AmrefUniversity @Inaguruguru @jbfalisse @lucyjlowe @cboeyink
Welcome to Day 5 of #16DaysofActivism2022! Our contributors for today are from @gcrf_disoco, writing abt the difficulties in reporting #sexualviolence among displaced women in Somalia and DRC, based on their research @uoessps @africanstudies @warandgender
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Welcome to Day 5 of #16DaysofActivism2022! Our contributors for today are from @gcrf_disoco, writing abt the difficulties in reporting #sexualviolence among displaced women in Somalia and DRC, based on their research @uoessps @africanstudies @warandgender
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Excited to announce that @ProfJeffery & I will be convening a conference on the Chagos Islands @worcester_uni on 26 May 2023. Our keynote speaker will be @philippesands author of The Last Colony (2022) & will feature papers from experts based across the globe 🌏. More news soon
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New article by DiSoCo partners @gcrf_disoco @SIDRAInstitute @UEAOfficielle "Pathways to care: IDPs seeking health support and justice for sexual and gender-based violence through social connections in Garowe and Kismayo, Somalia and South Kivu, DRC" bit.ly/3cUVa6D
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New article by DiSoCo partners @ACMSWits "“Let’s manage the stressor today” exploring the mental health response to forced migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa" available here: displacement.sps.ed.ac.uk/20…
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🔵 You haven’t applied yet to the @MADARnetwork call of applications ?
‼️ It’s not too late!
➡️ #Deadline is :14th September 2022
Powerful performance of new #Chagos book #TheLastColony by @philippesands, starring @andoh_adjoa as Liseby Elysé with piano music by Guillaume de Chassy & Olivier Bancoult @CRGmauritius in attendance. Watch online for free/donate to @edbookfest edbookfest.co.uk/the-festiva…
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📣 #OPENCALL
@MADARnetwork, Maghreb Action on Displacement and Rights is pleased to announce the #launch of applications for research grants.
Funding will be provided for #research projects that respond to the purposes and objectives of @MADARnetwork.
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Amazing news! Huge credit to @HenrySmithUK & all Parliamentarians who have fought for this.
And most of all credit to the Chagossian activists who have made this happen
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Clément Siatous exposera ses œuvres au Caudan Arts Centre du 10 au 17 mars ! Dans son exposition intitulée "MEMWAR ENN SAGOSIEN", l'artiste nous raconte Sagos, une vie oubliée et une terre éloignée.
Job ad! @AnthroEdinburgh lectureship in race, racism, decolonial studies! Open-ended, full-time, lovely city, delightful colleagues… elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
Observing @ucu #DigitalPicketLine while stuck in half-term sick house and unable to picket with intrepid @ucuedinburgh colleagues on #UCUstrike for #USS. (Gonna escape virtually to familiar locations nearby in #Scotland and faraway in #Mauritius by watching Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.)
Observing @ucu #DigitalPicketLine while stuck isolating at home during #UCUstrike #USSStrike #FourFights #OneOfUsAllOfUs @ucuedinburgh. (Gonna withdraw my labour, convalesce, and homeschool.)