Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 19hUne fois encore, le « cartel du pouvoir » s’organise à une année des élections fédérales 🇨🇭 Guy Parmelin confirme qu’il quitte le Conseil fédéral, mais ne le fait pas pour des raisons de santé. Sa décision est donc politique et vise à protéger la majorité UDC-PLR au Conseil fédéral. 110
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026After 34 years defending civic space in over 100 countries, @icnl.bsky.social launched a US centre @uscnl.bsky.social 🇺🇸 A presidential memo lets the Attorney General recommend groups for designation as ‘domestic terrorist organizations’, exposing them to tax scrutiny and financial surveillance ⚡️ 122
Reposted by Florian IrmingerRights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 30/09/2026To capture rights, China and Russia are hollowing the UN's human rights system ⬛️ Countries with experience in silencing independent institutions at home are now following the same playbook at the United Nations, targeting the UN's human rights office. 102
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 29/09/2026Lisez, lisez, lisez @askolovitchc.bsky.social, sur Jordan Bardella l’antisémite et les imbéciles : www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...liberation.frJordan Bardella l’antisémite et les imbéciles, par Claude AskolovitchIl y avait, avant l’irruption d’un jeune crétin soralien dans la campagne électorale, mille et une raisons majeures de récuser le RN. Collectivement, nous ne les avons jamais saisies, regrette le jour... 021
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Mediapart: Rassemblement National president Jordan Bardella had an antisemitic youth ⚡️ Writings from his time as a young member of Le Pen's party show an antisemitic pattern, according to the investigation. What we learn from it: the European far-right will always be the European far-right. 011
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 29/09/2026Le «président des riches» est devenu le président de la dette : 119 pour cent du PIB, le niveau le plus haut depuis 1946. Il laisse une «sécu» en crise, des services publics menacés, un clan Le Pen omniprésent. L'Europe a besoin d'une France solide : armée, diplomatie, voix 🇫🇷🇪🇺 001
Reposted by Florian Irmingerian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 22/09/2026trump's approach to the presidency summed up in five seconds 810331
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 22/09/2026‘I sit here like an animal in a zoo.’ Lyudmila Razumova, an artist jailed for opposing the war, wrote this from a Russian psychiatric hospital in June. As a Board member of FGIP, I'm sharing our new report on how Russia uses psychiatry against critics. #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 010
Reposted by Florian IrmingerRights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026President 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.socialx.comİlham Əliyev (@azpresident) on XAvropa Parlamenti rüşvətxorlar yuvasıdır. 113
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 15/09/2026Using 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 👇 000
Reposted by Florian IrmingerRights Capture Monitor @rightscapture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The 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 ⤵️ 111
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 06/09/2026Quand on nous disait qu'un registre national sur les armes à feu était inutile… www.tdg.ch/armes-des-di...tdg.ch 020
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 02/09/2026L'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. 000
Reposted by Florian IrmingerHuman Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Sam 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.... 1331
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 21/08/2026Le front russe dans la campagne de votation en Suisse… www.24heures.ch/neutralite-u...24heures.ch 000
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 20/08/2026Ich 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...nzz.chDer 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... 051
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 08/08/2026The 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 🇺🇸 011
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Nothing to add. 012
Reposted by Florian IrmingerHuman Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026By forcibly sending unaccompanied minors under 18 back from Ceuta without an individual assessment, Spain violated European child-protection and migration law. 192
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Russia 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 012
Reposted by Florian IrmingerGina Romero / Special Rapporteur FoAA @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social · 16/07/2026#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...progresschange.orgHuman Rights Compass Database — Strategy Advisory Group for Rights, Climate Justice & Multilateral ReformWe support campaigns, coalitions and institutions with strategy, advocacy and research to advance human rights, climate justice, the rule of law and multilateral reform. 121
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Russia'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 ⚡️ 011
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Council 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 ⚡ 232
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 25/06/2026L'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. 100
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 22/06/2026It'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. 000
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 21/06/2026The 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? ⤵️ 132
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026“Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up.” 022
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 18/05/2026En 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. 000
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Russia'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. 111
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026This 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 ⚡️ 021
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 10/05/2026It'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/...secure.avaaz.orgMorocco: #FreeBettyBetty 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 ... 010
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 09/05/2026A 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. 100
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026As @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...indexoncensorship.orgA club of censors at the United Nations - Index on CensorshipIn 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... 011
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 06/05/2026Whilst 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🇺🇦 000
Reposted by Florian IrmingerAzerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 05/05/2026The 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-... 033
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 04/05/2026Thanks 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...theguardian.comGolders Green MP decries ‘lack of vocal solidarity’ from liberal left for Jewish communitySarah Sackman said response to rising antisemitic violence in UK has been ‘muted’ after stabbings in her constituency 000
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 03/05/2026The 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... 120
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 30/04/2026Hunting 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. 000
Reposted by Florian IrmingerAzerbaijan Accountability Platform @act-azerbaijan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Two 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... 033
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 28/04/2026There 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 ⚖️🌍🇪🇺 020
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Today, 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-... 021
Reposted by Florian IrmingerNotes from the Faultline @faultlinenotes.bsky.social · 21/04/2026New 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. 101
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 14/04/2026Orbán'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 ⤵️ 010
Reposted by Florian IrmingerHuman Rights Watch @hrw.org · 13/04/2026Viktor 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.bit.lyHungarian Prime Minister Orbán is ejected after 16 years in a European electoral earthquakeHungarian 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 ... 210431
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 13/04/2026Was für ein Unsinn: Was die Welt über Orbáns historische Niederlage berichtet, spiegelt sich in der Überschrift des @blick.ch überhaupt nicht wider! Im Gegenteil: Die Welt ist sich einig, dass die EU durch den Machtwechsel in Ungarn gestärkt und Trump und Putin geschwächt wurden. 010
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 12/04/2026Today. Hungary freed itself from 16 years of a despotic illiberal regime 🇭🇺 It’s Day 500 of the protests in Georgia against a despotic illiberal regime 🇬🇪 Europe can make a difference 🇪🇺 Now. 000
Florian Irminger @florianirminger.ch · 12/04/2026Goodbye Mr Orbán ⚡️ Now Europe needs to stand up. Now. 020