The EU’s new plan to protect democracy targets foreign influence and misinformation. By copying “foreign agent” laws, 🇪🇺-states could harm democracy and human rights defenders, the EU’s real shield 🛡️⚡️ By @carlosdolan.bsky.social in @epc-official.bsky.social www.epc.eu/publication/...

After #COP27 🇪🇬, #COP28 🇦🇪 and #COP29 🇦🇿, another autocratic host may be next: Türkiye could take over #COP31 as Australia’s bid falters. There is no possible future for climate talks without civic space. Every time the UN lets repression host the process, climate justice pays the price 🌍⚡️

#COP30 has begun in Brazil’s Amazon 🌳 Ten years after Paris, key emitters have not filed new plans, finance pledges are hollow, “just transition” is still an empty slogan and rainforest protection remains uncertain. Power, money colide with climate justice 🌍⚡️ 🔗 theconversation.com/five-key-iss...

Azerbaijan handed over UN Climate Conference presidency to Brazil 🌍 #COP30 Since #COP29 in Baku: 🚨 Climate of Justice founders jailed ⚖️ Nazim Baydamirli sentenced to 8 years in prison 📚 Repression of media, civil society, scholars deepened Yet the EU carries on with business as usual 🇪🇺🇦🇿

A faultline⚡️ A war criminal welcomed at the highest level yesterday: Sergei Shoigu leading a visit to Egypt🇷🇺🇪🇬 Just days after the EU-Egypt summit, where human rights were set aside, Egypt welcomed Shoigu to Cairo. Silence bought the EU no leverage🇪🇺🇪🇬

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This week, Ukraine is facing one of the fiercest Russian attacks in months. 📢🇺🇦 European leaders who were loudly voicing support just weeks ago are now, surprisingly, silent for the past few days. Once again, Europe proves better at words than action. This is shameful. 👎🏼🇪🇺 Stand with Ukraine. 💙💛

#COP30 just opened. Good moment to stay in touch with @unsrclimatehrights.bsky.social 🌻⤵️

Fear has switched sides in Serbia🇷🇸⚡️ After a year of student and civic revolt, the Helsinki Committee lays bare a society at breaking point—corruption, repression, and propaganda met with defiance from a new generation. 🔗 www.helsinki.org.rs/doc/Report20...

Feminist foreign policies are under siege ⚡️ Argentina, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden turned back. Anti-gender groups now better funded ($1.2 billion in 5 years). Advocates refuse to retreat 💪 🔗 @mariluetta.bsky.social on the fight to keep feminism in foreign policy passblue.com/2025/11/05/f...

“Family values”: the shield for violence in #Azerbaijan 🇦🇿⚡️ Girls as young as 12 are giving birth. Men who rape or “marry” them walk free. Families stay silent. Courts call it “consensual”.

“It's Time for Peace” 🇮🇱🕊️🇵🇸 @pinkfront.bsky.social

Dr Laura Murphy, Professor of Human Rights & Contemporary Slavery, important work addressing big issues in UK supply chains. Extremely concerning by Sheffield Hallam University. How much more at other universities under the radar? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Massacres in El-Fasher: children executed, hospitals attacked, women raped, murdered. Sudan descends further into horror. Mobilisation is long overdue to protect those still alive and bring the killers to justice 🇸🇩⚡️ ➡️ Interview with PM Kamil Idris in @blick.ch english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-...

There is no such thing as withdrawing from a human rights convention but still respecting it: implementation without standards, obligations, monitoring and accountability is not credible. Latvia’s move to quit the Istanbul Convention marks a major faultline for women’s rights and the rule of law⚖️⚡️♀︎

A year after the #NoviSad tragedy, Serbia’s streets still echo with repression🇷🇸⚡️ Protesters beaten, lawyers blocked, sound cannons deployed, NGOs raided. Civic space collapse💥 Read @goranmiletic.bsky.social on what must change, exclusive for @curecampaign.bsky.social 🔗 mailchi.mp/csf-ev.org/s...

When the far right’s words become parliament’s votes ⚡️ For the first time, a #LePen Rassemblement national text was adopted by the National Assembly 🇫🇷 The “cordon sanitaire” that once protected democracy has snapped ‼️ @liberation.fr 🔗 www.liberation.fr/politique/el...

The European five-step playbook is unfolding to kill civil society: 📌 Fabricate the scandal 📌 Institutionalise the witch-hunt 📌 Defund 📌 Criminalise 📌 Exploit what’s left What disappears with NGOs isn’t “lobbying”, it’s accountability itself. @euobserver.com euobserver.com/news/ar1c67c...

Honouring those who built democracy matters most when it’s eroding before our eyes⚡️ @freedomhouse.bsky.social awarded the Palmer Prize to dissident, writer, diplomat, and our friend, Miklós Haraszti. 🔗 freedomhouse.org/article/free...

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇺🇳 Behind closed doors, China and Russia are hollowing out the UN’s human rights pillar through budget cuts⚡️ ➡️ New @ishr.ch investigation exposes how they weaponise UN budget committees to block scrutiny @genevasolutions.bsky.social passblue.com/2025/10/22/r...

The UN turns 80 in crisis🇺🇳⚡️ Our new Notes from the Faultline: Dispatch #1 argues the 2026 appointment of the next Secretary-General will test the UN’s legitimacy. A woman from Eastern Europe must lead — through transparency, courage and reform. 🔗 progress-change-actionlab.org/notes-from-t...

Environmental destruction is a crime against humanity 🌍⚡️ Leila Nadya Sadat argues that the UN treaty on crimes against humanity must recognise environmental harm as its 12th crime. Close a 30-year gap: name what truly “shocks the conscience of humanity.” 🔗 www.justsecurity.org/122271/envir...

Politicising security and intelligence services is a faultline for democracy⚡️🇮🇱 In a context of high tension and active conflict, as in Israël, it only further erodes the very principles those institutions are meant to protect and Israël's democracy. 🔗 www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

The attack on civil society is a major faultline⚡️ 🌍 Civil society closures 💸 Aid collapse 🛑 Weaponised laws 👩‍👩‍👧‍👦 Gender & LGBTQI rights attacked ⚔️ Security over rights An existential threat to democracy, solidarity, human dignity. @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social 🔗 www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

Heartbreaking 💔 @coe.int can pride itself of all it did to prevent torture and ill treatment and improve detention conditions, in collaboration with civil society, notably @penalreformint.bsky.social and the Swiss APT. Looks like another faultline ⚡️⤵️

District Court of Massachusetts rules: using immigration law for Trump’s “retribution” against dissent violates the First Amendment 🇺🇸 When leaders punish speech, courts show up for democracy. A faultline ⚡️ We stand by you, Chief Judge William G. Young 🙏 🔗 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Laureates of @coe.int's Václav Havel Prize remain jailed. International organisations praise democracy and human rights defenders, yet their leadership fails to act (even to try) to free them. Recognition without protection risks hypocrisy. A faultline⚡️ 🔗 www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democ...

When multilateral organisations yield to a “culture of caution”, they lose legitimacy in the eyes of those who most embody their values, human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists. That loss is a faultline ⚡️ 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/cautio...

Worth listening into this: discussions at the Leonidas Donskis Memorial Conference last week, discussing 50 years of the Helsinki Agreements. 🎬 youtu.be/N_aiZxBA6EU?...

From the UN Human Rights Council to Egypt's prisons: Pres. Sisi issues pardon for 6 prisoners following UN appeal, including @monasosh.bsky.social's brother, prominent activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah. Today we're happy. Yet, too many around the globe remin behind bars⚡️ @marylawlorhrds.bsky.social

“It’s difficult to know how many children are dying worldwide as a result of the Trump aid cuts…credible estimates…suggest that the child death toll may be in the hundreds of thousands this year alone—likely an even higher number next year.” This is what a lost decade for humanity looks like⚡️⤵️

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Abuse of psychiatry: a dramatic faultline⚡️⤵️ Dec 2011: Mr Spivak was arrested and sent for psychiatric examination Dec 2012-Oct 2014: confined in Dnipro Psy. Hospital, forcibly medicated, held in degrading conditions

Gaza’s inadmissible death toll lays bare a faultline⚡️ Robert Malley on lessons from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, Western double standards, and why ending the “carnage” in Gaza must come first—then real diplomacy. 🔗 www.theideasletter.org/essay/diplom... @open-society.bsky.social

Migration is one of Europe’s deepest faultlines⚡ Worth joining @timep.bsky.social on 18 Sept for Beyond Fortress Europe, which will explore how EU migration policy (un)shapes human rights, civic space & democracy, and what a humane alternative could be. 🔗 timep.org/2025/09/02/b...

Human rights & democracy are not add-ons, rather foundation of European security. Anything else is a faultline⚡️ @switzerlandosce.bsky.social 2026 presidency will test if rules-based security still holds. By @eleonoramongelli.bsky.social & @florianirminger.ch 🔗 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/war-peac...

International Day of Democracy ⚖️🗳️🕊️ A perfect day to welcome @kajsaollongren.bsky.social as EU Special Representative for Human Rights. Her experience is key to tackling a growing European faultline: human rights within the emerging defence architecture⚡️

A silent crack, a faultline with far-reaching consequences⚡️ Using criminal law to silence dissent undermines democratic security. All governments should take note of the new @coe.int guidance issued today. Courts should use it to uphold individual rights ⚖️ 🔗 www.coe.int/de/web/porta...

#UNGA80 opens in New York 📍 A major faultline deepens at the heart of the UN system: China is reshaping multilateralism to suit its interests — silencing dissent, rewriting norms, evading scrutiny ⚡️ As the US retreats, who will step up? 👉 fpc.org.uk/op-ed-us-ret... @fpcthinktank.bsky.social

Sudan: A War of Atrocities Over 12 million people displaced; at least 150,000 killed. Camps shelled & burned 🏚️ Systematic rape & sexual slavery used as weapons of war 💔 Starvation inflicted through sieges & blocked aid 🍂 A crisis the world cannot keep overlooking ⚡️ #HRC60

#COP27 🇪🇬 #COP28 🇦🇪 #COP29 🇦🇿 #COP32 likely Ethiopia 🇪🇹 For #COP31, Australia is negotiating with Türkiye. Shouldn’t a climate COP be hosted in a place where you don’t risk arrest for speaking about climate justice? 🔗 www.turkiyetoday.com/nation/austr...

Findings on Myanmar at #HRC60 🇲🇲 6764 civilians killed since the coup✖️ Airstrikes, silent paramotors hitting markets, schools, camps ✈️ Forced recruitment, incl Rohingya; children at risk 👶 Aid blocked; hunger surges 🍚 ICC steps on accountability needed ⚖️ HRC60 considering two reports ⤵️

The 60th session of the UN Human Rights Council opens today ⚖️ #HRC60 Headlines will focus on Gaza & the occupied territories, Ukraine, Syria, Afghanistan, Russia, and North Korea. Many cracks risk going unseen — we'll look where silence reigns, the faultlines that need attention, too⚡️

International Literacy Day📚 Literacy is a human right and the key to many others. Yet 739 million people lack basic skills, 2/3 of them are women and girls. Literacy decline is a silent crack, a faultline threatening justice, equality, and peace 🧐🌍⚡️ #LiteracyDay

Women in Kenya are marching against rising femicide—facing a state that looks away ✊🏽 This is not just Kenya’s story. It is a global faultline⚡️🌍 A gender backlash where violence against women thrives in impunity. 🔗 Powerful piece openglobalrights.org/unpunished-a...

Today we hear Ethiopia is bidding to host #COP32 🌍📢🇪🇹 Another COP in a country where civic space is crushed, dissent silenced, human rights ignored. Can climate change be tackled without real civil society? This is a crack we should hear — a faultline ⚡️

The horror from Gaza is unbearable. Yet it’s a minute before midnight for a two-state solution. As Richard Haass argues in @foreignaffairs.com, how the international community acts on Gaza now is a major faultline for whether peace remains possible 🌿⚡️ 🔗 www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/pales...

"I'm not a dictator" — Trump says, while declaring emergencies for trade deficits, protests, even universities. This is how democracies slide: using the law itself to normalise unchecked power. By Adam B. Kushner in @nytimes.com 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...

⚠️ Russia withdraws from Europe’s anti-torture treaty — stripping people in detention of their last formal international protection, incl. Ukrainian prisoners of war. A faultline moment 🇷🇺⚡️A state accused of systematic torture now abandons the last possible oversight mechanism meant to prevent it.

Antiliberalism at the heart of the faultlines we speak about⚡ Join today's event unpacking how transnational alliances are reshaping politics—and what it means for the future of the liberal order🌍 @illsp.bsky.social @ieres-gwu.bsky.social @robindebruin.bsky.social ‪‪@jessicareinisch.bsky.social‬