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The Aus Senate this Weds will vote on so-called 'three-parent #babies'. These would be #donorconceived babies, genetically the child of 3 people not 2, made by an unregulated, for-profit industry, where there are serious questions about the future for the resulting child. A 🧵
Three-parent babies are made from #mitochondrialDNA donation. For eg: you fertilise a would-be mother's egg, and a donor egg. You suck the middle (the pronucleus) out of both. You put the would-be mother's pronucleus in the 'shell' of the donor egg. You gestate the embryo.
This is to avoid a child inheriting mitochondrial disease from the mother. What it means is: the child inherits DNA from 3 people - bio father, the would-be mother, and the donor. This *is inheritable*. If it's a girl baby, DNA from THREE people will be passed on to her children.
A word from our Trustee Imran Khan QC. On the importance of our #HumanRightsAct inside AND outside the courtroom! 
First speaker up is Mandy from @Warrspeakup talking about the work they have done with BIHR to support self-advocates to know and use human rights
1. Following a challenge by @UKGovScotland the @UKSupremeCourt has determined parts of the UNCRC (Incorporation) Scotland Bill which @ScotParl passed unanimously in March are outwith the competence of the Scottish Parliament and must be amended to proceed. supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-202…
2. @SupremeCourt said that there is no dispute about the @ScotParl decision to incorporate the UNCRC into domestic law, but just about the way it is done and the impact that the bill has on matters reserved or protected from modification under the Scotland Act 1998.
3. @UKSupremeCourt clarified the limits of the powers of the @ScotParl, but this does not change the commitment renewed by @scotgov to take a maximalist approach to the incorporation of #UNCRC as far as devolution allows. There was unanimous support across the @ScotParl in March
Today has reinforced with me why people affected by systems are the experts & should be at the heart of designing them (but of course, they're usually not).
I worked in Additional Support for Learning policy, wrote guides to ASL law, facilitated input from children/yp/parents into the ASL Act and wrote a book (out of date now).
Still none of that is anything like the experience of being a parent trying to get support in place for your own child. That's a very different perspective & one that too often feels like you have limited power within a big, clunky one-size-fits-all system.
Dear @HumzaYousaf we have been pushed further & further towards the point at which legal assistance for the poor & marginalised will simply just disappear. The title Justice Minister is not just about prosecution but also defence- we need you to break your silence on #SLAB 1/12
You offered a £9M resilience fund, yet the vast majority of firms who suffered up to 50% cuts in income are told by SLAB they estimate their income will have gone up & refused any help, they could have looked at what was paid out instead of estimates plucked out of the sky🙈2/12
The biggest victims of failing legal aid will be the poor, children,homeless,addicts, care leavers, victims of sexual abuse –LA provides an indispensable foundation of support for society’s most vulnerable people,without which many will be placed at future risk of harm.3/12
@73inlancs @janethooton_ @ErinInTheMorn @fifi_EY 1/ The 🏴 government decided pediatric gender care in England would be a monopoly contract (a Labour minister, in 2008), despite all other NHS patients officially being entitled to a choice of providers, & second opinions on diagnoses & treatment, & gave it to GIDS, which has…
@73inlancs @janethooton_ @ErinInTheMorn @fifi_EY 2/…always advocated that trans minors & their families must have no alternative source of care, & subsequent Tory ministers have personally put their signature on renewals of it, and even personally rejected proposals for improvement that have been put forward by NHS England…
@73inlancs @janethooton_ @ErinInTheMorn @fifi_EY 3/…as a result of wider & public consultation. They & their civil servants listen only to GIDS on trans minors - it was GIDS advised against <18s being allowed #GenderRecognition in 2004, & since, on the basis that no one under 18 can be certain of their gender identity, just…
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Just some reminders of how #GIRFEC grifters have long been abusing children's rights, the rot having started in Highland
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Just some reminders of how #GIRFEC grifters have long been abusing children's rights, the rot having started in Highland
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"Unlike welfare, #wellbeing has no precise legal definition...The pass mark for individual parents will depend on the appointed box-ticker’s interpretation of life events, significant or otherwise, such as losing the pet hamster." #girfec #datatheft
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As for child protection...we give you the formidable Kenneth Roy on #girfec #datatheft
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Almost daily, through my work providing advice and advocacy to vulnerable families in education settings, I hear from another family whose child's #privacy has been breached by education officers and headteachers at Scottish local authorities. #childrensrights 1/
Systematic breaches of data processing laws are becoming endemic in Scotland. I've even had two LAs tell me that they can break data processing laws because their local policies say they can. 2/
1. Nothing to see here. Adoption & Children (Coronavirus) Regs 2020 quietly came into force on Friday.
Some of the most vulnerable children will have basic safeguards diminished. Compatibility with #humanrights #ECHR or #UNCRC is doubtful.
Little or no consultation or debate.
Some of the most vulnerable children will have basic safeguards diminished. Compatibility with #humanrights #ECHR or #UNCRC is doubtful.
Little or no consultation or debate.
2. Many changes appear to be politically motivated under guise of COVID 19. Failed to get through Parliament in previous years. Said to be interim until September but expiry can be revoked.
3. The law would normally require local authorities to visit children in care one week after they started living in a placement and then every six weeks. This basic protection for children in care is removed and local authorities can instead make up the visit with a phone call.
Dear clever twitter, I want to collate my understanding of the countries where trans kids already have full right to get all legal identity documents updated (birth cert, ID, passport. And countries where this is being debated. Grateful if people could post info and links 1/
Spain - all documents can be updated once a child has maturity, expected at about 12-14 chrysallis.org.es/tramites-en-re…
Mexico - legal rights for trans children was recently granted, but hit challenges, will link to details here later
Packed room for our Children's Rights Group Inaugural Annual Lecture celebrating the 30th anniversary of the UNCRC, to be delivered by Prof Geraldine van Bueren QC. We are delighted to welcome this evening's Chair, Lord Kerr. #UNCRC30 #ChildRightsDSC
.@caoilfhionnanna introduces the event referring to some positive developments on the #UNCRC's 30th birthday, including the recent victory for A in the ECtHR in the 'bedroom tax' case doughtystreet.co.uk/news/european-…
@caoilfhionnanna Prof Geraldine van Bueren QC: "when we were drafting the #UNCRC we were told only a few governments would ratify it". Almost all of them have. Happy birthday #UNCRC30.
THREAD /1: Today @amnesty voices its concerns on the proposed changes to #Greece #Asylum Law, which downgrades EU and international human rights standards for #Refugeesgr - read it here: amnesty.org/en/documents/e…
@amnesty THREAD/2 - The #asylum bill was long anticipated by the GR Gov which promised "consulting publicly" on it. Yet, once published on 16 Oct, external actors had only 5 days to comment on the 121 articles of the law, covering procedures, detention, reception, health, work, education.
@amnesty /3 The proposal is a blow to vulnerable refugees. People with PTSD are no longer explicitly mentioned and torture survivors are required certification by public health providers, excluding the work of privates, NGOs etc. (who have done most of it so far..bit.ly/3650dsQ)
Something to think about as we continue to ask #WhereAreTheChildren:
The United States signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (#UNCRC) in 1995, but is the only United Nations member state that is not a party to it. A short explanatory history follows. 1/
The United States signed the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (#UNCRC) in 1995, but is the only United Nations member state that is not a party to it. A short explanatory history follows. 1/
On 16 February 1995, Madeleine Albright, at the time the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, signed the Convention. Ratification requires that the President send it to the Senate for a 2/3 majority vote to pass; if it does, the President can then ratify it. 2/
Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama each ratified the CRC but failed to submit it to the Senate. As of June 2018, the Trump administration has not ratified it. Apparently the reasons why are too varied and complex to relate here. 3/
