And the jurisprudence served way beyond th jurisdiction of the United Kingdom 🏫⚖️ ⤵️

Today, the UN General Assembly reaffirmed Ukraine’s sovereignty and borders; the United States abstained After weeks of @SecRubio’s State Department manoeuvres, this abstention reads like a choice to blur the line between aggressor and victim It’ll stay on US’s record 🇺🇦⚡️🇺🇸

Read @passblue.bsky.social's “Russia’s War on Ukraine: Certain Crimes and Possible Punishments“ 🇷🇺⚡️🇺🇦 passblue.com/2026/02/22/r...

Skopje strategy days with inspiring civil society people 💪 Three takeaways: security needs rule of law 🛡️; people need proof we help protect their future 👥; and when multilateral spaces go soft, we build new alliances 🗣️ Thanks to @ecnl.bsky.social for bringing us together. Until next time.

Ukraine has passed a point of no return, 4 years into Russis'a war of aggression 🇺🇦⚡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

About the arrest of Andrew: King Charles: “The law must follow its course.” President Donald J. Trump: “It’s very very sad thing.” Nothing to add 🛑

A very frank and thoughtful interview with an admirable President Zelenskyy 🇺🇦⤵️

The democratic world has rarely seen something like this. #OnThisDay we are witnessing the erosion of what once was meant by “leader of the free world.” With the Board of Peace, the United States positions itself at the centre of a new alignment of autocrats ⚡️

We were among the first to analyse the Board of Peace Charter. An institution built to circumvent the rules-based multilateral system; with the participation of those who ignore rules and obligations under international law. Trump’s Club of Autocrats is meeting today in Washington DC ⚡️

This ⚠️ Human rights are being targeted, and the conditions under which they are defended have dramatically changed. They can serve as a compass, a framework for protection, accountability, resistance ⚖️⤵️

Honoured to be part of and to be mobilising this growing community: +120 human rights defenders 💪 #StayTunes with Human Rights Compass: ➡️ We'll publish the Top 10 Global Human Rights Trends on Thursday ⚖️🌍🕊️

Insane step by the @ec.europa.eu: rewarding Orbán right before the elections in Hungary 🇭🇺⚡️🇪🇺 Europe (EU and @coe.int) need to learn to stand up to the threat from within, hold illiberals and autocrats to account, and use institutional mechanisms to defend rights, principles, and values.

Semyon Gluzman died today in Kyiv, aged 79 🕯️ Psychiatrist, Gluzman exposed the Soviet abuse of psychiatry to silence dissent. After years in labour camps and exile, he helped rebuild ethical psychiatry in Ukraine, stood with people harmed by war and political persecution. #OnThisDay #RIP

I rate airports by the books in their shops and the tea in their cafés 📚🫶☕️ Athens failed both tests; straight to the bottom of the bucket list.

2025 may be seen as a tipping point for global human rights. With the US undermining the global human rights system, who will rise in its defense? #Rights2026 Reflecting on 2025 in our annual World Report, we remember the necessity of standing up for human rights. Read more: https://bit.ly/4aagjDl

In today's Daily News Egypt by Senator Ramy Gamal on Holocaust denialism in the Arab world: “Why does the perpetrator acknowledge this crime, the victim remembers it, yet a third party, geographically and culturally distant, dares to deny it?” www.dailynewsegypt.com/2026/02/03/o...

Welcoming this @ilgaeurope.bsky.social analysis linking LGBTQ organising with the wider engagement to protect democracy and freedoms 🏳️‍🌈⚖️ Wonderful leadership @mmkarmenia.bsky.social and Simona Muršec ❤️ www.ilga-europe.org/blog/how-lgb...

Thank you, Mr. President.

If Azerbaijan wants a seat on Trump’s “Board of Peace”, it should stop jailing peace activists and release Bahruz Samadov 🕊️⚡️🇦🇿

If you care about the UN and a rules-based international order, read this: Mona Ali Khalil in @passblue.bsky.social argues Trump is trying to break the system financially and politically, and replace it with the Board of Peace 🇺🇸⚡️🇺🇳 passblue.com/2026/01/25/p...

The Club of Autocrats continues to grow 🕊️⚡️⚖️ Trump 🇺🇸 Putin 🇷🇺 Aliyev 🇦🇿 Al Sisi 🇪🇬 Bin Zayed 🇦🇪 Lukashenko 🇧🇾 Milei 🇦🇷 Mirziyoyev 🇺🇿 Netanyahu 🇮🇱 Orbán 🇭🇺

We actually spoke German, French, Italian and Romanche before the war and continued doing so after the war, completely independently from the Allies victory over the 3rd Reich.

I'm guessing countries with true experience in peacebuilding, such as Norway and Switzerland were not invited to join Trump's Board of Peace. Was Zelenksi invited? Lukashenko, Putin, amongst others. A true Club of Autocrats ⤵️

The rising global antisemitism is marked by the challenge to the mere idea that memory matters and ultimately by the negation of the Holocaust.

Human Rights Crisis in Azerbaijan: Europe Needs to Act Repression deepens, civic space disappears, Europe’s energy-first approach no longer sustainable ⚠️🇦🇿⚖️🇪🇺🛢️ Join our discussion 📆 Wed. 21 January, 15.00-16.00 CET 📍 events.teams.microsoft.com/event/cffd72...

What does Trump really want with the “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place”? A structure to move fast, keep control, and limit participation. Not peace built through law and inclusive processes; peace managed from the top ⚡️

About Trump’s “Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place:” Financial contribution of $1b per country joining as member 💵 Slush fund controlled by Trump 💰 Trump appointed as chair in perpetuity—beyond his Presidency 🤴 Trump to appoint his successor 😵‍💫

Just the White House referencing “which way, western man” by William gayley Simpson (published by the National Alliance, the Neo Nazi group led by white nationalist William Luther Pierce of Turner Diaries fame) AND threatening Greenland in the same tweet.

More candidates should enter the race for UN Secretary-General, @unpga.bsky.social says 🇺🇳 The world needs leadership grounded in lived experience: a woman who faced conflict, managed transition, and rebuilt after chaos. 👀 Look to Eastern Europe. No shortage of women with that experience 💪

Threat to human rights protections ⚡️ Several governments are pushing to narrow how the Convention is applied in migration cases, with the Council of Europe leadership's complacency. ➡️ Ahead of @coe.int's conference on democratic renewal, @passblue.bsky.social's piece: passblue.com/2026/01/13/m...

Not the European federalists were naive, but those who believed (and still do) that governance designed for the world of seventy years ago is still suitable for the world of today. Clinging to the old method is not “realism” but nostalgia.

J'adore, sur les « idiots utiles » de Poutine… www.heidi.news/monde/poutin...

This warning echoes what we argue in Leadership in a Fractured Order. In a lost decade for humanity, the UN cannot afford a lowest-common-denominator Secretary-General. ➡️ We write about legitimacy, courage, independence, and leadership qualities: progress-change-actionlab.org/notes-from-t...

Under President Trump, the US no longer leads the free world. It claims domination over an hemisphere ⚡️🇺🇸 The logic of Putin and Xi. Europe must step up now. Lead a renewed coalition for democracy, rule of law and decency 🌍⚖️🇪🇺

This isn’t parody ⤵️ High time for Europe to understand what is happening and lead a renewed coalition of the willing uniting those around the globe believing in democracy, rule of law and decency. Three of the five UN Security Council permanent members are going rogue.

"Donald Trump has gone from fawning over Vladimir Putin and seeking his favor and support to actively emulating him in almost every possible way." www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-illeg...

Trump’s Venezuela operation is brazenly illegal ⚠️ As @oonahathaway.bsky.social discusses in @newyorker.com, it shows how fast law is cast aside when brute force replaces rules. Europe must step up. Build a global coalition to condemn unilateral force 🌍⚖️ www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

At the end of a very long Saturday, this is where I landed: “Where we are is an extremely difficult moment, and that is reality, but it need not be where we go. In this moment, then, there is a chance to create a better America, as hard as that might be to see this weekend.”

“By proceeding without any semblance of international legitimacy, valid legal authority or domestic endorsement, Mr. Trump risks providing justification for authoritarians in China, Russia and elsewhere who want to dominate their own neighbors.” ⚡️ www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Protests have swept Iran for six days 🇮🇷 People demand change, dignity, and rights. A dozen have been killed already. They deserve solidarity, not President Trump’s rambling that feed the authorities’ claims of foreign interference ⚡️ Time for global solidarity protests.

The true action of authoritarian power 🇺🇸 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The governor of a territory the US bought from France is now tasked with trying to buy another territory, this time from Denmark. 222 years later. Pathetic.

Murdered at 10 years old 💔 #NeverForget

Autocrats call it “shared interests” 🤝 Russia and aligned leaders pitched cooperation in Africa as transactional; energy, security, ways to shield each other from sanctions. An alliance of convenience, not values ⚠️ #StayTuned, we will investigate Russia’s role in Africa further 🇷🇺⚡️🌍

Great exchange with @ecnl.bsky.social colleagues on how civil society can hold international organisations accountable and advance human rights. Belarus reminds us that this is a long haul (I remember the Jan 2011 civil society meeting well) 🤍❤️🤍

“Moral clarity is our sole duty on this dark day:” Bondi Beach shooting is third worst pogrom since 1945. It’s that simple, that clear. “If this pitiless atrocity doesn’t prise open the eyes of the West, nothing will.” www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

The European Parliament is to debate a new resolution on the human rights crisis in Azerbaijan this week 🇪🇺⚖️🇦🇿 @europarl.europa.eu should use it to adopt benchmarks aimed at fixing a roadmap for the Commission and EEAS’ engagement with Azerbaijan. ➡️ Learn more free-anar.site/the-european...

La terreur antisémite frappe encore. Le soir de Kanukkah. Choc. Tristesse. Sympathie.

Members of the jewish community in Sydney were struck by a heinous terrorist attack. The victims, the injured & their loved ones are in our thoughts. Antisemitism has no place in our societies. We stand in solidarity with those who oppose hatred & violence today & everyday. (vdb)

A slightly selfish reflection on #HumanRightsDay 🌍 Three publications: gender backlash ✊ repression in Azerbaijan ⚠️ and the case for an Eastern European woman to lead the UN 🟣 Proud of what we are building with Progress and Change Partnerships 🙂 progress-change-actionlab.org