#China's Disruption of RightsCon is a Wake-Up Call To Counter Its Authoritarian Influence, I write at @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/chinas-disru...

#Zambia Deeply concerned by gvt’s "postponement" of @rightscon.org Requiring "disclosure of topics" for an "alignment with national values" is a clear violation of the rights to freedom of assembly, association and expression, and a deliberated attack on civic space. 1/

🧵1- It has been 57 days since the internet went down in Iran. For many, the only remaining option has been Starlink. In 2023, Iran invoked “digital sovereignty” at the International Telecommunication Union to push for disabling Starlink connections. Yet the number of terminals continued to grow.

Three years of war in #Sudan have caused the loss of countless lives and destroyed basic services including the health system. See how we responded in 2025 and what we’re demanding for the population: www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/sudan-three-... #TalkAboutSudan

“This is not self-defence: It is a blatant violation of the UN Charter" UN HR Experts rightly condemn #Israel forces' 8 April mass bombing & forced displacement in #Lebanon, urge all states to end arms transfers to Israel & support civilians. www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel... @eudiplomacy.bsky.social

Every now and then, I read something that I can’t get out of my head. Like this hard-hitting article by Forensic Architecture director Eyal Weizman on the Gaza genocide and how its desert-making domicide is now deployed in the war against Lebanon: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

After 3 years of conflict, Berlin #Sudan conference shouldn't be remembered as 1st day of yet another year of atrocities. @eudiplomacy.bsky.social should: ⛑️Press measures to protect civilians ⚖️Support genuine accountability 🫸Join atrocity prevention coalition Our take 👇 www.hrw.org/news/2026/04...

"It took Israel only 10 minutes to carry out one of the worst mass-killings in Lebanon since the end of the country’s civil war in 1990." “..what I’m most sad about is that my pretty Lebanon, our beautiful Lebanon, soon it will all be brought down to the ground.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

2025 Annual Report Launch! 📣 Last year, JRR completed 115 expert deployments in support of countless justice actors involved in accountability processes in close to 20 country situations.

"After seeing Trump threaten the murder of "a whole civilization," I find myself taking seriously the prospect that tonight we could see the United States use nuclear weapons for the first time since 1945." www.forever-wars.com/the-many-fat... You and me both, @attackerman.bsky.social. Terrifying.

The NASA #Artemis II tracking website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art... It includes a nice moveable visualization of the Moon, the spacecraft, the Sun, and the Earth, so you can get a feel for the relative positions of them all.

Defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja turns 65 today behind bars. Instead of celebrating with family, he suffers from a heart condition, glaucoma, and chronic pain from 2011 torture. Denying medical care is a slow death sentence. Our message to Denmark: Act before it is too late. #FreeAlKhawaja #Not15Years.

“We collectively affirm the importance of equal application of international law to all, including countries that hold themselves out as global leaders.” This also applies to us in the EU. International (humanitarian) law is clear. Our politics should not obfuscate that.

This is a compelling analysis of the systems, both technological and bureaucratic, that have led to the horrific bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab in the early days of the US/Israel war against Iran; by @kevinbaker.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

🌟INVITATION 🌟ISHR is hosting an online webinar for HRDs working at the national and regional levels. It will discuss the #UN80Initiative and its implications of the UN reform for human rights #NGOs. More info 👉 https://ishr.ch/events/ Registration link 👉 https://ow.ly/2w7P50YtfP3

Monstrous. Not 18 months after the UN Human Rights Council's Commission of Inquiry made a determination of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Israeli attacks against healthcare facilities in Gaza: www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Some of the very many emergencies around the world that get neither international political attention nor the funding to save people’s lives and livelihoods. We have enough cash and resources to respond to all of these crises. Not doing so is a political choice and an abdication of responsibility.

This letter by Emily Tucker to the students of Georgetown is the most beautiful writing about GenAI in education (or the workplace) that I’ve read in forever: medium.com/center-on-pr... (Quote posting it with a drawing of a very cool frog who also resists the bankrupt idea of GenAI inevitability).

even if an oil facility is a military objective, the US/Israel *must* avoid "any attack which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects...which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated"

Constant threats and backlash undermine women's rights around the globe, but women still continue to fight against repression. This International Women's Day, we honor the courage of those working to improve the lives of women and girls everywhere. #IWD26 #InternationalWomensDay

We live in a world where the most powerful people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

🔴 LIVE: Follow my presentation to the UN Human Rights Council #HRC61 ⬇️ webtv.un.org/en/asset/k14...

It’s always important to be honest, but in times of great peril it is indispensable to speak with moral clarity. When governments fail to do so, civil society steps up. www.globalr2p.org/publications... From @globalr2p.org:

Live now - one of @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social last Human Rights Council side events - www.youtube.com/live/-SD5Sr3...

#MiddleEast ​Civilians need to be protected from both external bombs and internal bullets. I am deeply alarmed by the military strikes launched by the United States and Israel against Iran, and its subsecuent responses. 1/

🚨Calling all #intLaw researchers! A team at Leiden is doing a research project on what research methods we use & how we choose our research methods. Help our colleagues by filling in the survey about your #research! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/...

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"Anthropic is doing the right thing... The uses it is drawing lines around (mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons) are foreseeable and dangerous. Just as important, its willingness to hold that line in the face of coercive pressure sets an example for the rest of the industry."

People really need to be paying attention to what’s happening in Ethiopia right now. It’s getting virtually no attention in the western media, but the entire region is on the brink of a cataclysmic major war. www.globaldispatches.org/p/ethiopia-i...

‼️OHCHR working on a report on the protection of human rights defenders in the digital age. Please send your inputs! www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for...

RIP. Imagine for a moment a world in which Jesse Jackson beats incumbent Ronald Reagan in the 1984 U.S. Presidential election. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

South Sudan appears on the brink of civil war. Again. Facing declining humanitarian aid and with global attention focussed elsewhere, the country’s rival politicians and predatory warlords prefer conflict to governing. www.globalr2p.org/countries/so...

"The point is not that what progressives do must never be criticized; the point is that the relentless drive to find fault with both sides equally results in a sense of (false) equivalence among those taking cues from supposedly trustworthy centrists."

Stop what you’re doing and read this piece, which is as powerful as you’d expect from @adamserwer.bsky.social witnessing the events of last week on the ground in Minnesota. “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.”

📣 A couple of weeks left to contribute to my call for inputs on #Food systems including #ocean, #ClimateChange #HumanRights #CarbonMarkets And many sincere thanks for all the contributions that have been made so far 🙏

The whole world should reject these sham elections administered by an illegitimate military dictatorship. The people of #Myanmar are demanding a real democracy and respect for human rights.🇲🇲

I fear we are going to have to say this a lot again: Int law prohibits bombing countries for the sake of democracy. FOR VERY GOOD REASON. It tends not to work. Attacking a country because its leader lacks legitimacy - whether as pretext or sincerely held rationale - is still just an aggression.

​​✨Our call for applications is out✨ Next year, ISHR's hybrid training will focus on Democratic Backsliding and Racial Justice. If you are an HRDs working on any of those areas and keen to use the #UN for change, apply now!👇 https://ow.ly/KAJV50XHrnt

📣 I am hiring a postdoc! aial.ie/hiring/postd... applications from suitable candidates that are passionate about investigating the use of genAI in public service operations with the aim of keeping governments transparent and accountable are welcome pls share with your networks

🧵 As #EU governments prepare to meet amid a fragile #Gaza ceasefire, pressure is mounting for them to "drop the stick" they never used on #Israel Caving to that pressure would be yet another blow to their credibility, and to hopes for rights and justice: hrw.org/news/2025/10... #EUCO #FAC ⤵️ 1/7

@who.int is appalled by the latest evacuation order, demanding 1 million people to move from Gaza City to a “humanitarian zone” in the south. To civilians: WHO and partners remain in Gaza City. To the intl. community: Act. This catastrophe is human-made, & the responsibility rests with us all.

"Death, destruction, starvation and displacement of Palestinian civilians are the result of choices that defy international law and ignore the international community." "We continue to insist that this horror can be stopped."

New UN investigation reveals “systematic torture” in #Myanmar’s military-run detention facilities – including electrocution, strangulation and gang rape. The Generals responsible for these atrocities must be held accountable under international law.🇲🇲 news.un.org/en/story/202...

The #ICJ delivered a historic Advisory Opinion on #ClimateChange that cuts through decades of delay, denial, & legal ambiguity. It did so with moral & legal clarity that leaves no doubt: states must act to prevent climate harm or be held legally responsible. Read our Q&A: cri.org/cri-qa-on-th...

Volker Türk: Israel’s “plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza strip must be immediately halted.” If executed, it “will result in more massive forced displacement, more killing, more unbearable suffering, senseless destruction and atrocity crimes.” www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Wrote about this sort of thing in my chapter in our book on the Arab state— with Israeli surveillance of Palestine the most dystopian case of information collection and lethal deployment which still failed to deliver control.

Bless OCHA for continuing to try. Systematically obstructing the delivery of humanitarian aid is against international humanitarian law and can be a war crime but cautious, hypothetical diplomatic language, slap bang in the middle of the genocide against the Gazans, really doesn't seem appropriate.

There was a saying somewhere that one of the defining features of fascism is that it constantly questions established consensus on, say, democracy, human dignity, and equality; but I can't remember who said/wrote this and where. Does anyone know?

As we mark 80 years since Hiroshima, the global nuclear order is under real stress. Escalation risks in Europe, South Asia, and the Korean Peninsula are intensifying. It’s time for bold, preventive action. My piece in @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/05/h...