Florian Irminger
@florianirminger.ch
At the intersection of international advocacy and solidarity with human rights defenders. Finding pathways for human rights and the rule of law amidst the global realignment. Father. https://progresschange.org
President Aliyev calls @europarl ‘a nest of corruption’ and a body of Islamophobes. He uses the vocabulary of accountability, turns it around, pointing it at the institution that used that vocabulary against him ⬛️ Worth a thread 🧵⤵️ @operativmedia.bsky.social
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Avropa Parlamenti rüşvətxorlar yuvasıdır.
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Using human rights language to abuse human rights language. Check out this review of JD Vance’s speech at the Republican Midterm Convention just a few days ago 👇
Rights Capture Monitor@rightscapture.bsky.social · 6d agoJD Vance closed the Republican midterm convention in Dallas on 10 September ⬛️ He did not say the words human rights once. He still built a rights claim, from first line to last. That is what capture looks like now ⤵️
The AfD took 43.8 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, double its 2021 result ⬛️ Watch how the party claimed human rights language in the weeks ahead, to capture it ⤵️
Quand on nous disait qu'un registre national sur les armes à feu était inutile… www.tdg.ch/armes-des-di...
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L'intérêt que porte la Russie au référendum sur la neutralité en Suisse n'est pas innocent. Les méthodes en disent long : - Invention de personnes, Hans-Ueli Läppli ; - Insultes à l'égard du politique suisse, en particulier Ignazio Cassis ; - Relais dans les sphères consavatrices suisses.
Notes from the Faultline@faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 3w agoFor months, Russia's state broadcaster RT has published commentary from a Swiss political pundit urging voters toward the 27 September neutrality referendum 🇷🇺⚡️🇨🇭 The pundit, Hans-Ueli Läppli, does not exist. This is what foreign interference looks like. And it's clear what the Kremlin has to gain.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI: "If I were 22 today, I'd feel like the luckiest kid in history, because we're going to see 10 person companies worth billions very soon". You can't make this shit....
Ich will den liberalen Traum der Volksschule verwirklichen: Alle Kinder sollen den gleichen Start haben ins Leben, ob reich oder arm, ob aus gebildetem oder bildungsfernem Elternhaus. So @bglaettli.bsky.social 💚 www.nzz.ch/zuerich/schu...
Der grüne Zürcher Schulvorsteher Balthasar Glättli sagt: «Natürlich brauchen wir Klimaanlagen»
Zum Schulstart am Montag gibt sich der neue Stadtrat der Grünen als Pragmatiker. Kinder in überhitzten Schulhäusern müssten geschützt werden, findet Glättli – auch vor dem «Ausnahmezustand» im Strasse...
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The story of an agency actually saving lives, working with a company admitting it kills people ⚫️ And the risks of leaving the agency in the hands of the company’s closest allies 🇺🇸
Notes from the Faultline@faultlinenotes.bsky.social · last mo.The UN distributes food to millions in conflict zones using Palantir—a US contractor whose CEO says its product is “used on occasion to kill people” ⚫️ One of the many reasons the US shouldn’t lead WFP anymore: it’s embedded the tools of war into the machinery of aid ⚡️
By forcibly sending unaccompanied minors under 18 back from Ceuta without an individual assessment, Spain violated European child-protection and migration law.
Russia deployed tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus 🇷🇺☢️🇧🇾 The US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty has expired 🇺🇸☢️🇷🇺 Across Europe and the Pacific, nations are accelerating rearmament. The calculation that underpinned post-Cold War security has unravelled. @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
#goodpractices I have been exploring the Human Rights Compass database, that includes recommendations made by over 150 human rights defenders and experts consulted for the drafting of their policy briefs. progresschange.org/human-rights...
Human Rights Compass Database — Strategy Advisory Group for Rights, Climate Justice & Multilateral Reform
We support campaigns, coalitions and institutions with strategy, advocacy and research to advance human rights, climate justice, the rule of law and multilateral reform.
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One of those things I'm truly proud of 💙💚
Notes from the Faultline@faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 3mo ago150+ human rights defenders and experts undertaking joint real-time human rights policy analysis and strategic coordination 💪 50 recommendations 🧐 61 human rights themes ⚖️ ➡️ Check out our Human Rights Compass Database: progresschange.org/human-rights...
Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, announced four new embassies in Africa in one speech: Gambia, Liberia, Togo and the Comoros 🇷🇺🇬🇲🇱🇷🇹🇬🇰🇲 A third Russia-Africa summit is set for Moscow in October. The partnership on offer is built on arms and mercenaries, not democratic accountability ⚡️
Council of Europe: the institutional tools exist to address situations in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Türkiye, including invoking Article 52 by the Secretary General. The will to use them remains the question ⚡
L'Azerbaïdjan intensifie la torture psychologique contre ses opposants politiques, avec les conditions de détention comme outil punitif 🇦🇿 Dans sa récente résolution sur l'Azerbaïdjan, @pace.coe.int intensifie la pression pour que le Conseil de l'Europe agisse.
It's a true shame. Such a lost opportunity. Sorry to see Sir Keir Starmer quit his post as Prime Minister. But his prime ministership will go down as a lost opportunity.
The world's strongest regional human rights system is being tested from inside ⚖️ This week, we at @faultlinenotes.bsky.social stay with the Council of Europe📍 Can @coe.int and does it still want to answer democratic backsliding by its own members and protect the human rights defenders? ⤵️
“Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoTrump: "Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we'll have to blow them up"
⚠️ This ⤵️
Hanna Liubakova@hannaliubakova.bsky.social · 4mo ago#Belarus The regime has begun new exercises on the deployment and potential use of tactical nuclear weapons together with Russia. The exercises include missile forces and aviation units, rehearsing the transport and preparation of nuclear warheads. Nuclear indimidation.
En route to Chișinău 🇲🇩 Three days with civil society from across the region. The architecture that protected our work for thirty years is being dismantled. Time to redesign the system, together.
Russia's event is about to end in Kazan. 22000 participants, dozens of countries, 130 agreements 🧐 Gender balance? Barely a woman visible 🙋♀️ Independent media? Nowhere to be found 🤐 Russia's intent? Courting Africa 🌍 ➡️ It signals how Putin is winning from Trump's foreign policies.
This week Trump lands in Beijing with 16 CEOs in tow, Cook, Fink, Musk, Powell McCormick, Schwarzman, Solomon amongst them. Agenda: a board of investment, a board of trade, silence on human rights, Uyghur camps, Hong Kong, jailed activists and lawyers. The world's richest are going shopping ⚡️
It's a few years old 🎶 Wonderful for a Sunday evening 🎤🎻 Shelley Segal singing Leonard Cohen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=10XC... ➡️ As you listen to the song, take a sec' to sign the Free Betty petition secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Morocco: #FreeBetty
Betty is suffering in solitary confinement simply for wearing a t-shirt the Moroccan authorities didn’t like. She is innocent, and she is sick. Bone cancer has eaten away at her arm, and doctors warn ...
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A stronger country writes @keirstarmerbot.bsky.social in @theguardian.com, “where family finances are not at the whim of tyrants such as Vladimir Putin”. Yet, his government is running after oil and gas from Azerbaijan 🛢️🇦🇿 The answer is energy transition, not looking towards another autocrat.
As @civicusalliance.bsky.social writes, reform of the UN NGO Committee is long overdue. Over a decade ago, @florianirminger.ch called this a “club of censors” in @indexoncensorship.org. That piece remains highly actual: www.indexoncensorship.org/2014/05/club...
A club of censors at the United Nations - Index on Censorship
In a discretion well known to diplomatic circles, the United Nations so-called Committee on NGOs is meeting in New York this week. It is to select which NGOs fit the institution, Florian Irminger writ...
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Whilst Trump announces changes to his war plans on social media every other minute, Putin continues to kill in Ukraine. At least 12 people were killed in Zaporizhzhia this night. Dnipro and Kramatorsk were also attacked. #StandWithUkraine🇺🇦
The EU-Azerbaijan March 2026 joint statement contains no mention of political prisoners, civil society, media freedom, or the @droi.europarl.europa.eu own December 2025 resolution ⚠️ ➡️ Our briefing note maps the gap between what the EU says and what it does: www.endrepression-az.org/partnership-...
