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Dr Ritumbra Manuvie

@ritumbra

@UCGroningen, founder @foundationdahrd AI, ethics, human rights, platform regulations @univgroningen @EdinburghUni @commschols born at 345 ppm

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Joined May 2012
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@Meta has released its long-awaited #HRIA #India, summarized into four pages of a global report. I write a🧵 on what we as one of the 40 stakeholders actually communicated towards the independent Assessment which is not released by Meta. (1/n) about.fb.com/wp-content/uplo…
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This is @himantabiswa he is currently the Chief Minister of Assam state which has been the laboratory of citizenship disenfranchisement. Since 1980s the Govts in Assam have used ECI executive orders to systematically delete ethnic & religious minorities (1/n)
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@himantabiswaOct 12
This isn't a movement. It's a regime-change project by Dimagi Naxals
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The worlds largest democracy is load-shedding its electorate - most of those deleted are perhaps Indian minorities and women. Every progressive politician and every human right defender in the world should be scared of the #IndiaModel that @BJP4India is implementing. (6/n)
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Indian #GenZ led by @CJP_for_India @Cockroachisback is protesting and the world must stand in solidarity with them! 130 million people in India are at risk of loosing their citizenship- the basis of once relationship with a state, any state! @UNHumanRights @UN_Women
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The West Asian war has incurred heavy global costs—including a new strategic reality & escalating great-power competition between America & China. India must brace for major geopolitical & geoeconomic disruptions. @salman7khurshid sir & I write in @IndianExpress today.
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🚨 New Report alert🚨 Our new report documents what we believe to be the first recorded instance of AI-driven disinformation in an Indian state election. Read the full report 👉dahrd.org/report/assam-assem… !
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@thewire_inMar 20
EU-India FTA: Putting the 'Brussels Effect' to the Test? Willfully blind to the widely documented authoritarianism of the Modi government in India, Brussels seems to have completely changed its language. @ritumbra✍️ thewire.in/trade/eu-india-ft…
EU-India FTA: Putting the 'Brussels Effect' to the Test?

EU-India FTA: Putting the 'Brussels Effect' to the Test?

Willfully blind to the widely documented authoritarianism of the Modi government in India, Brussels seems to have completely changed its language.

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📣Listen to Prof. Nivedita Menon talking about India's Constitution! Prof. Menon joined us on India's Republic Day to talk about rights in India and the Indian future.✊🏾 Stay tuned for our future webinars!
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@thewire_in15 Dec 2025
BJP Collected ‘Party Funds’ in the Name of Government Schemes, Finds RTI Full Story by @AjoyAshirwad: thewire.in/politics/bjp-coll… Presentation: @malvika_chy Script: @VishalBadgal3
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@thecaravanindia11 Dec 2025
The RSS Project is out now! Explore the network map here: rssproject.caravanmagazine.i… For a deeper reflection on why such an intervention is necessary, see Felix Pal’s (@FelixPal8) essay, “Exposing the largest far-right network in history”, read here: caravanmagazine.in/politics/…
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@thewire_in14 Nov 2025
Meta's Algorithms of Exclusion in Bihar The implications reach far beyond Bihar's electoral boundaries. Ritumbra Manuvie, Shreiya Maheshwari✍️ thewire.in/tech/metas-algori…
Meta's Algorithms of Exclusion in Bihar

Meta's Algorithms of Exclusion in Bihar

The implications reach far beyond Bihar's electoral boundaries.

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amnestypress@amnestypress14 Nov 2025
Poland: @amnesty welcomes a new @ECHR_CEDH judgment ruling that Poland violated the right to private & family life of a pregnant woman who travelled abroad to have an abortion. The Court also found that Poland’s ban undermined the principle of legal certainty 🧵
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📢SPEAKER UPDATE: @NadimNashif, Executive Director of @7amleh, will join Prof. @AletteSmeulers and Prof. @HelenDuffy_HRP on November 28th to discuss how disinformation and propaganda have become central tools to legitimize war crimes, control narratives and dehumanize Palestinians. Sign up here 👉: gqr.sh/Za8w and join us for a dialogue on oppression, identity and justice! 📍 Location: @HumanityHub 📅 Date & Time: November 28th, 17:00-19:00 🎙️ Format: Fireside conversation + Q&A+ networking drinks 💬 Language: English #Disinformation #onlineharm #HumanRights #InternationalLaw #Palestine #Justice
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@UNDP18 Oct 2025
Nearly 80% of people living in #MultidimensionalPoverty – 887 million ppl – live in regions that are exposed to at least one major climate hazard: high heat, droughts, floods & air pollution. More from @UN_News_Centre on our latest Global MPI Report 2025. news.un.org/en/story/2025/10…
Groundbreaking report reveals powerful link between poverty and the climate crisis

Groundbreaking report reveals powerful link between poverty and the climate crisis

Nearly 80 per cent of the world’s poor – 887 million people – live in regions that are exposed to extreme heat, flooding and other climate hazards, highlighting the urgent need for global action to...

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@thewire_in17 Oct 2025
Debts to Death: How Microfinance Companies Are Crushing the Poor in Bihar Ritumbra Manuvie, Priti Hirawal✍️ thewire.in/rights/debts-to-d…
Debts to Death: How Microfinance Companies Are Crushing the Poor in Bihar

Debts to Death: How Microfinance Companies Are Crushing the Poor in Bihar

The lack of FIRs, postmortem transparency, and media attention is itself a form of governance erasure – an erasure that ensures the continuation of debt-driven development.

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🔔HAPPENING TODAY! 🔔 📢Looking forward to meeting you at our fireside chat on Faith, Freedom, and the Fracturing of Democracy today at 17:00 at @HumanityHub ! Come and meet Fatimazhra Belhirch (@D66), @Danielle_H_BE (@gl_pvda ), @isakahraman (NSC) and Emre Gungor (@VoltNederland ) to talk about the future of democracy and why it matters to all of us! Sign up here👉 shorturl.at/BDsMv !
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👋Meet @Danielle_H_BE, Member of Parliament for @gl_pvda , our third speaker at our event Faith, Freedom and the Fracturing of Democracy on October 16th at @HumanityHub ! Curious to hear her standpoints and priorities ahead of Dutch elections?  Sign up here 👉 shorturl.at/BDsMv and ask your questions!
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