OMG 🥸 #Trump #UNGA80

The UN Special Rapporteur on environmental defenders has submitted an amicus brief in Anar Mammadli’s case 🌍 Azerbaijan has a duty under the Aarhus Convention: defenders must not face reprisals ⚖️ Calls for Anar’s release and for charges to be dropped 🕊️ 🔗 unece.org/ACSR_C_2024_...

Honoured to have had the chance to speak at the 8th Leonidas Donskis Conference in Vilnius on Human Rights: from Hope to Despair. For the first time since the Holocaust, humanity will end this decade worse off than it began 📉 A thread below 🧵⤵️

"...not only are [Trump's] aid cuts killing children every day ... the death toll is accelerating" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

This should matter to all of us and indeed be a priority ⤵️

2026 wird @SwissMFA @ignaziocassis🇨🇭 den #OSZE-Vorsitz übernehmen. Dies bietet die Gelegenheit, sich auf eine der Kernaufgaben zu konzentrieren: eine regelbasierte Sicherheit, mit Menschenrechte im Mittelpunkt, schreibe ich mit @EleMongelli @swissinfo_de www.swissinfo.ch/ger/krieg-fr...

Full room for Rachel Denber update on the human rights situation in the OSCE region. Great to have her here with us 🙌

“Back to Square One?” Leonidas Donskis Conference about to start in Vilnius, discussing the rise and fall of the Helsinki Agreements #OSCE2025. Follow here for live updates ⤵️

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...

Back in Vilnius ❤️🇱🇹 I’ll speak at the Leonidas Donskis Conference the panel “Human Rights: from Hope to Despair”⚡️ With @eleonoramongelli.bsky.social, I argue Switzerland’s 2026 OSCE presidency is a chance to put rights back at the core of security 🔗 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...

En cette Journée mondiale de prévention du suicide, rappelons-nous que le suicide est la première cause de mortalité chez les 15-29 ans en Suisse. Ce sujet reste encore trop tabou. Nous pouvons faire la différence 💙 🔗 stopsuicide.ch

#UNGA80 opens as China fills the void left by the US Rewriting norms, choking civil society, escaping accountability 🚨 The UN is being reshaped from within — the UK and Europe must respond. ✍️ My piece for @fpcthinktank.bsky.social 🔗 fpc.org.uk/op-ed-us-ret...

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

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

Another week of repression in Azerbaijan: ⚖️ Baku Appeal Court upheld the 15-year sentence of Bahruz Samadov after a closed hearing. He is now on hunger strike. ✍️ New charges against human rights defender Bashir Suleymanli in the ongoing NGO crackdown. Voices for justice are silenced again.

Italian Energy Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin at the TEHA Forum in Cernobbio says its gas storage is secure—but still plays into Azerbaijan’s hand 🇮🇹⛽️a🇦🇿 By leaning on Baku for supply, Rome helps polish Azerbaijan’s image abroad, whilst repression and human rights abuses continue at home.

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 ⚡️

🇦🇿 Azerbaijan tried to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation. India blocked it. Given Baku’s record of jailing journalists, crushing dissent & silencing defenders, it would have fit right in. But as a @coe.int member, that says everything about how it undermines the values it signed up to❗

Norway elections next week🇳🇴🗳️ Russia war in Ukraine = fossil phase-out🇪🇺 = fossil boost🇳🇴 Polls show ↗️ for @mdg.no backing transition and Progress Party pushing oil & gas—outcome will shape Europe’s energy path. Great read with @elinlb.bsky.social 🔗 www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/norways-elec...

Two summits, two worlds 🌍 In Bled leaders and democracy defenders debate resilience and human rights 🕊️ In Beijing autocrats parade missiles and pledge loans to secure allegiance 💣 The silence of the US speaks volumes 🇺🇸 🔗🧐 A fractured order, a realignment underway www.linkedin.com/posts/floria...

Civil society in Georgia is under attack 🇬🇪🚨 🚔 Crackdowns ⚖️ Arbitrary arrests 💳 Frozen bank accounts. As civil society leader Ucha Nanuashvili writes, @coe.int must act now to defend human rights rights and democracy, and their defenders. 🔗 mailchi.mp/csf-ev.org/j...

🗽 If the Trump administration refuses to honour the UN Headquarters Agreement, shouldn't the General Assembly move its 80th session to Geneva instead? 🌍 #UNGA80 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Director of @abzasmedia.bsky.social, human rights defender and journalist Ulvi Hasanli is shortlisted for the @pace.coe.int 2025 Václav Havel Prize, alongside journalists Mzia Amaghlobeli and Maksym Butkevych 🫶 🔗 More about Ulvi: free-anar.site/political-pr... #FreeAbzas #ClimateOfRepression

“A double war.” That’s how Marie*, a civil society leader, describes the situation in eastern #DRC. “Once with the violence from the rebels, and then again with the impacts of the USAID cuts.” 🔗 www.devex.com/news/the-us-...

This must stop. 7 October was horror for Israel and Jews everywhere. The rise in antisemitism since is one of this decade’s great dangers. What happened in Gaza will scar generations. Children killed, wounded, orphaned — it is unbearable. Time for peace is now 🕊️ 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/w...

Après le sommet Trump-Poutine, aux Européens de jouer leur carte : www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Trump-Putin summit 🇺🇸🇷🇺 No peace with impunity, without justice ⚖️ Shelling, disappearances, torture, systematic sexual violence, executions—this cannot be erased by a “deal” in Alaska between two men who don't care about civilians 🌍 Full @tv5monde.info discussion 🎦 msod.tv5monde.com/tv5monde/inf...

As President Trump is departing the White House to meet President Putin in Anchorage, Alaska (USA), I'd recommend you take a minute to read this civil society appeal published in @lemonde.fr (available in English and French). ➡️ www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Russia's foreign minister arrived in Alaska today wearing a "USSR" sweatshirt.

World leaders must reject any Alaska 2025 deal without Ukraine’s & Europe’s consent—no concessions that legitimise illegal occupation🇺🇦 Alaska 2025 ≠ Munich 1938 or Yalta 1945 Honoured to be among the first signatories of this appeal in @lemonde.fr #StandWithUkraine www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Civil society is under assault—not for losing relevance, but because it works🌍 From “foreign agents” laws to smear campaigns & violence, repression targets impact. My take on “The End of the Age of NGOs?” 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/end-ng... Let's resist, persist, build resilience✊

The war in Sudan is being fueled by gold... and a lot of it is ending up in the UAE. 💰🇦🇪 A new report shows that even gold mined in areas controlled by the army is finding its way to Dubai, helping to fund the conflict. [Report by Dr. Suliman Baldo & Ahmed Soliman] ➡️ t.co/LIY3hau7zG #Sudan

Pointless and meaningless war, which nobody cares about. Thanks to @anneapplebaum.bsky.social for her attention ⤵️

In 2024, Saudi Arabia executed 345 people, the third highest number in the world. This while calling itself a reformist country. 💔⚖️ #HumanRights 🔗 www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Democrat lawmakers left Texas to stop a racist & unfair GOP map. They now face arrest for refusing to support a power grab. ⚠️⚖️ 🔗 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed law No. 13533, which restores the powers of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau. 🇺🇦⚖️ 🏆 13533✌🏼 #IStandWithUkraine

Laws inspired by #Azerbaijan’s crackdown on civil society are spreading 🇦🇿 After a restrictive media law, #Ethiopia has now passed a law targeting NGOs 🇪🇹 @coe.int’s failure to act on Azerbaijan’s repression is having global consequences for civic space 🇪🇺🌍🇪🇺

A new proposed law in Ethiopia restricts civil society and bans foreign groups from supporting any election-related work, such as observing elections, educating voters, or providing technical help. 💔🇪🇹⚖️ #Ethiopia #CivicSpace 🔗 addisstandard.com/hrw-urges-la...

Russia pointing the finger at Europe over Nazism is like the pot calling the kettle black.

🎂 Anar Mammadli turns 47 today — behind bars, on trumped-up charges, for his human rights work. He should be with his son and family, not on trial. He built democratic institutions. Now he needs ours. ✊ Free him — and all political prisoners in #Azerbaijan #FreeAnar

Merci Danke Grazie ❤️ #Nati #SUI

“Critics of identity politics often argue that it detracts from ‘real’ economic and political struggles—as if the demand to be named were a distraction from the demand to live.” 💡 
Just read this essay by @tessyschlo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id...

Thoughtful essay on identity politics by @tessyschlo.bsky.social 🤔 An honest reckoning. From Jewish emancipation to Afro-Mexican recognition: identity came from exclusion. We don’t need sameness to stand together. 🔗 www.theideasletter.org/essay/why-id... @open-society.bsky.social

Eritrea tried to shut down the UN expert investigating its human rights abuses. 🇪🇷⚖️ Only 4 countries supported it, while 25 voted no and 18 stayed silent. ❌🗳️ #HumanRights #Eritrea 🔗 www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

After the ceasefire, Iran is cracking down even harder. 🚨 UN experts warn of mass arrests, executions & repression targeting minorities, activists & migrants. ⚖️🇮🇷 #Iran #HumanRights 🔗 www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/huma...

Make the wrong choices and this is what follows 💔 ➡️ Russia just launched its largest aerial attack on Ukraine with 550 drones and missiles overnight 💥🇺🇦 #Ukraine #WarCrimes 🔗 www.kyivpost.com/post/55632

The climate crisis hits hardest where inequality runs deepest. 🌍💔💸 #HRC59 #ClimateJustice