Evelyne Schmid
@evelyneschmid.bsky.social
Prof internat’l law Uni Lausanne, #ilspUNIL. Books: http://bit.ly/ESCRinICL, human rights / int'l treaties at the subnational level; I work on omissions, state resp, corporate capture & climate, and I #staygrounded
🔥 the 🇺🇳 UN General Assembly is about to be called upon to #VoteYesForClimateJustice as it considers an important resolution tabled by 🇻🇺 Vanuatu (and others) to welcome and build upon the historic #ClimateJustice ruling by the 🌐 ⚖️ International Court of Justice! 🧵⬇️ follow proceedings in thread below
Tomorrow, the last remaining arms control agreement between the US and Russia expires. The end of New START Treaty removes the final restraints on an accelerating nuclear arms race. What does this mean? Read more in @melissaparke01.bsky.social 's Op-ed: passblue.com/2026/02/01/t... #NuclearBan
“Audacious” is a weird way to say “wildly illegal under both domestic and international law”
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7mo agoMaduro jailed in New York after audacious raid and capture – live
A former USIP official said of Trump: “It’s pretty ironic that he put his name on an institution he destroyed.” Taking over institutions and putting your name on it is another sign of authoritarianism. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/p...
US Institute of Peace renamed for Trump after his administration gutted it earlier this year | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s name has been installed on the building and signage around the US Institute of Peace (USIP) – an independent agency that the administration gutted earlier this year.
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My story on the USIP raid from March (helpful context for why Trump putting his name on the building today is so egregious):
The Trump administration's 'assault' on Peace
The violent attack on the US Institute of Peace is a heavy-handed metaphor for this administration's goals.
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Die Schweiz unterstützt den #ATT - Arms Trade Treaty - seit seiner Entstehung. Das 🇨🇭 Kontrollregime zu demontieren, ist mit der Idee, "die Umleitung von konventionnellen Waffen zu verhüten" (Art. 1 ATT) nicht zu vereinen. @woz.ch www.woz.ch/!21TBK3KHXV5A
Waffenexporte: Der vergessene Vertrag
Die norwegische Völkerrechtlerin Ida Marie Andenæs Galtung forscht in Genf über Kontrollmöglichkeiten im internationalen Waffenhandel. Die Schweiz steht bisher nicht in ihrem Fokus. Das könnte sich ba...
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8/ A public service reminder: This entire exercise is an absurd, imaginary world for legal experts. That's because the truth is: It's not an armed conflict. The laws of war thus don't apply. The more restrictive rules of human rights apply. It's extrajudicial killing under that law.
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?
Jeremy Yoder says no war@jbyoder.org · 9mo agoThis has gotten surprisingly little attention — it's not even on the front page of @science.org right now — but it's really hard to describe what the SAFE Research Act would do to US science and scientists without sounding insane www.science.org/content/arti...
I'm struck by how many Chicagoans have seemingly felt compelled to write and share reflections on "this is what it feels like in Chicago right now". We know we're going through something awful together and we want the world to understand it. Threading several of these pieces below.
We can have a serious convo about overproduction of PhDs vs. the academic job market & inadequate prep for non-academic markets, but this + the staff hiring freeze is balancing budgets in ways that hurt the most vulnerable—not to mention devastating for Harvard teaching by eliminating most TA labor.
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 10mo agoWow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero
With deep sadness, we remember Catarina de Albuquerque, a pioneering human rights advocate who advanced water and sanitation as fundamental rights. Her legacy shapes global policy and lives worldwide. May her memory guide us in the pursuit of justice, dignity, and equality for all
Team Portugal mourns the passing of Catarina de Albuquerque, a renowned & tireless Portuguese Human Rights Defender who contributed to promote significant advances of #Economic, #Social & #Cultural Rights, being also the first Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to safe drinking water & sanitation
A producer and editor for WGN-TV was violently forced to the ground this morning by two Border Patrol agents, before having her hands cuffed behind her back, during an ICE action in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Debbie Brockman has worked for the local television station since 2011.
WGN-TV producer violently detained during Chicago ICE enforcement action
A DHS spokesperson said that Debbie Brockman was placed under arrest for ‘assault on a federal law enforcement officer,’ claiming the WGN employee threw objects at the agent.
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SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
🥐Der Dünger der im Getreide steckt kommt unter anderem aus Russland. 🇪🇺Die EU sagt: Das füllt Putins Kriegskassen. 🇨🇭Ich habe recherchiert, welche Rolle dabei die Schweiz spielt und wieso Düngerimporte aus Russland indirekte Gasimporte sind.
Republik Magazin@republik.ch · 11mo agoDie EU und die Schweiz sind von billigem russischem Dünger abhängig, der dann zum Beispiel auf Weizenfeldern landet. Und so auf unserem Frühstückstisch. Eine Recherche von @eis.bsky.social.
Moments before being slammed to the ground, masked ICE agents took this woman's husband - no warrant, no explanation. This is ICE: Assaulting a distraught woman, frightened by the disappearance of her husband, in front of her children and the cameras.
Brad Lander@bradlander.bsky.social · 10mo agoI was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
Nach ZDF-Moderator und Washintong-Büroleiter Elmar Theveßen trifft es nun auch @dunjahayali.de. Sie selbst zieht sich jetzt für einige Tage aus dem öffentlichen Leben zurück, nachdem sie Morddrohungen und viele weitere Hassnachrichten erhielt. Wofür? Seht selbst.
All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.
The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence in America. This is what the data show econ.st/4nqZysO
Es könne keine Einheit mit der Linken geben, denn sie setze „das amerikanische Haus in Brand“. Nun werde hart gegen NGOs wie Soros Stiftung vorgegangen. Historische Vergleiche immer schwierig, aber das Attentat auf Kirk spielt in der Propaganda gerade eine ähnliche Rolle wie der Reichstagsbrand.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 11mo agoIn a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.
📣 Our new symposium, #KnowledgeUnderOccupation: Academic Freedom and #Palestine on the Global Stage, is finally online! Throughout this week and the next, #Ö brings together diverse voices reflecting on how #AcademicFreedom is increasingly restricted: voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
Introducing the Symposium ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
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⏰ Jetzt noch zu unserem Online-Workshop anmelden! ⏰ Nächsten Dienstag diskutieren wir mit @stefanschlegel.bsky.social, @klinglergeorg.bsky.social und @evelyneschmid.bsky.social über das EGMR-Urteil im Fall der #Klimaseniorinnen. Hier gehts zur Anmeldung ➡ www.humanrights.ch/de/anlaufste...
humanrights.ch@humanrights-ch.bsky.social · 12mo agoAm Dienstag, 9. September mittags findet unser Online-Workshop zur Umsetzung des EGMR-Urteils im Fall Klimaseniorinnen statt. Zu was verpflichtet das Urteil und was hat es bewirkt - für Betroffene, für die Gesellschaft, in der Politik? ⏰ Melden Sie sich an! ⬇️ www.humanrights.ch/de/anlaufste...
In a new blog post at @voelkerrechtsblog.org, I discuss the implications of the ICJ's Advisory Opinion for corporate climate accountability. Though the Court doesn't say much explicitly, the key is to read between the lines. voelkerrechtsblog.org/the-private-...
The Private Life of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
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A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.
A Chinese mining company is accused of covering up the extent of a major toxic spill in Zambia
A Chinese-owned mining company has been accused of covering up the extent of a disastrous toxic spill in Zambia that polluted a major river that millions rely on with cyanide and arsenic.
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Climat: des habitants d’une île indonésienne attaquent Holcim en justice en Suisse, une première
Climat: des habitants d’une île indonésienne attaquent Holcim en justice en Suisse, une première
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