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Evelyne Schmid

@evelyneschmid.bsky.social
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Prof internat’l law Uni Lausanne, #ilspUNIL. Books: bit.ly/ESCRinICL, human rights / int'l treaties at the subnational level; I work on omissions, state resp, corporate capture & climate, and I #staygrounded

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🔥 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
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Dr Stephen Flood @docfloods.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Makes for scary reading with your coffee(if you dare) wmo.int/media/news/e...
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Extreme heat, cold, precipitation and fires mark the start of 2026
January 2026 was the fifth warmest on record, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the Eur
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ICAN @nuclearban.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
“Audacious” is a weird way to say “wildly illegal under both domestic and international law”
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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...
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My story on the USIP raid from March (helpful context for why Trump putting his name on the building today is so egregious):
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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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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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
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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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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 21/11/2025
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
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?
The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.
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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"Es ist fair, wenn alle verzichten müssen" #Interview #Klimaschutz #COP30
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"Es ist fair, wenn alle verzichten müssen"
Politikökonomin Göpel sieht konkrete Ansatzpunkte, um die Akzeptanz für die Klimapolitik zu steigern.
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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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.
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Anna Meier @annameier.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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.
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UNRISD @unrisd.org · 08/10/2025
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
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Mission of Portugal to the UN @portugalun.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
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
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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.
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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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...
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Cornelia Eisenach @eis.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🥐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.
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NYCLU @nyclu.org · 25/09/2025
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.
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Alberto Bruzos @abruzos.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
What a strange time to be a journal editor.
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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.eurosky.social · 15/09/2025
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.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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.
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The Economist @economist.com · 16/09/2025
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
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 08/09/2025
📣 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-...
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Introducing the Symposium ‘Knowledge Under Occupation: Academic Freedom and Palestine on the Global Stage’
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humanrights.ch @humanrights-ch.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
⏰ 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...
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Harro van Asselt @harrovanasselt.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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-...
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The Private Life of the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 01/09/2025
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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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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Le Temps @letemps.ch · 29/08/2025
Climat: des habitants d’une île indonésienne attaquent Holcim en justice en Suisse, une première
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Climat: des habitants d’une île indonésienne attaquent Holcim en justice en Suisse, une première
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Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 23/08/2025
“It is a famine. The Gaza Famine. It is a famine that we could have prevented, if we had been allowed. Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel.”
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Avec quelques remarques de ma part. Tous les juges de tous les tribunaux ont la responsabilité d'appliquer le droit applicable.
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Last October, Anas al-Sharif saw his colleague Fadi Al-Wahidi being shot in the neck. There, footage from the Gaza Project and forensic analysis is available here: forbiddenstories.org/en-fadi-al-w...
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No Safe Zones: How Fadi Al-Wahidi Got Shot in the Neck While Wearing a Press Vest
On October 9, 2024, Fadi Al-Wahidi was reporting alongside a crew of journalists from Al Jazeera, Al Araby TV, and others, in the Al Saftawi area near Jabalia, when what they claim was an “Israeli qua...
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. Journalists are protected unless they take a direct part in the hostilities. If a party to an armed conflict does not like the reporting, this does not make the reporting direct participation in hostilities.
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Maybe universities should rethink their dependency on Microsoft, as well as enthusiasm for AI for educational purposes.
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Dr. Katja Thieme (she/they) @katjathieme.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"Microsoft eventually released 'energy principles' for work with oil companies, but only required a public commitment to reach net zero by 2050. They didn't require oil companies to meet net zero goals. Notably, 4 years later, MS’s Responsible AI principles still don’t include environmental impact."
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He helped Microsoft build AI to help the climate. Then Microsoft sold it to Big Oil.
A former Microsoft product manager reveals how the tech giant is using AI to help Big Oil drill—and how he and his partner are now pushing for change.
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Monika Dommann @modomodo.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Nun also die Version Neuhaus/Tanner. Ziemlich plausibel. Mit einem kleinen Gastauftritt des Nebelspalters. www.nzz.ch/schweiz/lang...
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39 Prozent Strafzölle für die Schweiz: Wie konnte es so weit kommen?
Das 39-Prozent-Drama: wie es so weit kommen konnte und wie es jetzt weitergehen könnte.
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Two political prisoners in Iran 🇮🇷, Behrouz Ehsani & Mehdi Hassani, were executed today. According to @amnesty.org, they were tried in a 5-minute trial. Stop executions, arbitrary detention, unfair trials and torture. Urgent action is needed. @un-spexperts.bsky.social
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ClientEarth @clientearth.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🔥 HUGE NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S HIGHEST COURT 🔥 Today the International Court of Justice (ICJ) confirmed that, under international law, countries MUST act now to avoid climate catastrophe. 🧵 @wy4cj.bsky.social
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
www.ciel.org/icj-climate-...
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A Defining Moment for Climate Justice: What to Watch For in the ICJ Climate Ruling - Center for International Environmental Law
ICJ’s climate ruling could make climate justice a legal mandate—holding polluters accountable and catalyzing global action.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Unreal.
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That Nerd @thatn3rd.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
They think data is the plural of anecdote
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
If I can sum up what just happened as neatly as possible: a Federal Court judge found the Australian government had ignored climate science when setting emissions targets, appeared to want to find for the applicants, but said his hands were tied by the law of negligence in Australia. /1
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Enforces disappearances now seem to happen in the USA.
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Little detail on where things stand w/ possible Darfur warrant applications in today’s update to UNSC. Only that this priority is “being progressed.” Pics 1-2 www.icc-cpi.int/news/forty-f... There is a good chance applications have been made under seal. Pics 3-4 www.theguardian.com/law/2025/apr...
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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
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Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
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Republik Magazin @republik.ch · 07/07/2025
«Wenn der Konsens bröckelt, dass Menschen­rechte auch für Minderheiten gelten sollen, wird es gefährlich.» Völkerrechtlerin @evelyneschmid.bsky.social im Gepräch mit @kmerkel.bsky.social über den Druck auf den Europäischen Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte.
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«Jetzt ist ein besonders gefährlicher Moment für die Menschen­rechte»
Ein Gespräch mit Völkerrechtsprofessorin Evelyne Schmid.
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Mein Interview in der @republik.ch: Wenn der Grund­konsens bröckelt, dass die Menschen­rechte auch für die Angehörigen von ungeliebten Minderheiten gelten sollen, wenn es also Menschen gibt, die nach Hannah Arendt kein «Recht auf Rechte» mehr haben, dann wird es gefährlich.
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«Jetzt ist ein besonders gefährlicher Moment für die Menschen­rechte»
Ein Gespräch mit Völkerrechtsprofessorin Evelyne Schmid.
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 28/06/2025
Etats-Unis : le président de l’université de Virginie préfère démissionner plutôt que de « lutter contre le gouvernement » de Donald Trump
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Etats-Unis : le président de l’université de Virginie préfère démissionner plutôt que de « lutter contre le gouvernement » de Donald Trump
L’administration du président républicain souhaitait le départ de James Ryan à qui elle reproche de maintenir au sein de l’établissement le programme en faveur de la diversité et de la parité.
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Evelyne Schmid @evelyneschmid.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The @unil.bsky.social University of Lausanne has a new rector (who will start in August 2026). Congratulations! www.unil.ch/news/fr/1750...
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Christophe Champod élu par le Conseil de l’Unil
Le Conseil de l’Université de Lausanne a décidé de proposer au Conseil d’État la nomination de Christophe Champod au poste de recteur de l’Unil, pour succéder à Frédéric Herman dès le 1er août 2026.
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