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
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...
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One of those things I'm truly proud of 💙💚
Notes from the Faultline@faultlinenotes.bsky.social · last mo.150+ 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 · 2mo agoTrump: "Oman will behave just like everyone else, or we'll have to blow them up"
⚠️ This ⤵️
Hanna Liubakova@hannaliubakova.bsky.social · 3mo 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-...
Thanks to @sarahsackman.bsky.social for saying the truth about what has developed over the past years on the left: the response to antisemitic violence from parts of the “moderate majority”, including some anti-racist organisations, had been “muted”. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
Golders Green MP decries ‘lack of vocal solidarity’ from liberal left for Jewish community
Sarah Sackman said response to rising antisemitic violence in UK has been ‘muted’ after stabbings in her constituency
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The EU's energy transition cannot mean trading Russian authoritarianism for Azerbaijani repression 🛢️⚖️ Without human rights conditionality, energy partnerships simply relocate the moral problem. 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpRi...
Hunting for anyone “visibly Jewish.” The stabbings of two jewish men, which happened yesterday in Golders Green, follow a series of arson attacks on Jewish targets in London, in the context of a global rise of acts of antisemitism since 7 October. Nobody should ignore this.
Two years ago today, Azerbaijan grabbed Anar Mammadli off the streets of Baku as he went to pick up his child at nursery. He’s still in prison on fabricated charges ⚠️ ➡️ Sign the petition for his release secure.avaaz.org/community_pe...
There are people whose example stays with you. For me Anar Mammadli is one of them 🫶 Over two years into his detention, I try to contribute through campaigning for his freedom and for the values he embodies ⚖️🌍🇪🇺
Campaign to End Repression in Azerbaijan@endrepression-az.org · 3mo agoFree Anar Mammadli 🇦🇿 Two Years of Arbitrary Detention Must End ⚖️ In today's press release, we call on @presidentaz to order the release of Anar Mammadli and to put an end to the persecution of human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, civic activists and scholars.
Today, the G7 Environment opens in Paris with climate off the agenda, to preserve unity with Washington. This is a faultline: the appeasement that failed on the rules-based order is now extended to ecology 🌍⚡️ 🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/today-...
New from Human Rights Compass ⚠️ Global Rupture documents a year of rupture and the responses to it. Seven recommendations for governments and civil society on moving from analysis to action, inspired by Victor Orbán electoral defeat in Hungary. The window of opportunity is now.
Orbán's defeat carried weight beyond the Hungarian borders. We need to learn from that defeat and hope it inspires us. Some thoughts to that effect ⤵️
Notes from the Faultline@faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 4mo agoWith Orbán's electoral defeat, the international alliance of autocrats and illiberals just lost one of its most capable architects 🔔 What does it mean for Europe, and what must come next? ➡️ Latest in Notes from the Faultline.
Viktor Orbán’s 16-year grip on power has ended in Hungary. The new government should act fast: end rule by decree, suspend Sovereignty Protection Office, drop politically motivated cases, guarantee peaceful protest, restore judicial independence, & meet EU rule of law milestones. Rights can’t wait.
Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán is ejected after 16 years in a European electoral earthquake
Hungarian voters have ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with ...
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