Dr Claire Methven O'Brien (@claire

Dr Claire Methven O'Brien

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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien

@claire_ob1

Personal account. Proud Fifer. Human rights. Free speech. Sex is real.

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Joined November 2010

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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Feb 25, 2025
"Requiring women to expose their naked bodies before members of the opposite sex as a condition of accessing employment is without doubt a breach of privacy, dignity, decency and human rights" I wrote for @HolyroodDaily holyrood.com/comment/view,p…
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Feb 20, 2025
The case-by-case approach advocated here means that no single sex space can be guaranteed as such. Women's rights to privacy, dignity, freedom of association, and their reasonable expectations of safety and security - all may be rendered forfeit at any future moment. This is the
Holyrood
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Holyrood
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Mar 9, 2025
New from me for @MailOnline ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️ #IWD2025 Ideological capture, institutional denial, extraordinary arrogance, and disregard for women's basic rights - this is the toxic combination underlying the legal gibberish and disconcerting non-answers governments continue to
dailymail.com
CLAIRE METHVEN O'BRIEN: Another week, another wave of gender wildfires
The ongoing case of A&E nurse Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife, in which she was required to share changing facilities with a biologically male doctor - then suspended after 30 years' service when she...
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Mar 5, 2025
I wrote to @ScotGovFM for International Women's Day about abuses of women's human rights linked to the treatment of biological males as females. claireob1.substack.com/p/letter-to-sc… I focus on prisons, rape crisis services, police data, strip searches, school toilets and single-sex spaces.
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Feb 20, 2025
There is a world of difference between merely formal guarantees of human rights and their real and practically effective enjoyment by individuals - a principle long upheld by international human rights bodies, including those that supervise treaties to which the UK and Scottish
Holyrood
@HolyroodDaily
Feb 20, 2025
First Minister John Swinney says he will not comment on the Sandie Peggie employment tribunal. "If I was to comment on this case, I would be in danger of breaking the law. I believe in the rule of law and nobody will persuade me to break the rule of law in this parliament."
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Dec 24, 2024
Smearing, stigmatisation, misinformation - time-worn tactics used against women #humanrights defenders Disagreements over rights claims should be debated in specific There is no place in a democracy for generalised attacks on reputation as a strategy to suppress dissent #HRDs
The Herald
@heraldscotland
Dec 23, 2024
'This is insulting' Sturgeon faces backlash over claim gender reform opposition led by shadowy forces heraldscotland.com/news/24813000.… Exclusive by @andrewlearmonth
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Sep 27, 2024
I wrote a short piece for @thetimes #HumanRights thetimes.com/article/5e18dc…
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Mar 23, 2021
HOT NEWS 🔥🔥🔥 Thrilled to announce I am directing a brand new LLM in Business and Human Rights @dundeeuni Applications open for study starting Sep 2021 / Jan 2022 dundee.ac.uk/postgraduate/b…
Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Nov 18, 2024
The Equality Act 2010 and support services for rape survivors: Does the UK comply with its international #humanrights obligations? Spoiler: It doesn't New note from me on Substack. May be of interest for anyone following @ForWomenScot litigation. open.substack.com/pub/claireob1/…
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Jan 20, 2023
CALL FOR PAPERS JUST TRANSITIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE @LawDundee 7-8 September 2023 Keynotes: Judge Tim Eicke, European Court of Human Rights Prof. Freya Baetens @BonaveroIHR Further info here: dundee.ac.uk/events/just-tr…
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Feb 21, 2025
Just standing on the shoulders of giants 🙏 Millions paid with their blood for the rights we have today. Women fought every inch of the way for theirs. We're not giving up now.
Loreli
@LoreleiLiBan
Feb 21, 2025
This is the piece that needs to feature in The Times or any other mainstream media as comment on #nhsfife . We have found our law expert in @claire_ob1 and writing that far exceeds any we've seen.
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Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Feb 4, 2019
NEW! My @coe Handbook on Business and Human Rights for Legal Practitioners now published and available for download here: coe.int/en/web/nationa… … #bizhumanrights
Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Jun 17, 2020
NEW🔥🔥Our new Expert Briefings for @Europarl_EN on key issues for EU #humanrights #duediligence legislation: scope, monitoring, enforcement and remedy: europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes… #bizhumanrights #UNGPs #RBC #GVCs #SDGs
Dr Claire Methven O'Brien
@claire_ob1
Jan 30, 2018
Delighted to announce I will be leading a new €1.25million research project exploring the role of responsible business in advancing the #SDGs, in collaboration with partners from Ghana, Kenya and ANU. Read more here: email.operate.dk/t/r-037F81514A…